E-Commerce A Start "Button" For Business.
KAJANG: Many secondary school students and fresh graduates have already started their online business before graduation.
Yap Yen Jun, 19, foundation program student from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman said that she is a e-commerce seller since 16 and she has her own sales team now.
"I can sustain myself by earning my own pocket money and it is all so easy by just selling things online," said Yap.
“As a full-time student I can easily earn my money because the flexible work time and workplace. Also from e-commerce I had learned a lot by communicating with my customers which we cannot learn in class,” Yap added.
Yap said that, the most difficult things that she encountered was the difficulty in finding customers from the internet. She mostly find her target consumers from Facebook and Instagram.
Another interviewee, Chen Jia Hui, 19, a foundation program student from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman who started her online business last March, said that doing e-commerce helped her in reducing her burden and expenses such as rental fees and costs for food. Apart from this, she had learned a lot and met a lot of friends in this business.
“I often encountered with problems like rejected by customers, disgusted by friends and caused disturbance to them."
"At the beginning, my family were worried that I will be neglecting my education because of my business and they did not support me at first and quarreled with me. But, now they fully supported me because they saw the result on my online business,” Chen added.
According to eComerce MILO, an e-commerse online media side, it shows that mobile and e-commerce not only upsurge in Malaysia but also many parts of the world.
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