by Chris Bryant | Sep 17, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Fred Schebesta, founder of comparison website finder.com.au, which now averages 400,000 views per month, shares his top five tips for starting an e-commerce site. 1. Find your niche “If you want your business to survive, you need to find exactly where...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 15, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Woolworths announced recently that its online sales rose to more than AU$1.2 billion for the financial year ending June 2014. This is an increase of more than 50% compared to last year. Woolworths CEO Grant O’Brien said the latest results reinforced the...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 12, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
The Australian government’s online business information portal has published a ‘Bitcoin for business’ page to advise operators of their tax and other regulatory obligations when using the digital currency. It contains a basic explanation of what bitcoin is and how it...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 10, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Billabong has agreed to sell two of its e-commerce businesses, SurfStitch and Swell, for $35 million to a consortium that includes SurfStitch founders Justin Cameron and Lex Pedersen “Billabong International Limited today announces the outcome of the strategic...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 8, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Online payment provider 2Checkout has partnered with WooThemes to offer 2Checkout’s online payment technology to WooCommerce users. The integration allows WooCommerce merchants in nearly 200 countries to accept payments in 26 currencies, as well as increases...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 5, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Irish backpacker Eamon Eastwood brought a bunch of Tayto crisps with him to sell to Irish pubs when he visited Australia in 2000 and 14 years later, he’s running a booming import business that now supplies Woolworths and Coles, as well as having an online...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 3, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Supermarket and liquor giant Woolworths is planning a dramatic expansion of its Dan Murphy’s online business, which already has 46% of the online liquor sales market in Australia. The new plan will see beer, wine and spirits producers have products shipped to...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 20, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
Australia is high on the list of targets for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, an online security expert says. A DDoS attack floods a target device or application with high volumes of irregular requests, which swamp the device or application and cause...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 18, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized, woocommerce, woothemes, wordpress
OPMC’s favourite e-commerce platform, WooTheme’s WooCommerce WordPress plugin, has hit the 4 million downloads mark. The announcement comes as the company prepares to release WooCommerce 2.2 later this quarter. WooCommerce, which is free to download and...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 13, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized, woocommerce
Print Aura, a Sacramento, CA-based company, has created a free app for WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Storenvy, and Etsy users to automatically print and ship t-shirts to their customers. Print Aura’s apps are free to install and configure and allow users to...
