How three major online sellers changed the retail landscape in the Philippines - Lazada, Shopee and Zalora

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

Due to the pandemic, people shifted to on line shopping, because of prohibition in malls, stay at home and many more rules.   Online shopping grew and retail giant mall operator Ayala wisely bought into Zalora

Bricks and mortar store giants:     SM, Family Mart, Alfa Mart, and lately Dali ate into sari sari store market share,  these on line stores are eating into the bricks and mortar sale.

E commerce is likely to be the future of retail in the Philippines (and possibly ASEAN.  In the US there is a torrent of retail closure due to on line shopping.     Could this development trigger similar events in the Philippine?   

See how these companies are establishing huge distribution hubs and infrastructures.   See how they have built massive Head Office

Questions:

1.  Will sari sari sari  stores go the  way of dinosaurs?   What must do in order to survive?

2.  Are bricks and mortar retail stores sustainable?  What must be their offensive and defensive move?

Entrep talk by Buddy Silva - from nursing, MLM to logistics and high tech GPS system

Iloilo City   |  February 8, 2014

 

                                  Passion and the why are more important than the how

Today is the last session of Iloilo AGSB entrep.  We had our guest entrepreneur today hosted by group of Terence, Ramey and Jan -  Mr. Buddy Silva III .  He is an acquaintance of Terence.  The credentials of Buddy are impressive as he trained abroad under various marketing guru (courtesy of MLM outfit Forever Living.  At that time, he had downline numbering 3,000 who account for almost P40 million a month in WesternVisayas.

He finished nursing, and as fate had it, he moved into trucking and logistics serving the trucking needs of Western Visayas business.  (He is service provider of AM Builders (c/o Christian Rafael).  But his clients are mostly from Manila (who are outsourcing delivery to the provinces via the Roro nautical highway.)

His new business now is GPS tracking with telemetry of important vehicle function:  braking, braking habits etc. fuel consumption, emission (just like what they do at formula cars racing telemetry)  His consultants are specialist in this. The GPS is an apps he needed to run his trucking business well.  The latter is unique and he plans to offer this at P10t per which is affordable.  Coke which has l50 vehicles in Iloilo could be a customer.

                               A very young (he is only 38, he started when he was 24) entrepreneur

                                  Terence introduces the group's guest

                                 The class listens to the entrep talk of Mr Silva

                                    Mr. Buddy uses the whiteboard to explain context vs content

                                        Class picture with Mr. Buddy

                               Mr. Buddy with sponsoring group:   Ramey, Terence and Jan

He sees GPS as his growth and promising business (the star) which would make him well known world wide. Silicon Valley is communicating with him as one of the new techies to adopt -  one of the new l00 companies for the 2014.    Until 2016, he sees trucking in support of construction to be doing very well

For buddy, it is the What (the motivation that is more important) than How. The What will motivate you to know the steps how to get to your goal.

He names this from his training:   context vs content.  Context would be mindset.   Opening your mind to new learning is context.  Expanding mindset, changing the paradigm is context to accommodate more content.