What this snake in the grass Fahour ISN'T SAYING is..

One of the things Fahour omits to mention is that it costs ~$10 to post a 2Kg package to Australia from Ireland, and going via Australia Post, it costs ~$110 to post the same package back....

Ecommerce trade OVER SEAS, via Australia Post?????

People cannot afford to sell via "Ecommerce", through Australia Post, because it costs 2 or 3 times as much to send a product from one suburb to the next, within Australia, as it does to get things sent from the other side of the world.

And Mr Bullshit Artist is surprised how poorly we have taken advantage of E commerce in Australia, to the rest of the world...

We are a bunch of dumb cunts - says Fahour.

Oh but what he doesn't say, is that people go broke using Australia Post, and thanks to Australia Posts pricing - they can't fucking compete locally, against the sellers from over seas.

Fuck Off Fahour - you lying bloody snake in the grass.



Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour says Australia's e-commerce trade focuses too much on the domestic market rather than exports.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/12/08/aust-e-commerce-needs-export-focus-fahour

Aust e-commerce needs export focus: Fahour

Australian businesses are too focused on the domestic market rather than bigger markets overseas when it comes to making the best of opportunities in e-commerce, says Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour.

"I'm still somewhat surprised, if I can be critical of our country, how poorly we have taken advantage of the trillion dollars of cross-border buying of e-commerce from Australia to the rest of Asia," Mr Fahour told the Boao Forum for Asia on Thursday,

Mr Fahour said Australian businesses have the advantage of the lower value of the local currency against the US dollar, which makes Australian goods comparatively cheaper for overseas buyers.

"Yet, for whatever reason, Australian small business still tend to be domestically-focused and not export-orientated despite magnificent (e-commerce) platforms available to them, like Alibaba and others," Mr Fahour said.

Also, Australia needs to develop its e-commerce sectors. For example, the grocery and food sector in Australia was not as developed as that of Japan.

In Japan, said Mr Fahour, 30 per cent of e-commerce transactions related to food and groceries, but in Australia it was only 10 per cent.

The co-founder of luxury fashion online retailer Net-A-Porter, Megan Quinn, said too many business had a fear of the unknown.

She also said that government could help grow e-commerce by ensuring that businesses could get connectivity to high-speed wi-fi.

Furthermore, businesses needed access to information on the differences between e-commerce platforms, and even social media platforms, in different countries.

Even in online shopping, consumers overseas had different expectations of price, and packaging, and had different cultural needs.

James Li, chief development officer of China's Didi Chuxing, the world's largest ride-sharing company, said services were likely to be the next growth area in e-commerce.

"We are growing much faster than any other e-commerce company in China." Mr Li said.

Chemist Warehouse chief executive Damien Gance said businesses aiming to make sales on China's big e-commerce platforms had the mistaken belief that because China was such a big market, all they had to do was plant a flag there.

"If you go there (China), you need to engage in all the things that you did when you grew your business in Australia," Mr Gance said.




Digimatic teams up with Australia Post for pilot program
Company News
by David Chau

https://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/archives/finance_news_network125113.html

Digimatic Group Ltd (ASX:DMC) has entered into a deal with Australia Post to pilot a program, which is designed to help Australian merchants sell their products in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

This deal involves both businesses creating an Australian Pavilion in the Lazada Marketplace – considered to be one of South-east Asia’s leading online stores.
Digimatic is a technology platform business – it builds and operates online marketplaces.

The company will kick-start the pilot project early this month, and will provide these Australian merchants with marketing, technical and operational support over the Lazada Marketplace.

Digimatic posted a net profit of $25,000 at 30 September 2016.