Thursday 10 September 2009

Businesses getting a quick payback from ecommerce

Came across this article today. Heres a quick snapshot:

Sensis 2009 e-Business Report has found that most Australian small businesses are getting a quick pay-back on their ecommerce investment.Released late last month, the 14th edition of the Sensis e-Business Report details results from interviews with more than 1800 Australian small businesses about their IT and online spending.
 

Report author, Christena Singh, said that this year Australian small businesses had cut their spending on computer hardware.
“At the same time, businesses have begun focussing on online technology, becoming more creative with the way in which they market their products and services online, and more adventurous with the technology they buy.”
She said this year’s survey found 33% of small businesses doing email marketing, and 24% doing some form of digital marketing such as advertising on a portal or a search engine. 19% also said they are now using online auction sites.

Specifically, the SMEs interviewed said that a website increased their effectiveness, by:
• Informing people about the business (18 per cent);
• Increased awareness (11 per cent);
• Exposure to a broader market (10 per cent);
• Easier for people to access (10 per cent);
• More enquiries (nine per cent);
• Extra sales (eight per cent).

For more information  download a copy of the report

 

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Tuesday 2 June 2009

Australians and Online Shopping

I came across this interesting article regarding Australians and their online habits.

In comparison to other parts of the world, Australians online shopping is an obvious area of difference. According to data collected by Hitwise, visits to shopping classified sites accounted for 5.93% of Australian online visitor numbers for the week ending 9 February 2008, significantly less than the 9.54% in the US and 9.61% in Britain.

In fact, Australia was the only country out of the three where social networking took the single biggest share of web visits – 8%. Social networking was also popular in the US and Britain but, with 9.18% and 7.615 respectively, ranked behind shopping site visits in each of those countries.

But while we spend less time looking for bargains we appear to spend more time getting informed – news and media sites accounted for 6.75% of visits for the week ending 9 February, well above 3.97% in the US and 4.63% in Britain.

In terms of particular content categories, bank websites were the most popular on 4.53% market share, ahead of software on 3.86%, education and reference on 2.63% share, and travel on 2.56%.

 

 

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