Frost & Sullivan have identified the Australian consumer ecommerce market as being undeveloped and lagging both the US and UK markets by approximately three years.The market is expected to reach $12 billion for the 2010 calendar year. This figure excludes online services such as online ticketing and events, travel, music downloads and financial services. It equates to per capita expenditure of approximately $536 per year, which is slightly behind the US and UK markets.
Australian consumer ecommerce market lagging - Marketing Magazine
There is something endearingly cheeky about Ruslan Kogan, the founder of online retail upstart Kogan Technologies.In June, we shared Kogan Technology’s very funny satirical advertisement for Minister Conroy’s ’spams and scams’ internet filter. This was not the first time we caught a glimpse of the young entrepreneur’s sense of humour. In March 2009, his company introduced Australian consumers to the chuckle-prompting KEVIN 37 Plasma Television set for $900.
Ruslan Kogan hits back at Gerry Harvey with satirical advertisement | Anthill Magazine
By Practical eCommerce's count, there are nearly 600 English-language shopping carts. These include hosted carts, licensed software carts and open-source carts. There are small ones with just a few clients, and large ones with tens of thousands of clients.But, as of July 14, only 40 of them were either PCI compliant (hosted solutions) or PA-DSS validated (licensed shopping carts). That date is important because the PCI Security Standards Council has long held that shopping carts, which are either "Payment Applications" or "Validated Service Providers" as defined by that organization, must affirmatively pass compliance standards by July 1, 2010. And it's easy to determine the carts that have been approved because there are two separate lists that contain them.
Not PCI Compliant? No Problem | Practical eCommerce
We don’t profess to be the world’s best eCommerce company. Probably far from it.But we have a lot of experience in online retail and development (10 years+) and we use that experience to help our clients in the best way possible.
eCommerce Cowboys, the ‘Yes’ Men. | magento commerce | Jack of All Trades
Internationally, ecommerce is a massive industry, for example in the UK alone it accounts for annual revenues of 48bn GBP and in the USA some $200BN USD with 90% of consumers thinking online shopping offers best value, 83% of consumers research a product for purchase online and 72% of them purchase as a result online.However when it comes to social media 51% of consumers find advertising on social networks annoying and half of advertisers branded pages on social networks attract less than 1000 friends, while the European average was 6,494.
Online Retailer Presentation – Facebook / Twitter The Big Yawn — Bendalls
Online retail is expected to grow by 40 percent by 2012 according to research released alongside the Online Retailer Expo and Conference in Sydney.Online retailThe ecommerce industry in Australia has seen rapid growth over the last year and is forecast to reach $33.8 billion by 2012 up from $AU24 billion last year.
Online retail to grow 40 percent by 2012 | Dynamic Business
The Australian Online Retailer Expo 2010 got underway yesterday at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibition runs to the end of the week and brings e-retailers, merchants, web developers and manufacturers together to showcase the booming Australian e-commerce offerings.
Aussie e-commerce expo kicks off: photos - Business - News
Social marketing can yield lucrative business conversions, but online retailers are still in the early days of adoption, according to a Forrester report.The Online Retailing in Australia 2010: Marketing, Merchandising and Customer Service report claims that “on the whole, Australian online retailers are focused on the start and middle of the purchase journey. In other words they have emphasised acquisition and conversion over retention, favouring performance-based marketing in general and search marketing in particular. This is a natural starting point for any online retailer, as all must acquire customers before they can retain them.”
Forrester: Online retailers lagging with social media marketing - twitter, Online Retailing in Australia 2010: Marketing, Merchandising and Customer Service, iPhone, Forrester, Facebook - ARN
