1. SURVEY
CURRENT SITUATION OF E-COMMERCE
BUSINESS IN VIETNAM& OPPORTUNITY
FOR LOCK&LOCK ONLINE BUSINESS
By Sale Management Team and R&D Team – Lock&Lock Vietnam
HCMC – 09.2014
2. Table of content
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT E-COMMERCE
CHAPTER 2: CURRENT SITUATION OF E-COMMERCE
BUSINESS IN VIETNAM AND OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCK&LOCK
ONLINE BUSINESS
CHAPTER 3: VALUATION FOR ESTABLISHING LOCK&LOCK
ONLINE/MOBILE BUSINESS
3. Chapter 1 – Introduction – Presence
1. Definition
• E-commerce is electronic market, electronic trade and
electronic services (defined by Intel)
• E-commerce is information technology, website and
business (defined by IBM)
• E-commerce is to accomplish commercial business by
electronic means (defined by HP)
4. Chapter 1 – Introduction – Presence
2. Presences of E-marketing (B2C)
Creating a website
Offer the in-formation and other features (catalogues,
shopping tips, promotion,..) to answer the customer
questions, build closer customer relationship
Placing advertising
and promotion
online
Use online advertising to build their internet
brand and attract visitors to their websites
Creating or
participating in Web
Communities
Using SMS
Take advantages of C2C on the internet
with the popularity of forums and
newsgroups
Reach customers directly
5. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
1. Development of online business in Vietnam
6. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of online business in Vietnam
Exchange
E- commerce
Classified
website, sale
forum
Promote product/service information
then making offline transactions
5giay.vn, muare.vn, vatgia.com,
enbac.com
Online Retail Retail website Choose items & types of payment such
as COD, online transfer or Cash Money
on Office
solo.vn, tiki.vn, lazada.vn,
zalora.vn, zap.vn,
vinabook.com123.vn
Discount E-commerce
(Group
buying)
Promotion,
discount
website
More people to buy one product for the
purpose of selling large number of
product or advertising new brand
muachung.vn, nhommua.com,
hotdeal.vn
Online
Auction
Auction
website
To promote the product to the user
through sweep and reverse auctions
daugia321.vn, vbid.vn
Localize
E-commerce
Websites
serve the needs within a specific
geographic region, COD is main
payment
chonmon.vn/, eat.vn,
hungrypanda.vn
7. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of online business in Vietnam
Top 5 E-Commerce exchange Website in
sales
vatgia.com
chodientu.vn
enbac.com
lazada.vn
ivivu.com
others
8. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
3. Consumer statistics
Shopping online by sexual
Male
Female
59% 41%
41
Shopping online by job
7
50
40
30
20
10
Source VN E-commerce & Technology Department 2013
37
15
0
Officer Worker Student Other
Almost Internet users for shopping online are from 14-35 year olds
9. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
3. Types of online business in Vietnam
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Types of shopping online of citizens in 2013
Exchange E-commerce
Retail online
website
Group
buying
website
Social
network
19%
61%
51%
45%
Source VN E-commerce & Technology Department 2013
10. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
4. Consumer statistics
Favourited goods on shopping online website
25%
20%
20%
16%
12%
11%
10%
19%
35%
32%
62%
Clothes, shoes, cosmetic
Art objects
Hoausewares
Air tickets
Foods
Books
Movie/ Music show tickets
Hotel booking/Travel tours
Music/Video/DVD/Games
Spa
Trainning/Courses
Source VN E-commerce & Technology Department 2013
11. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
Vietnam Mobile Phone Market Potential in 2014
It is expected that in 2014, Vietnam will sell
17.22 million smart phones; including 14.2
million equal to 82% are belong to new users.
.
Top 10 countries globally in
consuming smart phone
The 3rd of South East Asia in
percentage of new smart
phone users
12. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
1. Development of Smartphone market in Vietnam
Within 2 years, the number of devices has grown almost 4 folds. So has
grown rapidly apps (Over the top applications – OTT) and smartphone online
business market
The demand of
enhancing social
status
The demand of having
high - class goods
through discount,
promotion and
convenient payment
The increase of
smartphone sales
as well as business
via smartphone
source Mwork Corp
13. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
2.1 Mobile internet using
• Men are more interested in mobile internet (68%) than women (32%)
• The time-frame to use the mobile internet most is from 11h-13h and 19h-22h
• Large majority internet users in Vietnam are youth and young adults
Mobile Internet user by ages
over 35
below 18
18-24
33.68% 25-34
38.95%
11.58%
15.79%
(Source Admicro & Emarketer – Online Advertising Agency)
14. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
2.2 Social Network Users
15. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
2.2 Social Network Users
Facebook ranked 5th amongs top 15 web properties in April 2013 with 11.8 million total
unique visitors. Meanwhile, Google and Yahoo came in first and second, with 15.5
million and 13.1 million unique visitors respectively
16. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
2.2 Social Network Users
• increased on Facebook from 3,000 fans to
13,000 fans in 3 weeks.
• with small budget for the contest,
stimulated Facebook members has used its
lipstick products and shared their pictures.
Example:
“Show us your red lip”
17. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
3. Using Apps- high consumer level
• The total budget that nationwide businesses invest into Mobile App is being
increased 150%/month, and will rapidly increase in the future
• Vietnamese users have higher app consumption than US users
• Browsing the app store is the most common method for users to find out new
apps
Trend of using app on Mobile Phone in
Vietnam
(source Admicro)
18. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
3. Using Apps- high consumer level
Top 5 mobile apps Top 7 mobile shopping apps
19. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
3. Using Apps- high consumer level
Advertising on mobile apps
OTT (over-the top) providers on mobile devices such as Vibers, Zalo, Talk...are
considered great successful brands in attracting customers by applying mobile
advertising.
The first and No. 1 chat
app in the market. More
than 8M users
Favorite by Korean biz
fans and young smart
phone users with many
casual games
Chinese popular chat
app with 396M users
Vietnamese chat app by
giant internet company VNG
10M users
Favorite by young smart
phone users with cool
stickers and good brand
awareness.
Chatting app with lots of
fun features aims to
combine all the strengths
of other apps into itself
20. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
2. Types of Business via Smartphone in Vietnam
3. Using Apps- high consumer level
Advertising on mobile apps
Ford Vietnam is one of the pioneers in applying
mobile advertising to introduce the new Ford
Ranger
• Attracted hundreds of thousands of reviews
on the site (mobile version)
• Be registered thousands of test drivers as
well as thousands of feedback, consulting
services for the product from potential
customers.
Other major brands such as Heineken, Tiger,
Vietnam Airlines, VJA, Sony, Piaggio, Sanyo, VP,
Vietinbank ... are investing for the mobile
advertising channel as well.
23. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
4. Payment
• Beside the international payment cards, the
other payment forms are very popular in
Vietnam: SMS, e-wallet, internet-banking,
mobile-banking, and multi-cards.
• More than 7 telecommunication providers
including Viettel, VinaPhone, MobilePhone
have provided mobile payment services
• Over 30 banks joined SmartLink alliance
Series of payment solution via mobile like
VinaPay, VnPay, PayNet ... with utilities that
support purchasing the goods, games,
study online
24. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
4. Payment
Types of payment for shopping online
Cash on
Delivery
E-banking Transfer Mobile
card
Payment
card
74%
8%
41%
9% 11%
Source VN E-commerce & Technology Department 2013
25. Chapter 2 – Online – Smartphone
5. SWOT
ONLINE VIETNAM MARKET 2014
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
• E-commerce provides an open trading
environment, lower cost, less
dominated by the size of the business
• Cheap workforce
• Legal system of e-commerce in Vietnam
has been completed (the Electronic
Transactions Act (2005) and the Law on
Information Technology (2006).
• Shipping and delivery services are
limited
• Most of business website is promoted
the company's image and introduce
products and services not being
developed for e-commerce
• Technology infrastructure is
developing
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
• Many Vietnamese people use Internet
for shopping online
• Online payment system development
• Government policy
• Customer habit for paying by cash
• The challenges of business in
developing policies and strategies
• The challenges of technology limitation
26. Chapter 3
Conclusion
In the context of the on-going global economic downturn, the limitations
of traditional retail infrastructure offer many opportunities for e-commerce
to develop
The Vietnam E-Commerce Association (VECOM) predicts that the
Vietnamese e-commerce market will continue to grow at an annual rate
40 percent in the coming years
E-commerce is the wave of the future specially for conducting
commercial transactions in Vietnam, a potential market
E-commerce refers to various online commercial trade activities focusing on commodity exchanges by electronic means, computer network by the companies, enterprises, factories, customers (Qin, China, 2009)
This is the first step to conduct e-marketing, marketers must design an attractive and useful site to create the value and excitement to get the customers to visit the site, stay around and come back often.
The company must update constantly the website to keep them current, fresh and exciting in combination with the traditional advertising and other offline market-ing to attract more visitors.
The most basic type of website is corporate websites which are designed to offer the in-formation and other features to answer the customer questions, build closer customer rela-tionship, customer goodwill and supplement other sales channels, not to sell the products directly.
The corporate websites also provide entertainment features to attract and keep the visitors as well as provide opportunities for customers to ask questions and make comments or evaluation through email before leaving the website.
Another type website is marketing websites which engage consumers in an interaction that will help the consumers moving closer to direct purchase or other marketing outcome in-cluding catalogues, shopping tips, promotion features such as coupons, sales events and contests. The websites also allow the customers to schedule the shipments, request package pickup, and track their package in transit (Kotler and Armstrong, 2006).
The companies can use online advertising to build their internet brand and attract visitors to their websites
Online advertising includes banners, ticker ads, interstitials, skyscraper and other forms (Kotler and Armstrong, 2005).
Content sponsorships is one of the form of internet promotion, the companies can gain name exposure on the internet by sponsoring special content on various websites where they can offer relevant information or services to the customers.
The companies also can create microsites which are limited areas on the website managed and paid by another company. Viral marketing is a version of word of mouth marketing which involves creat-ing an email message or other marketing events that the customers will want to pass it to their friends.
This is an idea to get your customers to do your marketing for you. Online marketing serves a useful purpose, a supplement to other marketing efforts and play an increasingly important role in the marketing mixes of many advertisers (Kotler and Armstrong, 2006)
Creating or participating in Web Communities
Web Communities are the commercially sponsored websites which take advantages of C2C on the internet with the popularity of forums and newsgroups. Such communities are attractive to advertisers to draw the consumers with a common interests and well-defined demographics.
1.4.4
Using Email
As one of the important marketing tools, many companies use to reach their customers. In order to compete in this email environment, the companies are designing enriched email messages which are animated, interactive and personalized messages with audio and video. On the other hand, the companies also have to be careful not to send the customers un-wanted email to promote their products. Doing so will cause the resentment to the custom-ers who are already overloaded with spam email or junk email (Kotler and Armstrong, 2005)