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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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When we conceptualizing our solution initially, the SMilDS.com is design as a pure e-commerce trading platform that build in CRM, payment gateway, and logistic. It never be different than rakuten, taobao or yahoo can provide except we have the cross selling engine, which is our killer apps.

We know we needs to be lots more unique, special, outstanding and innovative in order to stand out from this battle of e-commerce. It is a cyber trading battle and we are new, we can be attacked by any big giant from all kinds of tactics, or backdoor without us realizing it. Yeap this is the real world..

After going back to the traditional business school 101 toolbox and dig out the swat tool, our only differentiation is our strategy in positioning ourselves correctly, south east Asia where the e-commerce marketplace are still green. That will also enable us to buy time to learn the market before we get ourselves over expand and get into trouble like alibaba did before during the early day of Y2000.

With this, our next target marketplaces will be focus in s.e. Asia countries, taking 3 years to build ourselves to be the largest e-commerce platform in all the countries we have presence.

In term of our Strategies on e-commerce, we will fully focus on building the new generation of social e-commerce, a e-trading engine that enable our young entrepreneurs to venture into e-commerce with little investment and risks free.

Tapping into the social network we have in the market currently, it is a perfectly match that enable more young people to start their entrepreneur journey in young age.

Looking at our next generation who have been eat, sleep, and get entertain by internet, social e-commerce will be the next new thing for us to look on.