Historical Development of Electronic Commerce

Historical Development of Electronic Commerce
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291
Summary:
The meaning of the term "electronic commerce" has changed over time.

Keywords:
ECommerce, advertising, marketing, online business, promotion

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The meaning of the term "electronic commerce" has changed over time. Originally, "electronic commerce" meant the facilitation of commercial transactions electronically, usually using technology like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI, introduced in the late 1970s) to send commercial documents like purchase orders or invoices electronically.
Later it came to include activities more precisely termed "Web commerce" -- the purchase of goods and services over the World Wide Web via secure servers (note HTTPS, a special server protocol which encrypts confidential ordering data for customer protection) with e-shopping carts and with electronic pay services, like credit card payment authorizations.
When the Web first became well-known among the general public in 1994, many journalists and pundits forecast that e-commerce would soon become a major economic sector. However, it took about four years for security protocols (like HTTPS) to become sufficiently developed and widely deployed (during the browser wars of this period). Subsequently, between 1998 and 2000, a substantial number of businesses in the United States and Western Europe developed rudimentary Web sites.
Although a large number of "pure e-commerce" companies disappeared during the dot-com collapse in 2000 and 2001, many "brick-and-mortar" retailers recognized that such companies had identified valuable niche markets and began to add e-commerce capabilities to their Web sites. For example, after the collapse of online grocer Webvan, two traditional supermarket chains, Albertsons and Safeway, both started e-commerce subsidiaries through which consumers could order groceries online.
As of 2005, e-commerce has become well-established in major cities across much of North America, Western Europe, and certain East Asian countries like South Korea. However, e-commerce is still emerging slowly in some industrialized countries, and is practically nonexistent in many Third World countries.
Electronic commerce has unlimited potential for both developed and developing nations, offering lucrative profits in a highly unregulated environment.

E-Commerce, Put your business on Internet for success.

E-Commerce, Put your business on Internet for success.
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514
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Ttake full advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. Put your business on Internet for success

Keywords:
online business,e-commerce

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Copyright 2006 Patrick Tremblay
E-Commerce, Put your business on Internet.
If your business is not on the Internet, it is not doing as well as it could. In today’s day and age, if you are not advertising on the Internet, you are losing a significant amount of business.
You advertise your business in local newspapers, local television and even local radio. That is good. You are getting enough business to keep you afloat. You may receive inquiries from the surrounding cities, or even the bordering states, and that is great.
What if you could attract business from another country?
When you finally decide to take advantage of technology, the Internet is an incredible universe of its own.
When you create a Website, and starting an e-commerce trade, you are opening your business to a whole new world.
Businesses that would not know that you exist are now able to view your website, research your services and contact you with any questions.
By taking advantage of the Internet, you are allowing your business to grow in ways that it could not if you were to advertise with conventional methods.
In recent years, the E-commerce trades as raised a steady twenty-five every year, and experts feel that this trend will continue. When you finally decide to take the plunge and get your business started on the Internet, there are a few steps that you should take before starting. This will be a nerve wrecking, nail biting point in the growth of your business.
There are steps to take before jumping in. As with any new venture, do a lot of research. Find out what the statistics and trends are for your type of business.
Make sure that your products or services are available as soon as your Website goes live. You want to have everything ready to ship as soon as you get an order. If a client feels that they have received exceptional treatment, your business will experience repeat business.
After your website is created and goes live, there is more to do. Advertising your business in the right manner is crucial. Joining E-commerce organizations and associations, can give your business the boost it needs. These are groups of business owners just like you who want to advertise their businesses.
When you join these organizations and associations you are agreeing to their rules and terms. Most have very strict rules of conduct, and once established, Potential clients will find you through them. Remember, if you are debating whether or not to go forward and start an E-commerce Trade, your competitors are taking advantage of the Internet.
For everyday that you procrastinate, your competitors will take full advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. If you are not familiar with the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the Internet, have no fear. A simple search of the Internet will yield Thousands perhaps millions of companies who will explain to you the benefits of an online business. They will assist you in creating and maintaining an online business that will raise your standard of living.

4 Amazing Steps To Unleashing The Massive Profits Within Solo Ads Fast And Easily.

4 Amazing Steps To Unleashing The Massive Profits Within Solo Ads Fast And Easily.
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647
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The "Secrets" behind ramming in massive streams of income with solo ads finally revealed...If you want to know how they make it, you'll definitely need to know what they're doing.

Keywords:
marketing,online business,ecommerce,SEO,internet marketing,affiliate marketing, secrets, tips

Article Body:
The following article lists some simple, informative tips that will help you have a better experience with solo ads.
People endorse other products for a many reasons. Sometimes to sell affiliate products for commissions, promote a joint ventured product or other times, for an advertising space they sold. Solo ad is a single advertisement in an email published by the owner of an ezine/newsletter to his lists of subscribers.
Why does it work more effectively than the others? You can fully personalize your solo ad and it’ll be sent out in only one single email, which lets the readers focus only on the solo ad. This highly increases the response of the advertisement and gives you a high edge compared to other ads which are hardly noticed.
Here we’re going to mention what kind of solo ads sell and what factors are important. The process of publishing a solo ad:
1. Choose a newsletter or e-zine to send out your solo ad
2. Write a solo ad
3. Create an effective or catchy title
4. Put up the website where your visitors will go
1. Choosing the right newsletter or e-zine
This is an extremely important step. Whether or not your readers will be interested in your solo ad depends on what group they are. You must choose a huge targeted list of subscribers to send out your solo ad, usually one with more than 5,000 people.
If you want to find targeted e-zines/newsletters where you can advertise your solo ad, simply make a search on Google with your niche market’s keywords and go to the popular or high ranking websites. From there, find the links that say “advertising” or "advertise with us", and the rest is pretty self-explanatory.
How can you put a limit on learning more? The next section may contain that one little bit of wisdom that changes everything.
2. Writing a solo ad
Most people are tired of seeing advertisements over and over again, they can sense it right away on the first look followed by a click on the delete button. So how do you make a difference with your solo ads?
Write a story, that’s all! Humans are drawn into stories since they were born, we’ll read any stories which are interesting. Write about how you have started before you have this experience, and what happens after. It has been said that the best solo ad never sells a thing, it only pre-sells and warm up the readers.
3. Coming up with the perfect title
Ever been to a book store? If you are not attracted to the headline of a story book on its cover, will you even bother buying it next? Hardly, and that is why you need to keep your readers hooked.
4. Design the website where your visitors will go
It is common that people always send readers of their solo ads right to the main sales page, a big mistake, instead. You should always let these "personally invited" visitors feel that they are special, for having the front-edge against the other normal visitors.
Greet them cheerfully, and roughly tell them your success with the product you mentioned in the solo ad, and always take advantage of asking them to opt into your subscriber list! This is very crucial, every penny or effort you spent for the solo ad is to benefit as much as you can from it, but not the extent of people getting tired, of course.
Again, tell the stories, interesting stories. You will realize that people will want to buy from you so much just because they feel closer to you. Do this right, and you can have an overnight success with your solo ads.
If you've picked some pointers about solo ads that you can put into action, then by all means, take action and DO IT! That's all for now, All the Best.