2. Learning Objectives
1. Describe electronic retailing (e-tailing) and its
characteristics.
2. Classify the primary e-tailing business models.
3. Describe how online travel and tourism
services operate and their impact on the
industry.
4. Discuss the online employment market,
including its participants, benefits, and
limitations.
5. Describe online real estate services.
6. Discuss online stock-trading services.
Electronic
Commerce
3. Learning Objectives
7. Discuss cyberbanking and online personal
finance.
8. Describe on-demand delivery of groceries
and similar perishable products and services
related to them.
9. Describe the delivery of digital products and
online entertainment.
10. Discuss various online consumer aids,
including comparison-shopping aids.
11. Describe disintermediation and other B2C
strategic issues.
Electronic
Commerce
4. Internet Marketing
and B2C Electronic Retailing
• electronic retailing (e-tailing)
Retailing conducted online, over the
Internet
• e-tailers
Retailers who sell over the Internet
• SIZE AND GROWTH OF THE B2C MARKET
• WHAT SELLS WELL ON THE INTERNET
– Developments in E-Commerce
Electronic
Commerce
5. Internet Marketing
and B2C Electronic Retailing
• CHARACTERISTICS AND
ADVANTAGES OF SUCCESSFUL E-
TAILING
–Advantages of E-Tailing
Electronic
Commerce
7. E-Tailing Business Models
• CLASSIFICATION OF MODELS BY DISTRIBUTION
CHANNEL
– Direct marketing by mail-order retailers that go
online
– Direct marketing by manufacturers
– Pure-play e-tailers
– Click-and-mortar retailers
• multichannel business model
A business model where a company sells in multiple
marketing channels simultaneously (e.g., both physical
and online stores)
– Internet (online) malls
Electronic
Commerce
8. E-Tailing Business Models
– direct marketing
Broadly, marketing that takes place without
intermediaries between manufacturers and
buyers; in the context of this book,
marketing done online between any seller
and buyer
Electronic
Commerce
9. E-Tailing Business Models
– Direct Sales by Manufacturers
virtual (pure-play) e-tailers
Firms that sell directly to consumers over the
Internet without maintaining a physical sales channel
– click-and-mortar retailers
Brick-and-mortar retailers that offer a transactional
website from which to conduct business
– brick-and-mortar retailers
Retailers who do business in the non-Internet,
physical world in traditional brick-and-mortar stores
Electronic
Commerce
11. E-Tailing Business Models
• OTHER B2C MODELS AND SPECIAL RETAILING
• B2C SOCIAL SHOPPING
– Online Group Buying
– Personalized Event Shopping
• event shopping
A B2C model in which sales are done to meet the needs of
special events (e.g., a wedding, Black Friday).
– private shopping club
A members-only shopping club, where members can
buy goods at large discounts
Electronic
Commerce
12. E-Tailing Business Models
– Group Gifting Online
– location-based e-commerce (l-commerce)
Delivery of e-commerce transactions to
individuals in a specific location, at a
specific time
– Shopping in Virtual Worlds
• VIRTUAL VISUAL SHOPPING
Electronic
Commerce
13. Travel And Tourism
(Hospitality) Services Online
• SERVICES PROVIDED
• SPECIAL SERVICES ONLINE
• Wireless services
• Advanced check-in
• Direct marketing
• Alliances and consortia
– Social Travel Networks
• BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF ONLINE
TRAVEL SERVICES
• CORPORATE TRAVEL
Electronic
Commerce
14. Employment Placement
and the Job Market Online
• PARTIES WHO USE THE INTERNET JOB
MARKET
• Job seekers
• Employers seeking employees
• Classified ads
• Job agencies
• Government agencies and institutions
– Online Job Markets on Social Networks
– Global Online Portals for Job Placement
– Virtual Job Fairs
Electronic
Commerce
17. Real Estate, Insurance,
and Stock Trading Online
• REAL ESTATE ONLINE
– Zillow, Craigslist, and Other Web 2.0 Real
Estate Services
• INSURANCE ONLINE
• ONLINE STOCK TRADING
– The Risk of Trading in an Online Stock
Account
Electronic
Commerce
19. Banking and
Personal Finance Online
• electronic (online) banking or e-
banking
Various banking activities conducted
from home or the road using an
Internet connection; also known as
cyber banking, virtual banking,
online banking, and home banking
Electronic
Commerce
20. Banking and Personal Finance
Online
• HOME BANKING CAPABILITIES
• VIRTUAL BANKS
• INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIPLE-
CURRENCY BANKING
Electronic
Commerce
21. Banking and Personal Finance
Online
• ONLINE FINANCIAL TRANSACTION
IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
– Securing Financial Transactions
– Imaging Systems
– Fees Online Versus Fees for Offline
Services
– Risks
• ONLINE BILLING AND BILL PAYING
– Taxes
Electronic
Commerce
22. On-Demand Delivery of Products,
Digital Items, Entertainment, and Gaming
• ON-DEMAND DELIVERY OF
PRODUCTS
– e-grocer
A grocer that takes orders online and
provides deliveries on a daily or other
regular schedule or within a very short
period of time
– on-demand delivery service
Express delivery made fairly quickly
after an online order is received
Electronic
Commerce
23. On-Demand Delivery of Products,
Digital Items, Entertainment, and Gaming
• ONLINE DELIVERY OF DIGITAL
PRODUCTS, ENTERTAINMENT,
AND MEDIA
• ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT
–Adult Entertainment
–Internet Gaming
–Online Dating Services
Electronic
Commerce
24. Online Purchasing-Decision Aids
• shopping portals
Gateways to web stores and e-malls;
may be comprehensive or niche
oriented
– Helping Communities
Electronic
Commerce
25. Online Purchasing-Decision Aids
• PRICE AND QUALITY COMPARISON BY
SHOPBOT SOFTWARE AGENTS
– shopping robots (shopping agents or
shopbots)
Tools that scout the Web on behalf of
consumers who specify search criteria
– Google Commerce Search 2.0
– “Spy” Services
– Wireless Shopping Comparisons
Electronic
Commerce
26. Online Purchasing-Decision Aids
• BUSINESS RATINGS SITES
– Recommendations from Other Shoppers
and Friends
• referral economy
The effect upon sales of consumers receiving a
referral or recommendation from other
consumers.
• TRUST VERIFICATION SITES
• OTHER SHOPPING TOOLS
– Yelp
Electronic
Commerce
27. Issues In E-Tailing
and Lessons Learned
• disintermediation
The removal of organizations or business
process layers responsible for certain
intermediary steps in a given supply chain
• reintermediation
The process whereby intermediaries
(either new ones or those that had been
disintermediated) take on new
intermediary roles
Electronic
Commerce
29. Issues In E-Tailing
and Lessons Learned
• channel conflict
Situation in which an online marketing
channel upsets the traditional channels
due to real or perceived damage from
competition
Electronic
Commerce
30. Issues In E-Tailing
and Lessons Learned
• POSSIBILITY OF A PRICE CONFLICT AND
DETERMINING THE RIGHT PRICE BY
SELLERS
• PRODUCT AND SERVICE
CUSTOMIZATION AND
PERSONALIZATION
• ONLINE COMPETITION
• FRAUD AND OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES
Electronic
Commerce
31. Issues In E-Tailing
and Lessons Learned
• LESSONS LEARNED FROM FAILURES
AND LACK OF SUCCESS OF E-TAILERS
– Speak with one voice
– Leverage the multichannels
– Empower the customer
Electronic
Commerce
32. Managerial Issues
1. What are the limitations of e-tailing? Where is e-
tailing going?
2. How should we introduce wireless shopping?
3. Do we have ethics and privacy guidelines?
4. How will intermediaries act in cyberspace?
5. Should we try to capitalize on social networks?
6. How should we manage multichannel marketing
to avoid channel and/or price conflicts?
7. What are the major potential limitations of the
growth of B2C EC?
Electronic
Commerce
33. Summary
1. The scope and characteristics of e-
tailing
2. Classify e-tailing business models
3. How online travel/tourism services
operate
4. The online job market and its
benefits
5. The electronic real estate
marketplace
6. Online trading of stocks and bonds
Electronic
Commerce
34. Summary
7. Cyberbanking and personal finance
8. On-demand delivery service
9. Delivery of digital products
10.Aiding consumer purchase decisions
11.Disintermediation and other B2C
strategic issues
Electronic
Commerce