Increasing Use of e-Commerce

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Description

Selling products or services over the Internet is adding more and more to companies’ revenues and nation’s GDP’s.


Enablers:

  1. auction sites like eBay,
  2. market sites like Betfair.com,
  3. commercial trading sites such as Dell.com, Amazon.com or B2B sites
  4. Cheap logistics


Inhibitors:

  1. taxes
  2. currency exchange rates
  3. lower consumer confidence

Paradigms:

shopping without leaving your living room, lower procurement costs The world is one shopping place, the global village


Experts:

Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman

Timing:

the late 1990’s saw the rapid adoption of e-commerce

Web Resources:

www.dell.com, www.ebay.com, www.amazon.com