Ecommerce

What I’ve learnt from the trenches of startup ecommerce in London

I’ve spent almost two weeks writing this. At first it was too personal, then it became too anecdotal, so I’ve settled on a list…

10 factors that will drive mobile payment adoption into the mainstream

South African consumers have been caught up in a whirl of excitement around mobile payment solutions with the launch of no fewer than three…

Design, process and technology all make big ecommerce sense

The world of commerce is often presented as a complex place, filled with tainted tactics and mass confusion. And that’s just the brick and…

The future of retail belongs to the curators and creators [EcommSA]

A lot of people are shopping online and ecommerce is on an unstoppable trajectory across the globe. With around 100 000 stores, and a…

Takealot claims responsibility for death of SA’s shopping trolleys

In a stunt that it’s labelled a public confession, South African ecommerce store Takealot is claiming responsibility for the alleged death of shopping trolleys…

China’s ecommerce light shows no signs of dimming

If you’re the kind of person who battles to understand why Alibaba’s IPO — set to be the biggest in tech history — is…

Embracing the age of the customer: where content and commerce come together

According to an Accenture Industry report, 68% of Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) demand an integrated, seamless online experience, regardless of the…

Can SA expect a boom in ecommerce?

The ecommerce landscape in South Africa has historically been hampered by slow and expensive Internet access, but things are beginning to change for the…

Web forms: Get them right and make more money

A web form is like a solid wall between you and your customer. The customer wants to buy your product. You want to sell…

Not all traffic is created equal – a guide to ecommerce

While recently preparing a report on the annual traffic to a large corporate website, I had many opportunities to pause and reflect on the…

5 tips about the e-commerce gold rush

It’s a brave world out there for the intrepid that roll the dice in the hopes of cashing in on the ecommerce 2.0 goldmine….

Why PayPal sucks and Kwedit doesn’t

One of the biggest factors, apart from bandwidth and audience size, that’s restricting the development of the internet and the emergence of startups in…

SA study: More people banking with their mobiles than PCs

According to respected market research organisation World Wide Worx, the number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded that of people banking from…

Survey claims 80% of SA users shop online

A survey by Master Card claims that 80% of South African users are shopping online. CDs, DVDs and VCDs” emerged as the most sought…

SA bank claims 1-million mobile phone banking users

Absa, the country’s largest retail bank, says it’s one of the first banks in the world to notch up a million cellphone banking customers,…

Scoop: New "Web 2.0" recruitment site launches in South Africa

Here’s a scoop for ya. I’ve just been alerted to what looks like a new and pretty serious “Web 2.0” entrant in the South…

The internet goes from free to fee

If only the internet had been invented by a businessman. It’s a common lament of internet publishers who are buckling and wheezing under the financial strain of running unprofitable websites

Dotcom dating dollars

When the internet arrived, people screamed let’s make lots of money. This new, interactive medium had the ability to deliver content to audiences in innovative ways and make money at the same time. Content would suck readers in, went the theory, and communities would form around these content genres. E-commerce areas would then be built around relevant content and wham bam thank you Ram, your community interacts and you have dotcom dollars.

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