By Foday Moriba Conteh
During a well-attended ceremony held on Tuesday 14th February 2023, at Kallon Car Park on Aberdeen Beach in Freetown, the Salone Blyan E-Commerce platform was officially launched.
The Salone Bly Platform is one that seeks to connect business people to their distant potential customers in order to expand the scale and the customer base of businesses in the country.
Speaking during the ceremony, the Founder of ‘Salone Bly’ stated that Salone Bly creates ease and comfort for both business owners/people and customers, adding that customers will be at home and shop online and also business owners/people will be at their businesses and sell online.
He disclosed that for any transaction they are giving 10 percent discount to their customers.
He pointed out that at Salone Bly individuals can buy and make their payment instantly from where ever they are using Afrimoney, Orange Money, Rokel Sim Korpor, Rokel Visa Card, Rokel Internet Banking, Visa Card, PayPal, Master card etc.
He said that many business owners often lack what it takes to break the barriers to reach their potential customers from far and that there are too many issues and constraints to access their unknown potential customers, stating that Salone Bly addresses those issues so that business people expand their sales and the customers buy with ease and comfort.
“We are fast and reliable and with ease and comfort, working in your interest and Easy and secure. We bring ease and avail comfortable means of buying everything at anytime and everywhere, we are fast and accurate in delivery. Visit our website: www.salonely.com or download our App from App Store or Google Play Store,” he disclosed.
Commenting on behalf of partners, Chief Executive Officer at NP Sierra Leone, Kobi Walker, commended the launch of Salone Bly which he said is the right move and is very important towards making Sierra Leone go digital.
He said that the world is moving digital and even NP-Sierra Leone as a company is moving with the trend of which he revealed that the company recently unveiled the 1st digitized and automated fuel storage tank in the country furthering that within the next two months 80 percent of NP-Sierra Leone fuel stations will be digital.
The CEO said that with the partnership between Salone Bly and NP-Sierra Leone people can buy fuel using cards like Rokel Sim Korpor, Rokel Visa Card etc. adding that through Salone Bly people can send electronic fuel chit to another person which they can use to secure or collect fuel.
“The world is moving digital and if we must stay relevant, we must be part of the global change and the global change is digitization and automation,” Kobi Walker maintained.
In his keynote address, the Managing Director of Rokel Commercial Bank, Dr. Ekundayo Gilpin said that the launch of Salone Bly is a clear manifestation of their support towards digitalizing the country.
He commended the entire team of Salone Bly for the initiative and further encouraged them to be focused and committed towards the sustainability of the initiative.
The Managing Director pointed out that people who want to shopping through Salone Bly can use Rokel Sim Korpor, Rokel Visa Card, and Rokel Internet Banking to purchase their goods at the comfort of their zones.
He called on all to patronize with Salone Bly adding that customers can get whatever thing they want by using their computers, mobile phones etc. in order to make their purchase easy and affordable.
The official launching ceremony of the Salone Bly website www.salonely.com was done by the Chief Executive Officer of NP Sierra Leone, Kobi Walker and it was followed by the launch of both the App Store and Google Play Store Applications by the Managing Director of Rokel Commercial Bank, Dr. Ekundayo Gilpin.
