ecommerce: November 2006 Archives
I was looking at adding some more links to Armchair.ie this morning and so I thought I'd focus on a couple of sectors in particular.
Unless I'm blind there are no indigenous shoe shops selling online. There are plenty of big multinationals selling into the Irish market, but I couldn't find any Irish run solutions...
Is the market simply too small?
Amazon have upgraded their Astore tool / service on both .com and .co.uk (I haven't had a chance to look at .fr yet, but I will do when I get a chance).
The official announcement arrived a couple of days ago:
With this version of aStore you can now: * Build and maintain multiple aStores under one Associate ID * Feature up to 54 products in each category * Create custom categories containing products from multiple Amazon categories * Create multiple instances of individual Amazon categories * Control the display order of the products on each page * Specify products to feature on Category and Subcategory pages * Populate products to categories using Listmania listsI'm going to be playing with the system a bit over the next few days as it's beginning to shape up quite nicely. So far I like what I see, in that I can add multiple stores with custom content for each niche site / interest that I want them to reflect. I'm also in communication with one of the Amazon team directly, so I'm going to try and build up a comprehensive list of features that I like and ones that I don't like. I've thrown together two stores very quickly, but they give some idea of what could be done: One for this blog which uses one of the default templates with no additions. Another one for the webmaster forum with the forum's logo (yes I know it isn't the write size or colour but I was just testing the system) I'll try to post a followup once I've explored it all a bit more
The shortlist for the 2006 Net Visionary Awards was announced earlier today.
We won't know who the winners will be until the night of the event, so it should be quite exciting.
I have been shortlisted in two categories, which I wasn't expecting - blogging and entrepeneur.
It's nice to see that there are so many familiar names on the list, though, as usual, there are also quite a few that I don't recognise at all!
I'm not sure when this happened, but I've just noticed that PayPal has suddenly expanded the number of currencies available.
You can now maintain your account using the following:
- Euro
- Australian Dollar
- Canadian Dollar
- Czech Koruna
- Danish Krone
- Hong Kong Dollar
- Hungarian Forint
- New Zealand Dollar
- Norwegian Krone
- Polish Zloty
- Pound Sterling
- Singapore Dollar
- Swedish Krona
- Swiss Franc
- U.S. Dollar
- Yen
