Advantages to Sell on Shopee

Shopee, is known as Southeast Asia’s leading e-commerce platform and marketplace that allows merchants and customers to sell and buy the products or services online. It is an online platform that gathers all the sellers and buyers together which makes it easy for the sellers to do marketing and promotion as well as track the hot selling or trending products. Not only the sellers, but also ease for the buyers to search for the products they want by simply type the product name on the type bar and search and make the orders. Starting from the year of 2015, Shopee is growing steadily and the sales and transactions that the merchants and customers did from the Shopee platform has kept breaking the record. Until now, the year of 2021, Shopee is growing rapidly because of their marketing strategy, technology support and customer base. Shopee stands around 60% of the e-commerce market in Malaysia, and second is Lazada with roughly around 40%. Why the merchants and retailers keep choosing to sell on the Shopee platform as their first choice for online selling, it is because of these advantages which the merchants can get the advantages when they sell in Shopee.

 

First Reason: High Traffic

Many of the sellers love to choose Shopee as their first choice and want to sell in Shopee, one of the reasons is because of the high traffic in Shopee. Shopee is Southeast Asia’s most leading e-commerce platform, the customer base and market is large in multiple countries including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines and other countries. It also gathers many different categories and types of the brands and sellers to sell in the platform, hence customers can easily find the product from Shopee. Every time we mention online selling, online shopping or e-commerce, we will first think about Shopee and Lazada in Malaysia and other Southeast Asia countries. Due to the effort of marketing and the strategies that Shopee adapted, Shopee has successfully attracted many of the big brands, companies and merchants to join Shopee for selling products. When there is various choice and selection of the products and services in a single platform, the customers only will choose to buy from the platform. Hence, with the high traffic, Shopee will help sellers to increase sales so Shopee has become the first choice for sellers in online selling.

 

Second Reason:  Easy to Get New Customers

By selling products and services in Shopee, it is easy for the sellers to attract and get new customers. As I mentioned, Shopee is a platform that gathers all the online stores and brands together for the online business. With the large and multiple selections of the products available in the platform, customers are able to search and find for a same or similar product but in different stores. The customers would not search for the particular store the first time, they mostly will only type the product name and search for the products and identify which stores provide the best price and best services so they only will buy the product. Once the customers buy the product from you and feel that you provide the products and services that suit his or her taste, he or she can always come back to buy from you at any time. Besides, Shopee always comes out with multiple marketing strategies to attract more customers to buy from the sellers with Shopee such as Flash Sales, Voucher Campaign, 11.11 sales. Shopee did a lot of effort to help in attracting the new users to buy from Shopee, with this, many of the sellers choose to sell on Shopee.

 

Reason 3: Good Shipping and Logistic Services

Shopee has a strong online presence as a top e-commerce platform in Malaysia. Shopee provides strong and powerful support on the shipping and logistics services to the merchants and customers. Shopee has robust and secure shipping and logistics terms so the merchants are able to get the benefits of fast, accurate and reliable shipping with help of Shopee. Sellers are able to choose multiple shipping options in Shopee with a cheaper price given on the shipping fees. The shipping fees are much cheaper compared to the normal shipping fees that we ship our products directly from the courier company. This is because Shopee has partnership with the courier companies for helping on the product shipping in the long term, so buyers can get cheaper prices on shipping fees. So this will be the reason why many customers love to buy from Shopee. Also, Shopee provides a return policy that is simple for the merchants to manage. With just a few simple steps, merchants can get the return orders from the customers.

 

All these three points are the reasons why sellers must sell in Shopee. Merchants can take all these benefits to expand the customer base, attract new customers, increase on sales and revenue, boost products to reach more customers, increase visibility of the online stores, and cheaper marketing and promotion fees because of the popularity and marketing strategies of Shopee, it can helps to attract more existing and new customers easily. With all of these benefits, more and more merchants choose Shopee as their first choice to sell the products and services in Malaysia as well as other countries of Southeast Asia's.