ONE Bedok Helps Heartland Micro SMEs Go Online

BEDOK, Singapore - Sept. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- Over the past few years, the ecommerce market has been booming rapidly. Research has shown global ecommerce sales for year 2013/2014 hitting a total of $1.5 trillion. Statistics from VISA and PayPal shows that Singaporeans shop online weekly or monthly with an average spending of $300 on consumer electronics, clothing and apparel, household goods as well as luxury goods just to name a few.

The rampant increase in online shopping has resulted in millions of Singapore dollars boosting international economy instead of our local economy as consumer dollars are being spent on international or foreign brands across several popular sites such as Qoo10, Zalora, Taobao so on and so forth yearly.

Seeing this occurrence, Egalite Marketing Private Limited, the company behind ONE Bedok (Our Neighbourhood Ecommerce Bedok) has taken the initiative of launching an eCommerce which is the first of its kind to gather Bedok heartland merchants in going online via onebedok.com where shoppers get to enjoy a flat shipping fee of $1 per item for items delivered within Bedok estates on top of various benefits such as next day delivery, trustworthy sellers, secure shopping environment, frequent Facebook campaigns and more.

On onebedok.com’s part, they also wanted to provide local heartland shop owners with an equal platform to compete with online eCommerce giants. As we all know, these heartland shops are mainly managed by the more senior members of the Bedok community and they have little to no knowledge on eCommerce and how to adapt to the changing retail landscape of new age consumer spending habits and trends.

In face of this daunting challenge, they have set up a systematic instruction manual as well as one to one training for these ONE Bedok merchants where they were educated on basic fundamentals like what Is ecommerce, the importance of ecommerce, the type of information and description when it comes to posting products online and so much more.

On top of that, they also help these merchants with the marketing aspects of going online, as well as featuring these ONE Bedok merchants and their business stories on ONE Bedok Facebook so that shoppers will not only know their product and service offerings on onebedok.com but also how they came to be and what makes their business or offerings unique.

This is the first town they have ventured into with more to come as they eventually work towards ONE SG. Having held 2 lucky draws for both merchants and shoppers as well as 1 closed event for their merchants since their launch on 8th March 2015 previously, they are now going all out to celebrate SG50 together with the rest of Singapore.

All new signups within 50 days starting from the 9th of August to 28th of September 2015 will stand to win an Apple Watch with 5 colours to choose from. On top of that, onebedok.com is also having this promotion whereby every $20 spending entitles ONE Bedok shoppers to a 15% cart discount for the whole two months of August and September 2015.

Stay tuned to their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/onebedok for more updates and game giveaways as well as visit their website at www.onebedok.com to start shopping now!

ONE Bedok Shopper Benefits

Efficiency – Next Day Delivery

Our merchants are all local sellers hence every day, orders received before 6am will be delivered by 7pm -10pm on the same day. We choose to deliver after 6pm because we understand that most of us at work in the office would not be able to collect packages during office hours.

Credibility – Trustworthy Heartland Merchants

All our merchants all own a physical shop front in the Bedok heartland communities in Bedok Central, Bedok North, Bedok South, Bedok Reservoir as well as Simpang Bedok, with most of them operating for years in the neighbourhood.

This largely reduces the risk of online scams as well as a physical shop front to try or exchange your products should the need arise, unlike many online shops where credibility and reliability is an issue.

Security - Peace of Mind

Our website comes with a consumer friendly checkout system where consumer payment details are kept in a secure and safe environment. On top of that, we would never abuse your contact details or sell them to third party companies. Consumers will be happy to know that we keep a strict policy on consumer details even if it’s for marketing purposes.

Neighbourhood Offerings

The very one of its kind online shopping. Always wanted to shop in your neighbourhood because of the value for money products they offer? Now they won’t be restricted to operation hours or directional obstacles as shops as well as the product or service offerings will all be stated clearly and conveniently on www.onebedok.com for ease of reference, research and more.

Merchant Features

ONE Bedok wants you to know who you are buying your products from by interviewing their merchants and featuring them on their official Facebook so everyone can see how reliable these merchants are with their own shop fronts, unique selling points as well as their businesses stories instead of just another shop online which is something that other ecommerce sites do not provide.