E-Commerce Hardly any business nowadays will survive without presence in cyberspace. Aside from the requisite website that provides information on the company, most have engaged in electronic commerce or e-commerce whereby goods and services can be transacted (ordering, processing, billing, payment, shipping, etc.) online. For small to medium business enterprises developing an e-commerce website may start out small and gradually develop with more facilities and functionalities. A bike store for instance

Ecommerce Application at Spanx The AiMA (Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association) awarded Sherpa: Web Studio as the most effective search engine marketers for the year 2008. Sherpa was chiefly highlighted for their outstanding search engine marketing for Spanx by Sara Blakely. Spanx is primarily an ecommerce website and with its association with Sherpa the online business was able to amplify the sales by 550%, by means of search engine driven traffic. The

Sites that are not constructed properly make it difficult for the customer to get accurate ordering information, see large enough photos of the products (or any photographs), and find product costs. Shipping costs can add significant costs that consumers do not want to pay. B2B electronic transactions have saved companies significant amounts of money over the traditional manual approach. Yet there are wrinkles with this as well. For example, it

e-Commerce could bring to the BestBake Bakery Cost reduction Capability Competitive advantage Communication improvement Control Customer service improvement Implementation Plan for the e-Commerce with Timeline Contact Strategic Customers and Suppliers (3 Months) Determine what Competitors are doing (1 Month) Evaluate and Acquire Proper Tools and Skills (2 Months) Start Simple (3 Months) End-to-End Validation & Accreditation Testing (2 Months) Go Live! (1 Month) Monitor (Ongoing) Extent of the e-Commerce implementation within the Timeframe Specified Market Penetration Market Development Product Development Strategy Diversification Strategy References Appendices List of Figures Appendix 1: Business Model

E-Commerce on Business Strategy The purpose of this literary review is to determine the effects and impacts of e-commerce on business strategies and internal processes with particular emphasis on the travel industry. Our review will include material from several different sources including the Sloan Management Review, Travel Weekly and white papers from Ernest & Young. We will begin by defining E-commerce and the impact of it in the new economy. Subsequently we

E-Commerce A fresh channel of distributing personal information has been opened up by the internet. It is now the fastest developing electronic means of communication the world has ever seen. For instance, in the U.S. after the widespread use of electricity nearly 46 years later only 30% of American homes had access to electricity and almost 38 years elapsed before 30% of households had telephones with only 17% enjoying television. For