30 Days of Ecommerce Testing Day 5: Classifications

My findings below –

Business Classification (quite similar to @maos) :

  • Business-to-Business (B2B)
  • Business-to-Customer (B2C), e.g. Walmart, Target
  • Customer-to-Business (C2B), e.g. Website for freelancer to join business projects
  • Customer-to-Customer (C2C), e.g. Online Auctions such as eBay, TradeMe in New Zealand
    Others include B2G, G2B, where G is for government services

Business Models

  • Drop shipping – Only operate storefront. It is up to suppliers to handle shipping and inventory
  • Wholesaling and warehousing – Need to handle storefront, inventory, shipping and tracking
  • Private label and manufacturing – Selling by sending prototype and plans to customer, and then gather capital for production. Kickstart.com is an example
  • White label-- Similar to private label but selling products that are already sold successfully by another company
  • Subscription Ecommerce – products are delivered to customer in a regular, scheduled interval

Source: https://selfstartr.com/types-of-ecommerce-business-models/

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