Shopmatic mobilizes platform to launch consumer-centric services in India

Shopmatic, an international e-commerce platform that offers an entire ecosystem to businesses and individuals to sell their products online, has announced the expansion of its role as a business service provider.

The newly launched feature will provide customized solutions to service entrepreneurs, assisting them in promoting and selling their services to a wider customer base. The latest element has the potential to make Shopmatic a pioneer in this industry, since e-commerce companies don't necessarily provide classified services that can be monetized online.

With the foray into business services, Shopmatic will not only cement its market position as the only online platform for customers' entire gamut of needs; it will also empower the unemployed in selling their services without any excess hassles.

The company will initially launch seven exclusive services, which includes Beauty, Education, Wedding Events, Bridal make-up artists, wedding choreographers and other services.

Each of the new services launched by Shopmatic will be enabled with their own exclusive website templates. 30 other such templates will be launched the following week.

These services will also be instrumental in helping individual 'Homepreneurs' (entrepreneurs who work from home), in becoming more efficient and gaining professional exposure in the industry.

Commenting on the launch, Co-Founder and CEO of Shopmatic Group, Anurag Avula said: "The gap between demand and supply is still huge in the Indian services market. By introducing our marketplace for business services across the Indian and international platform, we are not only meeting the generic and specific needs of the end customers, but are also offering an avenue to the passionate professionals who need a platform to showcase their talent to a bigger audience."

"They can leverage the penetration and popularity of our platform as well as the power of e-commerce to boost their business and fulfill customer needs with greater speed and efficiency," added Anurag.

Singapore-based Shopmatic's vision initially involved providing a virtual platform to small businesses and entrepreneurs to sell their goods online. It assists them by managing the entire ecosystem for them- right from helping them develop their own unique web-store, listing them on marketplaces and social channels to aiding them with insights on how to sell online.

Now, with its latest business model, Shopmatic is introducing a service range across various industry verticals with the main motive of enabling small businesses to reach out to a larger audience and gain brand recognition.