...2016-06-13 Outline Title：What influence did Taobao bring to China? Thesis statement With the rapid development of Internet, shopping online has become an indispensable choice. Taobao is, absolutely, a true winner in China. Except for the great achievement they had made, for example, enriching the variety of commodity and offering job opportunities, Taobao has also brought a lot of problems which cannot be ignored. Para1. Taobao brings convience to people. * Variety of commodity; * Different ways of shopping; * Cheaper price. Para2. Economy growth and industry transform * Job opportunities; * Express delivery industry; * The double 11 shopping festival in China made by Taobao. Para3. Express delivery created a lot of pollution. * Excessive packaging; * A plenty of trees were cut to make cardboard boxes； * Increasing carbon dioxide. Para4. Shoddy goods and Taobao has stimulated the action of hurting intellectual property right. * Price disorder, malign competition make sellers tend to sell fake or shoddy goods. * Taobao gives pirated copies a convenient way to flood into the market. Conclusion: Taobao aims at creating the world’s preferred online retail shopping district. For the purpose of an environmentally friendly promotion of Taobao e-commerce, Taobao should change and improve their future strategies. Bibliography 2016-05-19 1. Some information about Taobao. http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/about/overview ...
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...Amazon- Jeff Bezos Amazon is a worldwide online product purchase website, which is one of the most popular online purchase websites in China, apart from the Taobao website and Alibaba website. Amazon’s website offers a vast kind of products to consumers, the wide range of products are similar as Taobao or Alibaba website. From electronic readings to paper books, from digital products to electronic products, from adults products to kids products, from outdoor activity equipment to indoor accessary, the apparels from outside to inside, from beauty to personal care products, etc. which can be reliable consumer’s fulfillment. However, the price list from Amazonis much lower than Taobao and Alibaba. Amazon is focusing on offering the low product price and convenience shopping experience to consumers, which is also well-known as well. Amazon identifies the most popular products on its site and consistently prices them under the competition, when refer the other products on Taobao or Alibaba website, which price is higher than the price showed on Amazon. Consumer purchase always compares the price of different stores or different websites then choose the lowest price of the product. Amazon captures the consumer’s psychology of the price perception in the e-commerce. The nuanced approach to pricing makes Amazon outstanding of its competitor, it is been the key to Amazon’s success on the promotional offers. Amazon’s vision is not only selling low price products to consumers, but...
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...manage a comprehensive platform, alibaba also directly or through its acquisition of companies, including China nets and DaTong, the domestic traders to provide diversified business management software and Internet infrastructure services and export related services, and business management professionals and e-commerce specialist training services. Alibaba also has Vendio and Auctiva, the two companies are leading the third party e-commerce solutions suppliers, main service online merchants. Alibaba in the greater China region, India, Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States has more than 70 offices. They are the very important business of China Product Alibaba they have 13 products for E-commerce, TaoBao . Taobao May 10, was founded in 2003, founded by alibaba group. Taobao Business across C2C (Consumer to Consumer), B2C (...
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...will not only be limited to Wall Street or to Silicon Valley with investments in tech start-ups and that, with this move, Alibaba will attempt to compete against its fiercest global rivals, Amazon and eBay, in their domestic territory. Global E-Commerce Competitive Environment At present, and despite being mainly a regional player, Alibaba is the world’s second largest e-commerce company, with total B2C value sales of US$44.3 billion in 2013, according to Euromonitor International. However, when considering other indicators, in 2013 Alibaba was already the biggest online retailer in the world. For example, in terms of Gross Merchandise Volume, the Chinese company is bigger than Amazon and eBay combined, and also appears ahead of its two main competitions in terms of profits. So how do Alibaba’s operations compare with those of its main competitors? How Alibaba Compares Against its Two Main Global Competitors Alibaba vs Other E-Commerce Giants Alibaba can count on its leading place in the enormous Chinese market with around 230 million active users, not far from the entire US population, and around seven million sellers, figures that explain the disproportionately greater number of transactions compared to its competitors. Unlike Amazon, Alibaba does not sell directly. Its platforms Taobao and Tmall are pure online marketplaces, the former with millions of merchants selling directly to consumers, and the latter a virtual shopping mall, in which big brands open their virtual...
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...already having some success connecting small Chinese manufacturers to potential customers, including the overseas ones Ms Dai was reassuring over e-mail. But the friends and students who made up the workforce were earning just 550 Yuan (then $66) a month. Mr. Ma, though, already had big dreams. That year he said: “Americans are strong at hardware and systems, but on information and software, all of our brains are just as good.” The company that started in Mr. Ma’s apartment now employs 24,000 workers at its headquarters in Hangzhou and elsewhere; Ms Dai is president of human resources. A few years ago Alibaba began to turn a profit; in the year to September 2012 it made $485m on revenues of $4.1 billion. Today, Alibaba is more than just the “Amazon of China”—it’s the Dropbox, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, ING Direct, and more. Though Google has its fingers in a similarly high volume of pies, its enterprises, unlike Alibaba’s, are exclusively digital. Alibaba’s distinct businesses resemble more than a dozen major Western companies, by our count—a phenomenon we’ve sketched out in the graphic below. Following the ambitious vision of founder and chairman Jack Ma, Alibaba has recently...
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...Taobao launch in SG http://e27.co/taobao-officially-launches-in-singapore-heats-up-e-commerce-land-grab/ Weird “products” selling in Taobao http://www.asianewsnet.net/The-weird-world-of-Taobao-66515.html Taobao in SG, gov website https://www.edb.gov.sg/content/edb/en/news-and-events/news/singapore-business- news/Industry/Taobao-marketplace-arrives-in-Singapore.html Taobao fake problem http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1694077/state-commerce-regulator-releases-damming- account-tabaocom-day-alibaba http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/taobao-the-king-fakes- china-e-commerce-20150202 Taobao cooperate with sgshop n mbb http://www.aspirantsg.com/maybank-sgshop-brings-china-taobao-bargains-to-singapore/ Wiki Taobao http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taobao https://www.techinasia.com/tag/taobao/ Taobao team up with signpost https://sg.news.yahoo.com/taobao-teams-singpost-pore-shoppers-030023580.html http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/tag/taobao/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/taobao http://www.bomodagroup.com/differences-tmall-taobao/ CNBC news http://www.cnbc.com/id/102007039#. http://english.cntv.cn/2015/01/29/VIDE1422462360357940.shtml taobao lawsuit http://english.cntv.cn/2015/01/29/VIDE1422462360528952.shtml https://www.google.com.sg/search? biw=1249&bih=675&noj=1&tbs=qdr%3Ay&q=taobao+business+disadvantage&oq=taobao+busines s+disadvantage&gs_l=serp.3...31549.65805.0.66050.33.23.1.0.0.1.580.2011.0j4j2j0j1j1.8.0.msedr.. .0...1c.1.61...
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...E-commerce in China E-commerce has been greatly developed in both United States and European countries when we look at the success of eBay and Amazon. However, according to researchers at IDC (International Data Corporation), it is forecast the annual Asian sales outside Japan, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korean and India, charged ahead at 38% a year through 2007 eBay sales (Miller, 2004). E-commerce not only creates business opportunities, but also helps enterprises save money and operate more efficiently. Therefore, the potential of the market among Asian regions in recent years has been extremely large, especially in Taiwan and Hong Kong. However, many people notice that China seems to be lagging behind this trend and e-commerce is not very suitable for the culture in China as people may prefer face-to-face business. This essay argues that China has the need and potential in developing e-commerce. E-commerce is becoming more compatible with the Chinese culture of business. Although it may be argued that E-commerce is too technological that violates the traditional Chinese business culture as in the past of Chinese society, social relationship plays an important role in Chinese business and shows appropriate respect to the customers or partners. However, all the things in e-commerce are done by the systems only. Nowadays, more and more people in China have an opportunity to receive education so that they can more easily access to internet world and also different cultures...
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...market place): There were 40 million small businesses in China. Many of them operated in fragmented market with limited access to communication channels and information services. Alibaba developed small online trading platform designed to help connect small Chinese businesses with buyers, retailers and trading companies. With Alibaba.com they started acquiring customer on line at an extremely low cost. In 2008, Alibaba increased its operating profit by 48% and had 7.9 million registered users and 970,000 store fronts. Revenue from value added services increases in line with user base. 2. Taobao: Consumer focus through B2C and C2C Alibaba group launched Taobao, an online shopping platform for retailers and individuals to sell goods to Chinese customers. It was started to counter attack eBay in Chinese market. Alibaba group worried that eBay would grow their business to B2B space. Taobao outperformed eBay through speedy technological implementation as fast reaction to user demand is...
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...eBay’s innovative online auction business combined the ease of online shopping with the unique selection of estate sales and garage sale shopping. It allows for people to sell their own personal items to anyone with internet access at any time. eBay is full of much strength such as their ability to globalize their brand. This is also one of their main weaknesses. Since eBay is an online business, anyone with internet can access the website. While they have the potential to reach out to everyone, not everyone uses the internet. One of the issues eBay faces is that the internet usage in Asia is very low especially considering over half the population resides there. E commerce was growing everywhere which definitely helps eBay’s business. One of eBay’s great accomplishments is their ability to acquire several other successful businesses. They don’t just take over random businesses because they can; they acquire businesses that can help them out with their own business. For example, PayPal goes hand in hand with the type of business eBay runs. It gives users a more secure way to use their website which consumers definitely appreciate. Along with their feedback forum which allows consumers to voice their opinions, the fact that both sides (buys and sellers) feed off one another and cause the popularity of the other side to rise really makes consumers feel like they are a part of the business. This is part of what makes eBay such a great success. Although they have their share...
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...alibaba By snoworb | Studymode.com xecutive Summary Founded just before the turn of the millennium in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba Group has to date become the largest online retail website worldwide in the planet, its total transactions surpassing the sum of both Amazon and eBay’s (Erickson, 2013). The report explains its business and operation model and market strategy, before moving to explore the reasons for Alibaba Group’s success such as its established market share in the large market of Mainland China and its efforts to promote the perception of the reliability and security of e-commerce. Comprising of its future plans in logistics improvement, expansion into developing nations, integration with social networks, venture into mobile commerce, and also, industries beyond, the report then ends with suggestions for future possibilities that the Group could explore. Outline of Alibaba Group Set in a fast moving, highly pragmatic e-commerce sector, Alibaba Group has never been shy of its ambition which comprises to top Walmart to become the largest retail company worldwide within the next 3 years (Hong, 2013). Alibaba Group has stakes in not only e-commerce platforms but also in cloud computing, group purchasing, payment processing, cloud computing, and even instant messaging. With its strategic position in a developing China, strong presence in the e-commerce sector and far looking management strategies, Alibaba Group might just be able to achieve its ambitious goals. ...
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...Forget what you've read, Alibaba is NOT "the Amazon of China." Alibaba is not "China's Amazon."Of course, Ali Baba (BABA) and Amazon are doing business on the Internet. "Amazon and eBay e-commerce company, not an e-commerce company Alibaba, Alibaba help others to do e-commerce. We do not sell anything." Alibaba's largest digital market - Taobao - allows consumers to purchase goods directly from small businesses. Lynx, other major shopping malls Alibaba connecting big brand retailers to consumers. Ali Baba and the Amazon: two in-depth comparison of e-commerce In the mid-1990s, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos began by focusing on just selling books. They have since grown into their monster today, and now North America's largest online retailer. Alibaba was founded in China by Ma technical or business background in 1999 did not have a horse Bezos. He raised money from family and friends launched Alibaba.com - a B2B portal connecting Western companies and Chinese manufactureres. Amazon obsessed customers, so they are at the best price - at almost any cost. In pursuit of this goal alienate their suppliers, partners and publishers. Alibaba's goal is to help small businesses in stark contrast to Amazon, who tend to be (fairly or otherwise) of the criticism makes it difficult for small businesses to compete and remain relevant online. Alibaba has always been the most famous American Alibaba.com - their B2B portal connecting China's factories and businesses. But that's not...
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...Market Entry Strategies for Entering E-Commerce Business in China May 18th 2014 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Market overview 1 3 Market analysis 2 3.1 Approach using Porter’s Five Forces 2 3.2 Approach using SWOT analysis 2 4 Failed market entrants 3 5 Successful market entrants 3 5.1 Leveraging local platforms 3 5.2 Buying stakes in local businesses 4 5.3 The case of Amazon 4 6 Key success factors 4 6.1 Understanding the market 5 6.2 Differentiation 5 6.3 Social Media 5 6.4 Payments 5 6.5 Logistics 5 7 Conclusion 5 8 Bibliography 6 Introduction This paper covers challenges and strategies in entering the e-commerce business in China from a Western point of view. The focus thereby is on companies doing classical business-to-consumer (B2C) business and that are established players in their home market. Market overview According to market analysis (ref 1-2-3) the e-commerce market in China surpassed the U.S. one in 2013, reaching almost 300bn USD in turnover while U.S. reached just little above 250bn USD. Not only the size is impressive but also the growth rate, which has been around 70% in China since 2009 compared to 13% in the U.S. (see Figure 1). The online part of the retail sector is around 7% whereas Western countries report from 2% to 6% according to (Hoffmann & Lannes, 2013). In addition, more than 50% of all transactions are carried out via mobile devices. Finally, it is important to mention...
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...Renren—students and friends: ("on-campus network"） is a Chinese social networking service that exists as the Chinese remake of Facebook. It has been called the Facebook of China, popular amongst college students. In April 2011, it had to update its statement accurately to "a total of 31 million active monthly users." Mircoblog—sina: fashion and yoga people Sina Weibo ("New-wave Microblog") is a Chinesemicroblogging (weibo) website. Akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, it is one of the most popular sites in China, in use by well over 30% of Internet users. It has 503 million registered users as of Dec 2012.[4] About 100 million messages are posted each day on Sina Weibo. Taobao—ebay: everyone Taobao Marketplace is a Chinese language web site for online shopping, similar to eBay and Amazon. Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer (C2C) retail, so we believe this providing a really great platform for small businesses or individual entrepreneurs, just like us, to open online retail stores that mainly cater to consumers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. We really did a pretty good response from the Chinese market; especially on Chinese Micro-blog we got 5 repost shares in...
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... 4 3. Business Model 5 4. Products and Services 7 5. Target Users 8 6. Payment Methods 9 7. Comparison of Alibaba with other TechGiants 12 9. References 15 2 Alibaba A marketplace, a search engine and a bank, all in one. Alibaba is China’s and by some measures, the world’s biggest online commerce company. Its three main sites — Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba.com — have hundreds of millions of users, and host millions of merchants and businesses. Alibaba handles more business than any other ecommerce company. One can think of it as a mix of Amazon.com, eBay and Paypal. Customers use Alibaba to shop online, sell unwanted goods and make online payments. Alibaba has two retail sites: Taobao, which features thousands of nonbrand name products sold by smaller merchants; and Tmall, which offers brandname products sold by big merchants. Unlike Amazon, which buys goods from suppliers and sells them to customers, Alibaba has always acted as a middleman, connecting buyers and sellers and facilitating transactions between them. This Chinese B2B trading platform connects buyers in North America and Europe with suppliers from China. Alibaba follows an aggregation of supply model (similar to other early B2B players), helping to solve the pain of global sourcing...
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...Write Up 1: Amazon Goes Global 1. Why did Amazon choose the United Kingdom as its first entry location? Why not other countries such as Canada and Austrlia? With the emergence of a global marketplace, Amazon has since ridden on the waves of the opportunities that comes with globalisation. After more than a decade of expansion, Amazon’s international operations accounted for about 43 per cent of its revenue, bringing in $26.28 billion in 2012. This shows the significance of targeting the international markets. However, entry into foreign market does not come without risks and costs that resulted from barriers created by distance. The CAGE Framework of distance by Ghemawat explained distance as 4 main attributes – Cultural, Administrative, Geographic, Economic.1 To address these risks and costs, it is crucial to first assess the extent and type of differences between the USA market and the United Kingdom market. Amazon’s entry into United Kingdom (UK) can be attributed to minimal distance and various similarities, which allowed Amazon to significantly reduce risks and costs. Primarily, the UK market has a lot of similarities to the US market in terms of cultural, administrative and economic distance. UK has the second most number of native English speakers (60 million), after US (231 million), and is also the place where English was first spoken. Since books were the primary products sold by Amazon, the similarity in language made it extremely ideal for Amazon to target...
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