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Bricks and Mortar

F-Commerce: Is Facebook The New Shop Of The Future?

March 8, 2011

I have loved reading since I learned the skill at a place called school. I remember hiding under the blankets with my bedside lamp reading books about tropical island adventures and pirates as soon as the coast was clear after my parents had inflicted the “lights out” regime every night at the prescribed hour.

To enhance my [...]

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90 Million Reasons Why Your Online Store Should Be On eBay: Video Interview With Jenny Thomas From eBay

February 15, 2011

A lot of people don’t realize that eBay now sells primarily new products on its site with over 75% of all sales being new goods. Despite it’s humble origins over 15 years ago in 1995 as an online auction store eBay offers another distribution channel for online retailers to sell their goods in a trusted eCommerce [...]

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Are Online Stores Stealing Sales From Physical Stores?

December 21, 2010

I was contacted recently by the Federal government Treasury department about a post titled “Is Online Retail About to Explode in Australia” which I had written last year. The question I was asked was  about the source of the graph showing the growth and volume of overseas online transactions. I suspect the reason for the inquiry would have been [...]

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5 Ways To Humanize and Socialize Your Online Store

June 21, 2010

Your online store can be a bit of an impersonal place and the challenge with an ecommerce store is trying to make the experience online as close to the bricks and mortar in store experience as possible.
There are a few ways to provide a more social and humanized experience online that makes the online store and the brand [...]

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22 Reasons Why Your Business Needs An iPhone App

June 1, 2010

I have noticed a lot more traffic coming from mobile platforms lately and it seems that the smartphone (or Internet in your hand) is something that can’t be ignored. The growth in the market share of the iPhone as well as the continual replacement of the traditional mobile phones with Internet enabled phones like the Android and [...]

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Are You Ready To Take Your Business Online Or Is It A Dinosaur?

May 27, 2010

I was doing some research recently and I came upon a statistic that really jolted me. That information was that nearly half of all businesses (46% to be precise) don’t have a website. Did I hear someone saying.. “you have to be joking!” (I have just checked the calendar and I have verified by the way that it is 2010 [...]

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