5 Phases of E-commerce, Hootoo Offers Best Electronics and Gadgets

Before we talk anything about e-commerce,

let’s have a glimpse of the identification from

Wikipedia.com. “Electronic commerce,

commonly known as e-commerce, refers to

the buying and selling of products or services

over electronic systems such as the Internet and other

computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than

just buying and selling products like electronics and gadgets

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online. It also includes the entire online process of developing,

marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products

and services.”

From 1970s, e-commerce has already passed through five

progressive phases up to now.

First phrase can be named email age, which ranges from 1970s

to 1990s when people running e-commerce businesses via

increasing emails at exponential rate, leading to the high-speed

development of electronic commerce.

Since 1995, Web technology on behalf of information releasing

system has been the most important application, which

develops explosively.

Then after electronic commerce boarding America, EC has

become an epoch-making business, which is the main

commercial use of Internet definitely. That’s to say, commercial

information would be communicated via Internet in the future,

which will become the nervous system in our commercial and

informal society.

Full e-commerce stage is the fourth phrase, which becomes

stronger along with the increasing development of SaaS

(Software as a service) Soft Service Model. At that time,

software is applied in Internet, which prolongs the business

chain of e-commerce, being the most popular e-commerce

model.

The last phrase is smart e-commerce stage. Up to 2011, along

with the increasing mature of Internet information

fragmentation and cloud computing technologies, active

internet marketing model emerges. I-commerce (Individual

Commerce) turns out following the time, which doesn’t copy

traditional marketing models but to have a deep and multi-level

deep communication with customers by active, interactive and

considerable ways.

With the popularity and prosperity of e-commerce, thousands

of hundreds of businessmen are fighting to make some benefits

via this powerful channel,

then 9 e-commerce

operating models debut.

B2B、B2C、C2C、B2M、M2C、B2A、C2A、SNS-EC and ABC

E-commerce models are commonly accessible for the major, in

which B2C (Business to Customer) is the earliest e-commerce

running model in China, which is marked by formal operation of

the 8848 Online Shopping Mall, which is characterized by

companies provides a brand new shopping platform for

customers via Internet, i.e. web-shops where customers can

shopping and even paying online in the invisible world, which

can save much of money and time for both companies and

customers, especially in electronics and gadgets market.

When comes to the best electronics and gadgets online, no one

can ignore hootoo.com, who is one of the most professional

supplier of electronics and gadgets since 2001 providing most

affordable products with high-quality with several international

warehouses around the world.

All in all, e-commerce business has made an upside-down

difference since 1970s, which will become far stronger and

more prosperous and enrich people’s daily life outside and

inside.