Introduction to E-Business

E- business basically consists of the subsets e-commerce and e- marketing. It runs the whole gamut of the aspects of doing business as normal but using technology that did not even exist a few years ago.

This enabling technology has proved to be so powerful that it has fueled new ways of thinking and along with it new ways of doing business. The new business movers and shakers face challenges presented by the new set of technologies that we were not even in the mindset of traditional business operators.

How do you operate a faceless sales operation?

How do you get paid for the goods and services you provide?

How do you promote your product or service?

What kind of businesses are most suitable for running in this kind of environment?

All of these questions are a rough introduction to a new way of doing business for the old hands. The new breed are a different kind of animal altogether and some of them would never have fitted into the old ways.

E-business has referred in the past to any business that runs using one of the various forms of electronic assistance available in the not too distant past. This usage of the term is now somewhat passe and e-business ha come to be defined as business that is run on the Internet or uses at least one of the various Internet enabling technologies.


This is actually a very general and cursory look at the issue, and it rerquires a large amount of research in order to ascertain whether or not you business id suitable for application to th Internet.