E-COMMERCE

E-Commerce - (Electronic Commerce) - The buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers over the internet. It is one of the most important aspects of the internet to emerge. It allows people to exchange goods and services immediately and with no barriers of time or distance. Any time of the day or night, you can go online and buy almost anything you want.

However, the road to creating a successful online store can be a difficult and confusing one if you are unaware of the concepts and principles behind e-Commerce. The trick to entering this market smoothly is to find out what you need to do before you have to do it.

Typically there are three types of e-commerce transactions:

	business to business
	business to consumer
	consumer to consumer