Business

An ecommerce site is a business. Our Management & Finance category addresses online payments, funding needs, employee issues, merchant profiles, key metrics, multichannel and omnichannel strategies, cross-border analyses, inventory management, accounting topics, sales taxes, and much more.

Business
The Online Business Cyber-Attack: Defamation

August 1, 2005 • John W. Dozier, Jr.

It is said that the worst lies are told behind your back. That may be true. Until recently, rumors about businesses have generally been oral, fleeting in nature, and (hopefully) not given much credence. Unfortunately, the dynamics of the rumor mill are changing. Just about everything on...
Business
A Tangled Web We Weave

August 1, 2005 • PEC Staff

The choice between having nothing nice to say and saying nothing at all, at least on the web, is becoming increasingly easier by the day. Say nothing at all. When the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) was struck down to allow indecent, as opposed to obscene speech, the effect – uni...
Business
Scope, Don’t Hope

August 1, 2005 • PEC Staff

Among the many perks of running your own business is the freedom to work on your own schedule, at your own pace, where you want and how you choose. However, ask any online entrepreneur, and he or she will likely never get back to you. No time. Too busy. Even if your business is confin...
Business
SPAM: Your Affiliates Can Put You Out of Business

July 1, 2005 • John W. Dozier, Jr.

A funny thing happened on the way to enactment of the new federal spam law known as “CAN-SPAM.” While for the first time it established nationwide rules to follow in using commercial email, it actually did much more. Somewhere along the legislative process the ISPs decided they wanted n...
Business
MistralSoap.com Doubles Online Sales

July 1, 2005 • PEC Staff

In 1993, Matthew Tilker, Mistral Soap’s founder, was studying in Provence, France. There he met a 70-year-old master soap maker. In a family factory, the man crafted soaps according to a 300-year old traditional triplemilling process, always using the finest natural ingredients. The soa...
Cross-border Selling
Overseas Customers: Just Clicks Away

July 1, 2005 • Massimo Arrigoni

Your web store is a few clicks away, regardless of where those clicks geographically occur. International customers can help increase your online sales.
Local Business
Crucial Differences between Retailing and E-Tailing

December 15, 2000 • Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

The retail business model that is practiced in thousands of shops and strip malls in cities all over the world is widely understood. However, many fail to understand that the Internet e-tail business model is substantially different. Some of these differences are obvious, while others only become clear later.
Business
Doing a SWOT Analysis for Your Internet Marketing Plan

March 14, 2000 • Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

Analyzing your business's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats can remake its outlook.