Hi, friends welcome to our next session of E-Business. In this session we will look how E-Business has changed the traditional industries, classification of websites and its relation with different E-Business models.
with the introduction of internet in 1990’s and it’s gaining popularity and convince the E – Business, it has changed the perspective of commerce and different industrial patterns of doing business.
E - Business has has forced many industries to expand their services to web world to survive the competition and earn additional profits like transportation industry expanding its payment services online for ease of access. Hospitality industry introduced booking and reservation systems online for convince of customers. Automotive industry introduced a new aspect of customization of cars online which helped them to increase sales and Entertainment industry came up with new approach of virtual life which is - A person can see him self in virtual world with the help of website called second life.
Classification of websites
Because of different purpose and uses of websites, we started to classify and categorize websites like
Informative website: This sort of websites mainly provides information about business and its products and services.
Interactive website: It contains all the features of informative website with additional features like it is more interactive and includes features like e-newsletters, customer discussion forums, online surveys and etc.
Transactional website: This website main aim is to sell products and services, but also it contains the features of informative and interactive websites to promote sales.
Collaborative website: This website main purpose is to allow business partners to collaborate (doing business between different firms).
E – Business Models
B2c Business to customer like Dell, Amazon.co.uk.
C2c Customer to customer like eBay, qxl.com
B2b Business to business like netbilling, Dell.
C2b Consumer to business like priceline.com
As we have there are different E – Business models, the usage of different type of website also depends on the business and the firms like Dell uses a combination of transactional and collaborative website where as eBay is the combination of interactive and transactional website.
In short, the usage of website and its features depends on the firms business and its intention to create a brand image.
Reflective Report
Now I have realised how tremendous the impact of internet had on business it can be said as an evaluation in history of business it changed the perception of people shown the new possibilities and new ways of doing business, now even I am trying my chance of doing business online with the help of eBay.
Now I have started to distinguish between different types of websites and able to understand much better why the websites has differences between them. Even it helped me to understand which type of website to use for different E-Business models.
Overall it was a very good experience to know how the different business has adopted the evolutionary change in technology which will guide me to take successful steps in my future E-Business and learning E-Business models will help me to decide which model to follow for my future E-Business.
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