What are the major hurdles for a Microbusiness which aims at doing e-business?
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How to build trust.  The biggest hurtle with e-business in the ability to build trust.  Unlike traditional brick and mortar you got to try that much harder to build value and create long lasting relation that is win-win.  I believe most people still want to have a face to face style of business interaction so you got to overcome that inhibition.\n\nGood luck.
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One of the minimum legal requirements for all businesses is that the company owner / creater is of legal adult age, which you are not, however you can legally contract your services out by freelance as a self employed minor, given that you do not need to have a separate legal entity (company) to work self employed. The first and most important thing to all business ventures is to establish an income, and keep cashflow coming in as greater in volume than the cashflow going out. If one of these fails, you end up in debt and can spend your life climbing out. In order to establish income, you must have people paying you, in exchange for goods or services, in your case web design. Web design clients can be aquired by advertising your services as available to the public, particularly targeting your audience, namely people who either do not have a web page, or have an old, pathetic web page. One way to advertise for free is to create a really good (your best ever) web page, and send a link in an email to organisation email addresses. This is called SPAM, and there are some laws against it, but it is so accepted in todays society that unless you SPAM the antiSPAM squad at the police department, with your name, address and phone number on the email, your probably going to be ok. you can also buy bulk (1000s) of current email addys for $10 on the net, but I suggest you use PayPal or something.\nRemember, the less of your income you spend on yourself, the more you can spend on increasing the amount you make in any given period, so be smart about where you apply your capital, and you could be the next Bill Gates in 20 years easy.
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Advantages\n# Profit from your passion, hobby or area of expertise...\n# Work from anywhere...\n# Start Easily...\n# Start Cheaply\n# Enjoy Huge Profit Margins..\n# Your Business is automated, no worries of inventory or late delivery\n\nDisadvantages :\n# People don't treat you right.. they think you are either one of those scammers or have porn sites :D\n# Because the investment is low.. there is too much competition. If you want to jump into this field, stick to it, it'll make money...\n# you become TOO lazy
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Evolution of Business\nEvolution of Businesses\nThere are four important areas in the process of evolving from a business into an e-business. These four stages are collectively known as the e-business cycle. There isn't a pre-defined order to the cycle. A successful e-business can start at any point. However, the first step is identifying which of the core business processes are most suitable for, or most in need of, conversion to e-business. \n\n\n \n\nCustomers are the key ingredients of success and the best place to start conversion to e-business is with customer relationship management. \n\nCustomers are the basis of any business and by developing a loyal customer base and by improving customer interactions and internal business processes then a loyal customer base will be developed. \n\nTo improve customer interactions and internal business processes you need to look at individual processes that contribute to the overall customer experience. These include Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and E-commerce \n\nE-business leverages the Internet to integrate and transform these processes into a single efficient system. \n\nCRM \n\nThis keeps all of you business processes focussed on the customer. It is "building customer loyalty through better customer service" and it involves supporting, developing and retaining profitable customers. \n\nThe idea of customer self-service is pivotal to e-business. By analyzing past customer behaviour, an e-business is able to customize its offerings and anticipate the customer's wants and needs. By giving customers controlled access to data they need you can provide quality self-service for customers and not only manage your relationship with customer but give them ability to manage their relationship with you. \n\nSCM \n\nUsing the Web to integrate the complex system of suppliers, partners, employees and customers will transform the way you manage your supply chain. \n\nE-Commerce \n\nThe way cash flows through your company will also change. Each aspect of revenue and cost will be transformed. These will include online transactions to electronic billing and payment systems. E-commerce is not the same as e-business but is a subset of e-business. E-commerce can be used for E-Tailing and Marketing. \n\nE-Tailing As a place for direct retail shopping, with its 24-hour availability, a global reach, the ability to interact and provide custom information and ordering, and multimedia prospects, the Web is rapidly becoming a multibillion dollar source of revenue for the world's businesses. Some of the better known and profitable e-commerce sites include : Amazon.com, cdNow.com, Garden.com.\n\nMarketing The wide spread use and interactive nature of the Internet, allow companies to gather data about prospects and customers through a series of easy to use methods. \n\nsite registration \nquestionnaires \ntaking orders \nThe issue of whether data was being collected with the knowledge and permission of market subjects had been raised. (Microsoft referred to its policy of data collection as "profiling" and a proposed standard has been developed that allows Internet users to decide who can have what personal information.) \nGrowth of e-commerce\nThe business -to -consumer (B2C) market was estimated by International Data Corporation ("IDC") to have been $15 billion in goods and services in 1998, IDC projects that the B2B e-commerce market will grow from $35 billion in goods and services in 1998 to over $1.1 trillion by 2003.The benefits povided by e-commerce has contributed significantly to its growth. Improving both the customer and supplier realtionships as well as increasing efficiency and reducing cost. Improving Customer and Supplier Relationships\nCustomer and supplier relationships in a traditional business would be hindered by the time and cost required to communicate current information, locating new customers and supplier
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The first challenge is getting hired, which will vary in difficulty depending on how low on the totem pole you are willing to start.  A B2B job required a lot more expertise than selling cellphones at the mall.  \n\nThe second, which is related to the first, is building credibility.  Selling to other companies is far differernt from selling cellphones in the mall.  Your clients will be more educated & sophisticated, both in general and in what you are selling and how it applies to their business.  I am assuming you're selling to medium to large companies.  They may even know more than you.  They will look to you as a solutions-provider, not just someone who'd hocking goods.  And if you can't deliver, they'll work with the next guy.\n\nThat's the third challenge.  The competition.  You're not competing with high-school dropouts.  You're competing with educated and trained professionals.  And they've done this longer than you.\n\nI personally enjoy B2B because of the relationships that you build, and the challenge of complex (and expensive) solutions.  You become a de facto part of the customer's business, and a part of its success.  I think that's cool.  I would choose a company that has both a track record of success, but also one that takes the time to nuture you and develop you, ultimately putting you in a position to succeed.\n\nGood luck!!!
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1. Globalisation. \n   \nNo longer can management think in the box. Focus is on the world much more than localities.\n\n2. Information Superhighway.\n\nThe World Wide Web has changed the way we market. Various options will need to be looked at before money is committed to any form of marketting.\n\n3. Delivery\n\nShipping used to be easy. With the world as your market, logistics have to be in place to meet these needs.\n\n4. International Laws\n\nThe boderless world however necessitates that we know and appreciate international laws which can affect us.\n\n5. Foreign Currency.\n\nHedging, Conversions, exchange rates etc all these are key to operating in the changing world .
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I'm not doing all your homework for you, but I'll help.  The biggest disadvantage of sole proprietorship is liability.  If the business goes belly up, they can come after your personal assets.  Also you are more susceptible to lawsuits.
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Advantages of electronic buisness would be a good one.
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depends on the company, and it depends on how important they feel eCommerce is in their growth strategy.  If they are not an 'e' company, they're less likely to be responsive.  You also have to understand that most big companies get an ENORMOUS amount of email from people and can't answer everything.
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You can do it two ways:\n\n1. Do it yourself - get a domain name, you create a webpage, choose a webhost, get an online merchant account, get an online processing gateway to accept credit cards payment, find and install a shopping cart, take pictures of your products and write sales copy, get an SSL certificate from Verisign or Thawte for secure processing, integrate shipping tracking information from UPS or DHL. \n\nIf you do it by yourself, you'll have the flexibility to choose the best element for you with the features you need. The disadvantage is that you have to do it yourself and if you do not have the skills to setup the applications such as shopping cart, then it can be quite a challenge.\n\n2. Get a complete package - example is Yahoo store where they basically provide you with everything an online store needs (from web hosting to online processing to order management systems to shopping carts). All you need to provide are your web pages (sales copy and products), merchant account and the monthly fees.\n\nThe disadvantage is you are limited to whatever features they offer and customization options are almost nil.
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basically, internet business just like the other business. if you think you can success in a business, then you can do it with hard work, good calculation, think ahead, etc.\nnothing is easy.
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not exactly what you asked for, but the link gives you information on starting an online business\n\ni guess you'd have to be more explicit what do you need\n\n1.- programing\n2.- marketing
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There are so many things you have to consider: location, rent, employees, taxes, permits, filing of business papers, utilities, store fixtures, accountant and/or employee payroll system, suppliers, bank account, loans, insurance, possibly an attorney, knowledge of state labor laws, payment of state unemployment/disability for employees, computer system for ordering, a plan for shipments, etc.  I think you should talk to a business owner in person to ask questions, if possible.  If not, go to www.sba.gov - they have a Small Business Startup Guide.  This should be a good starting point.
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Look further and think bigger.\n\ne-businesss include Internet Business  and there are other forms of e-business. In short, e-business need not merely be done through Internet. Have you heard about Intranet? Have you heard about teletext (an interactive system which is available via cable TV)?\n\nActually, e-business is those busines which is done via "on-line". Some e-business is done via "private lines" so they are not available on Internet. \n\nAlthough over 90%  of those e-business is done via Internet, some are not. Some banks offer private line connection between their main-frame computer to the customers' office PC computer so that bank transactions and business can be done via the private line between the bank and the customer. A famous example is the "hexagon" system of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which is a e-banking system. Hexagon exists before the Internet become popular.\n\nSome countries still run a "teletext" system with which your houseful top-box - cable TV - is connected with the big computer server, so that you can do transactions via your TV. This is not new, available to some countries at least for 20 years. \n\nInternet Business is actually a new form of e-business only.
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If you're talking about e-commerce on websites I think a disadvantage is the difficulty in satsifying customers.  Viewing product details, shopping carts and checking out all have to be very intuitive and if they're not you could lose a customer very easly.  I think customer satisfaction is much more important (and easier to lose) on an ecommerce website than regular one.
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what you trying to ask \nCompany without wires or\nwireless technology implementation\n\nfor 2nd option you just need to analyze that either you want to sell wireless items or\nsolutions
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There are businesses which require little capital. Search Amazon or ebay for books of ideas.  It helps to have relatives who can work with you, a car or van, tools, a talent/skill, live in a  prosperous area, etc.  But there are services one can provide which require just manual labor if you don't mind asking for the business and dealing with the acquired customers/clients.