Trends
Business to consumer e-commerce is projected to grow into the hundreds of billions of dollars in the next few years. Both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer segments are growing at fast rates. Witnessing the success of Dell Computer and the growth rates of companies such as Ebay and Amazon.com, it leads us to believe that this direct to consumer model can also be applied to smaller companies. In fact many smaller companies are already taking advantage of this unique opportunity to reach customers that might ordinarily buy the products.
Back to Basics
One of the latest trends seems to be that companies are not doing business soley as a "brick and mortar" business or solely as an Internet business but rather finding that the fusion of both businesses to be important to the overall success.