Introduction to ecommerce

According to Wikipedia, ecommerce is defined as follows : “Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, or e-business consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.”

More and more ecommerce businesses are being set up everyday and a lot of the time, it does not involve big organizations with millions in the bank, but comprise the efforts of individual entrepreneurs with an idea and a dream of taking the dream to its fruition. The key advantage of ecommerce is that there is no need to actually set up shop, which can cost thousands of dollars. For the individual bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, but who doesn’t have the funds to start a business the traditional way, ecommerce may well be a solution.

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