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Come
with us on the Net. We are in lycos.it, lycos.de, jumpy.it,
virgilio.it, libero.it, costameno.it, shopla.it,
paginegialle.it and in many others search-engines!
Internet
puts in direct contact the consumer and the producer.
Only a pair of years
ago was thought that the advent of Internet decreed the death of the
intermediation, in truth, on management of trading relationships,
many companies has set up modality of sale using Internet either
for the collection of orders or for the distribution of products through
services of logistics with integrated the Network.
For example UPS has quite extended his own services beyond its original
mission of international courier, succeeding in to offer to financial
solutions connected to shipments of the goods, like the advance payment
of invoices.
Such approach has, in the first place, resized the importance of the
factors space and time, widening the market with Internet and fastening
the answers of the companies to the demands for the same market. It has
been taken place, moreover, a effective cost reduction, thanks to the
elimination of distributive intermediate levels.
Thanks to Internet the e-commerce can be extended to the marketing and
the sale of a greater number of products and marks.
The effort is evidenced to supply to the consumer an immense range of
products, independently by the producer.
The
business-to-business is leading as pushing sector of electronic
commerce, but what happened to the on-line sales toward toe consumer
market? In Europe the number of Net users is destined to increase within
the end of 2001, overtaking the States, following a study of the
research society International Data Corp. The Europe is already
at avant-garde for the use of cellular phone and within the 2003, the
European wireless access to Net would have to be 2 times bigger than
American.
Following Forrester, moreover, the penetration index of Internet on UE
territory would reach the 13% within the end of 2000 (it was 9% on 1999)
reaching the 40% on 2005. In the nex 5 years the online purchases
fulfilled by the European Union citizens would reach 174 billions Euros,
such 7% of total amount of sales of end-user market (it was 2,9 billion
on 1999).
The main European society have jump on the Net late respecting the
American concurrent and the analysts preview that the on-line goods and
services sales
will double every year for the next 5 years. ”Europe, that is
late, has the potential for reach 1,6 trillion Euro of exchanges within
2004” written Therese Torris, specialist of European e-commerce from
Forrester Research. “It is previewed that will be spent 900 billion
Euros into e-commerce within 2005”.
Open
a Store on our Supermarket is very easy! It is enough to send via
standard mail or e-mail the images of products that You want to sell and
the relative texts and prices.
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