Slide 2.1 Chapter 2 E-commerce fundamentals Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.2 Learning outcomes • After completing this chapter the reader should be able to: – Complete an online marketplace analysis to assess competitor, customer, and intermediary and competitor use of the Internet as part of strategy development – Identify the main business and marketplace models for electronic communications and trading – Evaluate the effectiveness of business and revenue models for online businesses. Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.3 Management issues • What are the implications of changes in marketplace structures for how we trade with customers and other partners? • Which business models and revenue models should we consider in order to exploit the Internet? • What will be the importance of online intermediaries and marketplace hubs to our business and what actions should we take to partner these intermediaries? Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.4 Figure 2.1 The environment in which e-business services are provided Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.5 Activity – the e-commerce environment • For each of the environment influences shown in Figure 2.1, give examples of why it is important to monitor and respond in an ebusiness context. • For example, the personalization mentioned in the text is part of why it is important to respond to technological innovation. Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.6 Environment constraints and opportunities • Customers – which services are they offering via their web site that your organization could support them in? • Competitors – need to be benchmarked in order to review the online services they are offering – do they have a competitive advantage? • Intermediaries – are new or existing intermediaries offering products or services from your competitors while you are not represented? • Suppliers – are suppliers offering different methods of procurement to competitors that give them a competitive advantage? Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.7 Environment constraints and opportunities (Continued) • Macro-environment • Society – what is the ethical and moral consensus on holding personal information? • Country specific, international legal – what are the local and global legal constraints for example, on holding personal information, or taxation rules on sale of goods? • Country specific, international economic – what are the economic constraints of operating within a country or global constraints? • Technology – what new technologies are emerging by which to deliver online services such as interactive digital TV and mobile phone-based access? Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.8 Strategic Agility • Capability to respond to environmental opportunities and threats to gain competitive advantages • Read the pp. 58-59 Mini Case Study 2.1 • The video may be searched form Google video search. • Discuss the key points of strategic agility • P. 59, Activity 2.1 Give examples of why it’s important to monitor and respond in an e-business context Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.9 Professor Donald Sull of London Business School talks about strategic agility Figure 2.2 Source: www.ft.com Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.10 Figure 2.3 An online marketplace map Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.11 Online Marketplace Analysis • Customer Segment – The phase that the customer is at in his/her lifecycle http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/economic/friedman/mmmarketsegmentation.htm – Psychographic segmentation is sometimes also referred to as behavioural segmentation. http://tutor2u.net/business/marketing/segmentation-psychographic.html • Search Intermediaries Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.12 Online Marketplace Analysis • Intermediaries and Media Sites – Mainstream news media sites or portal, e.g., cbc.ca, Google – Niche or vertical media sites, e.g., e-consultancy – Price comparison sites (also called aggregator), e.g., http://www.pricecanada.com/ – Super-affiliates – Niche affiliate or bloggers—often small or individual sites • Destination Sites – The sites that the marketer tries to generate traffic to Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.13 Resource for Analysing e-Marketplace • Ref. pp. 63-64, Tab 2.2. Some websites have changed and some need registration Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.14 Google trends for web sites – useful for benchmarking the growth of online intermediaries and destination sites Figure 2.4 Source: http://trends.google.com/websites Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.15 Marketplace Channel Structure • It describes the way a manufacture / supplier delivers products and services to its customers • Fig. 2.5 and Fig 2.6 display variety of options Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.16 B2B and B2C interactions between an organization, its suppliers and its customers Figure 2.5 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.17 B2B and B2C characteristics Characteristics B2C B2B Proportion of adopters with access Low to medium High to very high Complexity of buying decisions Relatively simple – individual and influencers More complex – buying process involves users, specifiers, buyers, etc. Channel Relatively simple – direct or from retailer More complex, direct or via wholesaler, agent or distributor Purchasing characteristics Low value, high volume or high value, low volume. May be high involvement Similar volume/value. May be high Involvement. Repeat orders (rebuys) more common Product characteristic Often standardized items Standardized items or bespoke for Sale Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.18 Disintermediation of a consumer distribution channel showing (a) the original situation, (b) disintermediation omitting the wholesaler, and (c) disintermediation omitting both wholesaler and retailer Figure 2.6 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.19 Reinter-mediation • The creation of new intermediaries between customers and suppliers, such as search engine, price comparator, etc. such as http://www.esurance.com/, http://www.pricecanada.com/ • Supplies need to – Be represented with new intermediaries – Monitor other suppliers via intermediaries – Create own intermediaries Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.20 Figure 2.7 From original situation (a) to disintermediation (b) and reintermediation (c) Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.21 Countermediation • Creation of a new intermediary by an established company • Example: – – – – B&Q www.diy.com Opodo www.opodo.com Boots www.wellbeing.com www.handbag.com Ford, Daimler (www.covisint.com) • Partnering with existing intermediary – Mortgage broker Charcol and Freeserve Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.22 Trading Location • Trading can be done on seller-controlled site, buyer-controlled side, or neutral third-party site • P. 67, Table 2.3 and P. 69 Fig. 2.8 present various options Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.23 Figure 2.8 Variations in the location and scale of trading on e-commerce sites Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.24 Commercial Mechanisms • There are several ways for closing a transactions • Ref. p. 69, Table 2.4 for detail • Priceline.com uses a new model that allows client to bid on the services such as hotel, airline ticket Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.25 Figure 2.9 Priceline Hong Kong service (www.priceline.com.hk) Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.26 Multi-channel Marketplace Model • Consumers use a combination of channels for their purchases. • M-Channel Defines how different marketing channels should integrate and support each other • Fig. 2.10 (p.71) shows an example channel chain map Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.27 Example channel chain map for consumers selecting an estate agent to sell their property Figure 2.10 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.28 Types of Online Intermediary • Infor-mediaries— intermediaries that capture, profile, and sell customer information • Metamediaries— intermediaries that assist with selection and discussion of about different product and services; they connects customers with the providers – Example: http://www.metacritic.com/ Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.29 Figure 2.11 Metacritic (www.metacritic.com) Source: CBS Interactive Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.30 Types of Intermediary • Intermediaries changed quite a lot since Ecommerce first started. • For a comprehensive list of intermediaries, ref. p. 75, table 2.5 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.31 Interactive activity – portals Q1. Define portal (p.74) Q2. Is a search engine the same as a portal? Yes, No Q3. Is a search engine the same as a directory? Yes, No Q4. List search engines / portals you use and explain why Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.32 Meta services Search engines Portal Directories ‘A gateway to information resources and services’ News aggregators MR aggregators Comparers Exchanges Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.33 Figure 2.12 Number of searches through the Google Keyword Tool Source: Google https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.34 Business model Timmers (1999) defines a ‘business model’ as: An architecture for product, service and information flows, including a description of the various business actors and their roles; and a description of the potential benefits for the various business actors; and a description of the sources of revenue. Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.35 Business model Key elements 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Value proposition-products & services to offer Market or audience Revenue models and cost base Competitive environment Value chain and marketing positioning Representation in the physical & virtual world Organizational structure Management Complete Activity 2.3 on page 79 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.36 Business model Timmers identified 11 different types of business models. –ref. p. 78 Alternative Perspectives on Business Model 1. Marketplace position perspective 2. Revenue model perspective 3. Commercial arrangement perspective Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.37 Figure 2.13 Alternative perspectives on business models Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.38 Revenue model • • • It describes how a business generate revenue What are traditional ways? The New Ways Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.39 Revenue Model- Publisher Example • • • • • • • • Advertising CPM (cost per thousand/mille) Advertising CPC (cost per click) Sponsorship of section, content, or widget Affiliate Revenue (CPA or CPC) Transaction Fee Subscription access to content or services Per-per-view Access to document Subscription Data Access for e-mail Marketing Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.40 Figure 2.14 Alex Tew’s Million Dollar Home Page (www.milliondollarhomepage.com) Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.41 Online Business Revenue Calculation • What factors to consider? – – – – – Number and size of ad units Ads Capacity to be sold Fee level negotiated for different ads models Traffic Visitor engagement (time to stay) Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.42 Example spreadsheet for calculating a site revenue model. Available for download at www.davechaffey.com/Spreadsheets Figure 2.15 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.43 Example spreadsheet for calculating a site revenue model. Available for download at www.davechaffey.com/Spreadsheets (Continued) Figure 2.15 Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.44 Online Business Revenue Calculation • Lab exercise: Activity 2.4 on page 85. Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.45 Figure 2.16 Econsultancy (www.econsultancy.com) Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.46 Revenue Model- Auction Example Roles for auction (Klein 1997) • Price discovery • Efficient Allocation mechanism • Distribution mechanism—attracting audience • Coordination mechanism Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.47 Business Model- Auction Example Types of auction • English—forward or upward, initiated by seller this is more of conventional auctions we commonly seen in physical world and on virtual market • Dutch—Reverse, downward, initiated by buyer This is more commonly seen in large manufacture procurement Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.48 Business Model- Auction Example • • Read the Case Study 2.1 on page 87-88. Discuss the questions. Research on the web to find Reverse auction examples in Canada Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.49 Business Model-Start-ups 1. Many dot.com start-ups failed. Some succeeded and newer ones are still created. 2. Value the Internet start-ups (pp. 90-91) – – – – – – Concept Innovation Execution—promotion, performance, availibility, security Traffic Financing Profile—publicity and awareness in the market Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.50 Lab Exercises Case Study 2.2 on Pages 91-93 – Read the case – Discuss the question 1-3 on page 93 Mini Case Study 2.3 on pages 93-94 – What’s business model of Firebox? – What made it a success? Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.51 Figure 2.17 Firebox (www.firebox.com) Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.52 Lab Exercises Case Study 2.3 on Pages 95-98 – What is Zopa’s business model? – Do you think it can succeed and develop further and why? Dave Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management, 4th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2009 Slide 2.53 Next Class Preview the E-consultancy Interview.107-109 Prepare to discuss the following – – – – – – What’re the impacts of the Internet to publishing industry How are publish industry coping with the challenges? How do they reach online readers? How do they use social network for their advantage? What a role do digital content and ecommerce play in their business? From this interview, how do you feel about the publishing industry and where it is going? 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