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Wedding gowns from Suruç to Japan
Ms. Sıdıka Cengizer who owns a wedding gown and hairdressing parlour at Suruç district of Şanlıurfa, enlarged her business, which she started up under difficult circumstances, through receiving orders from social media sites over the Internet, thanks to the training she received under “Life is simple with Internet”. She narrated her success story of selling wedding
gowns to Japan over the Internet: “I am married for 9 years, have two children. I received training to work and support my home and business. Since “Life is simpler with Internet” training, I have been doing 90% of my sales over the Internet. My hairdressing parlour has a website where I actively receive orders. I ship to all parts of Turkey. About 80 of my clients come to me over the Internet. Now I have 4,500 followers. Over the Internet, I shipped products everywhere including Istanbul, Izmir, Gaziantep, Bilecik. I shipped products even to Japan. They were happy. Now I receive more orders. They send me messages; I ask them what products they wish. It is enough that they send me a photograph; I get it sewn. I receive their address over the Internet and ship the product through cargo-couriers.”
“Life is simple with Internet” project is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Türk Telekom and Habitat Association.