An e-commerce website with some unique offerings: lottery, groceries. Phone recharge codes and game cards are also offered.
Payment can be done via
I prefer paying via NganLuong.
Free shipping to central districts in HCMC for orders over VND300,000 (US$15).
I have recurring demands for Patritti and Berri juice.
The second dedicated online penny bid service in Vietnam after 1bid.vn
You win the item when your bid is lowest and unique.
After the mobile apps from NhomMua and MuaChung, QBata launches a mobile-only Groupon service.
You browse the deals and pay the "reservation fee" of the deal via SMS and pay the full amount when consuming the service/product when visiting the merchant. This product serves the need of impulse and immediate purchase of vouchers.
CungMuaSam.net integrates its service to Zing Me by launching an application on Zing Me platform.
An groupbuy aggregator site with market statistics. The information is sourced from figures published from respective groupbuy sites.
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- Web games
- Mobile apps
- Consolidation of groupbuy market
- Flash sale
- Technology-backed offline payment e.g. payment devices
- Digital content payment
- Cross-border transaction
Addendum
Nicky Fei has a two additions
Social apps
The shift to HTML 5 following the Adobe gave up Flash
10 years ago the first thing Vietnamese learn about communicating through the Internet is chatting. There were some services targeting Vietnam market before Yahoo! Messenger came to dominate all communication channels.
Yahoo! Messenger’s domination in Vietnam opened up the way for Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! 360. In recent years, the email market share is largely chipped by Gmail. Yahoo! Messenger, while the top IM client, faces competition from Skype. Hotmail, Live Messenger and Gtalk are not widely popular in the country.
A growing trend is, however, that people start to learn about social networking and Facebook. Many sign up for the Internet to, first thing first, communicating via social networks. The same is happening in other South East Asian countries.
The social network battle in Vietnam in 2011 boils down to the dual-horse race between the two leaders Zing Me and Facebook. While Twitter and Plurk gain traction in other countries in the region, micro-blogging in Vietnam has never taken off. Even technology-enthusiasts use Facebook for live reporting (which Twitter is logically most suitable for) and viralling current events.
Why? My attempt to answer the question:
- Vietnamese language comes with diacritics thus requires a lot more than 140 characters to express a full sentence
- Vietnamese users are more familiar with “Add Friend” relationship than “Follow” mechanism
- Most importantly, Twitter doesn’t satisfy the gamification demand crazed by Vietnamese users. Vietnamese teenagers go on Zing Me mostly to play webgames. Many also go on Facebook sheerly for games rather than for connecting. Foursquare has received lots of attention probably thanks to the rewards and Mayor competition.
The next question pops into my mind: if gamification is so important, why hasn’t Plurk known in Vietnam while it is very popular in Taiwan and the Philippines? Again, my attempt
- Plurk hasn’t been covered by local media which is crucial in the growth of services. Facebook received local media coverage.
- Many influencers don’t know what Plurk is. As for me, I deactivated my Plurk account after collecting many medals.
Thanks @salsabeela and @kounila for sharing the information on social networking in your countries.
Addendum
Tumblr is growing rapidly in Vietnam.
Ngoc Hieu has an explanation on the adaption Twitter: Vietnamese users like colors and emotions, neither of which Twitter offers.
Communication
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Flash sale is the next trend that follows Groupon cloning in Vietnam.
Till now I have the information of 3 services.
- Brandsfavor.com, founded by the same owner as the online T-shirt service Fakoon.com
- Rumor of one by MJ Group
- A confirmation of one by Ngan Sau
What other services do you know of?
I gave a presentation at Open Consultant’s offline November 2011 on Groupon’s model and sustainability.
The following discussions are in Vietnamese. About Groupon, I’ll update more information in my English master slide.
You can listen to the presentation here:
Part 1/3
Part 2/3
Part 3/3
There is also the Event Live Feed
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