The idea of having your own Web site to sell products sounds like a good source of income, there are its ups and downs. First and foremost is getting people to check out your Website, no matter how fancy or simple your site is—if no one is going to take a look at it, it might as well not exist on the Web. Second, it is to get people to come back to your business again—if you only have a costumer who shops one time, you might earn less money that a loyal costumer that keeps coming back. Third, is making your site special—give the consumer a reason why they should buy the item they are looking for on your Web site and not someone else’s. Fourth, is to actually have people buying things from your site—you can only do so much to keep a site that is not earning any cash for you to maintain your business. Until someone submits their order payment to you, you still will not be gaining any profits. Lastly, incorporating all the data about the sales are not only a tedious task, but it is also frustrating to keep track of all the incomes and outcomes. However if you succeeded with all that, there are also easy aspects of e-commerce. Starting with the fact you have a web site all to yourself, and your company. Now you have a visual in the market for start the race, in hopes of making some money off of your products. Once someone places an order, then all you have to do is to gather the items your costumer wants and ship them to the post office. Lastly, and the most rewarding aspect—you get hard earn money your web site was made for. While e-commerce sounds difficult, keep in mind that there are companies that are more than willing to assist you. So say that technology and coding are not your forte—there are people you can hire for these ta... ... middle of paper ... ...om the site before. Once again, it is these little features which make your site extra special to your valued customers to feel special and important. Works Cited Brain, Marshall. "HowStuffWorks "How E-commerce Works"" HowStuffWorks. N.p., 01 Apr. 2000. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. Glickson, Scott. "Commerce in Cyberspace — II: Point, click, and buy: Contracting for Online Products and Services." Computer Law & Security Report 13.6 (1997): 436-41. Print. Kassim, Norizan, and Nor A. Abdullah. "The Effect of Perceived Service Quality Dimensions on Customer Satisfaction, Trust, and Loyalty in E-commerce Settings." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 22.3 (2010): 351-71. Print. Ruppel, Cynthia, Linda Underwood-Queen, and Susan J. Harrington. "E-Commerce: The Roles of Trust, Security, and Type of E-Commerce Involvement." E-Service Journal 2.2 (2003): 25-43. Print.
The growth of online business has grown enormously over the years. Cliptomania is a family operated and owned small e-business that primarily sells clip on earrings (Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer, Martin, & Perkins, 2012, p. 308). Cliptomania early developments were very modest, and as such the company experienced copious strategic dilemmas. An initial strategic dilemma that the company encountered when establishing and building their new e-business undertaking was to create a website for the business operations and essentially to have it fully operable. The owners, Jim and Candy elected to hire a vendor to host the website and additionally utilize the IT systems resources of the vendor to sustain their business. At the very beginning they exploited the offerings of the Yahoo Store. However, continuing down this avenue of using the services of the Yahoo Store inevitably became too costly. By using the services and business offerings of a vendor made it convenient and effortless for Jim and Candy to start their e-business store. Unfortunately the couple did not have much in the way of professional help, and so they had to create and put together the website by themselves. Additionally they also had to deal with establishing their online credibility as many customers preferred to call in their orders just to talk with a real person before being comfortable enough to place their orders via the webpage.
A Couple of Squares is a company specializing in producing and selling gourmet cookies to retail stores. Recently, A Couple of Squares has been brainstorming the idea of starting an e-commerce website so they can sell there gourmet cookies directly to consumers instead of selling to retailers. There are many considerations that need to be evaluated when deciding to launch an e-commerce website. First, the risks of launching an e-commerce site and the steps to mitigate the risks must be evaluated. Along with the risks of launching an e-commerce site, the benefits of launching an e-commerce site also need to be taken into account. In order to seek profitability a break even analysis must be performed. Once profitability is feasible, A Couple
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With several thousand commercial Web sites to consider, there are a great variety of e-commerce business models.
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What is the biggest fear people are facing while doing this business? How to get visitors on your website. There are a lot of free possibilities that can help you drive traffic to your website, such as blogs and forums (some forums have over 2,000 views per topic. Remember to include a link to your web page in signature when writting in forum. Anik was able to get his first 10,000 dollars online by using forums), use Facebook ads, social media, affiliate networks, and so on.
The ability to conduct warfare through technological methods has increased information security awareness and the need to protect an entities infrastructure. Subsequently, cyber warfare produces increased risk to security practitioners that employ technology and other methods to mitigate risks to information and the various systems that hold or transmit data. A significant risk to information lies in the conduct of electronic commerce, hereinafter called e-commerce. E-commerce is the purchasing or selling of goods and/or services through the internet or other electronic means (Liu, Chen, Huang, & Yang, 2013). In this article, the researcher will discuss cyber warfare risks, present an evaluation on established security measures, identify potential victims of identity theft, and present an examina...
...vertised and sold online. To market goods online, a great product, amazing marketing strategy and a website to sell the item is needed. In order for such a plan to be successful there must be both a short-term and a long-term plan. The short-term plan is to get the most people to view your site and product as possible. It can include advertising in search engines and on other sites and participating in online forums. A long-term plan will get a steady amount of consumers to visit the company’s website for years. Some marketing strategies can include giving away freebies, creating a mailing list of existing customers and joining social networking site. By producing and applying both short and long term strategies, a large percentage of your target market can visit a business’s website and the company can be a success. (http://www.web-source.net/3steps.htm)
E-marketing is a fast growing and rapid platform for any form of business. EBay has been highly successful over recent years and this is a perfect example of an online business. The internal and external environments are constantly changing and in order to keep up with these changes, businesses and organisations must make relevant changes, and generate new strategies to keep up with contemporary developments in e-marketing and to also maintain their position in their market in comparison to their competitors.
At the very start, internet revolution was known as a world wide web that would change everything. In 1990s, the concept of "online business" was created, this business is known by various names such as dot-coms, e-biz etc. which made easier to start a business on internet and inexpensive as well. Whether it's a big or a small, local or international it can reach infront of the world very easily. Thousands of ventures have been made on internet for online business on the basis of brick and mortar. Online business is not different from any other venture. Same rules and principles are applied. First thing to start up a business is to create a business plan and think of how to make money. Some of the options which should be applied for an online business includes, sell products, sell advertising, sell information, sell services and to become a reseller. All of these options are complied together. For any virtual business an individual should always look for products with high margins, high demand and less competition either for physical or digital manner. However, many services are sold on internet such as web hosting, domain name registration, software applications and comparison of different products and services. Selling information is another basic option in an online business which is done in two forms, one is subscribing on a website where online articles are available for free and on the other hand e-books are popular and are free, they can be downloaded easily plus when the writing is done the cost of subscription is very low. Advertising on internet leads toward a lot of money though it's an expensive procedure, with a lot of traffic on a web site one can make money easily by joining any kind of ad network such as Google. By getting affiliated with another web site can also make a lot of money such as sending a buyer on another merchant's web page, like this one can get a percentage on per sale basis but first an individual needs to get expert in marketing for search engines.
...sides that, you also can learn other things from e-commerce. Such as we can learn more about the business cycle, and what consumer needs. So you know what kind of product that is suitable in that period of time. For an example, remote-control car and cameras are the best product to sell during the summer, because most of the people like to do outdoor activities, so that kind of product is easy to sell.
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The dimensions of service quality refer to the attributes which contribute to consumer expectations and perceptions of service quality, thus serving as the determinants of consumers’ quality assessment (Rowley, 1998). The most well-known, commonly used service quality scale is the SERVQUAL, a general instrument for measuring service quality developed by Parasuraman et al., (1988). It includes five dimensions of service quality: (1) tangibles: appearance of physical facilities, equipment, personnel and communication materials; (2) reliability: ability to perform the promised services dependably and accurately; (3) responsiveness: willingness to help customers and provide prompt service; (4) assurance: knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to convey trust and confidence; and (5) empathy: caring, individualized attention that a firm provides its