Retailers ready to invest in e-tail

While bricks and mortar retailers continue to crumble, Australian online businesses are booming like never before, according to a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Australian shoppers, who surf the web, are asking for integration of online and in-store services, while accusing retailers of having been too slow to react to the Internet, a study reports.

Telsyte and the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) have partnered to produce the second edition of Digital Nation, a compendium of research and commentary on the digital lifestyle of Australian consumers.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketThe trade body for Australia’s Digital Content, Services and Applications Industry, the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA), has launched what it says is the first comprehensive and independent digital industry salary survey.

Australian payment solutions company, Debitsuccess, has launched a new web-based service for retailers that enables them to process customer lay-by payments with online direct debits.

In Australia retailers are facing tough times as consumers keep their money in their pockets, and with new challenges posed for traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ retailers by the dramatic shift to purchasing by consumers of all manner of goods and services from overseas, online retailers. But some tips for using technology to help are at hand.

PayPal has appointed a new head of its Australian merchant services division, on the back of what the company says is ten-fold growth in the market and half of the top 100 Australian online retailers offering PayPal as a payment option.

A study of business social media usage has found more than 70 percent spend at least 10 percent of their marketing budget on social media and that, rather than re-allocating funds from other marketing activities, they are now increasing their marketing budgets.

In Australia retailers are facing tough times as consumers keep their money in their pockets, and with new challenges posed for traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ retailers by the dramatic shift to purchasing by consumers of all manner of goods and services from overseas, online retailers.