by Chris Bryant | Aug 11, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized
You may not know who sisters Sali and Julie Stevanja are, but you should be listening to their business advice. Why? Because their e-commerce store Stylerunner, which the siblings started in 2012, has achieved almost 600% year-on-year growth and their social media...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 11, 2014 | Industry News, Uncategorized
The Wine Federation of Australia has launched a new website that allows wine consumers to directly buy from wine producers, bypassing the middleman. The appropriately named From The Producer website is a non-profit website and is the initiative of entrepreneur and...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 8, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized
A pair of savvy Australians are helping students turn their lecture and textbook notes into cash. Sydney-based Nexus Notes, founded in Adelaide in 2011 by ex-AFL player Hugh Minson, 26, and Macquarie Bank worker Richard Hordern-Gibbings, 25, contains a collection of...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 6, 2014 | Blog, Industry News, online store, Uncategorized, woocommerce, wordpress
SmartCompany recently released an in-depth view of the top four ecommerce platforms on the market: Magento, Shopify, Bigcommerce, and Volusion. While it stopped short of making a recommendation, it did point out the most prominent aspects of each one. However, the...
by Chris Bryant | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog, Industry News, online store, Uncategorized
Hello and welcome to the new home for Australia’s most comprehensive online retail blog. Here, you will continue to find the latest news, the best advice and the most useful information for opening and running an online business in Australia. If you are thinking...
by Chris Bryant | Jul 21, 2014 | Industry News, online store, paypal, Uncategorized
When considering payment methods on a website, Paypal can be overlooked especially when it’s foreign to you and you don’t “get” it. Below we share our own experience with Paypal, and why we made the switch. Why we didn’t use Paypal before...