Critical Success Factors For Businesses Entering Into E Business

By Le Kha.

Embarking on electronic business is a challenging task. There is also a lack of clear understanding and comprehensive analysis of various issues and domains of electronic business. This book offers a very comprehensive analysis of concepts, models and infrastructures of e-business. It also presents unique observations of current e-business practices for different organizations in different economies and provides insights on the future of current leading businesses on the net and the trends of e-business. The volume will be an effective and indispensible reference book for professionals who are interested in or dealing with e-business and businesses that are embarking on e-business. Sample Chapter(s). Introduction (106 KB). Chapter 1: Overview-Part I: Foundation of E-Business and E-Business Technologies (318 KB). Contents: Overview of Current Status of E-Business: Overview-Part I: Foundation of E-Business and E-Business Technologies (J Xu & M Quaddus); Overview-Part II: B2C, B2B and Other Types of E-Business (J Xu & M Quaddus); Studies of E-Business Issues and Challenges: Factors Influencing Online Auction Adoption: A China Study (M Quaddus & J Xu); Factors Influencing Online Advertising: A National Survey Among Small & Medium Enterprises in Australia (J Heiligtag et al.); E-Learning in Emerging Countries: Case Studies of Republic of Tunisia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (I B Dhaou & F Abdessemed); Consumers' Adoption of Electronic Ticketing: An Application in the Air Travel Industry in Tunisia (A Allagui & M S B Mimoun); Success Factors of E-Tailing: A China Study (W-B Xuan et al.); A Framework for Business-to-Business E-Commerce Evaluation Challenges and Critical Success Factors (C Lin & Y-A Huang); The Diffusion of Web 2.0 Platforms: The Problem of Oscillating Degrees of Utilization (T Kollmann et al.); Application of Wireless Technologies in Mobile Business (X-Z Gao); Theories and Factors Affecting Electronic Commerce Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Review (S Al-Somali et al.); Factors of Commercial Website Success in Small and Medium Enterprises: An Indonesian Study (V Pujani et al.); E-Commerce Adoption in Small Enterprises: An Australian Study (J Hallal et al.); Outlook of E-Business: Future of E-Business, Success Factors and E-Business Opportunities (J Xu & M Quaddus); Achieving Sustainable E-Business Success: Development and Application of a Model of E-Business Adoption, Success and Sustainable Success (J Xu & M Quaddus). Readership: Academics and professionals in e-business, innovation technology, international trade, entrepreneurship and decision sciences.

This book is for those who want to expand their business online and get useful insights regarding the development and the growth of their e-business venture. This book unveils the fundamentals behind e-business stores and the proper actions that someone should take and pay attention to, in order to develop a successful online presence. It consists of 30 chapters each one with a different useful aspect of an e-commerce store. It addresses many issues regarding internet marketing and online stores and answers many important questions.How to choose the right web platform to host my site?How important are branding and differentiation?How to select the product line and sell my products online?How to increase the traffic to my site?How to advertise and promote my site?What are SEO and SSL?How to build a strong relationship with the customers and have a loyal audience?How to utilize social media and other marketing channels to drive sales?How can I increase the conversion rates?How can I build trust and sell more?How my online store can stand out between others?You can find useful marketing and management tips to develop your online store and manage this new venture. An online business is like operating a whole separate business with different customer base, financial management, marketing techniques and products. It requires quality content and a lot of time and effort to be successful. You should be aware of different pricing techniques and purchasing process to make sales. The overall goal is to increase conversion rates and profit margin. This book is here to help aspiring business owners achieve that. Learn more state of the art techniques that will help you have a more sustainable and successful online store. These 30 success factors described in this book are the beginning of a very interesting journey to the online world of e-commerce.

Some analysts predict that electronic commerce will grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years. With electronic commerce growing in exponentially, staying competitive through an effect e-business strategy is a tough challenge. Electronic commerce represents one of the most promising directions for generating competitive advantage at the micro level of the organization and for increasing productivity at the macro level of the economy. Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges looks at the critical fundamental elements that could impact a user's perception of business-to-business and business-to-consumer electronic commerce. It presents a study of key components and concepts of e-commerce, evaluating the critical success factors for global e-commerce, the economics of e-commerce and the practical issues involved with e-commerce in various applications.

A total system for business success, based on a 25-year study and testing of the most effective success factors for any business, from small to large. Includes practical action steps that, taken together, will lead to significant success increases for your business or organization.

Annotation Examining key components and concepts in e-commerce, this study identifies critical factors relating to success in the global business environment. It also describes the economics of e-commerce and the practical issues concerning its application. Specific chapters discuss privacy, structure, policy concerns, customer loyalty, trust, internal audits, payment mechanisms, mobile communications, and costs. Contributors include scholars from North America, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and China. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

In the world of internet, wide adoption of computing devices dramatically reduces storage costs with easy access to huge amount of data, thus posing benefits and challenges to e-business amongst organizations.This unique compendium covers current status and practices of e-business among organizations, their challenges and future directions. It also includes studies of different perspectives and markets of e-business.The must-have volume will be a good reference text for professionals and organizations who are updating their e-business knowledge/skills and planning their e-business initiatives.

Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: GPA 3.4 (1,7), University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this project paper is to summarize the "key factors for success in e-commerce" for anyone who thinks of stepping into the online-business branch. This can be used as a guideline to save time, verify the usefulness and/or the attainability of the desired results. Since the first appearance of the Internet to the public mass in the early 1990s, many enterprises and entrepreneurs tried to use this technology for the advantage of their own business. What was seen as a revolutionary step in business management is now a daily part of managing a business. The use of the Internet has grown significantly in a short period of time, to be more specific in numbers, the number of users from 1995 till 2011 has grown approximately from 16 million to 2.251 million users and is still growing. That is a significant growth of 14068.75%. Since then the web presentation has evolved from a simple text into a much more complex information tool. Users of the Internet are now able to communicate, interact and share information with each other. This development has opened up many opportunities for entrepreneurs. To name a few advantages: gaining new customers, generating contacts, introducing your brand and products and of course increasing your revenue and profit has become fairly easy. This kind of practice could also be defined under the term "electronic commerce" also known as e-commerce and e-comm. To define it more correctly, the term e-commerce is the buying and selling of products, services and information over electronic systems such as the Internet. Even though this very useful information tool is available to us, the Internet doesn't always mean success and profit gains. On the contrary, introducing your company brand, services and or products in an i

Place to Space is the essential e-business playbook that will give leaders the insight and confidence they need to operate successfully in both place and space. The book explains how traditional companies can adapt their bricks-and-mortar legacies to complement and bolster their online ventures. Based on extensive research into dozens of e-business initiatives, this book provides the first systematic, practical analysis of eight viable e-business models; an adaptable hybrid model for competing against online pure plays; and revolutionary schematic tools for analyzing current business models and evaluating promising new web initiatives. Through illuminating case studies of Lonely Planet, General Electric, CDNow, Reuters, and others, the authors show how each model works in practice--from how it makes money to the core competencies and critical factors required to implement it.