Online Shopping in Indonesia Will Grow to 15% in 6 Months

Just the other day, we read of Ipsos’s survey on the online shopping behavior of Internet users in Indonesia. The survey revealed that 44% of internet users in Indonesia buy goods online in the last 3 months.

Yesterday, MasterCard Worldwide released a survey result on similar topic. To know their customer’s tendency to shop online, MasterCard Worldwide held MasterCard Worldwide Online Shopping Survey. MasterCard did a survey on 7,373 customers during December 5, 2011 to February 6, 2012. Surveyed customers came from 14 countries in Asia Pacific.

The result, 57% of people surveyed in Indonesia use the Internet to shop online, not much different from the result of Ipsos’ survey. While for the next 6 months, 71% Indonesian people intend to use the Internet to shop online. It means, Indonesian people’s tendency to shop online will increase 15% in the next 6 months.

Of the 14 Asia Pacific countries surveyed, Indonesia is still behind established countries like Thailand, China, Japan and Korea, but the growth is fairly rapid by only behind Vietnam and is equivalent to the growth of online shopping in the Philippines.

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[Dailyssimo] E-commerce in Indonesia, What We Need Is a Service That We Can Trust

Opening an online shop is much easier than opening a regular shop; at least it can be measured from cost factor. However, inviting buyer to come and be a customer of a store is much more complex than just opening it. Let me invite you to examine from various point of views.

For a buyer, money is something sensitive. A buyer would never want to give their money in exchange for an item if they do not want the item or if there is something that makes it hard to get the goods after they made the payment.

Just imagine, if you want to buy a music CD, the options are to purchase it at nearest CD store or at on online shop. What do you think will be the consideration?

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Online Shopping di Indonesia Akan Tumbuh 15% dalam 6 Bulan

Baru kemarin, kita membaca survei dari Ipsos tentang perilaku pengguna internet di Indonesia dalam berbelanja online. Survei tersebut mengungkapkan bahwa 44% pengguna internet di Indonesia membeli barang secara online dalam 3 bulan terakhir.

Kemarin, MasterCard Worldwide mengeluarkan hasil survei tentang topik yang serupa. Untuk mengetahui kecenderungan customer mereka untuk berbelanja online, MasterCard Worldwide mengadakan MasterCard Worldwide Online Shopping Survey. Dalam survei tersebut, MasterCard melakukan survei 7373 customer-nya dalam kurun waktu 5 Desember 2011 sampai 6 Februari 2012. Customer yang disurvei berada di 14 negara Asia Pasifik.

Hasilnya, 57% orang Indonesia yang disurvei menggunakan internet untuk berbelanja online. Relatif tidak berbeda dengan hasil survei dari Ipsos. Sedangkan dalam jangka waktu 6 bulan ke depan, 71% orang Indonesia bermaksud berbelanja online menggunakan internet. Artinya, kecenderungan orang Indonesia untuk berbelanja online akan naik 15% dalam 6 bulan ke depan. Continue reading Online Shopping di Indonesia Akan Tumbuh 15% dalam 6 Bulan

Hasil Survei Ipsos dan Peluang Bagi Pelaku Jual-Beli Online

Minggu lalu, Ipsos merilis hasil survei mereka yang menyebutkan beberapa hal tentang perilaku pengguna internet di Indonesia dalam berbelanja online. Ipsos adalah perusahaan riset pasar independen yang dikelola oleh periset profesional, didirikan di Perancis kini memiliki kantor di 84 negara.

Hasil survei tersebut mengatakan bahwa 69% pengguna Internet di Indonesia melakukan pencarian web untuk mencari produk yang ingin mereka beli, serta dari jumlah total responden sebanyak 48% melakukan pembelian barang secara online, sedangkan untuk Indonesia sebesar 44%.

Kepercayaan

Mencari informasi termasuk membandingkan harga menjadi sebuah proses yang lazim dilakukan oleh calon pembeli belanja online. Meski survei tersebut mengatakan bahwa responden melakukan pencarian informasi atas produk yang ingin mereka beli, memang tidak disebutkan secara rinci proses pencarian seperti apa yang dilakukan calon pembeli ini, apakah menggunakan mesin pencari atau melihat langsung dan membandingkan dari toko online, marketplace atau forum, apakah mereka juga bertanya ke teman mereka atau mempertimbangkan juga pendapat orang lain atau hanya mencari sendiri di web.

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Still from Rocket Internet, Here Comes foodpanda

Rocket Internet is known for its speed in imitating a number of startups. Following Pinspire, Zalora, and Lazada, the company introduces foodpanda simultaneously in a number of Southeast Asian countries. Aside form Indonesia, foodpanda which is headquartered in Singapore, is also available in Malaysia, Thailand, and The Philippines. foodpanda is a food delivery service for restaurants which does not have its own delivery service. This idea doesn’t seem to be popular as yet among Indonesian startups but foodpanda will be facing some competition in some of the other countries. Local restaurants with online order and delivery service that I’m aware of are large franchises such as Hoka-Hoka Bento and PHD (Pizza Hut Delivery).

In Indonesia foodpanda has signed on a number of restaurants. To order using foodpanda, you enter your postal code or the name of your area and it will then display a list of restaurants that serve your neighborhood. At the moment the list of restaurants are concentrated on the central area with very few serving the outskirts. foodpanda offers restaurants a chance to join its service through its contact email address or via snail mail.

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Platform Pembayaran ‘Menyerang’ Pasar Asia

Anda mungkin akan mengeluh ketika saya menyebutkan ‘platform pembayaran’, namun melihat berbagai perkembangan yang terjadi, platform ini semakin dilirik hari demi hari, dengan pemain baru yang mempelajari pasar sambil secara diam-diam menyiapkan produk mereka untuk membantu orang bertransaksi online. Beberapa layanan di segmen ini adalah PayPal Here atau Square.

Swiff, perusahaan yang berbasis di Singapura mencoba untuk melakukan hal yang serupa dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh Square untuk pasar U.S. Pada dasarnya, Swiff memberikan fasilitas yang memungkinkan orang biasa menerima pembayaran kartu kredit menggunakan ponsel mereka. Meskipun mereka tidak benar-benar membuat sebuah terobosan, mereka mencoba mengubah cara orang dalam bertransaksi, setidaknya di wilayah Asia.

Di U.S., Square diterima dengan cukup baik oleh para merchant dan bahkan berhasil mendapatkan pendanaan sebesar $169 juta dari berbagai VC dan investor strategis seperti Visa. Dan tentu saja Square dapat dengan mudah mengalahkan Swiff ketika mereka memutuskan untuk berekspansi ke Asia, dengan Visa yang mendukung mereka, hal ini hanya tinggal menunggu waktu saja.

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Payment platforms attacks Asian market

You might be doing that big sigh when I mention “payment platform” but looking at recent developments, this are is getting hotter by the day with new player trying to study the market while silently preparing their product to help people pay online. Asian version of Paypal Here, or Square.

Singapore-based company Swiff is trying to do exactly what Square does in US market, it basically enables regular people to receive credit payment using their mobile phones. Although they’re not exactly inventing a new wheel, they are trying to change the way people transact at least in the region.

In the US, Square is very well-received by its merchants and even manage to raise $169 million in funding from VC firms and strategic investors such as Visa. And of course Square can easily dwarf Swiff once they have decided to expand to Asia, and with Visa on their back it’s only a matter of time until it happens.

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Dua Fitur Terbaru UrbanIndo Berusaha Untuk Jadi Pembeda Layanan Sejenis

Sejak diluncurkan pada bulan November ~~2012~~ 2011, ini kali kedua kami membahas UrbanIndo, sebuah situs properti online yang berkantor di Bandung. Selain telah meluncurkan memberikan layanan bagi pengguna berita daftar properti yang bisa dibeli atau disewa, saat ini mereka juga telah meluncurkan 2 fitur terbaru.

Pengembangan fitur ini dikatakan Arip Tirta, founder UrbanIndo sebagai upaya mereka untuk menciptakan tools bagi pengguna untuk mendapatkan informasi properti yang lebih cepat dan lengkap. Arip mengatakan bahwa UrbanIndo ingin membantu pengguna untuk bisa menganalisis semua data yang dimiliki UrbanIndo sehingga bisa membuat keputusan yang tepat untuk membeli/menjual properti.

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UrbanIndo Launched Two New Features to Differentiate Itself From its Competitors

Since its launch in November 2011, this is the second time we will have discussed about UrbanIndo, an online property website based in Bandung. In addition to providing service for users of the news list of properties that can be bought or rented, this time it also launched two new features.

The development of this feature, said Arip Tirta, UrbanIndo founder, is an attempt to create tools for consumers to obtain property information more quickly and thorough. Tirta said that UrbanIndo wants to help the user to be able to analyze all the data UrbanIndo held so they can make the right decision to buy/sell a property.

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[Dailyssimo] Time and Work Space Revolution

For those of you who work in a city as crowded as Jakarta certainly need no further explanation as to why the city can’t be considered comfortable as a place to work, but what I would like to highlight here is how technology makes the revolution of time and work space possible for the whole industry.

Internet will be the backbone of the industrial world even though at present there are companies that have not been using it optimally, yet. And the issue of “working in Jakarta” could be resolved one step at a time with the Internet. How exactly the internet is the solution? I will try to describe it below.

There are two main problems working in Jakarta, first is optimizing working hours. This will not be achieved if we spend 2-3 hours commuting to work (not to mention the meetings outside of the office); this is reinforced by the fact that the workers/professionals have been moving to the suburbs. Second is the fatigue (tiredness) that emerged as the impact of the first problem. This fatigue element is causing discomfort when working which eventually negatively affects work performance.

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