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Recently, there is indication from various reports showing the US e-Commerce retailing is slowing down, starting from Q1 Y2009.

Will it rebound during this Christmas season, or it will continue to stay stag, as during last quarter the US unemployment rate has hit the record high of 10.2%, a record since 1980s. Will this impact the current OFW who working in US, and further to impact the remittent from OFW in US back to Philippines during this Christmas? In Y2008, there are total US$14bil coming back from OFW in US, where more than US$5bil during the Christmas season.

On the other hand, there is estimate Php 4bil total online transactions in Philippines e-Commerce industry, with a total of 24 to 28million Internet users in Philippines, and 80% are below age of 30. This industry will be in growing for the next five years, when the estimate Internet users will eventually reach 40mil. It will be a new internet market that can not be neglected, the highly penetrated market for social media and social networking sites, where I personally believe the e-Commerce industry in PH will be in 2 times or 3 times folds by next two years.

Below are the full report from ComScore.

It has never been more excited then seeing a new market in Asia going to rise in next few years, especially in the e-Commerce industry.

In every process of growing an industry, there is always some great success stories behind~! And in past two days, 40 web based companies in Philippines have been awarded for their outstanding success in the Philippines Internet Industry.

As a mover in e-Commerce industry, SMILDS.com Philippines – the Digital Filipino Web Award Sponsors would like to congrats the following winners for taking the leads in shaping the future of Philippines e-Commerce industry. You all rocks!!

Digital Filipino 2009 Web Awards

Here are the winners:

• Apparel / Fashion Category – UkayManila.com – Congrats and I like your site alot~!!! Any chance to be our Fashion Category contributor writer in SMilDS PH ?
• Art Category – Pinoybiswalstyle – Alot of creativity n time … great one~!
• Association / Organization Category – National Council on Disability Affairs - Thanks for the great efforts to make this world a better place to live
• Auction / Shopping Portal Category – Auction.ph – I love auction always~!
• Automotive Category – AutoIndustriya – Cool site, hmm..
• Beauty Category – VMV Hypoallergenics – Can any women out there miss this site?? Great place to shopz..
• Blog – Corporate Category – Nuffnang Philippines – Hmm.. Eric, I can offer my SMilDS VISA Card to your company to pay your blogger… hahaa
• Blog – Personal Category – Flair Candy – woow… jus informative n interesting, should spend sometime there!~!
• Blog – Professional Category – New Media Philippines – Carlo the best~!! Cheers~
• Books Category – OMF Literature  – A great place for book lover…
• Community Category – Cebu Bloggers Society and Proudly Filipina  – Love Cebu… and always the Mango there..
• Computer / Consumer Electronics Category – Villman Computers Philippines  – The Online version of PC Mag.. or even better… cant deny that Pinoy is really good in writing n blogging…
• Corporate / Professional Category – LevelUp!  – Great gaming info site… too bad i quit game long ago..
• Events / Conferences Category – Philippine Blog Awards – Hmm… hmm…. interesting to learn something here…
• Food Category – Patay Gutom – Haha.. make me wonder why the editor not as big size as me… Whats yr secret to talk about food and yet still keep good body shape huh?
• Games Category – My Brute Cheats – Jus cant neglect this altho im not a gamer… but will love to have you write about our game section one day…
• Gifts Category – Gifts2Pinas – Hmm… wanna sell @ SMilDS?? Hmm… will give you a free account to try out
• Government – Official Website of Zamboanga City – Interesting site!!
• Guides / Review Category – Spot.ph – I love the domain name… cool!
• Jobs / Employment Category – MyNimo – Hmmm… well… Nimo in employment..
• Magazine Category – PC World Philippines – Can’t compete… jus pro!
• Music / Movie/ Film Category – TitikPilipino – Haha…  alot of infor in yr site@!
• Newspaper Category – Inquirer.net – Big brother..
• Politics Category – Filipino Voices – Hmm… im out from Politics ..
• Real Estate Category – CDORealEstate.com – Will only come here when I finally decide to move to PH.. maybe
• Restaurant – Centerstage Family KTV and Resto Bar – Interesting~!
• School / University Category – De La Salle University – Manila – Who else, like Janet mentioned…
• Social Networking Category – Noypf Pinoy Social Network – Woow woow…. cool~!
• Telecoms / Value Added Services Category – Smart Communications – Yeap, Im on SMART too…
• Tourism Category – Experience Philippines – I wonder, if I really have a chance to experience PH… why everytime Im at PH I just busy all the time..??
• Travel Category – Pasyalera - Cool one~!

Me and both of my beloving partners and brothers, Edward & Edgar, where we formed 3E… ?! during the Digital Filipino e-Commerce Summit…

Once again, congrats to all the winners… and soon I will post up my own learning throughout these two days, and pretty interesting one~!!! As summary, if Filipino think e-Commerce is great, talk great about it… and start to go out and influence the 24 millions pinoy out there.. start to influence them to go online and buy something today… and next year Christmas will never be a same again~!

SMilDS.COM, the brainchild introduced by Platform2u.com during April in Malaysia, is one of the latest e-Commerce tradding engine. With the complete e-Commerce features and functions build in and bundle with Cross Selling Model, it is the first of its kind in e-Commerce world that able to deliver a mess cross selling machanism, and easily to enable merchants to sell their products to the world without hassle.

SMilDS.COM has been introduced in Malaysia during April, Hong Kong in May, and Philippines in July 4th. Its a remarkable day for the United States for celebrating their national day, and to us, it is the remarkable day for Platform2u.com too, because through Philippines where SMilDS.COM will start to connect to the world marketplaces such as United States, UK, Europe and other Asia countries.

In business today, one must adapt to survive intense competition, rising consumer demands and rapid technology change. The Internet is the next frontier in business where people everywhere can make millions, even from the comforts of their homes. This same power is harnessed by multinationals everywhere who are taking their businesses to the net, servicing consumers’ needs 24/7 all over the world. But how can a start up enterprise, a micro entrepreneur or a struggling local business adapt this change or even compete with that kind of advantage, and how much would that “Solution” be worth?

Platform2U.com Berhard, the rising star of Malaysia’s IT industry launches SMILDS.COM, is the latest 4th generation e-commerce system that makes it easy for anyone to start their very own e-commerce business in minutes. SMILDS.COM is a complete e-commerce software system that offers web tools, customer relations management system, complete inventory management system, payment processing and more. SMILDS.COM lets you to expand your business to the internet with minimal fuss, lets you fully program your web store to update inventory, greet loyal customers, conduct promotions and store customer data that is essential to any internet business. Highly advanced, it is the only e-commerce system that can accommodate cross-selling whereby you can easily have your e-commerce business even without your own products or inventory -perfect start up venture for fresh graduates and budding entrepreneurs.

Developed and operated by Platform2U.com Berhard, SMILDS.COM was awarded MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor) status by the Malaysian government for its innovation and development of this new e-commerce solution. Platform2U.com Berhard processes all transactions of SMILDS.COM from payment, shipping, currency conversion, customer relations and after sales service. SMILDS.COM is definitely a complete e-commerce solution to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and a hugely profitable opportunity for investors. Platform2u.com Philippines, Inc. launches SMILDS.com in the Philippines on July 4, 2009 at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel. For reservations/inquiries, call Mr. Edgar Canlas, COO of Platform2U.com Philippines. Tel. 875-8558; 886-6190; cel: 0920-9601711; e-mail: edgar@platform2u.com