Vishal Krishna, a Business Editor at YourStory, held a live session on the 5th of September 2020 with Vibhor Sahare, CEO and Co-founder of ANS Commerce, discussing about brand revolution in India and how ANS Commerce is helping 90+ brands scale up with its full-stack solution offering borrow 500 online.
Titled “Simplifying E-commerce for India”, the event attracted a plethora of speakers, industry experts, emerging startups, and attendees from across the country and abroad. The discussion started with how ANS Commerce is helping brands enter the world of online commerce, whether they are established or DTCs (direct-to-consumer) brands. Vibhor shared some of his insights on the retail e-commerce market of India and online penetration. Identifying e-commerce as not being a core competency of these brands, he explained why a full-stack e-commerce solution is what brands need in order to focus on their core product. You can request for our full-stack demo.
Vishal Krishna follows this up with the concerns and issues faced by the e-commerce industry in today’s world, with respect to choosing the right e-commerce platform, digital marketing, paid ads, promotions, coupons, optimization of products, warehousing, marketplace management etc.
Here are some of the key highlights from the session –
How does Kartify help with the performance marketing of a brandstore?
The majority (~80%) of traffic on brandstores comes from paid marketing campaigns, which can range from 0.1x to 1.0x of sales. Hence optimizing ROAS (return on ad spends) and maintaining ROAS at scale become critical to brands’ e-commerce viability. For this, brands prefer Kartify’s marketing-first perspective, to improve ROAS and maintain it at scale. Brands often leverage ANS Commerce for both solutions. Brands generally start with performance marketing followed by website management to further boost sales.
Does ANS Commerce have any client preference in terms of sectors or segments?
ANS Commerce is sector agnostic and keen to work with brands in all categories – whether it is retail, beauty, home, fashion, electronics, etc. We work with brands big and small, ranging from Fortune 500 giants to DTCs still completing their company paperwork.
Does ANS Commerce have any plans of going international?
ANS Commerce believes India is a fairly large and growing market for consumer brands, and so is completely focused on Indian market for the next 2-3 years. However, we have few international clients and lot of inbound interest from SEA, MENA and European markets so we are open to expand globally at the right time.
What is ANS Commerce’s revenue model?
ANS Commerce works on the revenue-sharing model. Instead of charging a fixed amount every month for the product or service, they charge a percentage of revenue (sales) in most of the cases. ANS Commerce believes in being a true partner for their clients – aligned with common objective and have confidence in their ability to deliver.
What are the various third-party integrations available in ANS Commerce?
ANS Commerce has its own custom products such as Kartify, LimeReach, Recofy etc. and these come with enhancements to ease out the complexities of e-commerce processes. Additionally, clients can also get the benefit of over 70 (and growing) third party integrations relevant for Indian brands. They span across domains such as logistics (Delhivery, Blue Dart), payments (Razorpay, Paypal) OMS/ omni-channel (Fynd, Unicommerce), loyalty, tech, marketing (Netcore, MailChimp, Freshdesk) etc.
How does ANS Commerce help in overcoming the challenges of warehousing and fulfilment?
Brands want to provide the same ease and speed of delivery for their brandstores as is the norm on marketplaces across India. ANS Commerce optimizes warehouse operations with the help of latest tools and softwares, which includes Warehouse management systems, Order management system etc. They have also partnered with the logistic companies such as Delhivery, BlueDart and Ecom Express to handle the delivery logistics. This enables brand to offer 2-day delivery with tracking for their brandstore orders and optimization of inventory using common pool for all the marketplaces. We work with 15+ marketplaces to enable brands’ presence across long-tail marketplaces. Request your demo for warehousing solution.
How can ANS Commerce help companies operating on Shopify?
ANS Commerce can help these brands to acquire more customers with their performance marketing expertise and can also help them with warehousing and fulfillment.
The session concluded with an extremely interactive and enthusiastic Q&A session. The entire session can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
About ANS Commerce
ANS Commerce is India’s #1 full-stack enabler helping brands sell online. We offer brandstore tech, performance marketing, marketplace management and e-commerce warehousing & fulfilment.
We want our brand partners to focus on their brand and product and leave ‘all-things-e-commerce’ to us. We are currently working with 90+ established & D2C brands across segments helping them sell on their brandstores along with 15+ marketplaces.
We help brands acquire consumers, power brandstore and jumpstart marketplace operations in no time. With us, your brand can offer fast & reliable order fulfilment to your marketplace & brandstore consumers.
Our extensive experience across product, e-commerce, retail, and marketing helps the brand achieve higher sales and stronger brand differentiation. We work with you to identify the right e-commerce model & partners for you.
If you are a brand planning to go online or need any e-commerce assistance, then drop us an email on [email protected]. We are currently offering a free marketing audit!
For more information about our offerings, visit our website.