Internet+Business+Models

=Internet Business Models=

Internet Business model is similar normal business model, it is necessary for start-up a business. It decides how a company generates daily business operations, including its value, mission, vision, innovation, implementation, target segment and form of the company. Generally, there are three types of business models, business to business (B2B), Business to Customer (B2C) and Customer to Customer (C2C).

Business to business (B2B) is commonly describing the transactions between a business parties to another business parties. It usually involve various numerous of products and the seller could generate higher profit by such a big order. Also, both companies usually can encompass marketing activities between businesses and have positive result from marketing. For example, a digital product design wholesaler sells a camera to an electronic retailer. Both of them would promote the product through media and have marketing benefits to the company.

Business to Customer (B2C) is a company sells its product to customer without any agents. The company usually contact the customer directly, therefore the company has to identify who is the potential customer is and how to deliver your message. Most company would cooperate with some social networking company. It’s because those social networking company such as Facebook, Twitter and Google plus have collected and categorized huge database about individual customer, it helps the company to reach the potential customer by looking at their consumer behavior. The benefit of B2C is the company can have feedback from customers immediately after they have using the products or services.

Customer to Customer (C2C) business describes a transaction involved by a private person to another private person. They can be both buyer and seller at the same time. This type of business increased rapidly in the past few years because of the internet technology. Many online trading agencies and websites founded providing the platforms and encouraged this kind of business model. Amazon is a great successful example of the C2C trading media, people can post pictures and descriptions of the product online, another party who is interested in the product would pay online to Amazon. Then Amazon would pay to the seller after the buyer has confirmed the transaction.


 * There are many different type of internet business models, some of the more popular ones are advertising based, affiliated sites, drop shipping, physical product sales, and subscriptions.


 * Physical product sales is the following step from drop shipping, it is the equivalent to having your own shop on the web. This form of business model can be effective when it comes to maximizing profit however it requires that you have a physical product and stock supply of that product and can be categorized as B2B or B2C depending on type of product/ market the company is in.

 Nick Rudolph

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