eBay and the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS) these days joined forces to deliver education to small companies and entrepreneurs searching for new and global income channels within the speedy-growing eCommerce area. The complete-day workshop, “Let’s eBay with SIRS”, turned into held on the Lifelong Learning Institute, one of two Continuing Education and Training (CET) campuses by way of SkillsFuture Singapore.
With the goal to provide SMEs in Singapore a holistic aid machine to grow their corporations globally and sustainably, both parties also signed a memorandum of expertise centered on Global e-Commerce Onboarding & Education Programs.
Singapore’s eCommerce marketplace is predicted to develop with the aid of 48% to US$7.4 billion (S$10.04 billion) by way of 2022, and a growing variety of entrepreneurial Singaporeans are capitalizing on the opportunity to sell their products immediately to customers everywhere in the global on eBay.
According to eBay Head of Southeast Asia Seller Growth Wong Mei Inn, “Singapore’s move border alternate (CBT) exports continue to grow and there is a large opportunity for greater small corporations to sign up for the ranks of eBay dealers. By list their products on eBay’s worldwide marketplace, Singaporean organizations can attain one hundred eighty million energetic customers all over the world.”
“Let’s eBay with SIRS was designed for the small enterprise and entrepreneur who has very little e-commerce experience but desires to examine immediately from the supply,” stated Wong.
“eBay has lots of sellers right here in Singapore and over 80% of them promote to clients distant places. EBay’s consciousness in Singapore this yr is to permit even more SMEs to promote worldwide”, stated Jenny Hui, General Manager, Cross Border Trade, eBay Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
“eCommerce has been recognized as one of the key increase opportunities beneath 2020 imaginative and prescient of the Retail Industry Transformation Map released with the aid of SPRING Singapore (now Enterprise Singapore),” stated Nanyang Polytechnic’s Singapore Institute of Retail Studies Director Megan Ong. “By partnering eBay, we are able to be able to inspire retailers in Singapore to adopt eCommerce and omni-channel techniques to achieve nowadays’s digital context.”
SMEs contribute to 72% of Singapore’s employment, and in 2018, introduced a nominal value of S$213.6 billion, or 48% to the economy. The authorities have acknowledged the importance of SMEs plugging into the virtual economy as it might make a substantive impact on Singapore’s monetary boom.
The workshop featured speakers from eBay, SIRS, WorldFirst, Watches on International, JTBC Global, and DHL Express Singapore. The audio system shared case research, recommendation on getting began, and introductions to payments and logistics service companies to help small corporations start their worldwide e-commerce journey.
Following the workshop, eBay has launched the “eBay Onboarding Program”, a sequence of publications with SIRS to in addition permit SMEs to optimize cross-border selling and manage operations. Each course might be charged at S$a hundred and sixty, and subsidies variety from 70%-ninety five%.
PUNE: Zoho Corp has introduced the release of Zoho Commerce, an e-commerce solution with a purpose to assist small retailers installation their personal e-commerce sites. Hyther Nizam, VP-product management, Zoho Corp said that the employer has been walking a beta model for the beyond 12 months with 3,500 shops globally, approximately 10% of which have been in India.
“People need to move far from marketplaces and have greater manipulate over their online income and enhance their margins,” he said. The product would be included with present Zoho backend solutions like Zoho Books (accounting software) and Campaigns, an electronic mail marketing campaign software.
There are over 480 million internet customers in India, and this quantity will develop to over 600 million with the aid of 2021. The total size of the e-commerce marketplace is around $22 billion—nearly 4.5% of the total retail—in India, and it is predicted to grow to $50 billion through 2023.
Zoho Commerce is powered via Zoho’s AI assistant Zia and is GST compliant. Nizam stated that unlike current corporations that offered the same service where the retail pays on an in line with transaction basis, they would charge a flat month-to-month rate on a month-to-month gross merchandise value (GMV) of up to Rs 25 lakhs. “We need to disrupt the marketplace and could take a bottom-up approach, beginning with small and medium retailers,” stated Nizam. The employer might also train the merchants in a way to increase site visitors to their website, run electronic mail campaigns and on social media advertising.
Zoho currently has over forty merchandise across extraordinary business categories, which include sales and advertising and marketing, customer support and accounting.
