uAfrica.com held its annual South Africa eCommerce Conference on Thursday, 4 September 2014, at Gallagher Convention Centre. The purpose of the eCommerce Conference is to keep up to date with the latest trends in eCommerce, presented by the best the world of eCommerce has to offer, and of course, to be able to network and share business ideas with industry colleagues.
Leading up to the conference, uAfrica.com hosted two eCommerce workshops in Cape Town on Tuesday, 2 September and Johannesburg on Wednesday, 3 September. The workshops were geared towards educating attendees in the various areas of running an eCommerce business. Leaders in the various areas held sessions with smaller groups of attendees to help them build their eCommerce businesses.
Presentations from the eCommerce Workshops and eCommerce Conference have been made available for download:
eCommerce Workshop Presentations:
Google Adwords (Basic or Advanced) – coming soon
Web Site Analytics – Analytics for E-commerce
Search Engine Optimisation – Demystifying SEO for E-commerce
Social Media – Leveraging Facebook to build your eCommerce Business
Email Marketing – 7 Ways To Increase Your Email Effectiveness
Multi Channel Commerce – Multi Channel Commerce
Payments (PayFast) – Online Payments
Payments (PayPal) – coming soon
Logistics (Aramex) – eCommerce Delivery in South Africa
Logistics (DPD Laser) – Logistics
Shopify and Point of Sale (Physical Retail) – Shopify and Point of Sale (Physical Retail)
eCommerce Conference Presentations:
Leveraging Facebook to build your eCommerce Business by Warrick Godfrey from Facebook
PayPal and the digital wallet, the future of payments by Malvina Goldfeld from PayPal
Omni-Channel Commerce by Paul Greenberg from NORA (Australia) – coming soon
Case study presented by Nikki Cockcroft from Woolworths Online – coming soon
The last major hurdle for e-commerce in South Africa by Justin Drennan from Parcel Ninja
Case study presented by Colin Fleming from Massmart – coming soon
Case study presented by Nicholas Haralambous from Nicsocks
uAfrica.com thanks all that joined us at the 2014 eCommerce Conference and Workshops – hope to see you all again next year!