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Chapter 3 and 8. Tenth Lecture

The document discusses building an e-commerce presence and provides guidance on various aspects to consider such as defining the business vision and target audience, developing a revenue model, creating online and offline marketing channels, budgeting costs, and addressing legal and ethical concerns regarding privacy, intellectual property, and governance.

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Chapter 3 and 8. Tenth Lecture

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Welcome to E-commerce (EHAD3000D)

Mohammad Ejaz
Building e-ecommerce presence

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Imagine your e-commerce presence

Some basic questions:


•What is your business?
•Who is your potential customer?
•How are you going to make money?

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What’s the idea? (The visioning process)
• What you intend to achieve and how
• Communicate defined, focused, and clear vision
• Amazon: become the largest marketplace

• Amoi.no

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Where’s the money? Business and revenue model

• How will your business


generate revenue?
• Advertising, subscription,
transaction fees,
sales, affiliate revenue
• Bytt.no

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What and where is the target audience?

• Who is your target audience?


• Where can you best reach them?
• Shein.com (fashion brand of
under 30s)

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What is the ballpark? Charaterise the market
place
• What are the features of the marketplace?
• Analysing demographics, competitors, suppliers, and
substitute products
• Entry into emerging, growing, and less competitive
maketplace

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Where is the content coming from?

• Websites display diverse type of content


• The main anchor of attracting, retaining, and
leading to purchase
• Websites entail content: text, graphics, photos, and
videos

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Know yourself: conduct a SWOT analysis
• A method to analyse, strategise, and comprehend your
business

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Develop an e-commerce presence map

• Utilisation of online and offline communication


channels
• Make sure a presence where your customers are
engaged
• Website, apps, social media, and offline media

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Presence map

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How much will this cost?
• Create a detailed budget for presence
• The costs of hardware, software, and
telecommunications have fallen
• Focus on long term costs for maintenance and
upgradation of site

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Building e-commerce presence: A systemic
approach

The system development life cycle

System analysis Building the


System design Testing Implementation
planning system

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System analysis/planning

• What do we want this site/app


to do for business?
• Alignment of technology with
business
• Dinside.dagbladet.no

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System design: Hardware and software platforms
• Designing different components and their
interaction with one another
• Logical design: displays flow of information and
process functions
• Physical design: defines mode of server and nature
of software

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Building the system
• Building internal technological capability and organisation
competency was associated with control and ownership
• Hiring of other companies to build and run the site

• Cefalo.com

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Testing the system

• Limited and restricted access to website


• Obtaining the desired match on different fronts (users,
company, and partners)

• Finn.no

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Implementation, maintenance, and optimisation
• System checking, maintenance, and testing
• Monitor and adopt the site to changing needs of technology,
business, and market
• It is a costly process that involves resources and
commitment

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Ethics, law, and e-commerce

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Understanding ethical, social, and political issues
in e-commerce
• Ethics: principles for defining right or wrong courses
of actions

• Responsibility: individuals, organisations, and


societies are responsible for their actions

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• Accountability: individuals, organisations, and
societies are accountable for actions
• Liability: recover the cost occurred by actions of
others
• Due process: correct application of law

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The moral dimensions of an internet society

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Privacy and information rights

• Privacy: individuals right to be left alone, free from


surveillance
• Information privacy:
1. Control use of information collected about them
Edit, delete, and shape the use of personal information

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• 2. Right of knowing the nature of information
collected
Obtaining consent before collecting personal
information
• 3. The process of collecting, sharing, and
disseminating should be transparant
• 4. Information should be stored in a secure manner

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Intellectual property rights

Copyright
Patent Trade
secrets
Trademark

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Copyrights
• Writings, arts, drawings,
photographs, music, motion
pictures, performances, and
computer programs are
protected (minimum of 70 years)

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Patents

• Invention of process (method), machine (Robots


and flying taxies), manufacture (Products: gloves
and tables), and composition of matter
(intermixing of chemicals)
• Method must be implemented through technology
(EU Patent Convention)

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Trademark

• Any word, name, symbol, device,


or any combination used to
identify and distinguish goods

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Trade secrets

• Trade secret: others do not know, has commercial


value, and owners have taken steps to protect
• Business procedure, formulas, and service delivery
• Companies intend to protect trade secretes

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Governance

• Who will control e-commerce?


• Taxation: From april 2021, foreign sellers and online
marketplaces must register, declare and pay VAT on low
value goods (below NOK 3,000) (The Norwegian Tax
Administration, 2021)

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• Net neutrality: internet service providers treat all
internet traffic equally

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Public safety and welfare

•Protecting children from pornographic


material
•Protection of public health (cigarettes,
gambling, and drugs)

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