E-commerce

Dot-com$ or Dot-bomb$, Hip or Hype?
What'$ going on with e-commerce?

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QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY "Today's online consumers are more technologically savvy, more impatient and most importantly, want to spend more of their shopping dollars online than they ever have before."
Michael Silverstein, senior vice president and “global leader”of BCG, a consulting group.

Web merchants need to address five critical areas:

Visitor-to-buyer conversion rates.
Traffic, measured by the number of unique visitors.
The proportion of repeat customers.
Orders per customer.
Ratio of repeat-order revenue to first-time order revenue.

Different kinds of e-commerce:

B2C (Landsend.com, amazon.com, ebay.com)
Bricks-and-clicks (Bluelight/Kmart, Walmart.com, JCPenney.com)
B2B (Exchanges, Portals, Brokering sites)
B2G
ASPs
CoBAM
m-commerce

Industry publications:

Online industry publications:

E-CommerceTimes.com
Internet.com
DigitalMass.com
Line56.com
c/net
LocalBusiness.com

Media hype:
“YOU CAN FLY TO THE MOON BY POINTING YOUR FINGER. With a flick of your wrist, see the world through the eyes of a child. Reach out and grasp furniture, windows, or walls that exist only within the silicon memory of a PC. Wave your hand to create virtual paper on an empty desktop, a simulated skid in a nonexistent car, or X-rays of the human body.”
(Cite: PC/Computing, Nov 1999 v2 n11 p90(12) Another world: inside artificial reality by Steve Ditlea.)

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