Hello! This is Orsel Saito.
Today I would like to talk about some recent success stories of cross-border e-commerce.
Currently, monthly sales exceed 4.5 million yen.
Orders come from all over the world, including the US and Europe.
The products being sold are prizes that can be found at game centers.
Japanese game center products are popular with people overseas and sell well.
The original start was based on the concept of "bringing the best of Japan to people around the world." They tried various things, such as selling knives and traditional crafts, and struggled, but they eventually arrived at the products they offer today.
The barriers to entry are procurement routes and sales targets.
Even if you decide to try it, it's difficult to know where to source the goods and who to sell them to.
In domestic e-commerce, manufacturers and major players have emerged, making the market difficult, but simply tackling cross-border e-commerce can become a barrier to entry.
In particular, only those who actually try it can know "who among the many people in the world they should sell to."
Furthermore, by utilizing ChatGPT and ASPs that enable cross-border e-commerce, such as Shopify, the barriers to cross-border e-commerce have become several dozen times lower than they were two years ago.
Cross-border e-commerce is a powerful option for breaking away from competition with rivals and demands for price reductions from customers, and creating your own market that others cannot enter.
Incidentally, cross-border e-commerce is also eligible for IT introduction subsidies, and recently an increasing number of people are using it to start up their businesses.
P.S.
Japan's basketball team has qualified to compete in the Paris Olympics! (clap clap)
Although Tominaga's performance has fluctuated wildly, he has become popular throughout Japan at this tournament.
He is a recipient of the "Slam Dunk Scholarship," awarded to promising basketball players by Slam Dunk author Inoue.
Below is a comment by Inoue on the cover of the Slam Dunk book, which was released 31 years ago.
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"Next, I want to see the Japanese team compete in the Olympics.
If only the children who say, "I started playing basketball after reading Slam Dunk" would take up basketball when they grow up...
I'm gonna cry."
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That's all for today (tears).