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Currently, there are total of 24million Netizens in Philippines as per statistic shown in Year 2009. These number will grow to 28M by end of this year. 83% of the netizens are below 29 years old, or nearly 20M of them, or as big as total population in entire Great Manila.

If you were one of the retailer in Philippines, you must get aware on this. 20M of the consumer in a single marketplace; 20M of young Internet savy that will join the middle or high income group when they go into their career path; 20M of power consumers that can basically consume anything, any products, that they get close to. They are the new Generation Y consumers, and they are slowly overtake the 40+ consumers to become the strongest buying power in the entire Philippines retailing industry. Is your business ready to serve them and earn their big bucks? Is your past 20 years of old retailing experiences work with these Gen Y consumers? Do your traditional ads campaign reach them effectively?

SMilDS.COM is one the best crafted solution for the Philippines e-Commerce industry with the breakthrough in e-Payment and e-Logistic solution. It is aims to briedge the e-Commerce divide of the entire Philippines as overall compare to the neighbouring countries, and as well as USA and China. With the price of a cup of Starbucks Coffee a day, we allow the traditional retailers to expand their global e-Commerce into Internet.

The entire platform is design in so that even the current young graduates students or office clerk who know basic Microsoft Words can manage the e-Store without any hassel or trouble. It is now so easy for the merchant to have their products sell in Internet and ship to oversea from Philippines in a complete e-Commerce cycle.

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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.

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