Sina Technology News, afternoon of April 19th: Jiepang.com officially launched the merchant platform today, aiming to help local merchants provide location-based services (LBS). Through this platform, merchants can apply to become store managers and manage information such as store and promotion details. Jiepang will also provide data reports for business users.
In February this year, the Jiepang Merchant Platform started public testing, further expanding towards the merchant community beyond serving users and players. The winners and losers of the delay in the release of the iPhone 5 included Google as one of the biggest beneficiaries.
According to the introduction, after merchants apply to become store managers on Jiepang, they will gain administrator privileges. Not only can they manage store information, but they can also design discounts or event promotions to promote their own stores. Jiepang has also prepared a discount push mode for merchants, such as rewarding customers who bring friends to the store, cultivating more repeat customers, etc.
Jiepang will provide the above services free of charge.
To become a store manager, merchants need to find their own store on Jiepang, then click the link on the right side to verify their identity. After filling out information such as the full name of the company, the name of the contact person, telephone number, email address for verification (the former vice president of Yahoo Search takes up the position of co-CEO of Shanda Online), the review result will be sent to the merchant's Jiepang account via private message. After a successful application, the store manager's mark will appear on the store page.
The official data provided during the first two months of the trial period showed that after merchants used Jiepang’s services and started promotional activities, the number of check-ins in the same month increased several times. Even in the month after the activity stopped, the number of check-ins was significantly higher than before joining the merchant platform. Google's net profit in the first quarter was 2.3 billion US dollars, an increase of 17% year-on-year, convert mpeg4 to mp3. (Meng Hong)