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E-commerce Internet Assignment

1. Amazon

In Amazon, the top five selling books are; The legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, Tenth of December: Stories, The Only and Only Ivan, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon Journey into the Afterlife and Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 Inches 2 Sizes.

Book Review of “The legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia”

This is a 276 page book that was initially was a tie-in with Skyward Sword. It is composed of amazing art work that entails the history of Hyrule. It shows the evolution of the characters. It is based mostly on games like Skyword and Twilight (Amazon, 2012). The focus on Ocarina of Time is amazing and the interviews are quite interesting. It offers the reader a suspense that wants him or her to read more.

Customer services at Amazon

Amazon offers the clients email, web and sales services. While shopping at the Amazon buyers are able to receive discounts on excellent and quality product that they buy.

Product Directory

Amazon customer services accords the user a wide range of services of cloud computing products which are dynamic and cheap. Clients that are looking for storage or online databases are able to find them at Amazon (Amazon, 2012). There are a wide range of options; elastic compute cloud, simple storage, elastic MapReduce, Notification Service, Queue service, database service and Import/Export among others.

2. Recommendation Systems

This system offers the user the ability to test if the tendency of the client and its impact. While on the other hand, the offline applies recommendations. Secondly, this is the only thing that makes it possible to acquire qualitative data that is vital for analyzing the outcome. There are however some disadvantages like the affordability is quite limited taking to fact the people involved. The system similarly lacks privacy as the user’s information is left open scrutiny and use by others.

3. Online Ticketing

The effect of e-commerce and more so on one business to another has gone on to increase. Clients are supposed to be able to handle the supplier electronically (Griffin, 2003). The high numbers of businesses are a way to develop the application of electronic technology.

Site No. 1: www.ticketdogsports.com

This is a sports ticket broker site which sells tickets that are hard to sell. They can be accessed from every event and seasons. The user is able to pay using open payment.

Site No. 2: www.ticketsolution.com

This site offers users tickets for events that are coming up; they are able to see the events that are coming. It sells tickets that are exclusive and one is able to see the sits using a map. Payment is done using a credit card.

Site No. 3: www.ticketmaster.com

This site offers the clients tickets for upcoming events. The site is bale to recommend some events to the user for consideration. The user is additionally accorded offers among others while they purchase the tickets. The tickets can be paid using a credit card.

Other sites are like: www.roadtrips.com, www.coasttocoasttickets.com, and www.webtickets.com

 

 

4. 7 day Itinerary Trip to Kerala, India

Kerala is a popular tourist destination with great scenes of attraction.

Day 1 and 2: Kochi

Cochin is a cosmopolitan city in Kerala. The place has a great natural harbor and popular center of commerce and commercial operation where Arabs and Dutch among others visit. One can go fishing in Fort Kochi, leisure walk and visit cultural sites like Santa Cruz Basilica among others.

Source: Mygola, 2012

Day 3 & 4: Alappuzah

These two days will involve visits to the traditional houseboat. The boat offers a unique experience of what took place in the past.

Source: Mygola, 2012

The boats have the most pleasant modern facilities that will offer comfort. It is well furnished and will regard to the budget available, one is able to acquire this place for the rest of the trip.

Source: Mygola, 2012

Day 5 & 6: Munnar

Munnar is quite famous with the most amazing hills. It is known for the leisure walks and good climate adding to the pleasant landscape and tea plants as well as the most affordable foods.

Source: Mygola, 2012

Day 7: Kovalam

The place is a common tourist spot with several coconut trees. The beaches are great sites and places to hold festival events. Catamaran cruise is common for the organization of cultural programs which may lighten up the evenings.

Source: Mygola, 2012

 

Source: Mygola, 2012

The Kerala offers its visitors a pleasant site to visit and one not to forget. The cost for the 7 day trip is about $7000.

5. Report

This is a report about e-commerce and small businesses. It will be composed of figures that are acquired from surveys done in various small businesses.

Introduction

E-commerce has brought about an estimated $42 billion in terms of sales and it is bound to be higher with the increase of customers who change their operation to use the internet for buying things. However, the combination that exists between e-commerce and small business is quite slow.

The retail sales that were attributed to e-commerce in 2009 were 36.5 billion while in 2010 it grew to just 41.5 billion. This was just a 0.2% increase calling for much more to be done (Formstack, 2012; Turban, 2006). On the other hand, the integration between the internet and small business showed that, even though the businesses had an increase in e-commerce, below half of them that underwent survey used websites; 33% in 2007 and 45% in 2009.

A number of businesses did not use the internet due to a wide range of reasons; 41% felt the company did not need it, while 19% felt it was too expensive, 16% felt that they were pressed with time while the others thought it was too complicated. The use of websites was bent on the amount of revenue acquired from the websites. The more a company got, the more it was bent to use it.

Conclusion and Recommendation

E-commerce may not have been accepted to a great extent, but with the small impact it has, it has grown to affect other businesses to use it. Sales have grown and revenue, much however needs to be done. The company needs to educate the businesses on more effective and efficient use of the e-commerce. It is through this that the business is able growing faster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Amazon (2012). Acquired from: www.amazon.co.uk

Formstack (2012). How small businesses are engaged in E-commerce. Acquired from:             http://www.formstack.com/How-Small-Businesses-are-Engaging-in-E-Commerce.html

Griffin, Ebert (2003). Business Essentials. New Jersey: Person Education.

Mygola (2012). 7 Day Itinerary for Kerala. Acquired from: http://www.mygola.com/7-day-    itinerary-for-kerala/q22441

Tickets Dog Sports (2012). Acquired from: www.ticketdogsports.com

Ticket master (2012). Acquired from: www.ticketmaster.com

Ticket Solution (2012). Acquired from: www.ticketsolution.com

Turban, Efraim (2006). Electronic Commerce. New Jersey: Person Education.