Development of B2C websites

All websites for business are conventionally divided into four main groups: B2B, B2C, C2C and C2B. B2C websites are probably the most widespread type of business sites. B2C stands for “business-to-consumer”; such websites allow manufacturers or vendors to sell goods or provide services directly via the Internet. Development of B2C websites can be very advantageous for business because it helps to enhance the accessibility of company's products.

Development of B2C e-commerce websites eliminates the need in a lot of mediators for successful interaction between the manufacturer or distributor and customers in remote regions. Such model makes the price of the offered goods more competitive because the costs for the services of mediators are eliminated, and customers find it more advantageous to buy goods for lower prices.

Traditional online stores are the brightest example of B2C websites. There are a lot of examples of successful online shops which exercise their activity in certain countries, regions or even all over the world. The examples of such B2C online stores are: www.amazon.com, www.6pm.com, www.gap.com, www.buyincoins.com, www.dealextreme.com, www.shoes.com, www.zappos.com, www.shoebuy.com, www.bestbuy.com, www.gamestop.com, www.walmart.com etc.

Despite of great popularity of B2C business model, development of B2C e-commerce websites still requires great thoroughness of the work and attention to detail. As a matter of fact, it is great popularity of B2C websites that stipulates that B2C sites must meet strict requirements.

Today there are a lot of B2C e-commerce sites, all of them compete with one another for acquiring the best rankings on the search engine result page and attracting the attention of potential customers. Negligent attitude to development of B2C websites leads to inevitable defeat in such hard competitive struggle.

Today it is not enough just to offer your potential customers the best price. A modern Internet user needs more than just a low price; what he needs is comfortable shopping, high-quality customer service, convenient payment methods and quick delivery. Compliance with the basic usability requirements gives a B2C website an opportunity to become a success.

B2C websites have been strongly criticized recently: some people think that this business model is becoming outdated because it is not able to meet the requirements of the target audience in full measure. Therefore there is an alternative to conventional e-commerce online stores: C2C or C2B websites. In contrast to “business-to-consumer” model, these alternative business models are not based on the offers of companies that sell or manufacture certain goods. C2C and C2B sites are based on the offers made by final consumers to other final consumers (C2C – consumer-to-consumer) or companies (C2B – consumer-to-business).

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