1. a. Name and purpose of the system. The e-commerce system chosen is the Overstock.com. Overstock.com is an online retailer offering a broad variety of high-quality‚ branded name goods at discount prices‚ including bedding‚ home decor‚ appliances‚ watches‚ jewellery‚ electronics‚ sporting goods‚ clothing and shoes. At the beginning‚ Overstock.com sold surplus and returned merchandise on an online E-commerce marketplace and liquidating the inventories of the failed dot-com companies at below-wholesale
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ABSTRACT | 2 | 2 | INTRODUCTION TO E-COMMERCE | 2 | 3 | APPROACH OF ANALYSIS | 4 | 4 | SITUATION ANALYSIS | 5 | 5 | COMPETITOR ANALYSIS | 13 | 6 | CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR | 19 | 7 | SEGMENTATION‚ TARGETING‚ POSITIONING | 23 | 8 | ANSOFF MATRIX | 24 | 9 | BRAND BUILDING | 26 | 10 | SWOT ANALYSIS | 29 | 11 | FUTURE MARKETING STRATEGY | 30 | ABSTRACT The paper includes detailed analysis of the strategic and marketing plan of Flipkart for its operations within the e-retailing industry. Detailed macro
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Electronic commerce‚ commonly known as e-commerce‚ is a type of industry where buying and selling of product or service is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce‚ electronic funds transfer‚ supply chain management‚ Internet marketing‚ online transaction processing‚ electronic data interchange (EDI)‚ inventory management systems‚ and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce
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factors that would cause a company to continue doing business in traditional ways and avoid electronic commerce. Traditional commerce can be a better way to sell items that relay on personal selling skills. Many businesses are using a combination of personal contact enhanced by an online presence to sell items such as high-fashion clothing‚ antiques‚ or food Small purchases over the net would actually increase the cost of doing business due to the fact that the company would have to charge
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Evolution Of E-Business" The growth of the Internet in the past 10 years has been phenomenal. Companies large and small have embraced the Internet as a tool that can potentially expand their business beyond the traditional boundaries‚ which can give them a competitive advantage in the market place. The Internet and E-business websites seemed to many companies in the mid nineties as an elaborate‚ expensive and unnecessary company brochure. But the rapid evolution of e-business and Internet usage has
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cornerstone of Walton’s business strategy when he launched Wal-Mart in 1962. Cost-cutting was an obsession in the Wal-Mart culture‚ and Walton understood that a major requirement for keeping costs down was controlling the payroll. In 2012‚ Wal-Mart celebrated 50 years of helping people save money so they can live better. The company employs 2.2 million associates worldwide and serves 200 million customers each week at more than 10‚000 stores in 27 countries. Among the many business enterprises and
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when internet service was common in most households. The advancement of the World Wide Web has given businesses and consumers the capabilities of reaching audiences around the world. Consumers are smarter than ever along with the increased efficiencies and opportunities among businesses. The first company I chose to analyze is known as the largest express transportation service company in the world known as FedEx. The company operates in both business to consumers and business to business channels
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The Advantages of E-Commerce Kyvonne Coleman‚ Marketing 552 August 26‚ 2013 Professor Maureen Murphy Advantages of E-Commerce Economic Commerce (e-commerce) is a term used to describe any transaction of business that is conducted over the internet where an end-user provides information to receive or purchase a product from a retailor of any sort. Being in an age that majority of businesses thrive off of e-commerce‚ any business down to a fast food restaurant such as Pizza
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E-Commerce Electronic commerce‚ commonly known as e-commerce or ecommerce‚ is a type of industry where the buying and selling of products or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction’s life-cycle‚ although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail‚ mobile devices social media‚ and telephones as well. Electronic commerce is
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Introduction The history of the Internet traces its roots to the United States government. The original use of the information system was to maintain communication during the cold war‚ with the Soviet Union in 1969‚ by the Department of Defense‚ incase of a nuclear attack or a major catastrophe. The National Science foundation created the Internet based on the ARPAnet. The first mass connection was between the University of California Santa Barbara‚ Stanford Research Institute‚ the University of
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