disadvantages of e-commerce?
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As someone who worked in the field a couple of years ago, I'm pretty aware of the issue. Let me begin...\n\n1. The biggest issue facing (most) etailers is the lack of tactile representation of their products. That is to say that some items just have to be handled and seen up close in order for the buyer to make a good decision. There are many items that suffer this problem, such as soft furnishings where the 'feel' is important, fragrances where the smell is important, etc. Obviously, some items, such as media can be partially represented on-line, such as music.\n\n2. There are operational difficulties associated with ecommerce. The single, most expensive part of ecommerce is distribution. Some 'etailers' have one large distribution center that servers the whole US (Amazon), while others rely on having many smaller centers (NetFlix). Having only one can be a major drawback in that the costs associated with mailing an item depend on the location of the customer. Chances are, in this situation they are going to be some considerable distance. Having multiple distribution centers also has a problem in that the company must have multiple inventories. Inventory control for any company is important, so keeping it simple can be a money saver.\n\n3. Again, because of the need to send items to a consumer, a company is utilizing the services of one or more mail services, either USPS and/or a major service such as FedEx. This aspect of the business represents a major cost factor to an etailer. These costs are usually passed onto the customer, who to be fair, may be reluctant to pay for shipping. In addition, the customer may wish to have the product in their hands today as opposed to waiting what could be days or weeks. These issues provide a major advantage to the 'brick and mortar' vendor -- instant gratification at no extra (or very little) cost!\n\n4. Another one that springs to mind is the problem of 'returns'. Again, this can represent a major draw on cash-flow, usually because the etailer must take on this cost with no chance or recompense.\n\n5. Lastly, let's talk about confidence. When I say that, I'm referring to the customer's confidence in the process. There are still major concerns when using a credit card to purchase products on-line. Most of these fears are imagined, and the technology is getting better all of the time, but every person that refuses to shop on-line represents a lost sale to the etailer.\n\nWell, I hope that provides a little insight for you.
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E-Commerce means "ELECTRONIC COMMERCE".\nYou do any kind of business thru internet, so you do not need to open a store or office. Can be done at home even on your spare time. Don't need to haver any degree. Just commun sense of business and be aware of fraud and thieves.
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The main disadvantage would be in case the pictures got into the wrong hands. Alot of strange people out there. If used carefully I would say there are more advantages.
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The primary disadvantage, if you are going over the internet rather than just locally, is bandwidth. That is, it takes more data per unit time to transmit video than it does to transmit text or photos.\n\nSo, if you are using the internet, some viewers may not be able to use the webcams because they have slow connections such as dial-up instead of fast connections like DSL or cable.\n\nHope this helps!
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Pros\n\n- Allows you to establish your own "real estate" on the Web;\n- Allows you to attract a bigger audience not limited to marketplace such as eBay buyers (not everyone buys on eBay and the target audience you want may not be those who wants the cheapest prices that shops on ebay)\n- Scaleable as it allows your business to grow; \n- Allows you to give more information about your business to your visitors and give them reasons to trust you as you can put as many supplemental pages you want (from About Us to Contact Us pages)\n- Allows you to give more information about the product, play around with factors that can increase conversion\n- Gives you a more professional look \n- Makes you look like a "big" business \n- You can put in as many items you want without paying listing fees\n- You can sell as many items as you can without paying value added fees\n- Less restrictions than eBay (you are more free to write your sales copy)\n- Easier to market on the Web as you can play with search optimization factors from your metatags to keyword density\n\nCons:\n- Requires technical knowhow to create a website (or money to pay someone to do it for you) and make all elements work from shopping cart to payment gateway to SSL certificates to your sales admin panels\n- Fixed price (price you set is what you get)\n- Higher risk of hacking and security being compromised
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No that is about the standard price a firm would charge for an ecommerce site. That is because they usually have a team working on it and each member of the team is getting like 25-35 US an hour. It also depends what kind of content is on those pages. Things which are heavy programming required (custom shopping carts, credit card processing, logins etc) do take a bit of time.\n\nIf you have a site that is only like 10 pages or less (which most ecommerce sites are NOT) then you could go with a single developer, but ecommerce sites do run a bit of cash because it is dealing with business logic, transactions, and critical information. For example if you lose data, you could lose a sale of thousands of dollars. \n\nIn short, I would say they are not certainly hosing you, but you might shop around and shave a thousand or two off that price. Again, it depends on what your site will do in those areas, but that is standard price for a firm.
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Definitely put down online sales because it's more general, so it sounds like you have more experience with selling different products and different customers.  You can put down E-bay as a place you have sold on, or any other places.
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Ecommerce websites are a great tool to sell your products to a wider market. Your online store can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
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You can do it two ways:\n\n1. Do it yourself - get a domain name, you create a webpage, choose a webhost, get an online merchant account, get an online processing gateway to accept credit cards payment, find and install a shopping cart, take pictures of your products and write sales copy, get an SSL certificate from Verisign or Thawte for secure processing, integrate shipping tracking information from UPS or DHL. \n\nIf you do it by yourself, you'll have the flexibility to choose the best element for you with the features you need. The disadvantage is that you have to do it yourself and if you do not have the skills to setup the applications such as shopping cart, then it can be quite a challenge.\n\n2. Get a complete package - example is Yahoo store where they basically provide you with everything an online store needs (from web hosting to online processing to order management systems to shopping carts). All you need to provide are your web pages (sales copy and products), merchant account and the monthly fees.\n\nThe disadvantage is you are limited to whatever features they offer and customization options are almost nil.
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The advantages are:\nYou earn more money, meet new people, see new interesting places.\nThe disadvantages are: \nYou leave your home and your family.
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Of course!  That's an advantage.  Some disadvantages are that you must ask for higher shipping and handling in most cases.  Another disadvantage is you must find a way to find the currency equivalent (i.e. items in the U.S. are less expensive than Canada and the United Kingdom).  Ebay will help with that.  Just type in your new address on ebay.
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Check here:\nhttp://www.chdist.com/ecommerce/eComm?template=index
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Go to the Better Business Bureau website and there is allot of information about existing company's that are in that area, you will see the pros and cons.
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Advantages\n# Profit from your passion, hobby or area of expertise...\n# Work from anywhere...\n# Start Easily...\n# Start Cheaply\n# Enjoy Huge Profit Margins..\n# Your Business is automated, no worries of inventory or late delivery\n\nDisadvantages :\n# People don't treat you right.. they think you are either one of those scammers or have porn sites :D\n# Because the investment is low.. there is too much competition. If you want to jump into this field, stick to it, it'll make money...\n# you become TOO lazy
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About 60 % of small businesses see value in creating web sites for marketing and in e-commerce.\n\nSome of the issues facing development are what plat form do i use do i include flash tecnology and what vendor do i use for the e-commerce component.  it has to be user friendly and current at all times which means regular updating,  You must also alow user to give feed back and or have a help feature built in.\n\nThey see this as a very valuable asset to their business as the internet is becoming the fastest growing medium for any business and users are very comfortable in using this medium.
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How to build trust.  The biggest hurtle with e-business in the ability to build trust.  Unlike traditional brick and mortar you got to try that much harder to build value and create long lasting relation that is win-win.  I believe most people still want to have a face to face style of business interaction so you got to overcome that inhibition.\n\nGood luck.
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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 interchangeably. For online retail selling, the term e-tailing is sometimes used.\n\nRequirements-Computer with internet connected,and any web browser