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MarketOrders produces the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author

 

History was made at the 2018 London Book Fair when our co-founder, Sukhi Jutla, became the  World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author!

 

 

 
As well as being the co-founder and COO of MarketOrders, Sukhi is also an author and an advocate of the blockchain.
 

 

This week at the London Book Fair, Sukhi spoke on a panel about how the publishing industry would be shaken up with the introduction of blockchain tech. She also talked about the opportunities this would offer authors and why it was important to take part in this discussion now. Because blockchain is not disrupting industries tomorrow…its happening now.

 

Sukh is also the co-author of the official Blockchain For Books White-paper that talks in more detail about how blockchain will disrupt the traditional publishing arena and was launched at The London Book Fair which is attended by over 5,000 people from 60 + countries.

 

The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels.

 

We are very excited and proud of Sukhi whose book, Escape The Cubicle: Quit The Job You Hate, Create A Life You Love, is the first book to be published on the blockchain. This means you can purchase the book with cryptocurrency. 

 

Blockchain removes the need of a middleman…and that is also what MarketOrders advocates! Our platform allows gold jewellery retailers to purchase the products they need directly from the manufacturers and suppliers. 

 

Being able to purchase directly from the source means you can get better prices and access to more products. The middleman no longer can inflate the market price or control what products can go to the market.

 

Watch this space as MarketOrders will also be releasing some exciting news about how we are going to use blockchain to better serve our customers.

 

You can read more about Sukhi’s coverage on being the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author in the article covered by the prestigious Publishers Weekly where she made the front page during the London Book Fair:

 

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/london-book-fair/article/76592-london-book-fair-2018-meet-the-world-s-first-1-bestselling-blockchain-author.html

 

You can check out Sukhi’s book here: https://amzn.to/2GX3nWJ

 

 

 

Written by CEO & Founder, Ram Krishnna Rao

 

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Q& A with the founders of Marketorders

 

Today’s blog is a quick fire Q&A with the Founders, Ram and Sukhi. They talk about what MarketOrders does, how they came up with the idea of digitising the gold trade industry and the defining moment that changed it all.

 

 

Tell us what your business does in fewer than 25 words:

MarketOrders in an online marketplace helping to connect independent jewellery brands directly to manufacturer’s around the world to source the best products at the best price.

 

 

How did you come up with the idea?     

The founders have been in the gold jewellery market for over 15 years and saw how inefficient and archaic the processes and systems are in the gold industry where it is still run in a very traditional manner and only 4% of transactions occur on-line.

 

We found in our previous business that we were still taking orders manually and found there was no online or curated destination for jewellery retailers to be able to source the products they needed. So we decided to help the retailers by accepting multiple small orders from many retailers and aggregating their orders. This aggregated order was then sent to the manufacturer who could accept larger orders and give us bulk discount savings. These savings are then passed back to the jewellery retailers.

 

Without MarketOrders, small retailers cannot access the products and prices the large manufacturer reserves for larger orders and clients. And the manufacturers also benefit by getting more orders from more customers. MarketOrders allows a more efficient way to manage the supply/demand issues that many small retailers and SMEs face.  

 

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What makes your business different from the competition?    

MarketOrders is the only online curated destination for the gold jewellery industry where every step of the process is online. Our customers, the retailers, can order products online, pay online and the products are delivered to their door.

 

All our competitors are still working in a hybrid version where only some of the processes are on-line and the rest is very manual and hence time-consuming which can lead to a lot of delays.

 

By bringing the entire supply chain online  MarketOrders is able to bring greater visibility to the supply and demand of gold jewellery products. We can also collate data and use those insights to help our customers. For example, retailers can track which products sell the most at certain times throughout the year and we can even use this data to do predictive orders.   

 

                          

Who are your clients/customers? How many do you have?

MarketOrders is a 2-sided marketplace so we work with both the jewellery retailers (SMEs) and the manufacturers.

Currently we serve retailers based in the UK and work with manufacturers abroad (Hong Kong, Singapore & Dubai).

Our focus is on serving the gold, diamond and precious metals jewellers in the B2B space.

 

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Key moments

 

 

What’s been the most challenging thing about starting your business so far? 

The gold industry is extremely traditional and operates largely off-line. The only way to break into this market is by trust. It took us years to build solid relationships with manufactures and retailers. This took a lot of time and effort to develop but was worth it. Because this is the only way to really understand the problems your customers are facing.

 

Gold is an emotional product; people use it to look beautiful or use it as an investment for their security, so there is a huge amount of trust involved in every transaction. You need to prove that you are providing gold of a premium quality, be very clear and open as to where it is sourced from and to be able to deliver the products on time. So building that deep trust with each one of our customers had to be done in person and was challenging as it took many years to do.                

 

What was your breakthrough moment?   

When we realised we could aggregate multiple small orders from multiple retailers and aggregate them to a larger singular order so the manufacturer could accept the orders and give us bulk discount savings.  This solved 2 problems; allowing smaller retailers to access these large manufacturers and get more designs and products at a lower price and also allow manufacturers to increase their capacity utilisation as their machinery was often left idle as they needed minimum orders to produce the products. For the first time, the gold industry was now on-line and had an on-line presence.             

 

 

What is your goal for your business?

To create the largest and most trusted marketplace for the supply and provision of gold and associated products and take it to an IPO.

 

Written by CEO & Founder, Ram Krishnna Rao

 

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What is a B4B model and how can it impact the gold jewellery retailers & SMEs?

 

MarketOrders is modelling a B4B concept to enhance consumer centric culture among independent gold jewellery retailers.

 

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B4B is ‘Business-For-Business’ and it differs from the traditional B2B model (Business-To-Business) by putting the SMEs at the heart of every transaction.

SMEs are empowered to source and order the products they want as opposed to the B2B model whereby manufacturers produce what they want and then push the products down the distribution channel with no regards as to what the SMEs need and want.

And the SME is the one who knows what they need as they face off to the end consumer on a daily basis.

By using MarketOrders, SMEs can tailor their orders to what they need and the data we collect helps them to analyse what products are selling the best. They can use this data to make better and informed decisions.

 

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There is a severe lack of such data in the jewellery trade industry but these insights are imperative and needed.

MarketOrders will be building out a detailed Data Dashboard for our SMEs so they can track and view what items sell the best.

They can use insights form this data to make better decisions and choices and ultimately be better placed to serve their end consumers. Such data can give them a competitive edge from all the other retailers, especially online, that they are now facing.

Are you a SME operating in the jewellery business? Please share your thoughts and tell us how MarketOrders can serve you better by leaving a comment below this post.

 

Written by CEO & Founder, Ram Krishnna Rao

 

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How Marketorders is Enabling The Future Of Independent Retailers through Centralisation on a Global Scale

 

MarketOrders is a marketplace-connecting retailers to manufacturers. We call this a Business-For-Business concept (B4B).

 

What makes this approach different from traditional Business-To-Business (B2B) is that retailers are at the heart of key decisions on the MarketOrders platform.

 

Volume buyers are no longer the only ones with purchasing power. We champion the smaller retailers by helping them to get access to the manufacturers and products they need at the best possible price.

 

Our platform has been created on a secure base layer featuring On-Demand, Order-Aggregation processes.

 

Multiple orders from various different retailers are pulled together via our Smart Router mechanism. This becomes the primary source of business value as physical processes are turned into real-time data flow amongst a network of retailers and manufacturers. This allows the business owners to achieve economies of scale.

 

Why should retailers use the MarketOrders Platform?

Here are a few reasons as to why we believe retailers would benefit from using our platform that has been designed with the retailers specifically in mind.

 

  1. No central point of failure.
  2. Support global scaling.
  3. Lowering cost and enhancing quality.
  4. Increase communications and sharing best practice.
  5. Brings transparency on price, purity and supply chain.
  6. Business practice becomes faster, relevant and cost effective.

 

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How does the MarketOrders platform work?

 

MarketOrders aims to be a single, unified and centralised platform creating the ultimate marketplace for the gold jewellery trade industry.

 

The aim of the marketplace is to consolidate the entire supply chain vertically from back-end production to front-end consumption across a network of retailers and manufacturers around the globe.

 

This allows the ‘middleman’ to be cut away from the process bringing greater efficiencies to the supply chain.

 

 

MarketOrders not only empowers the independent retailers (SME’s) but also makes it possible for them to be in.

 

MarketOrders is ushering in a digital revolution for traditional brick and mortar jewellery shops. This will allow them to face other digital challenges such as online jewellery shops and be better able to compete with the rise of the experience economy.

 

This article was written by Ram Krishnna Rao, CEO MarkerOrders

 

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How Retailers benefit from using MarketOrders platform?

MarketOrders is a revolutionary B4B (Business-for-Business) platform providing independent jewellery retailers with a cheaper and better way to buy gold jewellery products & services through a disruptive eCommerce marketplace where orders are aggregated and sent to the manufacturer to secure bulk discount savings.

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MarketOrders is branded as a retailer champion, delivering a better and fairer
way to buy products and services.
> Provides control – I order what I need, I feel that I am the boss.
> Saves money – cheaper than buying from wholesaler.
> Saves time – fast, intuitive and mobile first.
> Convenient – use it anyplace, anytime.
> Trusted – vetted marketplace.
> Transparent – clear how MarketOrders makes money.

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MO Wishing You Prosperous and Happy New Year 2018

MarketOrders.net wishing all our clients and suppliers; Prosperous and Happy New Year 2018.

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Thank you for trusting in us and building our future together.