How to operate cross-border e-commerce during the epidemic? How to do it well?

With the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce, many domestic merchants are also actively making plans. However, as we all know, with the repeated outbreaks of the epidemic in China, the normal operations of many merchants have been disrupted. So how should cross-border e-commerce operate during the epidemic?

How to operate cross-border e-commerce during the epidemic?

1. Cross-border e-commerce platforms face logistics, shortages, and insufficient staff, etc.

Overseas is not like domestic. Refer to the measures of our country and the prevention measures of the Philippines. Once the city is closed, the previous channels for freight transportation will be temporarily stopped. Domestic goods cannot be shipped overseas during the city lockdown. For friends who do overseas freight forwarding, this is tantamount to a cold winter!

2. Store operations cannot continue

Although online e-commerce operations do not have physical stores, express delivery is an important part of the transaction. If express delivery cannot be sent and received normally. For sellers who work hard to operate cross-border e-commerce, the store's ratings in all aspects will be greatly reduced. For those who rely on cross-border e-commerce stores to make a living, this epidemic may also have a certain impact!

3. A major reshuffle in the cross-border e-commerce APP industry

Under the influence of this epidemic, most small and medium-sized sellers who have no risk resistance will quickly withdraw from the Southeast Asian cross-border e-commerce market due to business pressure. Those who can survive in the end will be the backbone of the future Southeast Asian cross-border e-commerce industry.

So, should we stop doing cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia? The answer is obviously no. The SARS in 2003 had a huge impact on my country's Internet and even business models:

① Created Taobao and JD.com, two Internet retail giants;

② It promoted the rise of the three major portals, Sina, Sohu, and NetEase;

③Promoted the vigorous development of e-commerce in my country.

So what opportunities can this epidemic bring to us, practitioners of cross-border e-commerce apps?

The United States has become the hardest hit area by the epidemic, and Amazon's overseas shopping in the United States is under great pressure

It is understood that so far, the United States has become the hardest hit area of ​​the epidemic. The implementation of various epidemic prevention measures has had a huge impact on the return to work of personnel and the logistics system, which has brought the darkest moment to many sellers on Amazon Global Shopping US Station. How to ensure the normal operation of the US station and introduce appropriate policies to help platform sellers overcome difficulties has become an issue that Amazon Global Shopping Platform urgently needs to think about.

Although the epidemic crisis has a huge impact, for leading cross-border e-commerce companies such as Amazon Global Shopping, the "opportunities" may be greater than the "dangers".

Relying on a strong global procurement supply chain, there is great potential in the overseas purchase vertical field

Since 1998, Amazon has begun its global layout and has entered more than 15 countries including the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, etc. It has invested huge amounts of money mainly in building a modern and efficient supply chain system and website research and development around the world. Amazon has now formed a complete global logistics system, which has a strong advantage that cannot be ignored in the domestic overseas shopping vertical field.

As the epidemic spreads around the world, travel of consumers and personal purchasing agents is restricted, which will cause some overseas shopping demand to flow into cross-border e-commerce APP platforms.

Traditional enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation, and B-side users may flock to cross-border e-commerce platforms

As a new way of organizing international trade, cross-border e-commerce apps can efficiently connect supply and demand across borders with the support of technical means, eliminating many of the complications of traditional trade and effectively offsetting the impact of the epidemic.

Take advantage of policy momentum and seize opportunities to plan for development

Under the epidemic, China has given active policy support to the development of cross-border e-commerce apps. Moreover, under the policy support of various regions, cross-border e-commerce apps have received strong support in terms of import and export, capital loans, etc. This is very good news for cross-border e-commerce platform apps such as Amazon Global Shopping.

If you want to operate cross-border e-commerce well in the context of the epidemic, you can refer to the above methods and techniques. Although cross-border e-commerce faces many problems, there are actually many other ways to solve the problems. In addition, the markets that cross-border e-commerce faces will also have some policies that everyone needs to adapt to.

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