Tag: Online Shopping

With group buying becoming a phenomenon across Australia, OurDeal has six simple tips for businesses to make the most of the opportunities it presents.

Appliances Online has been named as one of six finalists in the 2011 Oracle World Retail Awards, in the ‘Pure Play Etailer of the Year’ category.

A new Australian website is bringing the best American merchandise bargains to local shoppers keen to take advantage of the strong dollar.

With online retail up 15 percent and $143 billion worth of orders received by Australian businesses in 2009/10, opportunities, insights and learning will be on the agenda at the 2011 Online Retailer Conference and Expo.

Borders, Angus and Robertson, Williams and now the 23 year old, Colorado chain all closing their doors – what is happening to retail in Australia? To survive today’s challenging economic conditions and successfully fight the onslaught of online shopping – bricks and mortar retailers need to re-invent the way they do business.

Research jointly conducted by Google, Salmat and the Australian Centre for Retail Studies (ACRS) shows that online retailing will explode with growth this year as consumers demand multichannel sales points. Online and mobile-accessible sales channels will be the growth areas for businesses.

Australians are increasingly comfortable buying goods online but small businesses are lagging behind the trend, and missing opportunities, with new research revealing that only one in three businesses have a website.