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See what you missed at the Online Retailer Conference

This year’s Online Retailer conference, held at the Sydney Convention Centre is now over. This year’s conference was the second of its type to take place 11 months after the inaugural conference took place in August 2009. Organised by Mark Harvey and his team at National Media, this year’s exhibition had a little over 4000 pre-registrations and 3316 attendees. Impressive considering last years attendance was around 2600 which was impressive in itself. This year, the exhibition area had a consistent throng of people and it appeared somewhat more mature than last year’s conference in which everyone was actively moving around networking and learning.

Transaction Network Services enhances TNSPay gateway with PayPal

SYDNEY, 7 July 2010 – Transaction Network Services (NYSE:TNS), a global provider of payment solutions, has integrated PayPal as a payment option within its TNSPay gateway, providing its merchants easy access to PayPal’s 84 million global accounts.
This initiative, which is being rolled out across the Asia Pacific region, allows Australia to be the first country to make the solution readily available to merchants via TNS’ payment gateway. Prior to this integration, businesses on the TNSPay gateway would have to request a custom systems integration to use PayPal.
Over the past five years, transactions through PayPal have grown fivefold and over 30,000 Australian merchants currently offer PayPal as a safe and secure payment option. The integration within the TNS platform will enable the merchants using the TNSPay gateway to easily offer PayPal as a payment option.

Online Retail Industry set to grow 40 per cent by 2012

Australia – 7 July, 2010: The annual Online Retailer Expo & Conference is underway this week with over 3,000 delegates registered to discuss the future of e-commerce in Australia and how to bring world class best practice to Australian retailers.
The e-commerce industry in Australia has seen rapid growth over the last year and is forecast to reach $AU33.8 billion by 2012 up from $AU24 billion last year.
In the last six months alone, large Australian retailers such as BigW have extended their presence online, providing a significant boost to the industry. As Australian businesses become increasingly engaged online, the conference will also address the future of mobile. Globally, consumers are expected to spend $119 billion by 2015 through their mobile phones, accounting for about eight percent of all e-commerce activity, making it a valuable channel for retailers.
Mark Harvey, Event Director for Online Retailer, said: “There has been huge interest in the 2010 conference and a clear desire from Australian retailers to build, expand and improve their online offerings both online and increasing on mobile. We are dedicated to helping retailers and e-commerce professionals to grow and shape the future of e-retailing in Australia.”

Clicks2Customers and RingRevenue Honored with LinkShare’s

Golden Link Award for Innovative Publisher of the Year

Pay-Per-Call Partners Recognized for Taking Search Marketing to the Next Level

CAPE TOWN—(28 June 2010) — Last week at leading USA Performance Marketing Network LinkShare’s Symposium in New York, pay-per-call technology provider RingRevenuewww.RingRevenue.com) and its publishing partner Clicks2Customers (www.clicks2customers.com), the leading South African Search Engine Marketing agency, were honored with LinkShare’s Golden Link Award for Innovative Publisher of the Year. The award is given out annually to a publisher who makes use of new technology or innovative methods to drive higher sales and deliver great returns. Using LinkShare’s Pay-Per-Call program, powered by RingRevenue, Clicks2Customers was able to create an innovative performance marketing campaign focused on mobile search that has delivered over 550 calls within their first two months of launching and is converting at over 30%.

Brekkie with the King of Online Retail

Paul Greenberg (of DealsDirect.com.au fame) and I catch up on a semi regularly basis at events and functions like the one he is about to speak at (Retail World in Melbourne). I have known him since his early Dealsdirect and Auctionbroker days.

Today we catch up in Melbourne; in an hour or so he is to speak at the Retail World conference. I am keen to find out how Dealsdirect are going as a business, what he thinks of the current online retail space, and what their plans are for the future.