E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. In practice, this term and a newer term, e-business, are often used interchangably. For online retail selling, the term e-tailing is sometimes used.
E-commerce advantages:
• Being able to conduct business 24 x 7 x 365
• Access the global marketplace
• Speed
• Marketspace
• Opportunity to reduce costs
• Computer platform-independent
• Efficient applications development environment
• Allowing customer self service and 'customer outsourcing'
• Stepping beyond borders to a global view
You can have an e-commerce if you are:
Realtor, restaurant, shoes store, clothing store, music store, airline, hotel, bookstore, etc...
E-commerce predictions:
