Showing posts with label ecommerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecommerce. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

China Ecommerce Trend: New Way To Break Through The Many Brands and Retailers on TaoBao (掏宝)



TaoBao is the place to go to buy anything under the sun.  There are so many retailers and brands.  How do you compete and make your products stands out to drive sales?  mogujie.com (磨菇街) recognize that this not only a seller issue but also a consumer issue!  The quality of product varies significantly.  It is tough work for consumers to find their way through all these products to find what they like.  So mogujie.com came up with a solution!  mogujie.com is a site targeting female clothing.  They find clothing on TaoBao that is on trend with good quality.  Then, mix and match and merchandise them on their site so it does the work for the ladies to find and match on trend clothing.  This is perfect for us ladies, isn't it? 




What's so brilliant about mogujie.com is not only that.  Look closer.  Does it reminds you of Pinterest?  Yes!  Ladies love Pinterest and it is the same in China.  But mogujie.com does one step further and better than Pinterest.  Social Media platforms in the Western world are having a hard time landing in a model that drive revenue.  Just look to the East and they will find a model that work.  Mogujie.com present clothing as if blogger or anyone off the street sharing mix and match on trend using nice photos while the community can comment, "pin", and share.  When you see something you like, just click on the photo then you see the price and "Add to Cart" button.  The focal point is "sharing" so you don't feel that it is a selling site but the natural next steps for ladies who see something they like is then ask "where do I buy it".  Mogujie.com, right then and there, conveniently present "Add to Cart" for the ladies to purchase.

Brilliant isn't it?
















Wednesday, March 19, 2014

McDonald Tmall.com (天猫)Store Presence

Holy!  Never have I experience such shopping experience online with North America websites.  There are much to be learned with what China is doing.  Tmall.com is one of the most popular commerce sites in China but for reputable brands compare to Taobao.com where individual retailer can have a presence.

Check out how McDonald / T-mall ties traffics from Weibo (China version of Twitter) to McDonald's Tmall store front.  See that dial that over lay my mobile screen when I browse a post on McDonald's Weibo?  Just click on the shopping cart and it will send traffic off to the Tmall McDonald page not to just view McDonald brand but to be able to buy a drink or food online!  Wicked isn't it.


                                              

Check out the store front on Tmall.  It imitate an actual store front online.  I knew I can place delivery order online but never thought I can go to an online mall to buy a drink.  You have to go into a store using the QR code to get the drink so it is not seamless online purchase and it gets delivered to your house.  There isn't a real discount to incent users to buy from the net vs. in-store except that you get Tmall points for the purchase.  But it is a cool experience indeed from Weibo to online store front on a centralize ecommerce
 platform.  You get to see your community commenting about the product and such as well.  Will the big guns in North America like Amazon would do something similar soon?  It won't be long for Tmall, Taobao and Tencent to spread outside of China.  If you are not keeping an eye on these Chinese online players, you better do so starting now and learn from them fast.