what are the characteristics of successful e-business?
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Have a very attractive web site and promote ur site as much as u can
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Being on time (i.e. being dependable and reliable).\n\nBeing able to pitch in when there's extra work to be done.\n\nChecking their work to ensure that things are done right.\n\nNot just doing what they're taught but figuring out ways to do the job better.\n\nBeing able to get along with their co-workers.\n\nThere are a lot of qualities to perfection, but the ones listed above are the ones I look for when I want to promote someone.
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Electronic commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce or ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. \n\nProblems\n\nEven if a provider of E-commerce goods and services rigorously follows these "key factors" to devise an exemplary e-commerce strategy, problems can still arise. Sources of such problems include:\nFailure to understand customers, why they buy and how they buy. Even a product with a sound value proposition can fail if producers and retailers do not understand customer habits, expectations, and motivations. E-commerce could potentially mitigate this potential problem with proactive and focused marketing research, just as traditional retailers may do.\nFailure to consider the competitive situation. One may have the will to construct a viable book e-tailing business model, but lack the capability to compete with Amazon.com.\nInability to predict environmental reaction. What will competitors do? Will they introduce competitive brands or competitive web sites? Will they supplement their service offerings? Will they try to sabotage a competitor's site? Will price wars break out? What will the government do? Research into competitors, industries and markets may mitigate some consequences here, just as in non-electronic commerce.\nOver-estimation of resource competence. Can staff, hardware, software, and processes handle the proposed strategy? Have e-tailers failed to develop employee and management skills? These issues may call for thorough resource planning and employee training.\nFailure to coordinate. If existing reporting and control relationships do not suffice, one can move towards a flat, accountable, and flexible organizational structure, which may or may not aid coordination.\nFailure to obtain senior management commitment. This often results in a failure to gain sufficient corporate resources to accomplish a task. It may help to get top management involved right from the start.\nFailure to obtain employee commitment. If planners do not explain their strategy well to employees, or fail to give employees the whole picture, then training and setting up incentives for workers to embrace the strategy may assist.\nUnder-estimation of time requirements. Setting up an e-commerce venture can take considerable time and money, and failure to understand the timing and sequencing of tasks can lead to significant cost overruns. Basic project planning, critical path, critical chain, or PERT analysis may mitigate such failings. Profitability may have to wait for the achievement of market share.\nFailure to follow a plan. Poor follow-through after the initial planning, and insufficient tracking of progress against a plan can result in problems. One may mitigate such problems with standard tools: benchmarking, milestones, variance tracking, and penalties and rewards for variances.\nBecoming the victim of organized crime. Many syndicates have caught on to the potential of the Internet as a new revenue stream. Two main methods are as follows: (1) Using identity theft techniques like phishing to order expensive goods and bill them to some innocent person, then liquidating the goods for quick cash; (2) Extortion by using a network of compromised "zombie" computers to engage in distributed denial of service attacks against the target Web site until it starts paying protection money.
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With correct marketing, good customer service, and good products, yes! Some products sell better than others online.\nBooks are probably the easiest products to sell online. Musical instruments are probably one of the most difficult to sell, because you cannot hear how they sound before buying. But even though, I am sure that musical instrument sellers still have a huge online audience.
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Advantages of electronic buisness would be a good one.
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A few things to consider/ask yourself:\n\n1) Is the infomation clear & concise?\n2) Is it easy to find this information? \n3) Is your contact information displayed well?\n4) Do your customers have the ability to contact you when your offline, such as email, online contact form or instant messenging feature?\n5) Perhaps offer an e-newsletter pertaining to your industry?\n6) Is it possible to offer discounts? If so, think about coupons for times of year (e.g. if in accounting, offer discounts during tax season, etc) or for multiple orders\n7) If you were a customer, what would you think about your site? Are there things that you would not like as a consumer? Take note of those things & change them.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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how about the evolution of small business due to the internet
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The characteristics that makes you special.\nThat makes you marketable.\nThat makes you enjoyable.
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eBay has become a very important marketplace for home business owners. Many people are making a living or earning additional income by selling on eBay. \n\nOne success model of eBay is the couple Jay and Marie Senese (username jayandmarie) http://stores.ebay.com/JayAndMarie of the 1-cent CD fame. They have the highest positive feedback number of all sellers on eBay. Their business model is to buy very low cost CDs in bulk (those that CD stores sell in their discount bins) and offer them on eBay at a starting price of 1 cent. Their success is based on the fact that they stumbled on a sustainable business model with products that people really want. They sold their business -- where else but on eBay -- for starting bid of $5 million! \n\nBut while some are enjoying phenomenal success on eBay, selling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. For one, competition is getting tough, as more sellers flock to eBay; with even the big boys joining the eBay marketplace. Big businesses such as Sears, Dell, Hewlett Packard among others are now using eBay as an additional sales channel for their products (including returns and defective merchandise). With more and more sellers participating in the eBay marketplace, it has become harder for listings to be seen by potential buyers. Just go to eBay and check out completed auctions and you will find many listings that ended without a single bid. \n\nAdd to that the increasing listing and final value fees, and eBay is slowly becoming an expensive marketplace. Imagine if you list 100 items, but only 10 ended up with bids – and all of them your minimum bids. A 10% selling rate is all too common, with some even seeing worse selling percentages. If this low sell-through rate persists, you will start to feel the pinch of all the listing and other fees associated with selling on eBay. \n\nTo be successful on eBay, you only need to do one thing: Sell products that people actually want. \n\nThe article “How to Find the Hottest Products to Sell on eBay”  lists the various ways eBay helps sellers like you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace, as follows: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html   \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.eBay.com/  to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html   to view the current Merchandising Calendar.
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a set of rules that a successful business goes by
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Any small venture can be successful as long as:\n\n- There is demand for the product. People must want and buy the products. Otherwise, no amount of marketing can help the business. If there are no sales, the business will just be a cash drain for the owner\n\n- Healthy profit margins. If your profit margin is only 2% -- and prices and inventory cost increase -- then your margin will be squeezed out. A small business can succeed if it is operating good profit margins that can help it withstand market shocks and price increases.\n\n- Good revenue per sale: if the profit per sale is only $1, then to make $100,000 the small business need to sell 100,000. A small business may find it harder to do tremendous amounts of volume.\n\n- Good niche area. A small business may find it hard to compete head on with Amazon.com or Walmart, for example, trying to be everything for everyone. But if the small business can focus on one area -- and be very good at it -- then it has better chance of growth.\n\n- Good cash flow management. A small business may have sales, but if it cannot collect payments and run out of cash, the business will have a hard time.\n\n- Growth prospects of the business and how growth is handled. A small cleaning business can only handle certain number of accounts effectively and efficiently, and profits will plateau. To grow, the business either needs to expand its staff to be able to handle more accounts or expand the area of coverage. Either way, how the business owner handles growth, and all its accompanying problems, can spell the difference between success and failure.\n\n- Suitability of the business with the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is the heart of the business. Sometimes, the entrepreneur is the business (if it is a 1-person operation). The business owner must have the passion and drive to push the business to success.The person must be able to spot new opportunities and learn how to handle the challenges. Otherwise, if the entrepreneur loses interest, then the business may die.
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1]lot of contacts or people who would like to try new things\n\n2] good marketing statergy\n\n3]above all good server
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fastest internet connection ++\nfair price for their internet rental consumed ++\nquality services ++\nfriendly staff ++\ncentralized air-condition ++
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Reputation, trustworthiness, reliability.
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very nice website for implementation and management issues in E commerce\n\nhttp://www.stuart.iit.edu/faculty/workingpapers/geisler/organizing%20for%20e-business.pdf\n\n:> peace
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Working in the IT department, computers are the backbone of our E-business and a major tool for other non-networked small businesses.  \nWe recently have jumped on the Oracle wagon and remodeled our site. Computers are utilized with Web based mail, Purchasing, Receiving, Fiscal Services, Customer Relations and HR at the Enterprise level allowing for more functionality across the board between departments and up/down the department organization ladder.\n\nSee source link below for ideas. Then Google or Yahoo! for articles in your interests.\n\nHope it helps.
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1. you have to be smart\n2. good at selling (ideas, prospects, etc.)\n3. the people who are not 1 or 2 are gone quickly, leaving only those making the money!