Why Ecommerce Is Still Boxing Clever (John Edet)
Jun 9, 2009
At the same time e-commerce has developed surprisingly in the past few years. The transformation cannot be stopped and the opportunities offered by e-commerce can be seen by anyone.
Countless companies are showing how it's done every day and demonstrate impressively how e-commerce can be used in the B2C or B2B sector to sustain increases in turnover and profit, acquire new customers, improve customer relations and services, speed up the sales process and lower distribution costs. In the meantime, the use of the internet as an additional sales channel has become a completely normal business model for companies of all sizes in nearly every sector. Ecommerce revenues are rising steadily and the number of people using the internet to get information or go shopping is continuing to increase.
The rapid wide-spread availability of broadband DSL connections at cheap monthly rates is a significant factor for this, continually stimulating e-commerce revenues.
Today e-commerce is standard practice for companies wanting to enhance their sales efficiency, make more turnover and improve their customer services. This practical guide was written for small to medium-sized companies who want long-term success in online sales. The practical tips are oriented primarily towards the following target groups:
1 Companies already running an offline business can use ecommerce as an additional sales channel. Primarily in order to better serve their existing customers. The primary concern of these companies is the optimization and automation of sales and ordering processes to improve customer relations and increase revenues for each existing customer and not so much the acquisition of new customers.
2 The second group are start-ups that see a business opportunity on the internet and want to set up purely online sales. The goal of these companies is to open up new markets, attain a certain degree of recognition in the target groups and to acquire new customers and retain them for the long-term using the online store in combination with effective marketing campaigns.
3 The third group includes companies that have reached their limits with their traditional business, classic distribution models and see growth potential and opportunities in e-commerce. These companies mainly want to use ecommerce to reach new target groups that they were previously unable to approach, e.g. internationally, other regions or cities or new age groups. Here too the acquisition
of clearly defined new customer groups and the most efficient possible, often international online commerce takes centre stage.
With this in mind many companies are now integrating a social media marketing push. Why this approach? It essentially improves your brand visibility, but also improve customer loyalty and gain important insights into your niche markets you serve. And with the dramatic growth in social media traffic, ecommerce stores would be smart to invest at least a portion of their advertising and marketing spends.
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