A Bright Spot for the Economy - Smaller Businesses’ E-Commerce

By David Feldman at 19 December, 2008, 4:12 am

No doubt you’ve heard countless reports regarding online retail sales, however one sector
of the industry has not garnered the same amount of press as the traditional Fortune 500
companies: small businesses.  Considering that the long-tail makes up a considerable portion
of the economic well-being, I thought this was an important statistic to follow.  Thankfully the
Holiday Season has been positive for small to medium sized companies. Network Solutions
announced today that its e-commerce customers saw a collective 10% year-over-year
increase in sales on Cyber Monday, the highly anticipated start of online holiday shopping. 
While retailers across the country reported slow same-store sales, smaller online entrepreneurs
enjoyed a jump in holiday sales this year, with more consumers shopping online in greater numbers.

e-commerce site is more than just a catalog and shopping cart

Outsourced eCommerce Fulfillment Can Improve Order Accuracy and Customer Service

Outsourcing order fulfillment continues to be a significant industry trend. In today’s competitive marketplace, more and more companies are choosing to focus on their core business of selling products. To do this, as well as increase customer service levels and drive down costs, these companies have decided to outsource order fulfillment. As the fulfillment industry continues to grow, distinct market segments have developed in order to provide more specialized service to a specific group of customers. Catalog fulfillment, product sample fulfillment, literature fulfillment and pharmaceutical fulfillment are examples of specialized services being offered to particular niches.
Web Fulfillment Grows
One of the largest and fastest growing fulfillment segments is e-commerce fulfillment. Spurred by the growth in business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) web-sites, outsourced e-commerce fulfillment allows large scale and economical web-based ordering without sacrificing order accuracy or customer service.
A truly effective e-commerce site is more than just a catalog and shopping cart that allow customers to choose products and purchase them using a credit card. Among other features, e-commerce sites should have the ability to seamlessly integrate with an inventory or warehouse management system to facilitate order fulfillment. Together, all these systems link into a process designed to accurately and efficiently process web orders and provide the highest possible level of customer service.

Full service e-commerce fulfillment brings all the pieces of your logistic puzzle together. You can choose how much or how little of your process to outsource. An e-commerce fulfillment provider, like TAGG Logistics, can allow you to focus solely on running your website and sourcing and selling your product.

Different types of E-Commerce Online Advertisements

e-Commerce Internet Marketing Strategy

e-Commerce: Exchange of goods, products, or services via an electronic medium over the internet.
Internet Marketing plays a crucial role in E-Commerce.

Buying/Selling

e-Commerce Domains
• Business-to-business (B2B)
• Collaborative commerce (c-commerce)
• Business-to-consumers (B2C)
• Consumers-to-businesses (C2B)
• Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)
• Intra-business (intra-organizational) commerce
• Government-to-citizens (G2C)
• Mobile commerce (m-commerce)
Internet Marketing : Strategies and techniques applied on the Internet and related digital technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
E-marketing is complete efforts to implement, promote, and sell products and other services over the Internet.
4P’s of e-Commerce Internet Marketing:
PRODUCT -> PLACE -> PROMOTIONS -> PRICE
Different types of E-Commerce Online Advertisements:

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Your business will have unlimited reach, increase your customer base, and generate more awareness of and potential leads to your business. Not only will our ecommerce system enable you to offer products, information and services through progressive and state-of-the-art IT technologies and standards, but it will also provide you with a reliable, accurate tool to internally track the functionality and progress of all aspects of your on-line business.

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2. A Ebay shop; professionally researched, set-up and designed to your specific needs.

3. A Amazon shop; professionally researched, set-up and designed to your specific needs.

4. A normal 'online shop' on other major sites such as:www.alibaba.com or www.dhgate.com,  etc. depending on the kind of product or service your business distributes.

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You are up against new challenges such as
defining your identity online, integrating your
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fortifying your online presence in order
to remain competitive, redesigning,
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business to grow, to improve, to gain new ground, and prosper through NetSuite.

True to our name, Centek Solutions strives to provide more than just web design;
our goal is to provide fresh solutions to our clients’ businesses and needs. To do
so, we understand that we must fully understand your needs, expectations, desires
and more importantly, your goals. We offer three unique approaches to e-Commerce
website development and customization based upon the customers’ requirements,
budgets and expectations.
These are: Full Web Design Services, Template Based Services and Site 
Genie Based Services. We also offer over 20 E-Commerce tools to help you
generate higher conversion rates:

Wish List

A Wish List is an easy to use web-based application that will help you collect 

and organize additional leads coming through your site. By having a Wish List 

feature can help your site’s visitors keep track of the things they want but may 

not be able to purchase right away. Centek's Wish list functionality enables clients 

the possibility of carrying out a transaction at a later time which might otherwise 

have been lost completely. It will also allow you the possibility of collecting vital 

data on which items your clients are considering but for some reason are not 

purchasing.

Pakistan Ecommerce Online

Ecommerce is the most growing business trend of the time and of future in Pakistan. 

The future of business in Pakistan lies on the Internet and success of business on 

Internet is through a successful E Commerce Strategy. Buying and selling goods and 

services over the Internet, has completely transformed the way business is conducted.

Pakistan Ecommerce that is conducted between businesses is referred to as Business

-to-business or B2B. B2B can be open to all interested parties 

(e.g. commodity exchange) or limited to specific, pre-qualified participants 

(private electronic market).

Pakistan Ecommerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. 

It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects 

of the business transactions.

Pakistan Ecommerce Online is a website where you will find complete information 

about the ecommerce in Pakistan, Ecommerce solutions & services in Pakistan. 

At our site you will be able to find:

• E-Companies
• E-Solutions
• E-Web site Designing Services
• E-Web Hosting Services
• E-Web Development Services
• E-Marketing
• E-Business
• E-commerce Consultants

So feel free to explore our website and we can guarantee you that you will not 
be disappointed. You will surely find here what for you are looking.

 

Successful Ecommerce Business Models

The Business Is Still More Important Than the Web Site

Following the dot-com boom and bust the media went from "dot-coms don’t
have to make a profit" to a tale of "dot-coms can’t make a profit," with a slightly
more sophisticated variant, "pure Internet plays can’t make a profit."
All three statements are incorrect. What the reporters – and a lot of business
people, including successful ones – don't realize is how finely tuned successful
businesses are to their place and time.
Ninety-five percent of the first-wave dot-coms failed? Why should they have
expected otherwise? Take a look at your local auto repair shop. It is not
particularly difficult to make a profit in auto repair. Diagnosis can be tough,
and dealing with customers can be tough. Otherwise it is a fairly straightforward
business. Anyone willing to be a bit more conscientious than average, and willing
to treat customers like human beings, can achieve profitability.

	E-SoftSys can help your businesses get set up quickly into the 'wired' world with    E-BusinessPro, an eCommerce Solution, in a cost effective manner. Success of an ebusiness solution is all about enhancing the relationship between your organization and the shoppers, giving shoppers additional options to continue shopping and providing them access to your online store 24 hours everyday. The results of having a good ebusiness solution are significant, because you can reach to a wider shopper base, increase shopper’s loyalty and your profits.
	E-BusinessPro, an easy to use eCommerce solution or eCommerce Software or eBusiness Solution from E-SoftSys allows your businesses to provide additional services to shoppers by selling products online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. By providing shoppers to purchase items online, your business will increase revenue and shopper’s loyalty! With E-BusinessPro, an eCommerce Solution, the businesses can:   Easily setup an online store with basic functionality and extend it later.   Easily create an online store with effective merchandizing and a unique look and feel to suit your      requirements and taste.   Easily use the online store and you will immediately see a running store after installation with the details    of products provided by you.   Easily manage your online store by simply using your web browser.   Easily administer the online store.   Easily make the payment using credit cards through major payment gateways.

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