Internet

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The Internet
The internet will continue to shape the way businesses operate for some time to come, and while many e-business sites have come up only those that can find a way to add value to customers will succeed (Boone & Kurtz 230). The internet was of a lot of use to me during the whole project.
From the start of the project I used the internet to help me search for aid organizations and get to know more about them from their sites. In most company websites I would find information like how many people the organization is helping at the moment, and its operating policy. There were also other sites some government and non-governmental that evaluates the different aid organizations, and advice donors which ones are good to donate to. As more and more companies go into e-business several opportunities are coming up for other companies. One of this is the virtual iris which has developed software which will enable ecommerce companies to have hundreds of images on their sites that allows visitors to zoom in on a product to see it up close before adding it to a shopping cart (ecommerce-guide.com).
This type of business is called business-to-business (B2B) and it is gaining a lot of ground as companys come up to fill the niche created by emerging ecommerce sites. Most of the successful companies in this area have one thing in common and that is “Understanding that retailers prefer to focus on the business of selling their wares rather than becoming experts in the technological guts of an e-commerce site“(EcommerceTimes.com) During the course of the project the team members relied heavily on the internet to keep each other updated, whereas, normally its faster to call someone and confirm certain details. This doesn’t always apply in reality as not everyone has a mobile telephone, and even those who have them normally switch them off when they are in class or when performing other activities.Therefore, the need for email ...