Australian Online Shoppers Expect to Spend More in 2009

Despite the current economic conditions, online spending in Australia is set to increase by 12 percent in 2009. Research recently conducted by Celsius Research, on behalf of Shopping.com, found Australian shoppers spent an average of $1,097 buying products online in 2008, with the forecast for 2009 set to defy the offline recessionary trends.

The Celsius Research showed 54% of those surveyed value the ease of their shopping experience on their chosen site, followed closely by price. Comparison shopping sites – which feature offers from a large selection of retailers – have also proven popular because they do the hard work for you making the shopping experience more efficient and enjoyable.

Ministry of Sound relaunches D2C website

The new Ministry of Sound website

A good friend of mine worked on this project and I think it deserves some serious merit.

Following the collapse of their previous service provider; Trinity Street, MOS set up an internal team to build and manage their own platform.  The amazing point to all this is that they have everything up and running in 6 weeks – a great achievement considering it’s an eCommerce engine with blogs, editorial content and a much improved design!

Well done to all those who were involved.

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