eCommerce

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Gabby Leibovich, the online entrepreneur behind one of the country’s biggest eCommerce empires – CatchOfTheDay, Scoopon and GroceryRun.

If its success in the US is anything to go by, the sCommerce phenomenon looks set to take hold in the Australian market – and one local beauty venture is at the forefront of this new online shopping experience.

CatchOfTheDay has announced it is expanding into the wine sector, with an acquisition of the specialist wine deals site, vinomofo.com.

In the web’s early days, you hosted a site and all its applications on your own infrastructure, which you fully controlled. Today’s online businesses are increasingly comprised of several outside sources that your company depends on 24/7 – and just one poor performer can cause an entire application to slow down.

Homemade is becoming a worldwide name on Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage wares for one man and woman businesses. Here’s a look at why Etsy is proving popular with customers and what business lessons can be learnt from this.

While many businesses are shifting focus away from traditional retail and onto the online marketplace, Brisbane-based gift and homewares store Dandelyon is doing the opposite.

After a year of phenomenal growth, Australia’s top online retailers are now beginning to embrace mobile commerce, according to the latest Online Business Index (OBI).

Online shoe retailer StyleTread has secured $12 million in funding to expand its online presence and explore new overseas markets and international opportunities.

While the latest eCommerce and associated technology provides many consumer advantages and expands the market for sellers, it hasn’t always fostered a better customer service experience. Is the calculation now changing?

eBay sellers want increased innovation and investment in domestic shipping infrastructure to better changing customer expectations and to allow them to better meet customer demand, a new survey has found.

As the older generations spends more and more money online, they’re showing a preference to buy Australian, according to new MasterCard research.

Over half of the country’s small businesses are now online, according to a new Google survey, up from last year’s result of just 35 percent.

Increasingly, online retailers are relying on cloud-based services and applications to run their businesses. But with this reliance on outside services comes a grave risk: they’re relinquishing control of the end-user experience.

eBay has announced plans to introduce several improvements and upgrades to its Australian site, designed to boost the usability of the site for sellers.

From an eCommerce point of view, Pinterest should be recognised as a great source of free marketing. Here’s a how-guide for making it work for your small business.

Online sales have seen a significant increase in the past year, and new research has found its due to a positive response by consumers to online discounts and group deals.

Sadly, many of the best examples of eCommerce can be found outside Australia, so here’s seven expert tips on best practices every business can follow to drive more sales online.

Online retail sales grew 29 percent in 2011, far surpassing growth in traditional bricks and mortar sales for the year.

Do small to medium businesses with a website really enjoy greater revenue than those without? Yes, and here are the figures that prove it.

Getting into the minds—and wallets—of distracted, disinterested consumers is harder than ever. While the old way of doing things can still work, don’t overlook the possibility that there is a newer—and maybe better way—of doing things.