Taking our Brands to NEXT level in Maldives.

It takes time to Invent and bring ideas into life, Our Brands like Badhige.com & Youngest Brand MaaMall are already well known to many online Customers based in Maldives.

The population here makes us hard to generate the kind of income we could from a E-Commerce business.

Recently We have seen huge grand Launch events by two web products Yell and Schmep probably might have cost a fortune to host the event.

My Question is how much online market have they captured ? How much business both of them generate and whats the NEXT business Model Online customers in Maldives is looking for.

And do you we really need to organize  a Event for a Grand Launch of New Badhige V Undhulhi and Mall of Maldives ?

Our thinking is little bit different, We want our brands to be more socialized and connected to customers personally.

We unite competitors and let them do business on one platform and take the competitive advantage of what we do best.

Yes We Deliver not only products and Food, We deliver Positive Results to our Vendors as well.

And its time to Value our brands and Take it to the NEXT Level.

Passion of selling Online

It feels so Good, to know our First establishment ( Badhige.com ) is celebrating one year of Service today. One year of survival is good enough compare to new experimental establishment in such a Small Market like Maldives.

We have announced Two New Products and Put the Mock up for both of them.

Which is MaaMall ( a Online Shopping Mall )  and Flower Maldives ( a Online Flower Store )
And we believe both of this products will become Pioneers of Online Shopping in Maldives.

Apart of Some Auction sites and Few online shops in Maldives, We work exclusively on building these projects while we have a team to take care of our customers personally.

Advantages and offers for our Customers will be more attractive.While we generate more publicity and profitable income to our Vendor Brands. Recently i been busy with these projects and did sit down with my proposal with few vendors, So far the response is very Positive.

Some may still believe its impossible, But we as a teams belief is nothing is impossible if we Think positive,  it will Happen. IA

See you all soon with more updates on these project.

We know our customers can't wait to experience the new services ( Please Hold on a While )

Your comments and ideas are well appreciated.

Grocery Sales Online to DOUBLE by 2014

http://www.maamall.com/index.html

The online food and grocery market could be worth £7.2bn by 2014, nearly double the figure for 2009, according to new research by the IGD grocery industry think tank published today.

In 2009, 13% of adults have shopped online for groceries - an increase of 63% on 2006

Three out of five (61%) online grocery shoppers use more than one online store for their food shopping. Half (49%) would like to try other supermarket websites, but many are put off by the perceived effort involved.

Online Shopping 2009, just published by IGD, also found that:

• 30% of online grocery shoppers purchase less often than once a month

• 24% intend to try an alternative online supermarket in next three months, and 25% would like to, but are put off by the effort involved

• 34% expect to shop in a variety of outlets, including online, in the next five to 10 years (compared to 27% in 2007)

• A further 34% expect to only shop in a supermarket for everything, and 7% expect to shop just online for food and groceries

Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive, IGD, said: "Our research shows there is a great opportunity for grocery retailers and manufacturers to encourage shoppers to try online food shopping.

"People are increasingly mixing the channels they use for their weekly or monthly shop. Many are choosing to visit their local store on a regular basis, while purchasing a number of bulk items, like tinned foods and toiletries, online less frequently.

"The future of grocery shopping is ‘multi-channel', with people shopping in different ways and using various outlets - whether convenience stores, online or hypermarkets."

According to the Office for National Statistics, 64% of people have shopped online at some point, but only 13% have bought food or groceries in the last year.

More than six in ten (61%) current and potential online shoppers also said that removing delivery charges would be a key trigger for increasing online grocery shopping.

Source: IGD

When Small is Beautiful

When small is beautiful, like Mr Jack Ma from Alibaba.com says.
While we are heading for a Small and Bigger Project Compare to Badhige.
We need to think of the ways we can lower the costs, and Gain More reputation to Build a Community who support our Products.

At the moment, its going little bit slow, thinking about many things we need to Improve on it. Unlike Badhige we need to have a Website with

- More User Friendly Shopping Cart.
- Complete Images on the Site
- Complete Product description.
- More alternative Offers
- A Working, and Secure Payment Gateway
- More Security for Visitors and Our Database
- Get Listed on WorldWide Famous Shopping Directories
- Affiliate Offers

And more...

At present we are also doing few referral marketing via the Web using Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Youtube and other Social Networks. And the response and support to this project is not bad.

We are a Small Company, in a Small Country / Maldives. We don't have Venture Capital firms to invest and support our reinvented ideas. But we believe we can be Small and Beautiful.

Yes we Can Rename...before we Start it

Its been couple of weeks ....yeah...
Here i go again...Nothing much to say ...
I am going on with my medical treatment , just thinking ... having around 10 pills everyday for next 20 days.. WOW
Got few Med Exams to do ..tommorow...

OK lets get back to Work...
On my Previous Post I mentioned about a New Brand ( Fihaara by Badhige )
Finally we have changed the plans and we are Going to name it as Maa Mall ( Maa Means Big or Huge in Dhivehi )
we have already taken www.MaaMall.com for this

The name itself is Quite easy to remeber and Type isnt it ?

Insha allah Maa Mall will be up running soon with alot of Suprises...

But pls dont think its the END Of our First Brand Badhige...its just a begining of Surprises for badhige.com Valuable Customers...