One million businessmen across the country doing business with the help of WhatsApp and other social media sites survey dlnh

New Delhi. Apart from e-commerce sites, businessmen have now found another way to connect directly with customers. Businessmen are now selling their goods to customers directly on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. The grocer is also taking online orders by connecting the customers on WhatsApp. The number of such businessmen doing business in this way in Delhi-NCR is around 50 thousand. At the same time, 10 lakh businessmen across the country are expanding their business in this way. This survey has been done by Shiprocket.

This has been revealed in CAT’s survey

National President BC Bhartia and National General Secretary Praveen Khandelwal of Confederation of All India Traders (CAT), the country’s largest organization of traders, said that a survey was conducted by Shiprocket between September 1 and September 30 among 40816 traders in different states of the country. The survey has revealed that a new market is developing rapidly in the country through social media. According to the survey, about 17.96 percent of the new businessmen are using social media for business. Whereas 35.19 percent businessmen already doing business are using online websites. On the other hand, among the new businessmen, only 12.04 percent are doing business through offline market.

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These goods were sold on social sites during Diwali

According to Praveen Khandelwal of CAT, in this festive atmosphere of Diwali, personal maintenance items (18.45 percent), food and grocery items (16.51), clothing (15.09), electronics (11.37), health (7.60), household items and cleaning items (4.59), and jewelery (3.83 percent) have been sold on social sites. This clearly shows that small traders are gradually expanding the scope of their business through social media, which is a good sign for the country.