Essays on Ebay

Business Model Generation- LinkedIn

Business Model Generation- LinkedIn

Section 1

The social media space was innovated when LinkedIn brought the concept of being connected virtually while maintaining a strong and networked professional identity. Touted as the world’s largest professional network over the internet, LinkedIn boasts of more than 162 million users worldwide with its uniqueness embedded in a multi-sided platform operation giving its users the facility of a variety of solutions under different categories. The analysis of business model of LinkedIn and contributions from different business and management aspects to this model have been deciphered using the Business Model Canvas as innovated and introduced ...

Introduction

The Solid-State Drive (SSD) is a device that uses integrated circuit assemblies for persistent storage of data. The SSD SAS (Serial-attached) is an NAND Flash-based storage device that is usually developed to fit in a similar slot as a hard disk drive (HDD) as well as use SAS interface to be connected to the host computer. The mainly known drive form elements for SAS SSD include 2.5-inch as well as 3.5-inch. The devices vary in the bandwidth of 3, 6 and 12Gbps. (TechTarget, 2016).Therefore, the device is suitable for enterprise use.

Cost

According to eBay, 800 GB SSD 6 ...

It is interesting to note that collective intelligence has been married by the idea of web 2.0. The main objective of this adoption is to create better systems with the vital information of the organization and the contribution of a limited resource raised by the more than a billion users on the web. This is evident on Amazon, eBay, Google and other critical services like restaurants, guest houses and transport services.

It is, therefore, important to address the 3 most valuable ways of harnessing collective intelligence.

- Be the center of generating source data. This idea was widely applied in the era of web 2.0. The success in this phase is largely dependent upon the time ...

1. Managing the Digital World: Amazon.com

- First and foremost, Amazon.com’s mission statement is “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices” . - Its enterprise-wide information systems enabled Amazon to fulfill its goals through the use of effective strategies that facilitated various operational facets to deliver the products ordered by a wide range of clientele at the most effective use of the marketing mix (product choice and selection, prices, places, and promotions). ...

Analysis for reformulating the business model

With regard to the economics of a business, some performance metrics determines the success of a business venture in a certain region. These elements comprise of customers, competition, technology and the regulatory framework. In order to appreciate the background and the context of eBay, it is crucial to have an insight on its history. As an American company, eBay had survived the dot-com bubble in the US. Founded in 1995, the company had grown to a level of recording revenue at least 18% of its revenue by 2001 (Ireland, Hoskisson and Hitt). Therefore, having had such success in the US and international markets, ...

1. The basic idea of Snappy Auctions is to provide for customers an online platform for the sale of any goods from eBay. Snappy Auctions acts only as an intermediary in the contract of sale between the seller and buyer on eBay. Payment of goods and shipment takes place without the participation of the buyer as it is to take place on eBay. For the use of the platform customers pay a fee, usually made up of the percentage of the sale price. Since the profit of Snappy Auctions is directly dependent on the volume of sales, committed to this ...

Internet Marketing

Digital marketing is defined as a broad term that refers to the various promotional techniques that are used to reach the customers through electronic media .

Digital marketing has the following benefits: - Can be used anytime (24 x 7) and anywhere Digital marketing can be done anytime and anywhere through digital devices the are connected to the internet. The customers can shop on the website using the internet at anytime and anywhere. The convenience of anytime shopping and selling is one of the main benefits of digital marketing. - Quick transactions

The digital marketing involves quick transactions with the customers that save time and costs.

- Easy information

The information is easily available through the digital marketing channels such as social media, websites and email.

- Ability to ...

1. In order to attract customers, eBay has formed a platform over which people can place, view, sell, buy and find more information about a product. Through the system of feedbacks, customers are able to exchange relevant information of sale of products. Through collaboration with PayPal, eBay customers make secure transactions through following of specific regulations for making payments

2. In trading, eBay customers face potential risks of fraudulent traders who could take advantage of the customers by unfair exchange. On the other hand, the seller of the commodity could present an item that does meet the requirement of the buyer ...

There are five stages in the information systems development process. These are initiating stage, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and completion stages. It is these stages that form the systems development life cycle (SDLC).It is the role of the systems analyst to act as the project manager of the information systems project. Throughout the system development lifecycle, it is the responsibility of the project manager to initiate, plan, execute and close down the systems development project. Management of the project is actually the most important phase of an information system development project. Efficient and effective management of the ...

Internet Privacy is becoming more and more important to people as they spend more of our lives on the internet. While some search engines such as Google are providing a huge amount of amazing free services, people are all together concerned about how and where their private information is being used.

For years, tracking systems have been taking note of what you search and where you go on the internet without your consent. And today many people voluntarily divulge their personal details on and social networks and popular websites are being analyzed and tracked. Some of these tracking technologies include ...

Computer networks and the internet have radically altered the way we live and conduct business. Integrated information systems based on vast networks make up the center of operation for current business environments and governmental operations. Governments such as the United States and Canada hold sensitive information about its citizens in such computer networks. Businesses rely on networks in order to perform business transactions that use electronic transfer of money in a new business paradigm referred to as E-commerce. However, as these systems are efficient and effective in management, they present the most vulnerable systems to security breaches.

Unlike physical storage ...

Trespass is a legal term used to describe a wide range of offences against a property or persons. It refers to when a person or an individual or their property interfere with the property of others without their permission or pre existing terms of agreement. There exist two types of trespasses, criminal and civil trespass. Police, park rangers or sheriffs will enforce criminal trespass while in civil trespass the owner of the damaged property initiates enforcement action in a court to have any damages met for which the trespass may be held responsible. Traditionally some level of intent is required for any type of ...

Foundation Course – Fundamentals of Networking

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Introduction..3

Pricing4

Discussion of Design Considerations5 VLANs 6 Protocols Involved in Constructing a VLAN Based Switched Network7 Cisco VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).8 Classless Sub-Netting.9 Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)9 Router on a Stick.9 Network Diagram for the Gaming Competition10 Three Layer Hierarchical Model11 Bandwidth Requirements for a Gaming Network..11 Conclusion12

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Introduction This paper includes the monetary quotation that will require to setup a network for playing Online and LAN games. All the state of the art technology used in the gaming industry is present in ...

A strategy is an action or plan that is made to achieve an aim or goal. Overstock.com came to be in the year 1999. It is an online shopping company that serves a certain niche of clientele. Its brands are very affordable. The aim of the company is to become the premier company selling excess inventory through the internet. The company has grown to become an online shopping company that is a force to reckon with in the market. Though the company has received major competition from other online shopping companies like EBay and Amazon, it still remains the most popular ...

Mayfair Solid State 1600, a tape recorder:

The Mayfair solid state tape 1600 is a tape recorder which has an original box with a very simple design. This object is portable and it uses the magnetic tapes in recording and playing the sound or music.it is has two batteries that drive the motor in order for an object to work. It is aided by a microphone for it to operate effectively and efficiently. The purpose of this object is to record and play sound or voice especially for music. The tape recorder has a glass window. This object aimed at recording as well as restoration of the sound for ...

Question 1

Amazon has the benefit of eliminating overhead as well as carrying hefty quantities of inventory because it usually orders these books from it distributors. The company has grown to emerge as one of the largest retailing online companies as well as the largest e-commerce retailer globally. It avails goods such as books, clothing, toys, and electronics at competitive prices. Additionally, Amazon usually spends much of the earned cash in building more satisfying centers in order to accommodate more data and technology offerings. Walmart is among the largest e-commerce retailer on the internet, which provides Amazon with stiff competition. Walmart ...

Introduction

EBay logo; figure 1: source (Walia & Zahedi, 2013) So, what next for Groupon Company? It is alleged that eBay is on the final move to buying out the renowned Groupon Company. The company is facing some financial mishaps; lack of continued progress in terms of expansion across the globe is affecting the profits margins for the business. The company is believed to be performing well across the US, but its performance in terms of expansion into the global market is relatively low. This is due to its inferiority. Who is behind the deal? The CEO of eBay ...

Executive summary

Online marketing has with time become the most convenient way of buying and selling merchandise. The online methods of payment are the most lucrative methods to earn cash fast with great ease. This is made possible by the several card companies including Visa and MasterCard. In the modern world, all needed is one to give the card number to the online store upon which funds are deducted, and hence payments made. This method of payment had become the most popular payment method up until other systems, where emails make payments we’re introduced. In the latter system, one needs ...

Amazon.com Inc. is an internet and online retail company (Noren 2013; Jurevicius 2013) focused on selling products online by directly offering them to customers. It also facilitates other sellers by offering platforms that enable them to reach millions of customers. It main competitors include e-Bay, Google, Netflix, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Wal-Mart. Its huge online presence positions it as the main competitor in online retailing. This article will deal with the firm level analysis of amazon.com in an effort to establish its competitiveness in online retail industry. Conducting firm level analysis of a company requires one to have access to ...

The recent debate about whether eBay should spin PayPal off is fanned by conflicting approaches to increasing company profitability, value to shareholders, and customers. On one side, the activist investor is claiming that PayPal will be more profitable if it is spun off, while on the other side, eBay board members claim that both eBay and PayPal are profitable together than they would be independently. According to the activist, PayPal, which accounts for a big portion of eBay revenue, would be more innovative and be more competitive in the online payment sector if it branched off. In his argument this ...

Introduction

The report is being prepared with the objective of discussing my portfolio strategy where according to my risk tolerance(high), an amount of $50000 will be allocated amongst various asset classes. In addition to the risk tolerance, creating a well-diversified portfolio will be on the top of my preference list. I am sure that with the amount of knowledge and traits relating to portfolio management, I will be able to create a balanced portfolio for myself that will help me to earn 12-13% return on per annum basis.

Investment Strategy and Risk Tolerance

The golden idea in the world of the portfolio management ‘’Never put all ...

Part-A: Privacy Protection

Introduction Privacy policies are statements, usually stated on e-commerce platforms, which govern and determines the way in which the e-commerce platform gets or collects, uses maintains and discloses information from users (Ecommerce Platforms, 2014). It also covers how the information collected by the platform is protected against unauthorized third parties who might intend to have access to it for wrong purposes. 84% of Americans believe that privacy protection in the US is not adequate while 78% believe that consumers have lost confidence over how their information is being used (Head and Yuan, 2001:150). They further explained that the ...

Business

Part A Whole Role Report The company in the e-commerce industry chosen for this assignment is Ebay. Ebay is an online ecommerce marketplace that connects the buyers and sellers all over the world that can buy or sell anything using the online platform. - Workplace Roles and Responsibilities

The workplace roles and responsibilities for the various employees in the online marketplace Ebay include the following:

- Functionality of the Ebay platform including the automatic payment system and order processing. The functionality and technical responsibilities of the employees in the technical team are to ensure that the website is functioning 24 hours without any technical error and loads on time. The servers team maintains the ...

Both China and India are fast developing into consumer superpower and a large part of the consumers are the youth of both nations. The products mostly bought by this section of consumers from both nations include mainly products purchased for the “Passion” and “Vitality” values i.e. values of thrill and not price based values. Today’s young consumers from these nations focus their expenditure on such consumer products as smart phones, tablets, laptops, clothes, skin care products etc. as can be seen in the following Chinese consumer survey result. Figure 1 Spending Preferences Another area of consumption is ...

Introduction

EBay is one of the key players in the online shopping industry. According to Hudson, eBay host around 200million buyers or shoppers and various business transacting in the site (1). Originally, eBay started as an online garage-sale-style auction but currently eBay has evolved to be the world force in the retail industry. The marketplace has various frameworks for selling various products or items for both the small and large businesses. Hudson notes that, eBay is the place to go while one is looking for discount on items and unique collectibles (2). Just like other forms of business, this ...

Evidence abounds that online retail stores such as Amazon and eBay are causing brick-and-mortar stores to close down. Whether reducing their portfolio of stores or going out of business altogether, owners of physical stores are facing a daunting challenge when competing with online retailers that are increasingly attracting customers. The most important reason that customer chose online shopping over going to a physical store is comfort. Next in line comes availability. Not only is the customer afforded the comfort of sitting at home or anywhere to browse through hundreds of products at the click of a button, he or she is ...

MKTG300 Final Quiz

- Analyze the marketing environment and the forces shaping eBay’s business over the years. The marketing environment of Ebay can be analyzed on the basis of a SWOT analysis that identifies the external opportubities and threats and the internal strengths and weaknesses of the company.

SWOT Analysis of Ebay

Strengths: - World’s largest marketplace: Ebay is positioned as the world’s largest marketplace that provides a platform to buyers and sellers to sell and buy goods on the website. Ebay is a website where anything can be bought or sold. - High Brand Recognition: Ebay is a well established brand that is ...

Portfolio Management

Introduction The objective of this report is to understand the performance of various stocks ranging from different industry over a period of three weeks. The companies selected by us include: - Apple Inc. - Ebay Inc. - Delta Airlines - Coca-Cola Company - Bank of America - Wells Fargo - Banco Santander - JP Morgan - Progressive Corp - Pepsi - Mcdonald - AT&T The companies were selected as each one represented their industry significantly while the banking stocks were selected primarily because of recent growth ...

Introduction

Ebay is an established brand in the area of electronic commerce and is recognized as the global marketplace for the buying and selling of any goods. The current paper provides a strategic analysis of Ebay.

Vision and Mission of Ebay

The mission of Ebay is to provide a global online marketplace that allows anybody to buy or sell anything and thus enables economic opportunity around the world . The company provides an online trading platform that connects buyers and sellers across the different parts of the world. The mission of the company is to ensure a safe platform for the users and protects their interests such as copyrights. ...

Executive Summary

Globalization and technology have transformed the business environment. Organizations are competing with each other on a global platform to attract customers. There is a need to create strategies that allow organizations to continuously adapt themselves towards the changing business environment for a sustainable growth and development. The current report presents a strategic analysis of company Ebay that has established itself as the world’s leading online marketplace for buyers and sellers across the world. The report analyzes the internal and external business environment of Ebay and also provides recommendations for future business strategies for Ebay. The external environment analysis includes PEST analysis ...

Introduction

Amazon.com is an American online electronic commerce company based in Seattle and is the largest online based company in the United States of America. Initially, the firm started as an online book store, but later it diversified to include videos, DVDs, MP3 downloads, video games, software and electronics among others. The company also offers consumer electronics such as kindle fire tablets, fire phone, fire TV, and Amazon Kindle e-book readers and it is the largest global provider of cloud computing services. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos as the president, chairman and CEO in the year 1994 (Stone ...

Introduction

The paper is being written with the objective of conducting the financial analysis of Amazon Inc. of past three years using the tool of ratio analysis. For this very purpose, the participants will be using the financial statements of the company for the year 2011, 2012 and 2013, while the report will be concluded with the critical analysis of the trend in the ratios observed. They are sure that by the end of this report, we will be having comprehensive overview of the financial performance of the company. Today it is the largest internet based company in the United ...

Memorandum

- The chief executive officer Mr. Dan hoe should call for an urgent meeting to all the staff working under him. In this meeting, they should brainstorm on ways through which they can get back into the market - The manager should seek immediate help from high-qualified online market professionals who have achieved success in other online businesses. - The CEO should advise its marketing team to put their ADS on other websites that were not into the online marketing business.

Middle term (one month to three months)

- Carry out an extensive marketing campaign to attract new customers especially the medium sized companies ...

Science today, providing a lot of technical gifts to mankind science has proved to be a boon for the entire society, with the low accessibility now only being recorded in the books of history. Networking plays a very important role in sustaining the prevailing reign of technology. Interestingly, internet devices such as hubs, switches, MAU, repeaters, bridges and routers have been playing the role of protagonist in augmenting the importance of networking. Hubs or Ethernet hubs, normally take the help of Ethernet connections to join computers with the other devices on a local area network (LAN), such as workstations, print servers and file ...

Intervention Plan

Intervention plan 2 - List areas of weakness in occupational performance for Ms. T Ms.T faces shoulder and wrist aches when she is teaching at the school, be it while writing on the blackboard, or just trying to hold a book. She faces troubles in knitting, and playing cards, due to the same problem. Her physical agility is very weak, and she takes a long time to do her household chores. She is also having trouble in walking without support, and turning about the bed every night. She faces trouble in the toilet too. Her capability to bathe the ...

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Literature Review

Professionals and scholars in the field of marketing and management have since become fascinated with the idea of co-creation. Zwick et al. (2008, pp. 163-196) emphasized the importance of co-creation with regard to its political impact in the cultural, social and economic realms, taking into consideration the notion of Michel Foucault on the government and labor-and-value theories advocated by neo-Marxism. Contrary to the traditional perception of consumers as passive entities in any given market, co-creation brings to light their capabilities in terms of practicing their power to interact with firms on resource ...

The strategy explains the idea of how businesses successfully create competitive advantages in the market place. It reflects that battling with the competitors is not a successful tactic to succeed from competitor. Rather a company can succeed in competition by creating a “blue ocean” in the market place that is still uncontested. According to the Mauborgne and Kim, this strategic policy enhanced the value of a business by increasing the values foe employees and customers. They further explain that the strategy helps in exploring the new potential markets. In this way, a business enjoys a monopoly in the newly discovered market, as there are no ...

In the mid-1990s, one could use Ty Inc.’s Beanie Babies as cash in certain situations. That was how much in demand they are. Now they are a ho-hum toy brand everywhere from hobby shops to grocery stores. Back then, thieves of Beanie Babies even received their own name – Babysnatchers. Now people have trouble giving Beanie Babies away. Let’s look at the 4 P’s of marketing (product, place, price and promotion) and compare them to the history of Beanie Babies and how they could be revived for the Beanie Babies: The Next Generation. The product itself ...

The first person logs into the site and heads straight to the buying section and lazily scroll through as if he is looking for nothing specific at first. The user is relaxed and seems to be in no hurry to settle on one commodity. He then looks for other better deals by looking at the various offers available. The eBay user seems to be very keen on checking on the postage cost. The user does not use the sellers section at all. He says he only buys on eBay and has never had the experience of being a seller ...

1-1 Evaluate current creative and innovative management processes in your organization (if not choose a company) by using the Innovation assessment checklist given to you by Tutor. Describe the procedures and make comparisons with other departments/organizations? eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is headquartered in San Jose, California in the United States. Its strategy and goals are aligned to its mission, which is to reach every customer in the world by providing them with a global platform. It is an e-commerce company that provides platforms and services that enable the conduct of buying and selling transactions for ...

Amazon! Your best international shopping solution, Amazon has today grown to become the most accessed and preferred e-store globally. This is linked to many reasons, but the main being the wide verity of products, low cost as well as simplified shopping option offered by the store. Today people can shop at the Amazon from any country by using their debit or credit card without needing specialized permissions. This places Amazon above other e-store making them more competent then another store since they provide simplified modes of payment. Every consumer is repaired to purchase items online today but not each ...

Introduction – use headers / subtitles through out

I will mark grammar problems and you will have to correct them. Ebay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is currently headquartered in San Jose, California (Bjornsson, 2001). It was originally meant to be an online “flea market” selling goods for individuals. After selling the first item listed, a broken laser printer, Pierre began to expand the website. In 1995 and 1996, eBay began to hire its first employees and in January of 1997 the site hosted eight times as many auctions than of the entire previous year (Bjornsson, 2001). In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder introduced ...

eBusiness: EBay

EBay and Target market profile

EBay is an online auction industry that was founded in 1995 and has since grown dramatically. Similar to its competitors, it does not produce any tangible or physical goods. The firm’s model of business is to make income from facilitating information movement through the internet. It provides the services of connecting independent buyers, suppliers and sellers together. It makes cash through charging sellers fees and commissions. Its mission is to offer a global trading platform where nearly everyone can trade nearly anything (mis.kent.edu, 2010). The achievement of this mission would only be probable through the help of ...

Brief description of the company’s operations

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation, which activity includes investments in Internet search, cloud computing and advertising technology. The company keeps and advances a number of Internet services and products and gets profits primarily from advertising through its AdWords. Larry Page and Sergey Brin established the company. It was first incorporated as a private company, September 4, 1998, and August 19, 2004 started vending the shares on the stock market. At which point, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt all decided to work as the core team for Google for approximately twenty years, or up until 2024. However ...

Business Analysis:

Discuss the on-going competition between Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay. Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay are all participating in the business to business (B2B) and business to consumers (B2C) e-commerce industry. E-commerce is a method of doing business, which allows transactions to occur place over the internet via sites that links vendor, host and buyer over a network. Amazon and eBay have been business to business e-commerce competitors with their primary customers coming from the US market for the past few years of existence. The emergence of Alibaba, which is presently the world leader in B2B e-commerce, coming out of China, is due ...

Portfolio Summary

Executive Summary: The portfolio which consists of twenty (20) stocks from varied industries has been benchmarked against S& P500 index on weekly basis from 8-4-2014 to 29-5-2014. During the period of our analysis, while the S&P 500 index has earned return in the range of -1.43% to 0.43%, the portfolio performance on the other hand has been bumpy. For Instance, in the beginning week of our investment, the portfolio earned a return of 12.37%, by the end of last week; the portfolio earned a return of -10.99%.

Management Discussion and Analysis:

The portfolio consists of twenty stocks and has been benchmarked against the S&P ...

In the business world, surrounding factors create complexity of operations because of the great dynamism that characterizes them. In essence, many changes occur in business, all which may promote or hinder growth of businesses. Of course, adaptability to the changing business environment is inevitable for entrepreneurs who have a desire to become successful. Usually, six elements constitute the business environment. These are legal and regulatory, economic, technological, competitive, social and global environments. Businesses thrive in a healthy environment as opposed to unfavorable conditions. Companies should continuously examine the business environment in order to excel. Obviously, changing trends would affect the ...

Wonderbar University

There is an old saying: Everybody needs a hobby. I began mine when I was quite young—around 5 or 6 years old. My mother gave me a handful of tumbled gemstones. I cherished all of them, especially my clear quartz. Many years later, I rediscovered my passion for gemstone collecting because I learnt of their “metaphysical properties.” I believe gemstone collecting augments spiritual practices such as meditation. I love to look through my vast collection of natural glass, rocks, and crystals to pick out which two I would like to hold for meditating today. This afternoon, I chose my labradorite ...

The two companies that give a good opportunity for comparing capital expenditure are Wal-Mart and eBay. According to NAICS, the industry is coded 443112. The name of the industry under which the companies are operating is known as Radio, Television, and Other Electronics Stores Industry.

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart, List 2013 Fortune Global 500 Company, is ranked as the second largest corporations all over the world (Hays, 2014). The company has an employee base of 200 million being the largest retail in all worlds. As on January 2014, the company had 800000 workers, 6337 stores and up to 26 countries that are outside ...

Introduction and definition of data warehouse

Data warehousing is a technological database that is relationally designed for the query, as well as analysis function. It incorporates data stores and logical, conceptual, as well as physical models that support business objectives and end-user information needs. Ideally, it also comprises of historical data that is derived from myriad sources including transactional data. One of the most advantageous primary functions of this warehouse is separation of analysis of workload from transactions. This enables any organization in question to consolidate the data acquired from different sources (Inmon 63). The creation of a data warehouse necessitates mapping data between targets and sources. ...

This organization suffers from a lot of security issues which needs immediate mitigation plans. There has been a series of network security breaches such as unauthorized access to the network and organization’s employees being asked for their passwords by persons purporting to work in the IT department. As a result, the organization requires an efficient authentication strategy that ensures that only authorized personnel access the network. Likewise, employees need to be sensitized on the importance of keeping their credentials safe. They should realize that username and passwords are important in keeping their personal security as well as those of the company. ...

Question 1

The secret behind the magic on how search engines work could possibly amaze many individuals when they come to realize. In order to understand how search engines work, it is important to view the four steps the data entered into the machine takes before the suggested results are displayed on the monitor for view or interpretation. The four simple but complicated steps includes, the crawling of the “spiders” to transport the alphabetical data entered into the computer, then followed by indexing of the data, and then the relevance of the data is assessed before the results of the search ...

[Writer’s Name]

Business Overview eBay was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States of America. It is involved in the business of providing online services and tools to help consumers in online and mobile commerce and payments internationally. eBay can be categorized under the Catalog and Mail Order Houses, and has operations in over 30 countries. It has about 30,000 full time employees currently working under its name. The company made $11.5 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of 2013, and $2 billion in net income in the same ...

EBay

Ebay is an online auction service that enables users to sell their stock or goods and buyers place bids on a broad variety of items. The duration of the auction can last from a few hours to a day to even weeks. During this period of auction, bids from different people are gathered. After the bidding duration, the bidder that has the highest bid from the others is then awarded the item or product. This service started in the United States, but it has expanded its auction service to more than thirty countries globally. The items being bid range from small things ...

e-Bay case study

Introduction

eBay is an online seller. There is no need for intermediary in this type of business. It’s an ecommerce seller. There is a direct sale from seller to customer. All the activities of an intermediary are undertaken by the company itself.

Channel of distribution feasible for eBay

Producer consumer This is because eBay operates on a direct channel of distribution. Here the producer is selling directly to the consumer without the help of intermediaries. Direct channel involves selling face to face, or sales through computers or mails, etc. but there is no involvement of any distributor or any intermediary. There is just ...

Identification of whether the new product will be the modification of an existing one in your product mix, or the development of a new product. eBay is an internet company that offers consumer-to-consumer services. Its product is a platform or online auction and shopping website where people buy and sell various types of goods and services from different parts of the world. eBay came into the market in 1995 and since then it has not remodeled into a new product but continues to improve in order to suit the needs of the customers and to match up with the levels of ...

Introduction

In Finance, Capital Structure means the way a company finances its assets through debt and equity. For example, if a firm is known to have financed 70% of its assets using debt and 30% using equity then the company is said to have a leverage of 70%. The higher the leverage, the more risky is the company from financial and investment perspective. There are different theories on the capital structure. Modigliani and Miller are known to be the founding fathers of the capital structure modeling in a perfect market. In a perfect market as per Modigliani and Miller it does not matter how a company ...

Online shopping knows a tremendous development nowadays, with customers turning to their personal computers, laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices to access various shopping websites and purchase their needed items. One of this website, and probably the most successful in the online shopping market, is e-Bay. As a consumer to consumer multinational company, eBay intermediates the offers of the sellers with the demands of the customers all around the world. In this global business environment it is possible for a customer from Eastern Europe to purchase a classical movie package from a buyer from North America, Asia, or any other part of the globe. ...

Introduction

Marketing strategies have been adopted by several business organizations so that they can capture a wider market and assure customers’ satisfaction. Often, poor marketing techniques have a negative impact on the sales and the general outcome of a business entity. These marketing strategies influence the decisions of the clients. Moreover, the general view of the public towards a company significantly influences customers’ behaviors. EBay being an internally recognized company has competitors in the market that has limits it from retaining all their clients throughout. EBay Company deals with several products targeting all individuals, male and female, household and commercial products. The company has ...

Introduction

Investing can be easier said than done. It is a process that not only involves money, contrary to what most people believe, but also time, effort, energy, skill, knowledge, and usually the most important of all, experience. It is a very tedious task. It has to be made clear that there is a big difference between making investment decisions and making gambling or shotgun decisions. While investment decisions do get affected by luck and other unexpected things such as the collapse of a company or a shifting market trend, it still is unique from gambling decisions. Gambling decisions are usually based on luck, nothing ...