E-Commerce 1


E-Commerce 1 :

(ICT) E-Commerce is short for Electronic Commerce. It means to buy and sell by means of the Internet. From small beginnings a decade ago, e-commerce has now matured into a huge industry in itself. For example, in the UK ecommerce in 2006 rose by nearly a third compared to the previous year and was worth £130 thousand million (Source: UK Office of National Statistics.) Here are a few more facts and figures: For every £100 spent in the UK, £27 of it was spent over the Internet. (a) Almost one in five business now employ ICT ecommerce specialists full time. (b) About 70% of small businesses have a broadband connection. There are different kinds of ecommerce. (a) Business-to-Business where companies buy and sell goods to each other. (b) Business-to-Individual where you buy from an ecommerce shop such as iTunes. (c) Individual-to-Individual where people buy and sell from each other e.g. eBay. There are many companies selling 'ecommerce shop' software that you can add to your website, to easily get a shop up and running. They are 'Payment Gateway' firms you can hire that will handle all the tricky credit card payments for you e.g. WorldPay

No records Found
afaatim.com copyright © April 2016 Dr.K.R.Kamaal. All rights reserved