Chapter 3 - Building an e-business: Design, development and management. This chapter includes contents: Generating business ideas; growth of e-business: evaluating risk; finding funding and going public; choosing a domain name; supply-chain management: vendors, distributors and shipment providers; web-site hosting; web design; enhancing the user experience; protecting your e-business.
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3.3.1 Choosing a Domain Name 3.3.2 SupplyChain Management: Vendors, Distributors
and Shipment Providers 3.3.3 WebSite Hosting
3.3.4 Web Design 3.3.5 Enhancing the User Experience 3.3.6 Protecting Your eBusiness
3.3.7 Streaming Media: How Much Is Too Much?
3.3.8 Preparing for New Technologies
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3.4 eBusiness Solutions
3.4.1 EndToEnd eBusiness Solutions 3.4.2 Other eBusiness Solutions
3.4.3 Maintaining and Monitoring Your Web Site 3.4.4 eCommerce Consulting
Chapter 3, Building an eBusiness: Design,
Development and Management
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– Portion of an ebusiness that is visible to consumers
• Backend system
– Database management, payment processing and logistics
Trang 5– Serves as a presentation of your business’ objectives and longterm expectations
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• Business plan layout
– Introduce your readers to the layout, what you will discuss and when you will discuss it
– Provide an overview of the business premise including the primary issues
– Headings and subheadings should categorize the content– Focus on what makes the ebusiness unique
• Business plan services and software
– www.synrgistic.com/busplan/busplan.htm
– Mindspring Biz
– www.adarus.com/html/demos.html
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– What model will you implement
– How will you conduct transactions
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• Support
– Provide evidence that supports the idea of your business– How will you justify these as support to the idea
– Have you conducted research
– Who are your customers
– Who is on your management team and what are their credentials
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Evaluating Risk
• Many Internet companies have experienced rapid growth
• Many others have struggled to get off the ground, find funding and make a profit
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– A company that specializes in the development of Internet businesses
– Often will serve as the financiers, as well as work with the development team
– Often receive a stake in the developing ebusiness
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Public
Rare Medium’s Incubation Methodology. (Courtesy of Rare Medium.)
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• After generating ideas, building a business plan and finding funding, prepare to:
Trang 14– Consider how a domain name will be interpreted in many different languages and cultures
• Fully qualified host name
– The host name, the domain name and the toplevel domain (TLD)
– Most Web servers use www as the host name
– A domain name is often the name of the company that owns
a site or a word or phrase that otherwise describes the site– The TLD usually describes the type of organization that
owns the domain name (.com, .org, .gov)
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• Fulfillment
– Warehouse storage, shipping, inventory management and return procedures
• Manufacturer
– The direct producer of the product
• Distributor
– The supplier who acts as a middleman to manufacturers and vendors, often reducing the price of an item by buying in bulk
• Allows businesses with Webenabled supply
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• Increased efficiency
– Web merchant can serve customers better by knowing the status of each order
– Webbased fulfillment mechanisms will demonstrate if the product is available, if it has left the warehouse or if it has been delivered and who signed for it
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GoCargo.com shipping bid (Courtesy of GoCargo.com)
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• Web site should be easy to navigate
• Content should be the foundation of the site and updated regularly
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WebSiteForFREE.com’s site design. (Courtesy of WebSiteForFREE.com)
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Homestead site tour. (Courtesy of Homestead.com © Incorporated. All
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Enhanced view with the Magnifier. (Courtesy of Xippix, Inc.)
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MyEvents.com calendar feature. (Courtesy of MyEvents.)
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MyEvents.com contacts feature. (Courtesy of My Events.)
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• Small spelling or editing errors
• Inaccurate statistics or product prices
• Dated information and inaccurate links
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Secure Assure’s example of a Privacy Profile™ (Courtesy of Secure Assure, LLC.)
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• While multimedia such as streaming video and
audio can enhance content, not all users have the capabilities to download this kind of information
• Provide consumers with simpler Web pages
• Test your Web site’s effectiveness by running trial downloads of your site through a standard dialup connection prior to launch
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– Pager
– Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
• Employ new technologies to make your ebusiness accessible to mobile devices
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• Enable good managers and business owners to build, manage and maintain an ebusiness
• Website building services
• eConsulting
• Marketing
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• Exist for ebusiness development, operation and management
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technologies for management and production purposes
• Monitoring software and services
– Mercury Interactive, ebSure, Inc., Akamai, iSharp.com,
Holistix, Keynote.com, Site Rock, Red Alert
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Your Web Site
Holistix’s Web Manager. (Courtesy of Holistix, Inc.)