by Ed Yourdon

The best thing about online shopping is that it is available 24 hours and If your anything like me this must be the biggest boon to be able to shop at 12 at night.

Convenience Shopping

How often have you put off going to the mall to get that badly need Bluetooth headphone just because you don’t have the time after office and the weekends are crazily busy with a hundred chores that all have to be done in two tiny days.
Not to mention bad weather, horrendous traffic and the hours it takes to find a parking spot and just reach the store. I mean by the time you are there your half dead with weariness and end up just buying the first product you see to head back again into finding the car, fighting the weather and cursing the traffic.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just sit at home after all the work and while sipping the last cup of coffee browse on the internet and shop to your hearts content! That is exactly what online shopping stores provide convenience that’s just a click away with no weather, traffic or parking problems. You not only get to see and compare the best and cheapest options but buy them hassle free.

Online shopping—Right Product at the Right Price

Shopping online provides you easier access and enough option to reach the right price and the right product. In fact now a days Search engines, online price comparison services and discovery shopping engines can be used to look up sellers/products/prices of a particular item especially in the cases of mobile phones where the choice is in hundreds. Using these services you can find the perfect mobile phone at the best possible price.

Online Shopping – Security

Some people worry about the security of online shopping but with ultra sophisticated shopping carts and secure payment gateways this is one thing you know longer need to worry about. Store owners place a tremendous importance on keeping their websites safe and protecting customers’ information. But for shoppers who are still nervous about paying by credit card, other options are often available such as Escrow and Pay pal.

Online Shopping – Delivery

As for delivery, online store owners or retailers are so competitive and worried about their reputations that they provide safe and quick delivery of products may it be computer or a cellular phone. Most Store owners especially of mobile phones, cameras and other small electronic items offer free shipping or just charge a nominal fee if items are bought two’s or three’s.

The Right Online Mobile Site

When you look at online stores that sell mobile phones the variety boggles your mind not to mention the cheap bargains that most sites offer, but be careful always buy from a site that states its terms and conditions clearly and dose not promise you the moon. A genuine retailer will always state things clearly such as if the phone is unbranded or belongs to any service provider and if you can or cannot use them with different sim cards.

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www.shcri.com – The TV shopping is a home-delivery sales mode without stores and shops, which conveys the product information through the media, such as TV stations, internet, cell phones and catalogs etc and then receives orders through the cell phones or internet, changing the traditional exchange habits of the commodities and consumption means. People can enjoy the shopping happiness at home, comforting to the living and consumption demands of the modern people.

The TV shopping, which narrows down the gap between the consumers and the business, shortened the cycle of the product spread and cut down the spread costs, is the subversion of the traditional sales channels and is a more scientific mode without agency, distributors and sales terminals, making the product marketization simpler and the brand management more unified. The TV shopping, like virtual air supermarket, is another retail revolution after the department stores and storage supermarkets.

Compared with other shopping modes, the TV shopping has obvious advantages:

A. Strong advertising effects. For the enterprises side, the TV shopping is not only a kind of marketing means with strong advertising colors and more covering populations after the TV spread, but also the most effective means to increase the product fame and sales.

B. Flat sales channels. Compared with the traditional sales channels, the TV shopping is actually the flat sales channel, which cuts down the intermediate steps in the product circulation as much as possible, saves the costs at maximum and lets the consumers enable to buy the commodities at comparative preferential price. The direct sales mode without stores turns down the expenses for stores and promoters and drops the operation costs.

C. Comparatively complete programs forms, detailed product introductions, which bring each function and advantage into full play. The effects of the products, regardless of the foods, clothes, ornaments or digital products can be played fully through the TV shopping so as to attract the consumers to buy.

D. More product Varieties. The products comforting to the TV shopping conclude the small household appliances, home supplies, clothes, foods, health products, digital products, watches, ornaments, collections and even contain some services, such as tourist and insurance etc. theoretically speaking, the products suitable to sell but not the popular one can be spread through TV shopping.

The TV shopping has been the key point for Chinese and foreign famous brands to open up the channels. The personal computer enterprises, such as Lenovo, HP, Sony, Samsung, Founder and ASUS etc, have signed the strategic cooperation with the TV shopping channels like Happy Home Shopping of HNTV, Shanghai CJ TV shopping and Best One Home Shopping Network. Others, such as the cell phone industry, have also already attached to the TV shopping and extend the TV shopping channels.

As for the enterprises turning to extend the domestic market with the influences of international financial crisis, it can be said the TV shopping is a comparative good means to open up the market in short time due to the incompletion of its own sales channels and networks. The TV shopping can make an infamous product increase thousands of orders in decades of minutes and let a brand well-known within several days, which is unmatched for the traditional sales modes.

Taking the sales of the domestic produced cell phones for example, Chinese domestic cell phone industry suffered from the cold winter from 2008. During that period, the cell phones manufacturers, which had signed with the TV shopping companies, went up against the tendency and achieved marked operation results. The win-win commercial and cooperative mode has made more and more manufacturers in different industries in favor of the cooperative mode with the TV shopping companies, especially during the period of the general economic decline at present, the TV shopping, enabling to go up against the tendency, is even more attractive and vitality.

Today, as the high entry and publicity fees have become the heavy burdens for the companies to step into the supermarkets and shopping malls, the low costs, undoubtedly, become the initial element that the TV shopping attracts the manufacturers. For the manufacturers’ side, the TV shopping channel need less construction fees in the early period and the maintenance fees in the late period and they basically need to pay for no extra fees apart from the logistics distribution fee and advertising fees.

The TV shopping do not need more labor force and only need to find out the suitable TV shopping channels and choose the suitable products, which narrows down the commercial steps and cuts down the circulation steps.

The TV shopping has become the effective means for the medium and small-sized enterprises in China to cope with the international financial crisis increase the market shares and look for breakthrough and business opportunities. Many textile, clothes, kitchen ware and home supply manufacturers and traders have transferred their key point from the oversea market to Chinese domestic market.

According to the investigations made by China Research and Intelligence, many medium and small-sized enterprises have taken the TV shopping as the new product sales channel.

Of course, the TV shopping is one of the multiple sales channels. For the enterprises side, not all the products are suitable to be publicized in the TV shopping channels. The products comforting to the TV shopping have certain differences and specificity in the daily consumption goods category, but not the chemical raw materials and the mass agricultural products etc.

There are one billion populations in 300 million families watch the TV programs in China. Therefore, the TV shopping has broad market and strong potential in China. In 2008, the revenues of Chinese TV shopping industry reached RMB12.8 billion Yuan (1.87 billion USD), accounting for less than 1% of the total retail amounts of 1.8488 trillion Yuan. It is predicted that the revenues of Chinese TV shopping industry can reach 16 billion Yuan in 2009.

In China, the TV shopping industry suffered from setbacks in the process of development due to the credit problems and the consumers’ suspect voices never stop. However, the TV shopping enables the domestic medium and small-sized enterprises, especially the export enterprises to go up against tendency and obtain development opportunities under the international financial crisis.  

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The TV shopping is a marketing dissemination pattern which requires the television station, the merchants and the consumer’s interactions. The direct broadcasting shopping pattern is now becoming the mainstream of Chinese TV shopping and demonstrating the conformity indication of media, retail trade and the circulation of materials, meanwhile, it has tremendous impulse to Chinese other retail trade patterns. In 1995, the TV shopping program was first broadcasted by Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen television stations. The new, wonderful, special commodities and the brand-new sales idea had won a lot of IN consumers overnight. After 2000, due to the traditional pattern gradually lost the charm towards clients, the TV direct selling had been experiencing its downhill path for a while. At the end of 2000, the number of TV shopping companies was sharply declined from over one thousand to only two or three hundred and the professional gross income also shrank from 20 billion RMB to 4 billion RMB.

Starting from 2003, some shopping channels geared up in local television stations to rally their forces after this defeat. New shopping channel is just a medium trader, and differing from previously commodity through TV direct selling. What’s more, owing to its bases upon broadcasting group, shopping channel enjoys the strong brand and customer’s prestige, therefore, its development potential is quite powerful. Shanghai OCJ, Hunan Happigo and Zhejiang Haoyigou are the top-notch who swim with the new TV shopping tide. All in all, the new direct broadcasting shopping has its own distinguished characteristics:

1. Shopping channelization. The former TV shopping occupied the TV station’s non-prime time, taking advantages of each channel’s edge spell to broadcast direct selling information; the new direct broadcasting shopping adopts the whole channel or hypothesized channel to run TV shopping business, concentrating in the professional channel, broadcasting at large-scale time, which forms a constant stimulation to the consumer’s senses of hearing and vision, hence has brought very high sales volume.

2. TV direct broadcasting liability. One’s consumption impulse plays an important role in his shopping behavior; the TV direct broadcasting would greatly stimulate the consumption impulse. Since the beginning of broadcasting, “Happigo” has been adopted the internationally popular sales way—TV direct broadcast, selling commodity with 8 hours’ direct broadcasting every day. TV shopping direct broadcasting displays audio-visual sales statistics, intense visual shock, appealing sound and the immediate interaction effects, in which the former TV shopping is deficient.

3. Direct selling liability. The product goes directly from the supplier to the consumer, omits the middle links, thus the circulation of materials has been provided with efficiency enhancement. Opposite to traditional medium trader (e.g. supermarket), it has reduced approach fees and so forth, the nonessential costs.

4. Chain liability. The chain-like management marketing pattern takes TV media of Pan-Chinese certain developed cities as chief circuits, with the unified commodity purchase, the unified call orders, and the unified service standard assemblies and deliveries, enables the scale to be the profit. For instance, “Happigo” has already covered the entire Hunan Province. It is without peradventure that once you chose the direct broadcasting shopping means you are to success. There are several tips to turn such attraction into purchasing power: As you should choose appropriate best seller. Not all commodities are suitable to this kind of pattern, the product which appears onto the screen ought to be those are novel, unusual and highly-technical ones, or those seem simple at first sight but actually require complex operation and explanation. And we also need a wise linkman, and all the TV shopping program has a linkman who explains the product’s information and introduction, apart from introducing, they should give free rein to expense appeal ability, arouse consumer’s purchase desire; Tips also include the conformity of multimedia, TV shopping can transform the on-line shopping, the mail-order, such channels of distribution into the net of TV shopping, making a bigger cake corporately.

In consideration of the fact that Chinese television has high popular rate and high viewing ratio, and the consumer trusts the national television broadcast station, we may foresee, the TV shopping will be more and more popular, and the business opportunity will emerge unceasingly.

This report is carefully and painstakingly presented by China Research and Intelligence. The report not only introduces the TV shopping’s development course, development patterns, merits and demerits in global and China, but also analyzes the successful enterprises, products and medias in Chinese TV shopping market systematically. And it also provides the solution scheme of TV shopping, elaborates the existing opportunities for investment in TV shopping profession, and puts forward the development proposal. The report is highly worthwhile towards those TV shopping Industry operators and potential investors to understand the profession’s present situation and the development tendency hence grasp the market opportunity.

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www.shcri.com – TV shopping is a non-store sales mode that transmits merchandise information to customers by TV, Internet and telephone, etc., receives orders through telephone or Internet and then delivers goods to the customers. It changes the traditional commodity exchange habit and consumption pattern that have existed for thousands of years. People can enjoy the fun of shopping without leaving their home. This meets the living and consumption demands of modern people.

TV shopping shortens the distance between enterprises and consumers, reduces the marketing period of products and curtails the marketing cost. It overthrows the traditional sales channel. Without agents, distributors and sales terminals, it simplifies the marketization of products and unifies the management of brands. This is a more advanced business model, which signifies a retail revolution following general merchandise markets and stockroom-style supermarkets.

In China, TV shopping has prominent advantages compared with other shopping patterns:
1. Strong advertising effect. For enterprises, TV shopping is not only a kind of marketing mode, but also assumes prominent features of advertisement. After broadcast through television, product advertisements can receive a large number of audiences. Thus, TV shopping is an immediate and effective way to enhance the popularity and sales of products.

2. Flat sales channel. TV shopping is a flat sales channel in contrast to the traditional sales channel. It cuts down the intermediate segments of circulation and saves cost to the greatest extent. Hence, consumers can buy commodities at preferential direct selling prices. This non-store direct sales mode effectively curtails the expenses on stores and promotional personnel, thus reducing the operating cost substantially.

3. Perfect presentation of programs. The detailed introduction covers every function and strong point of products. No matter foods, garments, jewelry or digital products, TV shopping programs can perfectly display them and thereby attract consumers to buy them.

4. Growing product variety. Products suitable for TV shopping include small household appliances, garments & accessories, healthcare foods, digital products, watches & jewelry, collections, automobiles, and even tourism and insurance services. Theoretically, legal products with numerous target consumers can all be sold through TV shopping.

For small and medium enterprises with low popularity and unsound sales channels, TV shopping is a good way for them to enter Chinese retail market in a short period. TV shopping can generate over one thousand sales orders for an unknown product only in a few minutes. It can also make a brand known to all within a few days. All these are prior to traditional sales modes.

The high admission fees and publicity expenses of retail channels like supermarkets and shopping plazas in China become a heavy burden to enterprises. Naturally, the low cost of TV shopping becomes the prior factor to attract manufacturers. TV shopping demands low construction cost in the early period and low maintenance cost in the later period. Besides logistics cost and advertising expense, manufacturers do not need to pay extra charges.

To run the TV shopping business does not demand much labor power. It just needs to find out suitable TV shopping channels and select suitable products. TV shopping manages to shorten the business process and reduce circulation segments.

Nowadays, TV shopping has become an effective method for Chinese small and medium enterprises to withstand the financial crisis, exploit market and search for breakthroughs and business opportunities. Many Chinese manufacturers and traders of textiles, garments, kitchen ware and household articles have transferred their market focus from the overseas to China.

According to the investigation of China Research and Intelligence, many small and medium enterprises in China have taken TV shopping as a new sales channel for their products.

Of course TV shopping is just one of the diverse sales channels of enterprises. Not all products are marketable on TV shopping channels. Currently, products suitable to TV shopping should possess some distinctiveness and differentiation. Besides, they have to be daily consumables instead of chemical raw materials or major farm produces.

Presently, over 300 million families and 1 billion people in China have access to TV programs. The gigantic TV shopping market in China shows great potential. In 2009, the revenue of Chinese TV shopping industry was about CNY 23 billion (USD 3.38 billion), accounting for only 0.18% of the total retail sales (CNY 12.53 trillion or USD 1.84 trillion), far below the proportion of developed countries. Nonetheless, Chinese TV shopping industry maintains high growth rate of annual sales revenue. It is forecast that the revenue of the industry will come to over CNY 100 billion in 2015.

Due to problems of honesty and integrity, Chinese TV shopping industry is confronted with some setbacks during the development. Consumers’ discredit on it has never ceased. Nevertheless, the ideal marketing channel – TV shopping with its special advantages can assist domestic small and medium enterprises, especially those concerning export, in acquiring excellent market opportunities and reviving in spite of the global financial crisis.

The sustaining growth of China’s economy can raise the income and living standard of the Chinese. Accordingly, the scale of Chinese retail market will also enlarge, providing a broad space for the further development of Chinese TV shopping industry.

Through this report, readers can acquire more information:
-Status quo of Chinese TV shopping industry
-Competition in Chinese TV shopping market
-Analysis on major enterprises in Chinese TV shopping industry
-Successful experience in Chinese TV shopping industry
-Analysis on hot products in Chinese TV shopping industry
-Prediction on development tendency of Chinese TV shopping industry
-Analysis on investment opportunities in Chinese TV shopping industry

Following persons are recommended to buy this report:
-TV shopping enterprises
-TV stations
-Retail enterprises
-Investors concerning Chinese non-store retailing industry
-Investors concerning Chinese TV shopping industry
-Research institutes concerning Chinese non-store retailing industry
-Research institutes concerning Chinese TV shopping industry
-Others concerning Chinese TV shopping industry

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Why E-Shopping for Electronics Goods?

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