What does e-commerce mean? What's the difference between e-commerce and Taobao?

To put it bluntly, electronics is the means and commerce is the purpose. E-commerce, English is e-commerce, abbreviated as EC. E-commerce covers a wide range, which can be generally divided into business-to-business or business-to-customer

What is e-commerce 1? The word "e-commerce" is the abbreviation of e-commerce by people in the industry. It refers to conducting business activities through the network, which breaks through the limitations of time and space. Compared with the traditional business model, it has huge and obvious advantages: expanding consumer groups, reducing costs and higher efficiency.

2. E-commerce mode:

B2B: refers to online transactions between enterprises.

B2C: It is a transaction between enterprises and consumers.

C2C: It's a transaction between consumers.

What are the advantages of e-commerce? First, it greatly reduces manpower and material resources, reduces costs, and breaks through the limitations of time and space; Second, the characteristics of openness and globalization; Third, improve the competitiveness of SMEs; Fourth, the reduction of intermediate links makes it possible for producers and consumers to trade directly; 5. Break the barriers of time and space and provide abundant information resources; Sixth, interactivity.

How to do e-commerce

In this era of big data, the development of e-commerce is also rising. According to statistics, Taobao, a single system, has a monthly shopping app activity of 47,970 people. This is also one of the reasons that attract many entrepreneurs (including some college students) to join the huge team of e-commerce.

Doing e-commerce is nothing more than supply, passenger flow, conversion rate, delivery and after-sales. It is relatively simple and easy to understand, and novice Xiaobai can understand it. Now, like some traditional C stores, most of them have their own supply channels and operation teams. Of course, these are not many.

There are also some novices who make money by promoting commission and price difference. This is very popular in previous years, but with the change of Taobao rules, this model is gradually restricted. It is also quite difficult to deal with some problems such as illegal pictures.