challenges and opportunities of E-Marketting in developing countries?
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People don't have computers/internet
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The global marketing will never happen because  certain countries survive only out of dictating marketing policies to weaker nations. And those countries depend on giant corporations . One example, the USA.\n\nGlobal marketing is only a description to hide the true wish to dominate others.
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if the company operates in different parts of world, then using ebusiness is a huge advantage for it.\n\n* purchase orders can be send with secured protocol to different office.\n\nit is also helpful for faster communication between different sites.
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I'd say no. Initially it is easy to find contacts to sell products, but within a few months it becomes very difficult, and the marketers become so desperate that they start annoying everyone they know. I know of several people who have fallen into this trap.
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Hey if you want to market your automative battery,in rural india.. you first need to take up these challenges,\n \n* Since people may be illiterate, u most take up a village trip and paste pamphlets in their local language about your prodcut name and its usage and price...\n\n* attract people by low prices and usage for their daily routine life\n\n* be careful if your product sell immediately as u expect, after all people are poor out there.. give them some time to understand ur product and its use..
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You should first find a competitive productive activity (manufacturing or natural resources) in your location and then try to establish a relationship with the providers, this activity may be, for example, artcrafts.  then you have to visit craftman in your location and show interest in buying their products.\n\nInternational clients are highly demanding, so you must carefully consider build a poll of providers that guarrantee you: quality, quantities and reliability.\n\nOnce you have selected the provider then you have the first half (but the most difficult is to come)  now you have to build trust in potential buyers abroad of the product you selected to export.\n\nIn my experience I founded very useful the help of my country embassy in other countries, as well as this I highly recommend you to build an online (and printed) catalog. You should be extra careful with details in those marketing materials, NO typos, no false statements, try to be as accurate as possible and, of course, try to have those materials in at least two languages. Also be ready with quotation templates and check the payment method best suits you. again trust is important in this regard.\n\nIn this stage you may find in statistics about export of your country (given in any Economy Ministery website) about top foreign countries that most likely buy the kind of products you choose to sell from your location, keep it simple but be persistent as it takes a lot of work to get the first order, however, once you start, yopu will be in one of the most lucratives activities of the world and prosper you, as well as your family.\n\nAs you don´t give further details in your question I assume that you are starting from scratch, so, don´t worry, try to strenght relations with your friends and family, and the friends of your friends and the family of your family, try to find in your personal network those fellows that may help you connect the chain (find the best provider or find the first client) in any case prepare your selling speech for each case and be ready to show leadership and motivation, remember that doing business is a human activity and in involves inter-personal relationship skills.\n\nAlso, remember to keep it simple, export follows the same principle of local selling, you buy as cheap as possible and sell as expensive as possible (your profit will be the difference)\n\nbuy cheap and sell expensive (but be fair in both sides)\n\nDon´t kill the gold eggs chicken by trying to get all the eggs at once, keep you baance and try to not be so greedy.\n\nBeware of international scams!.  In my website www.somosnegocios.com  I have many recommendations for doing business internationally, check in the FAQ section, If you have further questions feel free to ask me.\n\nBest regards\n\nAlejandro
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Try here:\n\nhttp://www.ecommercetimes.com/
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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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There are hunreds of examples but I suggest you visit Media Lab Asia to start with. \n\nAnother great site is the Stockholm Award site.\n\nI would also recommend the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation site for India specific case studies.\n\nAlso do a Google search
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Try SKYPE! Skype let's you specify the country you want and it will list all the users from that country.\n\n\n** My blog - www.affiliatemarketing4dummies.blogspot.com **
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E-business (electronic business) is the conducting of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners.
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Take a look around you, identify the needs, find the solutions to those needs. Also check government's programs for supporting small businesses development and the legislation governing the market. I live in an emerging country, what works best here is trade (wholesale) of food products and fuel. An idea would be to trade in LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), a less expensive alternative to gasoline - that could be produced by mixing various components like propane, butane, a.s.o., also LPG installations for cars and LPG equipment for filling stations. But entering on this market is highly difficult and very expensive.\nAlso IT solution development is a possibility, cell-phone industry (the part concerning the distribution of cell phones, cards, accessories) or construction works. Good luck.
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visit.....\n\nwww.maturemarketinstitute.com/
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If this is for your ph.d, you probably know most of the content but whatever you learned so far wont help you at all. Since India is made up of such a large number of demographics mainly because of the population but more importantly, segmenting such demographics would be even harder. India is on the boom to becoming the fastest growing economics in the world since soo many foreign investors investment. \n\nDepending on what product/service you are doing this marketing research on, you have to first understand the culture, language, religion, and traditions to successfully apply a effective marketing plan.
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how about the evolution of small business due to the internet
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I can't answer the Indian part of your question, but there are lots of PPC engines. \n\nThe problems with most of the smaller engines are \n- low quality traffic and click fraud\n- limited traffic volume makes it take a long time to get any meaningful account feedback\n\nI recommend staying with Google and Yahoo! off the start. If you can't compete on those networks it may mean that you need to work on improving your business model or conversion rates.\n\nAttached are two links, one to a page offering PPC tips and another to a free PDF book offering a bunch of tips about the PPC market.
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Try Gurellia Marketing.\nthere are a lot of great books on the subject.