Electronic Commerce
The Internet and the World Wide Web have provided a wealth of new opportunities for companies eager to do business electronically. As I mentioned in one of our discussion topics, I really believe that we are in the middle of one the most important revolutions in Business. The way companies do business has changed; in the electronic commerce customers can share many of the same information needs of other customers about product details, product reviews, shipping, advertising, best price, and reliability which makes the electronic commerce much more competitive.
As the following I will be describing the category of electronic commerce of three very famous web sites: www.amazon.com, www.ebay.com, and www.google.com
Amazon.com, it was one of the first major companies to sells good over the Internet in 1997, the company began as an on line bookstore, but they quickly began expanding , branching off into retail sales, of music cds, dvds, softwares, consumer eletronics, jewelry, watches, toys, games, baby products, musical intruments, tools and more.
Amazon has estabilshed separate websites, in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China and Japan and it ships globaly in selected products.Also, a popular feature of Amazon is the ability for users to submit reviews to the web page of each product.As part of their review, users must rate the product on a rating scale from on to five stars, such rating scales provide a basic idea of popularity and dependability of a product.
As also know of one the most major electronic commerce website and one of Amazon.com rival, but dealing with different business strategy the website Ebay.com, was founded in 1995, managing an online auction and shopping website, where people buy a ...