Ecommerce

How can online retailers optimise operations this Christmas season?

With festive season shopping now in full swing, some online retailers are discovering too late that they can become victims of their own success….

Guns and Rain: an art gallery that inhabits the contours of online space

Ann Gollifer, Ntlo, Pelo, Mosadi Guns and Rain founder Julie Taylor’s oldest art memory is of drawing dinosaur stencils. That memory, wrapped up as…

10 tips for keeping your ecommerce startup safe this festive season

It’s the end of the year and it’s time to shop. If you own an e-commerce platform or sell stuff online you are probably…

What lessons can SA’s ecommerce outlets learn from ‘Blackout Friday’?

On Black Friday some of South Africa’s leading ecommerce platforms adopted the international holiday to run specials and boost sales. It’s a pity they…

Want your ecommerce startup to take off? Forget the discounts, push customer service

According to business consulting firm Lee Resources Inc, 91% of unhappy customers will not willingly do business with you again. The number one reason…

TrustPay wants to bridge the disparate islands in the mobile payments space

The mobile payments space is booming. In Africa, pioneering systems like MPesa are still going strong, while the likes of Snapscan and FlickPay are…

Jumia ‘acknowledges success’ after just raising a nice fat $150 million

Jumia, which launched in only two years ago in Lagos, Nigeria, has just announced a new round of investments amounting to a fat €120…

What can we learn from the coolest examples of commerce innovation?

Finding creative ways to engage your customers can be the beginning of your stairway to success. However, there are now more and more ways…

Nigerian online megastore Konga.com rolls out SMS-based ordering platform

E-tailer Konga.com, is launching its SMS-based platform called SMS2ORDER, that will allow its customers to initiate item purchases via SMS. Shoppers can send text…

Tips for personalised ecommerce and the savvy eshops that inspire them

Personalised ecommerce. It’s all about data. Every click, purchase, like, share or pin executed on a website has the potential to allude to your…

Rocket Internet’s Colombian ecommerce outfit Linio bags €25m investment

Colombian online retailer Linio has announced that it will receive an investment up to €25 000 000 (US$32-million) from the Santo Domingo Group. €12…

The Yuppiechef cult: how a startup sparked a religion

The Yuppiechef success story has been well documented, but until now, no one has been able to explain exactly how the kitchen utensils e-tailer…

Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda takes off in Hungary

Food delivery site Foodpanda seems to have scored a bit of a coup in Hungary. The Rocket Internet-owned service, which operates in 25 countries,…

Vodacom, Vaimo team up for new youth-based ecommerce platform

African mobile operating giant Vodacom teamed up with ecommerce Vaimo to deliver Vodacom 4U’s new online platform with a focus on the youth market….

Deal discovery and sharing startup Found launches, ‘Sport Shoppers’ rejoice

Found Shopping, the deal discovery and sharing service from Cape Town launched its free app for iPhone and Android at the city’s Design Indaba…

VOX: the SMS-based banking service gaining ground in rural Indonesia

Founded by Joseph Gaol in 2008, VOX, which stands for Virtual Online Exchange, aims to help the rural population in Indonesia set up bank…

Taking stock of South African eCommerce after the 2012 holidays

Shortly before Christmas last year, we took a look at changing attitudes towards online shopping in South Africa. The Visa eCommerce Tracker Survey revealed…

Is online buying via SMS possible?

For people in emerging markets like South Africa to buy online, they pretty much have to use a bank card of some sort. And…

How do Chinese and US online retailers differ? [Quora]

This question originally appeared on Quora, and the answers that follow were provided by Ben Chiang, Adventure Capitalist, Zach Brown, a Texan in China,…

What exactly are South Africans buying online?

Ahead of the busiest shopping time of the year, Visa released a survey that reveals what eCommerce categories receive the most spend and identified…

SA business school claims world first: free online business education

Regenesys Business School is claiming a world first: free, fully accredited, internationally recognised online business education for South Africans. The courses are offered on…

QikCommerce: Behind the MIH-Obox break-up

Back in March, we reported that Naspers’ investment arm MIH had teamed up with Obox to launch QikCommerce — a WordPress-based eCommerce tool that…

6 of South Africa’s hottest ecommerce sites

When it comes to tech startups, ecommerce is at once an easy and tricky space to play in. It’s easy, because to get going…

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