Dwarapala Provides Easier and Faster Online Store, Passes GIST’s ‘I Dare’ Final Competition

If you’re thinking that a good business plan must be able to bring benefit in a blink of an eye, you might want to reconsider. Dwarapala, free online store provider, hasn’t done any monetization since its launching until today. Even so, Dwarapala’s business plan managed to get through the final round of ‘I Dare’ business plan competition held by Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GIST).

Dwarapala is founded by Piti Irawan, Anita Jacobson, and Diki Irawan in April 2011. Dwarapala – means keeper or guardian in Sanskrit – provides easier online store. It means Dwarapala provides easier, faster and free online store service affordable by everybody. Dwarapala’s founder sees Indonesia to have many high-qualified product potentials and trying to help SMEs to sell their products through the internet.

In addition to easiness, Dwarapala also offers some features for its users. Online store owner at Dwarapala can customize their store’s look using many themes provided to suit their product and target market. Other than that, Dwarapala also provides inventory tracking system feature so store owner can monitor the stock.

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Finalis Kompetisi ‘I Dare’ dari GIST, Dwarapala, Sediakan Toko Online Mudah dan Cepat

Jika Anda berpikir sebuah business plan yang bagus harus bisa mendatangkan untung secara cepat, mungkin Anda perlu berpikir ulang. Dwarapala, penyedia toko online gratis, belum melakukan monetasi sejak diluncurkan sampai sekarang. Walaupun begitu business plan Dwarapala dapat menembus babak final kompetisi business plan “I Dare” yang diselenggarakan oleh Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GIST).

Dwarapala didirikan oleh Piti Irawan, Anita Jacobson, and Diki Irawan pada April 2011. Dwarapala yang dalam bahasa Sansekerta berarti penjaga atau pengawal ini, menyediakan easier online store. Artinya, Dwarapala menyediakan layanan online store yang mudah, cepat, dan gratis yang dapat dijangkau oleh semua orang. Founder Dwarapala melihat Indonesia mempunyai banyak potensi produk yang berkualitas ini mencoba membantu pemilik usaha kecil dan UMKM untuk menjual produknya melalui internet.

Selain kemudahan, Dwarapala juga menawarkan beberapa fitur untuk penggunanya. Pemilik online store di Dwarapala bisa mengubah tampilan tokonya menggunakan berbagai theme yang ada untuk menyesuaikan dengan produk dan target konsumen mereka. Selain itu, Dwarapala menyediakan fitur inventory tracking system sehingga pemilik toko dapat melihat ketersediaan stok barang dagangannya.

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Nokia Indonesia Aggressively Pushing Digital Music Downloads Through Nokia Music

Martin Chirotarrab presenting the Asha 302 — Nokia Indonesia President Director Martin Chirotarrab at the Asha 302 launch

Nokia Indonesia launched its latest mid-range mobile phone, the Asha 302, yesterday in Jakarta. While DailySocial doesn’t normally cover gadget launches, there’s something different about this that relates to how Nokia is trying to maintain mind share as well as market share in Indonesia. Part of the strategy for this product is something that has been mentioned before on DailySocial. It may not be fool proof but Nokia certainly has the right ingredients, it’s just a matter of how the company puts them all together in its marketing push.

One of the most significant part of the puzzle here is the inclusion of Nokia Music Store in the Asha 302. Consumers who buy the 302 get a six month access to the music store in which they can download as many songs as they like for free and listen to them as often as they want.

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Adobe Online Store Sekarang Tersedia di Indonesia

Ingin membeli piranti lunak buatan Adobe secara legal? Dulu hal seperti ini tidak mudah mengingat keterbatasan distribusi dan partner yang bisa menjual paket instalasi dalam bentuk CD/DVD. Untuk mengatasi hal ini dan juga mengurangi pembajakan, Adobe per hari ini akhirnya membuka online store yang dapat diakses di Indonesia dan negara-negara Asia Tenggara lainnya, seperti Singapura, Malaysia, Thailand, dan Filipina.

Pengguna produk Adobe di negara-negara tersebut dapat membeli piranti lunak dan mengunduhnya secara online, sementara khusus untuk Singapura tersedia opsi pengantaran paket instalasi dalam bentuk DVD. Semua produk ditawarkan dengan mata uang setempat, misalnya jika Anda membuka Adobe.com Store Indonesia, semua produk ditawarkan dalam Rupiah.

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Multiply Commerce is Officially Released

Daniel Tumiwa, Country Manager of Multiply Indonesia today announced that Multiply Commerce or Multiply 5.0 is officially released globally. Tumiwa added that Indonesia has the most Multiply online store, leading with over 35.000 e-stores.

Multiply Commerce is the latest breakthrough and probably the biggest one Multiply ever do to catch existing opportunity especially the one related to developing their own users. Previously, Multiply is a social network completed with blog, video, photos, and other features. They changed their strategy by providing marketplace, and now it becomes platform for selling things.

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Sedapur.com is Officially Launched

Sedapur.com, an e-commerce service for food, officially launched their beta version today. Daily Social wrote about them in October 2010. At that time we were already given access to some of their facilities although they are not officially launched yet.

Sedapur can be briefly explained as an online store that users, in this case food merchants, can use to sell their product, and visitors can order and buy them here. As an online store, Sedapur is equipped by shopping cart, website management system, financial administration, and delivery facilities. At the moment they only cover Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi area, but they are planning to expand their coverage.

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Getting Closer to Version 5.0, Multiply Now Released Multiply Indonesia Special Page

Multiply is in the process of preparing the latest version, Multiply 5.0 which will maximize it as a meeting place for sellers and buyers, making Multiply as a social shopping service.

Multiply also has been officially set up their office in Jakarta. Via their official blog, Multiply office in Jakarta is predicted to become the second largest office after their headquarters in Florida USA.

They also now have special page for Multiply Indonesia, which became sort of an online representative to meet with customers and their users in Indonesia.

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Virtual Shopping Dengan vsHub

Belanja online memang sedang nge-trend di Indonesia, hampir bisa dipastikan tahun depan behavior pengguna Internet di Indonesia sudah mulai bergeser dan mulai sering berbelanja melalui internet. Terbukti dengan banyaknya startup ecommerce yang launching tahun ini, meskipun hampir semuanya masih memiliki the basic problem of online transaction : payment gateway.

Meski demikian, agaknya masalah ini sudah mulai bisa teratasi dengan masuknya vsHub sebagai salah satu perusahaan ecommerce. vsHub tadinya sudah mulai aktif di beberapa negara di Asia, namun baru-baru ini mulai masuk ke Indonesia untuk melayani transaksi online yang kian nge-trend.

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Kemana.com Meluncur April 2010

Ketika saya pikir sudah banyak online store bertebaran dimana-mana, ternyata masih ada yang sedang bersiap untuk muncul ke permukaan. Kemana.com, sebuah online store yang dalam tahap persiapan akhir mengumumkan di websitenya bahwa mereka akan siap meluncur April 2010 mendatang.

Mungkin masih lumayan segar di ingatan anda bahwa Plasa.com, online store milik Telkom, juga direncanakan untuk launching bulan ini, Maret 2010. Dengan rentang waktu launching yang tidak terlalu jauh berbeda tentu menjadi keunikan tersendiri. Waktu launching memang penting, harus bisa memanfaatkan momentum yang pas dan merupakan pukulan tersendiri bagi kompetitor yang sedang sama-sama bersiap launching.

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Microsoft Buka Toko Online Di AS

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Minggu kemarin Microsoft membuka toko online di Amerika Serikat, negara asal Microsoft. Ini adalah negara ke-empat dimana Microsoft mengijinkan piranti lunak yang dijual dapat diunduh secara langsung melalui internet. Negara – negara sebelumnya antara lain Korea, Belanda, Jerman, dan Inggris.

Toko online milik Microsoft ini juga berusaha melibatkan penggunanya untuk berperan aktif untuk menyelamatkan Bumi, dengan membayar sedikit lebih mahal (premium account).

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