TokoBagus hits 1 million ads, enters Indonesia’s top 30 visited sites

Seems like the guys at TokoBagus also missed the note about their first million ads put up on their e-commerce site, that makes it two in one day. Apparently Koprol’s one mil milestone remind Remco Lupker (CEO) to check his website’s stats only to find a similar achievement with the location based social networking site.

TokoBagus was one of the early player who survived the heartless jungle of the Indonesian internet ecosystem, founded in 2005 and currently one of the biggest e-commerce company in Indonesia. Based in Denpasar-Bali, Remco and their investors spend tons of money for TokoBagus’ marketing and promotion effort, they even have a booth opened at Jakarta’s biggest IT exhibition. Continue reading TokoBagus hits 1 million ads, enters Indonesia’s top 30 visited sites

GantiBaju and DealKeren strike up a deal

If you visit DealKeren’s website, you will immediately see their current deal with GantiBaju – an Indonesian Threadless clone with a unique touch. GantiBaju, the #1 winner of our own SparxUp Awards 2010, strike up a deal with one of Indonesia’s biggest daily deal site, DealKeren. DealKeren is a part of a daily deal site networks together with Ensogo Thailand and Ensogo Philippines and currently taking off with a big traction in Indonesia.

The deal between DealKeren and GantiBaju was a regular daily deal discount thingy, but this particular deal lasts longer than the usual one day deal. This deal is going to be active for at least 3 days until today, and this deal only valid for purchase on GantiBaju’s offline store down at FX Lifestyle X’nter, Jakarta. Aria Rajasa (CEO GantiBaju) told us that they receive a traffic spike from DealKeren with it’s huge traffic. And a good thing for DealKeren also, this deal is the first fashion related deals for DealKeren who usually put up discounts from restaurants, spa, and entertainment.

NsiaPay Rebranded Into Doku

NsiaPay is one of Indonesia’s startup company with a big chance to be the savior in terms of the online payment system. I even once refer it as the savior for bringing the online transaction platform grow in Indonesia. And now, NsiaPay is gone forever as announced by Ronald Ishak, one of the advisor for the payment company. NsiaPay is now officially Doku.

“It’s hard to pronounce and the brand name just doesn’t work”, said Ronald when asked about the reason behind the rebranding. I personally there’s something bigger under the table, rebranding is a big issue and took a lot of effort and less likely caused by a mere naming issue. I would think that NsiaPay was selling their product to the wrong bunch of people and realize their mistake and now rebranding their product as a new ride to acquire new sets of customers. Nsiapay’s website is still alive though.

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The Partnership Continues, Plasa.com Give 25GB Free Storage

The partnership between Plasa.com and Microsoft is (apparently) not done with Plasa.com’s webmail powered by Microsoft Live Mail. Today via Telkom Indonesia twitter account, Plasa.com announce another feature for their customer in their partnership with Microsoft. And just like their previous deal, it has nothing to do with e-commerce – you know, their core business.

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eVoucher Provides Online Discounts For Electronics

Out of so many Groupon clones existed in Indonesia, eVoucher might be the only one with a differentiation -although not exactly a strong one. How eVoucher.co.id works is basically the same as other Groupon clones, the payment method is also pretty much the same, but the oh-not-so-strong differentiation is on the items they sell. eVoucher focuses on selling discounts for electronics and gadgets, and when i say focuses means they’re not exclusive for electronics and gadgets only but also restaurants.

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Groupon’s Business Model From A Different Angle

I recently read a piece by Redfin, the online real-estate company, about a story of Groupon and how it destroys small business. In this case, Groupon destroys a small coffee shop in Portland, Oregon and it got me thinking about how a startup’s business model should be flexible and how it relates to customer’s profit and your own company’s profit.

Of course, both are important. But this is the hard part of creating a business model for your startup, at least that’s your homework as startup founder.

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Plasa’s New Look. Seriously.

The high-profile and government-funded e-commerce website Plasa.com recently announce their new look, as Shinta Witoyo (CEO) tweeted yesterday. Plasa rumored to receive another round of funding by their parent company, Telkom for further development of the marketplace site.

Plasa’s new design actually looks more cramped compared to the old version. More content seemed to got put on the frontpage, and I’m not a UI expert or anything, but i kinda feel less comfortable compared to the old design. But overall, Plasa added more content to the site including their partnership with GantiBaju (Indonesia’s Threadless) and other relevant content about shopping etc.

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The Moment You’ve Been Waiting For : 3 Groupon Clones Launched!

As you might all expected, yes Indonesia also has Groupon clones and most of them are still flying under the radar until they decided to launch publicly this week, all three of them.

They are Disdus, DealKeren and Fanesia. First, Fanesia claimed that they will launch a few days ago, based on the countdown timer they put on their homepage. Apparently, still no Fanesia. So let’s move on with it.

Disdus is one of the groupon daily deals sites launched this week, founded by the same group of people who founded (and currently still run) Citzel, a location based review site. Jason Lamuda, founder and CEO of both Citzel and Disdus told us that they are going to focus on offline events to support their online presence. This strategy is quite unique but not surprising in Indonesia, might as well leaving other competitors wondering whether they should follow or not.

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Tokopedia’s First Birthday, Booked 5 Billion IDR Transactions

Launched on a historic day of August 17th (Indonesia’s independence day) last year, Tokopedia celebrate their first birthday by launching their new mobile version of the site. William, Founder and CEO told us that the mobile version has most major features just like in the standard web version. Seller can check orders, delivery statuses and withdrawal, while visitors can buy items, check their orders, confirm payments, etc.

As the first startup to be invested by the aggressive VC East Ventures, Tokopedia also gain quite a strong traction compared to other competitors like Krazymarket, Juale and Kemana. Their traffic keeps going up and experienced a few spikes every now and then, but most importantly they also claim 5 billion IDR transaction record. Too bad this doesn’t necessarily a good thing for Tokopedia since they’re not taking a cut out of the transactions made, instead they’re preparing to make money from advertisement. I personally find it weird, but hey.. every startup got its own way of thinking.

And now that they’re one year old, Tokopedia also decided to drop the beta label form their website, giving their user more of a trust level with their service. Happy birthday Tokopedia!

KlikBCA Embrace Mobile Web and Apps For Smartphones

Said to be one of the best eBanking system in Indonesia, KlikBCA now leave their competition behind even further by embracing the mobile culture of their urban Indonesian user. Today, KlikBCA announce that they’re officially opening their new mobile eBanking system, a mobile version of their web-based KlikBCA. BCA claims that this mobile version is as secure as the desktop version.

Not only releasing their mobile website, KlikBCA will also launch native apps for popular devices in Indonesia. KlikBCA will soon release its native app for Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia S60 and a Java-supported app for the rest of the smartphone. Excellent choices of handheld support that represents almost all eBanking users in Indonesia, although the iPhone app seems a bit too presumptuous. It’s not that i don’t like iPhone, i love them, but Android seemed to be picking up instead of the iPhone.

KlikBCA is also partner with several e-commerce websites such as Bhinneka, IndoMog (online gaming payment) and several other partners. In the future, KlikBCA will add more and more partner, probably making KlikBCA as Indonesia’s biggest closed-loop mobile e-commerce / integrated banking system. Seems like a big dream.