2. Outline
Three fundamental categories of E-Commerce
business models
– B2C, B2B and C2C
A B2C Scenario
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Window Shopping
Step into the store (registration)
Filling the shopping cart
On to the checkout
Paying for the items
Fulfillment and shipment tracking
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3. Three Fundamental Categories of
E-Commerce Business Models
B2C – Business to Consumer
– What most people typically think of when they
think E-Commerce
C2C – Consumer to Consumer
– Auctions, Bartering models
B2B – Business to Business
– The original E-Commerce models – Why?
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4. B2C – Business to Consumer
Storefront Model
– The best known form of E-Commerce
– Displays products (catalogs), takes orders,
accepts payment, fulfills order, manage
customer data
– Click and Mortar versus Internet Only
– Amazon.com, eToys.com, CDnow.com,
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5. B2C – Business to Consumer
Online Shopping Mall Model
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Present wider selection of products and services
Searching and shopping convenience
Common shopping cart, payment and shipping
method
– Takes advantage of economies of scale
– Merchants are charged in various ways
– Mall.com, Canadashop.com, Shoptheshops.com
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6. B2C – Business to Consumer
Portal Models
– Horizontal portals – general search engines
» Broad range of topics, shallow depth
» Links to various malls, stores, auctions, sources
» Altavista.com, Hotbot.com, Yahoo.com, Google
– Vertical portals – specialist
» Narrow range of topics, in-depth information
» See http://www.verticalportals.com/
– Help users collect information and purchase
– Charge merchants for advertisememts
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7. B2C – Business to Consumer
Innovative/Dynamic Pricing Models
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Name-your-price – Priceline.com
Comparison pricing – Bottomdollar.com
Bulk-buy pricing – mercata.com, mobshop.com
Rebating – eBates.com. eCentives.com
Free products and services – iWon.com,
Freemerchant.com – free hosting, free store
building, free traffic logs, free auction tools, etc
Most would not be possible without the Internet
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8. C2C – Consumer to Consumer
Auction Model
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Internet forum for sellers and bidders
Various auctions (reserve-price, reverse, Dutch)
eBay.com (1995, Pez dispenser collector)
4M simultaneous auctions, 450K new
items/day
– $3.8B spent in online auctions in 2000(Forrester)
Bartering Model
– Offering one item in exchange for another
– Ubarter.com
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9. B2B – Business to Business
Businesses have long done E-Commerce with
each other
– EFT – Electronic Funds Transfer (banks)
– EDI – Electronic Data Interchange (suppliers)
Traditional EDI uses a VAN (value-added network)
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Closed networks, manufactures and suppliers
Purchase orders and invoices exchanged daily
Standards vary, VANs are costly, closed nets
Moving to the Internet, Web technology and XML
(upgrade of EDI)
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10. B2B – Business to Business
B2B Internet exchanges provide standard methods
of buying, selling, bartering and partnering
2003: US$403 B
2004 projection:
– US$2.77 trillion
» (eMarketer)
– US$7.29 trillion
» (Gardner Group)
B2B auctions:
– US$52 billion 2002
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11. The Traditional B2C
Commerce Scenario
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Buyer and seller meet
Buyer chooses product and places order
Seller delivers product
Buyer pays for product
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12. The E-Commerce B2C Scenario
Consumer Perspective
Search the Internet
Choose the right
product
Place the order and
shipping info.
Enter payment info.
Receive product via
Internet or ground
shipment
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Business Perspective
Advertising
Inventory (product)
Management
Order Processing
(shopping cart)
Payment Mgmt
Fulfillment and
Shipping
Profile Management
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13. A B2C Scenario
I would like to buy some hands-free
technology to work with my cellular phone
for my consulting business.
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It must be reliable
Inexpensive as possible
Light-weight
Small (able to fit into my pocket)
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14. Typical B2C Shopping Trip
View Homepage
Search
Navigate
Registration
Product Advisor
Select Products
Shopping Cart
Enter Shipping Info.
Address Book
Enter Payment Info.
Submit Order
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Receive Ack.
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15. A B2C Scenario
Technology Questions
How does a browser connect to a server?
How does a search engine work?
What is a cookie?
How do those banner adds work?
Are there web pages for every item?
What is all that gobbledygook in the page
address?
What is a shopping cart? How long does it exist?
How does a web sites know who I am on return?
Should I register?
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16. A B2C Scenario
Technology Questions
How does it find my password?
How does it automatically send me emails?
What are the messages concerning insecure
submissions all about?
What is authentication, certificate, encryption?
How do they know my credit card is good?
How do they know there is credit left?
How is software I have purchased downloaded?
How do they track my shipment?
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17. B2C Levels of Automation
Front-End
Static Web content
Dynamic Web content
Secure ordering
Shopping cart
Persistent customer
Data
Personalization of
Content
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Back-End
Manual
Non-integrated
computer
Automatic entry
Total Web integration
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18. Business Evolution on the Web
Processes
Functionality
Web-enabled
applicatons
Transactions
Interactivity
Dynamic web pages
Publishing
Static web pages
Time or Maturity
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