B
Evidence Grade B
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68%
68% -- smb project delay rate for Australian SMBs (2025)
68% of Australian SMBs delay ecommerce projects due to unclear agency pricing and lack of contractual service-level agreements.
- Delay is specifically due to unclear agency pricing and lack of contractual SLAs.
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Value
68%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
The Hope Factory
Primary
Tier C
https://alphaomegadigital.com.au/shopify-agency-australia/ ↗
Source Article
Expert Shopify Agency Australia Selection Guide 2026
Original Research
The Hope Factory
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Methodology
2025 survey, cited via The Hope Factory's discussion of transparent agency pricing in Australia
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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Australian SMBs: 68% smb project delay rate. Source: The Hope Factory (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/australian-smbs-delay-ecommerce-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/australian-smbs-delay-ecommerce-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>68%</strong> -- smb project delay rate for Australian SMBs<br><small>Source: The Hope Factory (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/australian-smbs-delay-ecommerce-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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