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[C383]Chamber Of Commerce Businesses

by Tpjaveton, Tpj

The reason for my visit was to get a better understanding of how some eCommerce websites are published to the internet, what kind of web hosting is employed as well as to get an idea of how my newly purchased eCommerce website should look.

I purchased an online (eCommerce) business a few months ago from a "Popular Offline Advertiser of Online Businesses" and my objective is obviously to make the business work, so the visit was a necessary step toward that objective.

Amazon was rated number 1 in the "best overall" category, Dell number 2 and IQVC was number 3, so I felt pretty good because there were highly successful models that I could emulate.

Prior to visiting the eCommerce review site mentioned above, I visited a different kind of review site, Reviewopedia, founded and operated by Steven Albright, which provides visitors with a forum to post their comments and opinions about online businesses and internet success programs they had purchased.

Of the businesses commented about, our "Popular Offline Advertiser of Online (eCommerce) Businesses" happened to be one. There were fourteen sites/businesses reviewed and rated at the time of my visit with a combined 1,329 comments and opinions posted about them. The higher rating a business received the less comments were posted about it.

I was most interested in getting a consensus of opinion about the company I purchased from and this seemed to be the place to get it because of the total number of eCommerce businesses reviewed (39) between the two sites I visited, our "Popular Offline Advertiser of Online (eCommerce) Businesses" received a healthy dose of commentary.

Reviewopedia employed a "star" rating system where a single star equated to a poor rating (scam is mentioned often) and five stars equated to excellent or legitimate online business. The average rating attributed to our "Popular Offline Advertiser of Online (eCommerce) Businesses" from which I purchased was a single star and a half rating along with 243 comments, second highest of all the sites reviewed and rated at the reviewopedia location.

The fact that only 7% of opinions posted were high reviews from customers satisfied with the companies from which they purchased eCommerce businesses and spent their money with, and about 2% giving a "fair" (21/2 stars) rating, indicates that 91% of the participants were dissatisfied and harbored very low opinions of the companies they spent money with.

They were unhappy! Many were seeking refunds, although getting an actual refund may be a rather difficult undertaking if the "30 day after purchase refund period" had expired.

My reaction was pretty mixed because on the one hand I saw what a successful eCommerce business could be if the right combination of time, marketing & promotion, continued education and luck are applied. On the other hand I saw a lot of discontent on the part of some folks who invested in eCommerce businesses, so I had enough information on which to base a sensible decision.

I made the decision to join Wealthy Affiliate in order to learn the techniques necessary to promote my eCommerce business. It was really a strike of good luck that I discovered WA because I learned more about Internet Marketing (IM) in 5 weeks with WA than I learned in the previous 16 months from a variety of so-called internet marketing "Gurus".

Since the advent of the Internet, there have been ways for businesses to communicate with each other and with consumers. It may seem implausible, but just over a decade ago, consumers? only choices, though, were to visit brick and mortar stores for their purchases. Nowadays, almost every large chain store and quite a few of the individual businesses offer at home purchasing options to consumers. E commerce businesses are what these online stores are called; e commerce refers to any business that is conducted electronically via the World Wide Web.

Sites like eBay, Amazon, and other online superstores are called e commerce businesses, since their purchases are conducted solely online. These e commerce businesses are what are known as business-to-consumer, in that the purchases are made by consumers directly from the e commerce businesses. There are also e commerce businesses that handle transactions between two companies, such as those that purchase items from manufacturers and distribute to other companies.

For the store owner looking to expand to a global rather than regional market, e commerce businesses are the way to go. Even if there is no actual store to go to, consumers can visit the web site, browse through products, and make all of their purchases from the comfort of their own home. This is so appealing to consumers who are pressed for time that e commerce businesses have exploded in growth and revenues. When this first became popular in the last decade of the twentieth century, companies saw billions of dollars pour into heir coffers from online purchases.

It really does not matter what products or services you are peddling; e commerce businesses can do well if their sites are clean and unencumbered, easy to navigate, and offer a variety of secure payment methods. One of the best choices for someone starting on of these ventures is to utilize PayPal, because it has become known as one of the safest ways to transact online.

Whether you plan to expand your business onto the Web or you are planning to build a completely online storefront, and whether you are selling hair care products or your psychic consultation services, the Internet is a great place to build your business.

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