Chennaishopping.com is an online book store selling tamil books, tamil novels, sangam literature, tamil dictionaries, poetry’s, history and epics available in Tamil (தமிழ்) Language.
I would like share about my startup – chennaishopping.com so far
Launched on Oct 24 2011 with 5 books
Currently 2250+ products in online catalogue.
- 7+ months in operation.
- 900+ users registered since launch.
- 27K+ unique visitors. 300+ every day
- 110+ customers have placed orders more than once
Total Orders
- 800+ delivered
- 5 Returned
- 40 cancelled
Total Sales 4.4L
- Online sales 3.3L
- Offline sales 1.1L
- 60% orders were made using Netbanking / Credit Card.
- 40% order were made using Cash on Delivery (India Post – V.P.P / Self).
We do Cash On Delivery using India Post V.P.P
We ship using Speedpost, EPP, Regd. Post, Professional Courier and Self (in Chennai Delivery)
Delivery
- Orders were delivered to 15+ states.
- Tamil Nadu takes the lead followed by Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat
Unique visitors
- As per google analytics, 27K+ unique visitors to our site since launch.
- 4k+ unique visitors per month on an average.
- 5k+ unique visitors in May 2012.
Publishers with us
Vanathi Pathippakkam, Kizhakku Pathippagam, Poompuhar Pathippagam, Kannadhasan Pathippagam, Karpagam Puthagalayam, Sixth Sense Publications and more
What do our customers say?
http://www.chennaishopping.com/s/customer-feedback
Marketing
We haven’t done effectively yet. Few simple SEO’s, Email campaigns rarely.
Top 5 reasons why to buy tamil books online from us
- New and rare collections.
- 75+ categories, 40+ publishers, 2000+ books and still growing….
- Combo offers & Special discounts – people buy more tamil books from the savings.
- Simple, Secure & Trusted way for buying tamil books.
- Free Shipping for all orders above 200 INR across India
- Worldwide shipment of Tamil books
Our Motto
“Any Tamil Book ever printed will be available with us.”
What do you think about my startup? any suggestions / feedback are welcome! I am happy about what i am doing now. Its been a dream project since 2001. Lets see how it goes.
Beyond Work 
All the best and best of luck on all your endeavours
Thank you uncle.
All the best ball, you are rocking. Dont forget my request add telugu books.
yep. soon.
Great going, Bala. Do you have plans to expand to other languages in the future? Quite a few people have expressed interest in buying Kannada books online…
yes.