Yes! We are launching an online contest for the Best Online Seller of the Year for P25000 bucks! Not bad right? Read on...
On the recent (March 2009) Yahoo-Nielsen study of the Philippine Internet usage, only 3% of the online users goes online to buy products. This is very small if compared to the overall 14,000,000 Users across the country. Majority goes online for email, social networking, chat or games. That said, Buying and Selling on the Internet is a growing industry and a lot of people are discovering the power of presenting their products online. Majority of these businesses are home based, run by women belonging to the age group 16-25. The Internet provides access to a large and growing market. By selling on the Internet, a neighborhood shop or home-based firm can reach a national or even international group of potential customers. When entrepreneurs sell online, they are on a more level playing field with larger competitors.
Franzperfume is an online shop for perfumes that sells at Sulit.com.ph, an online free ads site. Mariel, the owner, also sells at Mydivisoria.com and at Multiply.com.
Planet Advertising, a printing service owned by Doah Sto. Tomas also advertises their services across several sites such as these mentioned and a couple of other blogs like Blogger.com and Upd8t.com. Paolo Pagaling, under the username Pagaling and
CISSManila, is a tech device buyer and seller on sites such as TipidPC, TipidCP and PCtipid.com. Tet Barin, under the name
Tetrospect focuses on selling on Social Networking sites such as Friendster and Facebook. She sells kikay stuff and delicious cakes online. Manny Florendo owner of philproperties.ph, a real estate company has built an online network of agents online.
