Thread: Online Shopping set up for Indo

ok, that's a thousand times better!

but...

i think you've got a lot going on here: lots of ideas, lots of stories, and right now they're sort of getting in eachother's way and you're ending up with a whole that is less than the sum of the parts.

Pare it down, see what is the bare minimum you can get away with, and then, if you have to, if a need becomes apparent, you can always add it later on.

Think of all the great successful brands: their message is always pretty simple and pretty pure eg Nike let's do it.

Unfortunately I'm really busy now (finishing a novel!) so am only giving you 5c worth (rather than the full 20c) but would love to touch base later next week if you're interested


phil


ps maybe we should pm from here - this is probably getting boring for other people!

Do you use online shopping marketplaces to promote your products?

good on you for having a go, i only looked into the shop and product range and you have a lot of upside if you really want to get creative,

your board shorts look really good and your surfwear is good too however you need to get more creative with tshirts, and caps they are just boring.

your biggest opportunity could be in the ladies fashion chicks dig funky surfwear and will pay for it but those dresses are just boring, get some creativity into your designs and think about casual wear with a bali beach slant?

as i said earlier i think you have the basics in place keep your logo on your products (some tees) maybe show 1 tee with the logo but offer differeant colors but get some more creative design into your range.

good luck

We found a I.T company that works in Bali and Australia that put our shop onto the internet that managed to get us paypal and all other usual types of payment method already loaded into the site .
we just provided our Indonesian bank details and they did the rest.
I'm sure they have an office in Bukit

Nice clean site on home page (not quite like an on-line store)

For online transaction, you now can apply BCA and MANDIRI (now they have a payment gateway)

Thanks Wikomac for the feedback we are new to the online business but are having good returns.

Originally Posted by CanonMan

Hi all,
in the hopefully not too distant future by setting up an admin base either in Singapore of Hong Kong and then logging on/controlling everything via proxy servers from Bali to those locations, I
d like to be able to have things closer to home but until things change banking wise in Indo I'm not sure how long that would take. Currently we are not employing any locals, just the nominated partner who has his regular job so a lot/all of the work is currently being carried out by yours truly.

Mark

Hi Mark, Suggestion,
1. Register a limited liability company (Pte Ltd) in Singapore - you can have 100% foreing equity, so no sleeping partners, nominees etc.
Costs less than S$5k in fees (if you want residency you'll need capitalisation of @ least S$100k).
You actually don't need office space or staff, just a 'Registered Office' address - the lawyer setting up the business can provide that.
You WILL need a resident director, but the lawyer can be that (he doesn't need equity)
The process can be done in a week

2. Whit that Open a bank a/c (we use StanChart, but any of them would do HSBC, DBS, OCBC, except the branches of Indon banks!!). You'll probably need an initial opening deposit of about S$5k, but you can withdraw most of that the following day ;)

3. Point your PayPal a/c to there. You might have problems with Paypal vendor verification which needs a credit card, or at least did when we set ours up 4-5 years ago

We also have a freelancer in Medan who does all our coding for our website (nego from abt $11/hr) We did go through 2 guys in the US, serious pain in the ass they kept trying to divert the project to areas they wanted so they never actually delivered the job we wanted - but don't go with hourly rates - you don't know how many 'real hours' he puts in - a project basis lets you set targets & gives an incentive for the coder to complete 1 project & move on to the next.

PM me if you need any assistance

Thanks, Gil,
Did I forget to mention that:
in Sg "revenue generated from 100% overseas activities are 100% non-taxable" (ie: not made & exported from Sg, or the result of any activity IN Sg)

gosh, silly me!