GURUGRAM : As small businesses explore to expand their businesses and identify new avenues of growth, the e-commerce marketplace has grown significantly, providing opportunities for these sellers. With the help of e-commerce platforms, businesses now have access to the national market and opportunities for online brand building, business growth and employment. The boom in the e-commerce sector has led to spectacular success stories of sellers, who have taken their business online.
Apart from providing a larger reach, e-commerce players are giving MSMEs access to additional support through finance, technology and training.
Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, has been supporting these MSMEs with regular operational support, consumer insights, and constant business counseling to ensure that their online journey is seamless. Flipkart’s endeavors to uplift and empower all sections of society, has built trust among the seller community, ushering in further success for them.
Flipkart recently announced a slew of industry-first marketplace policy changes and new capabilities to build a more inclusive e-commerce ecosystem that contributes to the growth, prosperity, and empowerment of seller partners. These efforts build on Flipkart’s commitment to helping MSMEs and small businesses leverage the power of e-commerce to serve their consumer base, gain access to best-in-class solutions and drive their growth.
The mix of policy changes and capabilities include a best-in-class payment policy with the fastest payment settlement cycle in the industry, hassle-free 10-min onboarding, guaranteed ROI on Ad spends, low return cost for performing sellers, deals with Cleartrip integration for travel-related requirements along with a host of other integrated benefits.
Stories such as that of Anita Premchand Chauhan from Delhi showcase the true potential digital transformation can bring to local businesses.
Anita Premchand Chauhan is a homemaker turned entrepreneur hailing from the city of Delhi. She lives with her husband, in-laws and two children. Having graduated with a B.Ed degree, Anita was a full time teacher, but could not continue her job. After being a homemaker for a few years, she was looking for jobs to resume her career journey, but came across the idea of becoming an online seller after purchasing a few products on Flipkart.