According to Amazon.com’s annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon had a great year in 2012 with the sales grew by 18.6% to 7.8 billion dollars, which is about 730 billion yen. This was a big achievement for the global online retailer, who first entered the Japanese market in 2000.
Note that the disclosed online sales doesn’t include the sales from independent sellers in Amazon Marketplace. If these sales are included,
The traffic and the conversions are triggered by different reasons, and not necessarily correlates. Just because more people are online in the certain market, or more people view your site don’t always impact on the business transactions. The recent research done by The Nielsen Company in Japan shows a good picture of the online shopping site usage trend by the devices.
We are aware that more people access the web via mobile, especially Smartphones. This has been a welcomed trend for the businesses as it provides additional business opportunities, and the ways to connect with current and potential customers. The research shows that the 93% of
I visited Beijing back in June during the SEMPO Asia Tour, and was amazed – again – by the contrast of modern vs. traditional, Asian vs. Western, and cheap vs. luxury this city had. Just like New York doesn’t really represent the average city in America, and the life in Tokyo can be very much different from the life in Okinawa, I am aware that Beijing certainly isn’t a typical city in China. Although Chinese economy has grown tremendously in the past 10 years, “Made in China” still represents “cheap” in both “inexpensive” and “low quality” products to many of us. And you can certainly go cheap in Beijing by going to shopping malls like Pearl Market and Silk Market. But, most people I saw at these markets were either tourists or older local people. Where do young and successful women go shopping in Beijing?
Beijing is one of the biggest metropolitan cities in the world after all, they do have many high-end Western brand shops such as Louis Vuitton, Nike, Clinique, etc., it’s like walking down the 5th Ave in Manhattan. The crazy thing was that after adding taxes, duties, shipping, etc. etc. the price of most items were at least twice as much as what we’d pay for it in US! China Daily reported that China’s online shopping jumped 128.5% in 2008 to more than US$17 billion. An article