YogYES.COM: Success Story

Meet our customer whose success story was revealed by magazine or newspaper.

Bambang A. Nugroho

...Big money is not always the determinant of success in the web business. Small money can play too. One wood products company owner discloses that his workshop has been exporting goods for the past two years without ever meeting the buyers, nor participating in any export exhibition.

In one week he started receiving orders by email.

Bambang A. Nugroho, 25, joined a local trade portal two years ago, outlaying $100 to rent a share of cyberspace. In one week he started receiving orders by email. The first big order came in less than two months. A small container will fit in Rp. 100 million ($11,000) of his products and on average he exports one or two containers a month, mostly to the United Kingdom.

Bambang went on to build the Yogyakarta-based Edenia website, which went live early this year. Two months of operation has seen orders for three containers, even though he spent only Rp. 8 million on the site.

Many Indonesian enterprises have been slow to jump into cyberspace. Most companies have a web site but rarely use it for more than a place to put their company profile. Nor is there much understanding of the specific design characteristics that can make a site pay off. Print company profiles are simply uploaded to the web...

(Kili Pringgodigdo, "Reaping Profits in Cyberspace", Globe Asia, April 2007)

Details

Company nameEdenia
AddressJl. Parangtritis km 9.9 Gabusan Bantul - DI Yogyakarta
Phone: +62 274 7802465, +62 81392442474
Joined YogYES.COM sinceAugust 17, 2005
URLwww.yogyes.com/edenia
Official Websitewww.edenia-craft.com