Jack of All Trades

Melbourne Magento User Group catch up

Nathan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:14:34 +0000

The Melbourne Magento user group (organised by our friends at Fontis) is meeting again, on September 14th, 2010. This time it is an information event, designed for developers/agencies, clients and those people interested in the platform to catch up and chat. As Magento Developers and consultants it is always nice to meet people interested in [...]

eCommerce Cowboys, the ‘Yes’ Men.

Nathan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:46:07 +0000

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. Recently we have been getting a few Magento & other eCommerce clients coming [...]

Participate in our Search Engine Optimisation Conversation Cafe, SHARE AND LEARN!

Nathan — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:47:06 +0000

Learn about the latest trends in Search Engine Optimisation at our Search Marketing conversation cafe session in Melbourne (8 June 2010) We’re keeping it small and personal! Book now $49 (only limited seats left!) You are invited to attend our first Conversation Cafe discussion on the state of search, latest trends and how it can [...]

Want an easy way to boost Shopping.com ROI?

Nathan — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:29:31 +0000

For some time now, the shopping.com comparison shopping site just hasn’t converted well for my own retail sites, or those of many of our clients and friends. Shopping.com can provide great traffic to your site, no doubt. But quality has been lacking (I am talking about Australia’s shopping.com portal, but this may apply internationally as [...]

Web Performance Optimisation (WPO)

Nathan — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:51:36 +0000

One of my business partners sent me a great link yesterday and I was thinking about it a little tonight. The post is located here : http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/05/07/wpo-web-performance-optimization/ Steve names a new type of business and this is Web Performance Optimisation (with a nice TLA of WPO!). I wonder if we will see WPO offered as [...]

Increase your eBay prices by 500% ??

Nathan — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:57:22 +0000

Anthill magazine posted a link to a great video by some of the guys the other day. I just got around to watching it (I kinda store ‘Favourites’ from twitter posts during the week, and check them out later). I have blogged before about various strategies and methods to boost the prices you get on [...]

A Magento to eBay Extension

Nathan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:36:50 +0000

So, Magento to eBay extension. Now it’s a reality… I bet Magento users will be interested in this! eBay has been a great platform for us, and so is Magento. Bringing them closer together is an interesting strategy, and for some of our websites, a Magento to eBay Extension would be great. Being long time [...]

DealsDirect.com.au signs sponsorship deal with Netball Australia

Nathan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:19:55 +0000

I noticed this little bit of news this evening : Netball Australia has signed a sponsorship deal with online department store, DealDirect.com.au. The new, two-year sponsorship makes DealsDirect.com.au one of three Gold Sponsors of Netball Australia, along with Holden and San Remo. DealsDirect.com.au will support Netball Australia’s online membership portal, MyNetball, the Holden Netball Test [...]

Can’t access admin area after upgrading to Magento 1.4?

Nathan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:57:53 +0000

Me neither. Well, I can now after a manual fix. The upgrade via MagentoConnect seemed to run successfully, but I immediately got a server 500 error when trying to access front and backend. *Sigh*. I reset all file permissions, and cleared cache folders (/var/cache and /var/session). The front end worked then, but no back end. [...]

Clive Peeters launches eCommerce website today.

Nathan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:23:12 +0000

Today marks the entrance of Clive Peeters into the online retail world with the launch of the clivepeeters.com.au eCommerce site. News broken by internetretailing.com.au informs us that the site is tightly integrated into the exisiting Clive Peeters ERP system. Bigbrownbox.com.au (Radio Rentals) is getting 800,000 claimed visits a month is the only real incumbent in [...]