Archive for the ‘Online Sales’ Category

More and more Australians to start online businesses

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Due to the economic slowdown Australians are becoming more reliant on online business sites, which is just another way for boosting economy and going about increasing their savings. Online business is very successful and offers many benefits, whether it is used to increase the number of sales for a business, to get a business back on track or to start a new business from scratch.

ING Direct executive director Rob Hendriks says “Australians are very creative in boosting their income. We see an increased effort in selling goods online, taking additional jobs, and especially in New South Wales we see a lot of women entering the workforce.”

You can read the full article at http://www.smartcompany.com.au/economy/049233-more-australians-to-start-online-businesses-as-two-speed-economy-takes-hold.html

The number of online shopping users in AU is on the rise

Friday, April 19th, 2013

A research which has been put in Australia shows that the number of Australian internet users who visit online shopping websites is increasingly on the rise. This is due to the fact that the traffic on social networking sites in Australia has been decreasing.

Internet users use the internet for many reasons such as socializing with friends, looking for things of interest, and more importantly do online shopping. At the very breakthrough of social media networks, it was thought that social media networks like Facebook or Twitter were the best places for every business to market its products. People tended to use Social media networks and rely on it since it offered them a free way of marketing and advertising, however many business owners have realised that social media networks are not to be the domain marketing  strategy for businesses. This is because  every successful business must have a formal website with a registered domain name where the products can be professionally showcased, an online shop is the place where every user would go to browse for products and make an instant purchase.

Another reason for the decrease of the use of social media networks is that Australian internet users have become more aware of the fact that social media networks is not the best place to browse for products. Social media networks are kind of like the fans place but not the best place where people would trust a brand to succeed and use as the main marketing strategy.

You can read more over at http://au.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/news/a/-/16784960/australian-internet-use-changing/

Woocommerce 2.0 plugin – Reviewed

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Woocommerce 2.0 is an eCommerce plugin that helps businesses and website owners to showcase their products easily and proffessionaly. Woocommerce 2.0 has recently been released to the market, it is a newer version and a refinement of the previous version of Woocommerce 1.0. Woocommerce 2.0 has been reviewed by Zach Russel; he discusses the various aspects of this very powerful eCommerce plugin built by the Woothemes corp. He also discusses the many things that have been added or changed in the Woocommerce plugin such as:

  1. Updating
  2. Schema Markup
  3. Retina Ready
  4. CSS Overhaul
  5. Real Time Checkout Validation
  6. Sensei

You can read the full article at http://wpdaily.co/woocommerce-20-review/

Damp Streetwear and the reasons to go for online business

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Damp Streetwear is a retail shop that has recently discovered the power of online business and how it can improve their sales. Damp Streetwear is owned by Matt Dampney, he is the founder of cutting edge clothing brand and also owns a design studio in Australia. Matt Dampney has decided to start the online retailing for the clothing side of his business, this is to increase his sales and reduce the costs of running a business on the street such as shop rental.

Matt says his business used to pay between $20,000-50,000 annually for the cost of shop rental which is very expensive. This was before he found out about the idea of online business, which gave him a substantial opportunity to expand and market his business.

You can read more over at http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/damp-streetwear-the-future-of-retailing-20130403-2h5nf.html

 

Online sales on the increase

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

Figures from the Commonwealth Bank show online sales in Australia represent 5.4 per cent of all retail sales. This is expected to rise, with figures in the UK showing 10 per cent on sales are online, and in the USA 7 per cent are online.

Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald.

Government pours millions into online retail study

Friday, July 20th, 2012

The Australian Federal Government has committed to studying Australians’ online retail spending habits by providing funding of $2.1 million dollars over 4 years to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The study will track Australians’ online retail spending habits, and how online sales might be affecting bricks and mortar stores.

You can read more at CRN.com.au

How to create an e-empire

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

The Sydney Morning Herald has written a success story on the web’s first luxury fashion store, Net-a-Porter.

Launched in 2000, and attracting many doubters who didn’t believe women would purchase luxury items online, it has been so successful that it was sold in 2010 for 350 million pounds.

You can read more over at SMH.com.au

Australia Post builds on online shopping

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Due to the ever growing popularity of online shopping the profit gap between Australia Post’s conventional letter service and parcel delivery business has widened more than ever before.

Chief executive Ahmed Fahour said,

“The period leading up to Christmas really highlighted a widening gulf in profitability of our letters business and our parcels business,”

“We delivered 3 million more parcels in December than we would in an ordinary month,”

You can read more over at smh.com.au

JB Hi-Fi announces impressive 80 percent jump in online sales for 2011

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Despite a 5 percent decrease in earnings for the six months prior to December in 2011 compared to 2010 there was positive news from JB Hi-Fi on the online sales front.

The company announced an 80 percent jump in online sales for 2011.

You can read more over at crn.com.au

Discounts drive online business models

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Technology analysis group Telsyte has released a report showing that discounting is the best way to achieve online sales.

While lowering prices is challenging for the businesses it does go some way to convincing customers to proceed with the purchase.

Telsyte senior research manager, Sam Yip has said,

”All the emerging ways to buy online are tied by a single common factor – discounts,”

You can read more over at smh.com.au