A well designed web site will enhance and compliment other forms of advertising. An excellent web site can also make small companies look large. If you ever imagined running a home based business, now's your chance. Without the great overhead costs of conventional storefronts, an Internet storefront is the perfect solution to carry your business to the next level. E-commerce stands for electronic commerce.
Some proponents believe electronic commerce includes television and phone shopping.
The kind of e-commerce most people talk about when they use the term are the systems that let people and companies accept consumer credit cards or checking accounts over the Internet for goods and services rendered. The other term people use for this form of e-commerce is online shopping. What this entails is an online storefront where where Internet users from all over the world can visit, browse and add goods and services to a virtual shopping cart and pay via their checking account or credit card once they are done at a secure checkout counter. Many commercial web sites are simply online catalogs that lack the power to securely accept credit cards and checking accounts over the Internet. These sites miss out on profits that would have been made had there been a simple point and click ordering and secure online payment that shoppers can use easily and with confidence.