...TYPES OF E-COMMERCE There are a variety of different types of e-commerce and many different ways to characterize these types. Table 1.3 lists the five major types of e-commerce discussed in this book.1 For the most part, we distinguish different types of e-commerce by the nature of the market relationship—who is selling to whom. The exceptions are P2P and m-commerce, which are technology-based distinctions. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce The most commonly discussed type of e-commerce is Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce, in which online businesses attempt to reach individual consumers. Even though B2C is comparatively small ($140–$170 billion in 2005), it has grown exponentially since 1995, and is the type of e-commerce that most consumers are likely to encounter. Within the B2C category, there are many different types of business models. Chapter 2 has a detailed discussion of seven different B2C business mod- E - c o m m e r c e : T h e R e v o l u t i o n I s J u s t B e g i n n i n g 17 TABLE 1.3 MAJOR TYPES OF E-COMMERCE T Y P E O F E - C O M M E R C E E X A M P L E B2C—Business-to-Consumer Amazon.com is a general merchandiser that sells consumer products to retail consumers. B2B—Business-to-Business ChemConnect.com is a chemical industry exchange that creates an electronic market for chemical producers and users. C2C—Consumer-to-Consumer eBay.com creates a marketspace where consumers can auction or sell goods directly to other consumers...
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...Kudler eCommerce Solution BSA/310 November 26, 2012 Joseph Rezendes Kudler eCommerce Solution What can keep customers coming would be a Frequent Shoppers Program. This type of program can be easy for customers to use. This type of system can offer discounts, club specials, and free items if they shop at Kudler Fine Foods more times than any other shopper programs. When developing the Frequent Shopper Program there are many things that will go into this. One would be the legal and ethical way to do ???? and the other would be the consideration of security problems that can occur. In order to use ecommerce system the Company needs one server to be .NET framework, one server to be SQL server 2005/2008, the company has to be Windows 2008 with R1 or R2. Ecommerce system is built on Microsoft stack, and to ensure the security on the system the webserver would be on DMZ and the database would be on the trust network. When developing this program customers want to see how Kudler Fine Foods promote their products and how they will cater to those ones that uses and buy the most products from their web sites. [Interesting observation which needs to include encryption.] One way to use this would be in stores and on line. Just think if they order and use the Frequent Shoppers Program they will most likely return to the store to either return items and then buy something else or look on line and then buy at the store. What the customer spends with...
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...SupportRenew ServicesMy Cart (0) Manage Account All ProductsDomain NamesWebsiteseCommerceHosting & SSLProfessional EmailOnline Marketing Sell Online » Developing An Ecommerce Strategy » What is Ecommerce? Sell Online Education Center HomeOnline BasicsDesign Your WebsiteMarket Your BusinessSell OnlineOnline SecurityResources What is Ecommerce? Rate this Article Article Rating: 3 / 5 Votes: 654 Category: Sell Online , Developing An Ecommerce Strategy Tweet Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction, that involves the transfer of information across the Internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction or music sites, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. It is currently one of the most important aspects of the Internet to emerge. Ecommerce allows consumers to electronically exchange goods and services with no barriers of time or distance. Electronic commerce has expanded rapidly over the past five years and is predicted to continue at this rate, or even accelerate. In the near future the boundaries between "conventional" and "electronic" commerce will become increasingly blurred as more and more businesses move sections of their operations onto the Internet. Business to Business or B2B refers to electronic commerce between businesses rather than between a business and a consumer. B2B businesses often...
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...Sending or receiving business on the Internet is called ecommerce. This term of business is also known as electronic commerce. All of ecommerce is really the buying and selling of anything online. There are many different types of activities that fall in this category. Anyone on the outside must remember that any type of business conducted electronically can technically be a part of ecommerce. Popular examples of ecommerce revolve around buying and selling online. But the ecommerce universe contains other types of activities as well. Any form of business transaction conducted electronically is ecommerce (Hampton, 2005). Some of the most popular types of E-commerce that many people now and might not relate to it are online shopping which consists of buying and selling items on the internet. In my research one of the most profitable one in the most recent years is the business of electronic payments and handling these transactions. A lot of people don’t realize they are involved with e-commerce but if you are an individual and auction things on eBay you are a part of a huge billion dollar a year business of e-commerce. E-commerce can be seen in many different ways which include Business to Business, Business to Consumer (B2C), and Consumer to Consumer (C2C). A fun fact is that some of the earliest transactions in the global economic system involved barter. Some of the unique ways e-commerce is in a setting involves all of those stated above. It is wide open to the possibilities...
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...| | Paper on ecommerce and shopping ECOMMERCE AND SHOPPING ON THE INTERNET ABSTRACT With businesses seeking to seize the momentum of social media and social networking, technology-enabled social commerce has emerged to combine the power of online social networking with shopping. This study examines an emerging area in E-commerce, i.e., social commerce. Extending the online consumer behavior typology, this study categorizes online consumer behaviors into three types: transactional, informational, and social. While traditional E-commerce supports the transactional and informational aspects of online shopping, social commerce fulfils the social aspects of shopping, and potentially enhances the informational aspect as well. This research examines the online shopper as a prospective user of an emerging social commerce platform, the social shopping website, which are sites designed specifically to support social interactions while online consumers shop. The study augments the Technology Acceptance Model with constructs that enhance the specificity of the model to the social shopping application of social commerce. The model was empirically tested and supported. The results provide empirical evidence to support the importance of distinguishing the social aspect of shopping from the information and transactional aspects, as well as the potential advantage to using...
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...Types of Electronic Commerce Paul Hartness June 18, 2012 University of Phoenix BIS 220 Keyaan Williams Business to consumer ecommerce is the practice of a large number of buyers purchasing goods or services from a small number of sellers. It is considered to be the second largest division of ecommerce. It is probably the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about ecommerce. There are many different facets of business to consumer ecommerce. First, there is the most obvious: electronic storefronts and malls. These are businesses such as Amazon, Dell, and Walmart.com. Consumers can purchase the same products that the company would have in a store, but without actually having to visit the store. Electronic malls, such as shopping.yahoo.com, allow you to purchase products from different stores, but combine them into one purchase (Ranier 2011). Online service industries are also categorized under business to consumer ecommerce. These services range from online banking to securities trading and from online job search services to travel services. Business to consumer ecommerce is a very complex operation. It entails everything in the buying process beginning with advertising the product and making sure it is seen and known to the target audience, then to ensuring the products are easily and conveniently listed and accessible, as to not confuse the buyer and lead them away from the purchase, then to accepting payment and arranging the shipping process to the buyer. The...
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...Coimbatore * To observe the future of the industry and recommend improvement ideas Need for selecting the ecommerce Industry India, one of the fastest growing economies presents a world of opportunities to entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers with an interest in the global economy. India’s e-Commerce industry is on the growth curve and experiencing a spurt in growth. With this increased interest comes a surge in demand for facts, trends and indicators. Highly concentrated urban areas with very high literacy rates, a vast rural population with fast increasing literacy rate, a rapidly growing internet user base, technology advancement and adoption and such other factors make India a dream destination for ecommerce players. E-commerce combines web technology with business economics. As of the last 10 years, online visibility for such online enterprises now heavily rely on the relationship between the own online sales platform and Search Engines for improved traffic consisting of presumable customers with the intent of acquiring products or services related to the customers’ needs. In 2008 an Internet behavioural analysis showed that over 90% percent of internet users make use of search engines at least once a week, stating that online visibility through the use of search engines now is a crucial business marketing aspect. Logo of e commerce The eCommerce industry continues to grow at a rapid pace translating the rules of traditional retailing and enabling merchants...
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...e com 1. Explain the evolution of ecommerce 2. Explain the key characteristics of the first two waves of electronic commerce. 3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ecommerce. 4. Describe various applications of ecommerce 5. What are the various categories of ecommerce? 6. What are transaction costs and why are they important? 7. Explain strategic business unit value chains with example. 8. What are industry value chains? Explain with an example. 9. How might mangers use SWOT analysis to identify new applications for ecommerce in their strategic units? 10. What are the key issues a company faces when it conducts international commerce? 11. What is EDI? How does EDI work 12. What are the 6 main approaches to generate revenue on the web? 13. Describe revenue models in transitions by 5 different companies 14. Discuss some of the issues that arise when companies implement revenue models 15. How can a company create an effective web presence 16. What are web marketing strategies 17. Write a short note on advertising on the web 18. Explain the funnel model of customer acquisition, conversion, and retention 19. Explain 5 stage model of customer loyalty and life cycle segmentation 20. Write short note on marketing segmentation 21. Explain supply chain management using internet technologies 22. Explain various Auction types in ecommerce. 23. Write a short note on Digital certificates...
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...The History of E-commerce - HowStuffWorks money.howstuffworks.com/history-e-commerce.htm * * he History of E-commerce by Dave Roos The purchasing process of the man has changed , he used to visit the store and slelct the product that he wanted to buy. He was helped by the salws assistant or a news paper advertisement , but the thing has chmged a lot. Mosern cuistomer has tha ability to purches his ware without stepping out of hisss house. E –commerce meands thwe process of selling and buy of goods and services over internet, According to certain statictics mopre than 66% of the adul populatuin have –purchsed at least ond product by employing this technology. The data of the 2008 has shown that there was 17% of online sales whichwas responsible fro $204 billion and the popular products were clothing , cars and personal compiters. This isnjust the start of the phenomena and e commerce is growing. It is the perfect time to get an idea of the history of this concept How E-commerce Started It has a short history but it is a very interesting one. In order to facilitate the e commerce tthre s hould be good interrelated connection between the customer and the merchant. The development of the computer and the networks have offered a great help top the business The first transactions were helped by computers in 1960/ They have used asystem calles electronic Data Exchange to conduct the business. The computers of a particular comoanynwasa ble to share business...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY……………………………………………………………………………… 2 INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Project Purpose….…………………………………………………………………............... 3 Project Description……………………………………………………………………………. 3 Scope of Study………………………………………………………………………………... 3 DISCUSSION…………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 Online Sales Growth………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Ease of Shopping from Home……………………………………………………… 4 Increase in Cyber Security…………………………………………………………. 4 Companies With Online Sales are More Profitable……………………………………….. 5 Using Social Media to Help Build Sales………………………………………….. 5 Projected Growth for Online Revenue……………………………………………. 6 Different Ways to Create Ecommerce Sites……………………………………………….. 7 Three Main Steps for Preparing Ecommerce Website………………………….. 7 Cross-Promoting to Increase Sales Growth……………………………………… 7 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS…………………………………………………….. 8 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………………… 8 Recommendations…………………………………………………………………………… 8 REFERRENCE PAGE………………………………………………………………………………… 9 ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURES PAGE 1. Achieving Quota – 2010-2012…………………………………………………………. 5 2. Exceeding Quota – 2010-1012………………………………………………………… 6 3. Missing Quota – 2010-2012……………………………………………………………. 6 4. Estimated Quarterly U.S. Retail E-commerce Retail Sales………………………… 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION I have completed a study on the effects of utilizing the Internet to increase sales...
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...Special thanks go to my friend Thiwangi Wijesuriya, who help me to assemble the information and gave suggestions to do the assignment tasks. Lastly, I thank almighty, my parents and friends for their constant encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible. I am making this project not only for marks but to also increase my knowledge. Executive Summary Today e-commerce became a major part in the business world. It remains a relatively changing area of business management and information technology. Nowadays modern organizations are seeking for the methods to expand their business, so ecommerce became one of the solutions for that. With the use of e-commerce, organizations easily can achieve their goals. Therefore in this project we first considering about the global influence of e-commerce. And understand the positive and negative effects of ecommerce on society. Akbar brother’s (pvt) Ltd is a large tea manufacturing and exporting company in Sri Lanka. We selected the Akbar brother’s (pvt) Ltd as our organization because it does not have an e-commerce website provided. First we accessed their core and supportive business functions by studying them. We identified their core business and eight supportive businesses. Then we identified and evaluate their short term and long term business aims and the stake holders...
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...Case study 1 IT – Indistinguishable from Magic University of Illinois Abstract The objective of this paper is to study how Business strategy, Green computing, Ecommerce and Web 2.0 helps organization to sustain in competitive advantage. First part of this paper consists of how differentiation strategy assists company to stand uniquely in the market. The business strategy of Lego Company has been studied to understand Focused differentiation and Broad Differentiation strategies. Green Computing stands as the second part of this paper which contains the ‘Go Green’ activities of Cognizant technology Solutions, how Cognizant successfully saved tremendous amount of energy by implementing these activities. Later, Ecommerce has been discussed. Ecommerce involves commercial transactions through internet without any obstacle of place and time. The online website of delicious Papa John’s Pizza represents a good example for B2C type of ecommerce. Last part of paper contains the advent of web 2.0. Zara is one of the leading fashion companies which gained a remarkable amount of profit by implementing web 2.0. In this way Green computing and Information system plays an important role in the competitive world. Organizational strategy: To maintain the market position in the competitive world, company has to choose and enable the organizational strategy with the help of information technology. One of the ways to compete successfully is to make the unique...
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...IS535 TOPIC: IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC E COMMERCE IN CONWAY STORES INC, E commerce is the online business buying and selling products and services, or even transferring funds through the web. It requires high internet connection. According to Education Center “Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction, which involves the transfer of information across the Internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction or music sites, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. It is currently one of the most important aspects of the Internet to emerge. Ecommerce allows consumers to electronically exchange goods and services with no barriers of time or distance. Electronic commerce has expanded rapidly over the past five years and is predicted to continue at this rate, or even accelerate. In the near future the boundaries between "conventional" and "electronic" commerce will become increasingly blurred as more and more businesses move sections of their operations onto the Internet” There are different types of ecommerce, business to business B2B, consumer to business C2B, consumer to consumer C2C, business to consumer B2Cand so one.. Nowadays it is very necessary for a company or even a small business to have online store because it could attract more customers (far away or foreigners) which means more money and profits. And also with the e commerce...
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...1.1 Ecommerce in India Recent years have seen a remarkable transformation in the way India shops and trades through internet. The business via E-commerce has taken the world of retail by storm and captivated the imagination of an entire generation of new vibrant entrepreneurs, with e-commerce start ups with various business and commercial models.The sector has grown three times in four years to nearly 12.6 billion USD in 2013.Different industry experts estimates that the sector will further growth five to seven times over the next four to five years. Online retail, while today representing a small fraction of the e-commerce space is one of the fastest growing segments. It is facing lots of challenges to fulfilling its fundamental proposition of transcending physical boundaries to deliver a variety of products to the customer’s doorstep. Supply chain, logistics and infrastructure in e-retailing becomes the very backbone of the fulfilment network and the basis on which stringent service level expectations are set and met, and it wins the customers from the competitors. In India, these are the weakest links, so the ecommerce management should taken the appropriate and intelligent steps to avoid the weakness and wins the race....
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...State of e-Commerce in India A Research report by for September 2012 Honarable Minister Milinid De- r State of Ecommerce in India - Sept 2012 and e-Commerce are being conceptualized and run today. Social Media is gaining dominance in our and the citizens. We observe that most companies have a social media strategy in place and Cloud based The roll out of 3G and 4G broadband services, the National Broadband Plan and much expected opening of the Retail Sector will certainly usher new business opportunities for e-Commerce in the country. I am happy to note that most of the leading e-Commerce companies are participating in the 2nd ASSOCHAM Conference on e-Commerce to deliberate upon the emerging opportunities in e-Commerce in the country. I thank the ComScore Team for this report and convey my good wishes for the success of this Conference. D. S. Rawat, Secretary General State of Ecommerce in India - Sept 2012 comScore Message India is among the fastest growing online market and has registered a 41% growth in the last 12 months. Internet usage has reached almost 10% penetration in India. With this trend, e-Commerce has shown a very exciting growth trend among travel and retail sites. We expect a similar or even better growth in the coming years as more users come online through easier internet access and wider mobile internet penetration. comScore in India is the preferred partner for audience measurement for publishers, agencies and anyone who...
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