Jack of All Trades

Getprice.com.au introduce category bidding

Nathan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:52:33 +0000

In a smart move, Getprice have introduced a category bidding system for their customers. Now, if you want to appear at the top of a category or search, you can bid more to appear there. With enough customers feeding products to the site now (they say 1.5 million products online), this is a move that should [...]

List of Australian Magento Stores

Nathan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:25:40 +0000

Magento is popular in Australia. Here is a list of Australian Magento stores that I built up a little while ago, just as a reference. This list is a few months old, thre are probably more aussie magento stores active now. I don’t intend to actively maintain this list, but if you come across any other good [...]

Want to grow your eBay business?

Nathan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:36:29 +0000

Want to grow your eBay business? Then consider attending this years PeSA event in Sydney, called ‘Survive & Thrive’. PeSA is the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance and the Australian arm is holding this year’s seller event in Sydney. Last years was a great success with hundreds otf attendees, and I think this years will be even bigger. Tickets [...]

Woopra – Sounds wierd, but it’s addictive!

Nathan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:05:19 +0000

What the hell is Woopra? That’s exactly what I thought when I first heard the name. (BTW, What is it with Web 2.0 products and brands seeming to require some sort of zany name? Bing? Woopra? Or make your own name) Anyway, Woopra is basically a real time analytics tool much like Google Analytics though with a [...]

Internetretailing.com.au launches today

Nathan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:34:20 +0000

Today a project that I have been involved with takes a big first step. Mark Freidin and I today launched www.internetretailing.com.au. We are not making a big fanfare, and it will surely evolve, but we are happy to see it live. We are excited by this industry, and in particular the growth that our industry has and is [...]

Twitter Spam – I Knew It Wouldn’t Take Long

Nathan — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:02:12 +0000

Beware, it has started. Twitter Spam. If you haven’t been hit yet, just wait, I am sure it won’t be long. 3 times in 3 days I have been ‘followed’ by someone and after clicking through to their profile (like I do for everyone who Follows me – don’t you?) I am met with something like the [...]

Magento Fraud Detection Module Released Today.

Nathan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:56:22 +0000

Just a quick blog post to mark the launch of our first commercial Magento Module, the Magento Fraud Alert Module featuring MaxMind. We had developed this for our eCommerce arm or the business to make it much easier to identify possibly fraudulent orders. Using the MaxMind minfraud services we check all available data about the order [...]

Magento Performance – Magento 1.3 Benchmarks

Nathan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:54:58 +0000

Magento Performance is a hot topic at the moment. We recently installed Magento Commerce version 1.3.0 on a test server with a current production database to do some performance testing and I thought I would publish a few results. They aren’t exhaustive tests, but indicative I think. Although we haven’t done a huge amount of testing [...]

The Fast Rise of Magento Commerce

Nathan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:58:02 +0000

I follow Magento Commerce and it’s development rather closely. This is because on of my businesses retails online using the Magento ecommerce software and my other business leverages this knowledge (and a lot of other online retail experience) to develop Magento modules and code and shipping automation software. I have written about some of this in [...]

Mark Webber’s Daily Drive?

Nathan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:41:56 +0000

Apparently Mark Webber just handed back the keys to his daily drive whilst in Melbourne for the Melbourne Grand Prix F1 event in Albert Park. Mark Webber’s Formula 1 car is currently powered by Renault, but during his stay in Melbourne he was handed the keys to a Ford Performance Vehicles F6, a turbo charged 6 [...]