Electronic commerce is a kind of budding modern business type which is in development. It manifests great commercial potential as early as 1995 and many countries like America and Singapore had deliberately worked out guidelines for the development of electronic commerce. Their purpose is facilitating the fair competition and healthy development in this fledgling industry and prompts its boom. I believe electronic commerce will gradually reshape the business way in our society at large and become the basis of future digital society.
The 21st century is doomed to be the E-commerce century because it liberates us from the limits of geographic distance, time and other obstacles that stand between dealers. Instead of bargaining deals face in face, electronic commerce brings us into quite a different sphere – digital activities. More and more commercial activities are achieved through networks. It makes the deals between different regions possible. That is, one could sell his products to every corner of our planet and he could also buy products at every corner of our planet. In all, electronic commerce fixes it all. In this sense, how to learn to adjust to digital era and take part in global competition of electronic commerce has a bearing on every individual, every company and every nation.
And electronic commerce activities are mainly achieved through E-commerce platforms which bring customers and producers together. According to their modes, E-commerce could be divided into three types.
First are those consumer-oriented. This kind of E-commerce platform mainly deals with online bidding. It provides a space for dealings between consumers. For instance, a consumer buys a second-hand bicycle from another consumer through an E-commerce platform is a electronic commerce activity.
Second are those business-oriented. This kind of E-commerce platform serves for the exchange of product, service and information between different producers. Or in words more easy to understand, it prompts the deal between two companies, only that they do the deal through cyber net.
Third are E-commerce platforms established directly by producers. Through this online platform, they popularize and prompt the selling of their products. But it needs large fund to establish and maintain an E-commerce platform.
As far as I know, there is a very personalized E-commerce platform called “Dealextreme.com” which provides many novel gadgets. It fits in a differentiated niche from other E-commerce platform. One can find the coolest gadgets that can hardly be found elsewhere and this is its feature. You might as well log on it and have a try.
Jul 23
