PodCast

Overview


History


Current Trends


Future Trends

Current State

eCommerce has grown tremendously in the last few years, with retailers offering online shopping tripling in 1998 alone. the internet has offered merchants a method of reaching new markets and new customers, and customers have found eCommerce an effective way of researching and purchasing goods without the hassles of crowds, parking and checkout lines. the main theme i have discovered in doing this research is that things are constantly changing and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. change has become the one constant rule in eCommerce and probably will be for some time to come.



(http://ils.unc.edu/~pottl/inls310/ecommerce/)

My Profile

Personal Profile:

Name: John Patrick P. Valencia

Address: Purok 3 Mangan Vaca Subic, Zambales

Birthdate: October 18, 1986

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Age: 20

School: AMA Computer College Olongapo Branch

Course: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Management Information System

Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Along Came Polly, There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Fockers, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 5o First Dates, Pirates of the Caribbean…

Favorite Shows: MAD TV, Blue Collar TV, Beat the Geeks, BTV, MTV, MYX…

Favorite Band: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Megadeth, Taking Back Sunday, Greenday, The Used, Deftones, Kapatid, Faith no More, Audioslave, The Cure, Depeche Mode….

Hobbies: Watching TV, Listening to music, Playing NBA Live, watching movies…

Links and References

Links

This are some of the links of our classmate in this class:

http://vonass.blogspot.com

http://rosesingko.blogspot.com

http://podcastingfidokimi.blogspot.com

http://yhannisam04.blogspot.com

References:

This are the links that serve as our reference:

http:www.wikipedia.org

http://www.straight-on.com/ecommerce_definition.htm

http://www.ecommerce-land.com/future.html

http://www.cbox.com

http://www.sitemaster.com

http://ils.unc.edu/~pottl/inls310/ecommerce/

http://www.getelastic.com

http://www.blog.solidcactus.com

http://www.varien.com/blog/

E-commerce Screen Cast

cebu pacific.com


Amazon.com

Future Trends of Ecommerce

Experts predict a promising and glorious future of ecommerce in the 21st century. In the foreseeable future ecommerce will further confirm itself a major tool of sale. Successful ecommerce will become a notion absolutely inseparable from the web, because e-shopping is becoming more and more popular and natural. At the same time severe rivalry in the sphere of ecommerce services will intensify their development. Thus prevailing future trends of ecommerce will be the growth of Internet sales and evolution.

Each year number of ecommerce deals grows enormously. Sales volumes of on-line stores are more than comparable with those of “brick-and-mortar” ones. And the tendency will continue, because a lot of people are “imprisoned” by work and household duties, while Internet saves a lot of time and gives opportunity to choose goods at the best prices. Present-day Internet sales boom is the foundation for magnificent ecommerce future.

The “quantity to quality” tendency of ecommerce is also becoming more and more obvious, as the Internet has excluded geographical factor from the sale. So it doesn’t matter any more whether your store is situated in New York or London or in a small town. To survive, merchants will have to adapt rapidly to the new conditions. To attract more customers e-store-owners will have not only to increase the number of available services, but to pay more attention to such elements like attractive design, user-friendliness, appealing goods presentation, they will have to opportunely employ modern technologies for their businesses to become parts of ecommerce future.

Of course, those, who acquire e-stores earlier, get better chance for future success and prosperity, though an ecommerce site itself doesn’t guarantee you anything. Only an appropriate ecommerce solution in combination with thorough e-marketing and advertising can buy you business insurance.

Overview of E-commerce

Here's an overview of e-commerce

E-commerce or electronic commerce is the buying/purchasing or selling of products, or services through the use of internet. It also includes the distribution and promotion of a certain product or commodity, and even services. It is commonly known as the On Line Shopping. It involves financial transactions by electronic means. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown since the wide introduction of the internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way including thing such as electronic funds transfer, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), automated inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce can be B2B (Business-to-business) or B2C (Business-to-Consumer).

Business-to-business Electronic Commerce (B2B)
Business to business is a form of e-commerce in which products or services are sold between a firm and another firm. It is typically takes the form of automated processes between trading partners and is performed in much higher volume. B2B can also include marketing activities between businesses, and not just the final transactions that result from marketing.


Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce
Business to consumer, is a form of e-commerce in which products or services are sold from a firm to a consumer. This is the most typical and traditional form of e-commerce, because the transaction takes place between the company and the consumer.