Thursday, October 17, 2013

Lazada Philippines Review: Convenience of doing usual offline activities online


We all adjusted to using online to do our usual offline activities. Remember the days when doing a research require us to go to libraries and read encyclopedias? I know, it will take days or even weeks just to finish a research. That is how online made it convenient for us. All you need to do now is just search for the topic you are conducting research and all the answers will be available to you and comes from different resources. Online shopping is also an activity online that made our shopping demands easier to obtain. Online shopping started to rise ever since Lazada Online Mall was launched in the country and other online stores showed up from everywhere.

Ecommerce was actually slow in growth a year before they have arrived in the Philippines. The local online users never thought of online shopping as their alternative option in shopping in the past. Local online users usually visited local online classified websites when they are looking for a second hand item. When it comes to seeking brand new items, local consumers usually visit traditional offline malls. It's actually not surprise since we all grew up going to traditional offline malls when we need something. With online shopping, local online consumers can actually save their time and money. How can online shopping really benefit us as consumers?

As for online shopping, local online consumers can do it wherever they go. Usual extra spent cash on visiting traditional malls will now be saved with online shopping. This was the greatest challenge of Lazada when they launched here in the Philippines. It was actually hard for any online mall to tap the untapped online community of the country. Not being able to pay online since most of the population are credit cardholders at all. It's quite hard for the local online consumers to trust online deals right away. It makes it harder for online users to be convinced since online scams and frauds are just lurking around over the Internet. The online shopping industry in the country is actually on the rise. Lazada is just over one year of operation but they managed to make an impact on the Ecommerce industry.

For them to show their customers that they are real, they came out on TVC during primetime on top local channels. How did the Ecommerce limitations were solved by them? Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. payment method as offered by them as an alternative payment. This is a payment method that is actually rare to see available in any online business. Actually, it's a payment method that is quite risky for any online business. Payments are not usually required right away with payment method. Cash payments can be done by customers once Lazada delivers their orders at their very home. Customers will be satisfied to know that they won't be scammed since they can keep their money up until their order arrived at their home. This is to kill the perception of local online users that shopping at their mall is safe and secured.

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