{"id":233,"date":"2021-06-22T04:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.cellsii.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T06:01:40","slug":"customer-centric-online-marketplace-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoppingsheba.com\/customer-centric-online-marketplace-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"A story of a customer-centric online marketplace in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The interview taken by Yan Kulakov from CS-Cart. CS-Cart is world’s renowned multi-vendor e-commerce service provider. We’re sharing the interview as it is on their <\/em>website<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hello! Yan from CS-Cart here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, we have found out about a large online marketplace in Bangladesh called Cellsii.com<\/a>.\n This marketplace is based on our multi-vendor platform CS-Cart \nMulti-Vendor. What\u2019s interesting about this project that it began not so\n long ago\u2014in 2018\u2014and immediately gained popularity in the country. The \nmarketplace is pretty big now with almost 10,000 products (the catalog \ngrows daily) and 63,000 Facebook fans. But the marketplace owner S.M. \nMamunur Rasid still calls it a startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have contacted S.M. Mamunur Rasid and asked them to tell their \nbusiness story: how they made a decision to create an online marketplace\n in such a competitive environment, how they started, and what \nchallenges they overcame. This interview will come in handy for all the \nstartuppers who building their own eCommerce business and still have \ndoubts and concerns. Have no more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S.M. Mamunur Rasid, the Cellsii.com marketplace owner<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 How did you start and from what? What\u2019s the background of your marketplace?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sold the first product at the beginning of 2016 from a Facebook page<\/em>.\n I was still doing a job in a private organization. At the same time, \nalso engaged with different freelance works related to digital \nmarketing, content, website, etc. That is how life could have been \npassed quite well. But I always wanted to do something on my own. In \n2005, during my student life, got my first part-time job in a daily \nnewspaper to update their news content and freelance report writing \nabout ICT. Gathered primary experiences on content, digital marketing, \nweb tools from there, which had helped me a lot further to understand \ndifferent aspects of business, especially eCommerce business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was not associated with any offline shop or business. There was no \nchance at all. I feel comfortable doing works or anything online. At the\n beginning of 2016, for the first time imported some products from \nabroad and advertised on Facebook, and managed to sell a hand bracelet<\/em>. That was an amazing experience.<\/strong>\n I still can remember that moment of the first sale. Then launched an \neCommerce website in 2017. The site was slowly getting richer. I quit my\n job in December 2017 and started a full-time business in the new year \nof 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 How did you actually make a decision to start such a big \nonline project? I mean, it\u2019s not an easy job neither it\u2019s an easy \ndecision to launch an online marketplace.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, I started a digital marketing service on a freelance basis \nand served more than 500 small and large organizations and individual \nentrepreneurs. While doing this job, I learned about many established \ncompanies and entrepreneurs who have little idea about digital \nmarketing, business web tools, and technics though it is very important.\n But I had no money to launch a business of my own. Started from zero!<\/strong> Only had a dream of doing something.<\/strong> Then determined some goals and objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n