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• Business to business versus business to
consumer markets
• Fewer but larger buyers
• Suppliers are well known
• Users
• Influencers
• Buyers
• Deciders
• Low volume high value orders – low
internet involvement
• Easy for purchaser to assess whether item is
in stock
• Order can be completed at any time of day
or night
• Re-buys or repeat orders are easy to specify
• Delivery can be tracked online
• Balance of communication mix is different, with
advertising and sales communication often merely
being vehicles to support personal selling –
internet will not change this mix
• Below the line techniques tend to be more
common easily supported by the internet
• Target the right customers
• Own the customer’s total experience
• Streamline business processes that affect the customer
• Provide a 360-degree view of the customer
relationship
• Businesses are familiar with using the similar techniques
of EDI
• There is more pressure on businesses to trade using
e-commerce
• Business-to-Business relationships are often long term,
making it more worth while for businesses to set up links
between business partners
• ‘a 24 hour order taking and customer
service response capability
• Regulatory and customs-handling
experience to ship internationally
• In-depth understanding of foreign
marketing environments to assess the
Barrier How the Internet can assist
1 Psychological Can help increase knowledge of overseas
markets. Provides success stories of companies
that have become exporters. International
enquiries to prototype web sites can highlight
demand
2 Operational E-commerce facilities can simplify the handling
of international transactions. Can supply
information on export issues
3 Organizational Overcomes lack of financial and staff resources
• e-STEEL enables trading between buyers and sellers
in a virtual marketplace
• Product evaluation and selection – Marshall
Industries product
• Boeing uses PART web site to streamline ordering
process
• Cisco excels in pre-sales and after-sales customer