Do you want to make money selling online? If so, there's never been a better time. Today, you can profit not only from eBay, but also by plugging into Amazon and other exciting marketplace opportunities. And, whether you're just looking at a clear-out, need a second income, or want to establish an e-commerce enterprise, this book is your indispensable guide. In this brand new third edition of his bestselling Make Money on eBay UK, Dan Wilson has distilled nearly 15 years experience with eBay, small businesses and internet selling. Whether you are a fledgling seller, full-time trader or e-entrepreneur, Make Serious Money on eBay UK, Amazon and Beyond is the guide to keep by your side.

Competition policy debates on digital platform markets are often premised on the idea that market fragmentation and the standard forces of competition and entry may provide a potential solution to excessive concentration and market power. In this work, Francesco Ducci provides readers with a different perspective based on the theoretical lens of natural monopoly. Ducci explores this framework through the development of three case studies on horizontal search, e-commerce marketplaces, and ride-hailing platforms, investigating the strength and limit of potential (and often heterogeneous) sources of natural monopoly at play in each industry. Building on these case studies, the book then derives from the application of the natural monopoly framework general policy implications for digital industries by identifying the respective institutional flaws and shortcomings of ex ante and ex post approaches to market power as one of the central challenges in digital platform markets.

This book systematically introduces the data governance and digital transformation at Huawei, from the perspectives of technology, process, management, and so on. Huawei is a large global enterprise engaging in multiple types of business in over 170 countries and regions. Its differentiated operation is supported by an enterprise data foundation and corresponding data governance methods. With valuable experience, methodology, standards, solutions, and case studies on data governance and digital transformation, enterprise data at Huawei is ideal for readers to learn and apply, as well as to get an idea of the digital transformation journey at Huawei. This book is organized into four parts and ten chapters. Based on the understanding of "the cognitive world of machines," the book proposes the prospects for the future of data governance, as well as the imaginations about AI-based governance, data sovereignty, and building a data ecosystem.

This volume presents a pragmatic approach to understanding and capitalizing on contemporary m-commerce trend. It comprehensively encapsulates the evolution, emergent trends, hindrances and challenges, and customer perceptions about various facets of how physical and online retail channels are merging, blurring, and influencing each other in new ways. The rapid rise of m-commerce (or mobile commerce) has led to the emergence of new paradigms in the marketplace. The difference between physical and digital retail is diminishing, and a new "phygital retail" phenomenon is on the rise. Marketers need to understand this emerging paradigm and consider the new opportunities and challenges involved. This volume, M-Commerce: Experiencing the Phygital Retail, provides a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary m-commerce concepts along with the emerging paradigms in a pragmatic way. It presents empirical analyses and reviews on the myriad aspects of m-commerce, including both contemporary academic and business research.

This book is an essential introductory guide to the knowledge required to develop apps. Chapter by chapter it provides the core principles any person must understand in order to develop mobile applications. It outlines the fundamental skills and knowledge that business and computer science students need to either oversee the development of a mobile app or themselves undertake to develop a mobile app. This workbook will give a holistic overview of the initial stages that must be considered when endeavoring to develop a mobile app. This workbook breaks topics down into core, technical and non-technical. Looking at each topic from all three angles, the core knowledge required for UI, UI for the technical person and UI for the non-technical person. The workbook guides the student through the key components or core of mobile app development and shows all students both the technical requirements and the non-technical requirements of each topic. It will allow all students to pick and choose how deep they wish to delve into the different topics.

"Basics Marketing: Online Marketing "offers an accessible and practical introduction to what is unquestionably the most dynamic and fast-moving field in marketing today.

In keeping with advances in technology, and rapid consumer adoption of new media and new ideas, the possibilities for digital marketing are changing rapidly. Therefore, throughout this book, Brian Sheehan will guide you through the major trends that exemplify forward thinking and which will continue to inspire great online ideas well into the future.

International examples, case studies and practical exercises will help you master the key concepts and techniques of online marketing so that you can apply them to your own campaigns.Other AVA titles of interest include "Basics Marketing: Consumer Behaviour," "The Fundamentals of Marketing," "The Fundamentals of Creative Advertising "and "The Fundamentals of Branding."

This textbook covers the basics of business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, where similar principles of customer targeting can be observed as in B2C eCommerce. Gerrit Heinemann highlights the specifics and business models of B2B eCommerce, analyzes the digital challenges and shows the consequences and opportunities for online sales in B2B. Recognised best-practice examples illustrate how successful B2B eCommerce can work and which risks have to be considered.

Send Better Email. Build a Better Business.

With more than 2.6 million email messages sent every second, it's becoming harder to stand out in inboxes―not to mention in a sea of spam, which accounts for 67 percent of those emails. Marketing and strategic branding expert Susan Gunelius gives you the tools you need to grow your list of email subscribers, keep them engaged, and turn them into lifelong customers.

By focusing on building a strong foundation first, you'll learn how to develop a comprehensive email marketing program designed to evolve with your business. Then, Gunelius shows you how to convert subscribers into buying customers and vocal brand advocates with the techniques that marketing professionals use to build their businesses and increase their revenue using email. You'll learn how to:

- Use free content to encourage people to subscribe to your email list

- Develop conversion funnels that drive people to buy from you or sign up for your webinars

- Save time and keep subscribers engaged with your brand with email automation

- Boost conversions with list segmentation techniques designed to get the right message to the right people at the right time

- Test your messages and analyze your performance using key metrics to improve your results

- Win back customers with automation and personalization strategies designed to build a one-on-one relationship with your audience

- Understand the laws and deliverability rules you must follow and tools to help you along the way

This book analyzes multiple aspects of the Chinese livestreaming e-commerce industry, including its development and evolution, macro environment, market landscape, platforms, streamer structure trends, influencers, production, and explosive marketing methods, MCN operations, risk assessment and policy management. It not only describes the highly developed state of the industry in China and how it has advanced further as a result of COVID lockdowns, but also focuses on the problems of livestreaming e-commerce and proposes solutions and development strategies. Investigating the development trends, the book also discusses how far livestreaming e-commerce can go during the wind-up period. In particular, based on the underlying logic of people, goods and fields, it assesses the streamer structure of universal participation, product selection, goods supply and price setting, exploring the scene marketing methods of pop-up conversion and the strategic layout of the operating platform. It objectively describes the current state of the Chinese livestreaming e-commerce market, and taking into account Chinese social, cultural, and economic characteristics, proposes solutions to problems in the livestreaming e-commerce industry. This unique book reflects on the Chinese livestreaming e-commerce, and offers insights to help readers understand the industry and the process of industrialization. It is intended for a wide range of readers, ranging from non-experts interested in livestreaming e-commerce, to professionals wanting an overview of the industry's development.

This groundbreaking book introduces the application of statistical methodologies to e-Commerce data
With the expanding presence of technology in today's economic market, the use of the Internet for buying, selling, and investing is growing more popular and public in nature. Statistical Methods in e-Commerce Research is the first book of its kind to focus on the statistical models and methods that are essential in order to analyze information from electronic-commerce (e-Commerce) transactions, identify the challenges that arise with new e-Commerce data structures, and discover new knowledge about consumer activity.
This collection gathers over thirty researchers and practitioners from the fields of statistics, computer science, information systems, and marketing to discuss the growing use of statistical methods in e-Commerce research. From privacy protection to economic impact, the book first identifies the many obstacles that are encountered while collecting, cleaning, exploring, and analyzing e-Commerce data. Solutions to these problems are then suggested using established and newly developed statistical and data mining methods. Finally, a look into the future of this evolving area of study is provided through an in-depth discussion of the emerging methods for conducting e-Commerce research.
Statistical Methods in e-Commerce Research successfully bridges the gap between statistics and e-Commerce, introducing a statistical approach to solving challenges that arise in the context of online transactions, while also introducing a wide range of e-Commerce applications and problems where novel statistical methodology is warranted. It is an ideal text for courses on e-Commerce at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels and also serves as a valuable reference for researchers and analysts across a wide array of subject areas, including economics, marketing, and information systems who would like to gain a deeper understanding of the use of statistics in their work.

The global retail industry is in the early stages of an era of profound and unprecedented, change. This book is intended to serve as a wide-ranging, robust, and practical guide to leaders of enterprises tasked with both understanding and delivering success in the new landscape of retailing. Part 1 describes the major directions and drivers of change that define the new retail landscape. Accelerating changes in technology, the rise to international prominence of internet enabled shoppers, and the rapid emergence of entirely new retail enterprises and business models are combining to re-shape the very fundamentals of the retail industry. No longer are shops central or even necessary to the business of retailing. No longer is choice for the shopper limited to the neighbourhood, town, or even country in which they live. No longer is the act of retailing solely the preserve of traditional retail enterprises as internet-enabled businesses, technology, logistics, suppliers, and financial services enterprises all seek direct relationships with the shopper. The new landscape of retailing is an unforgiving one. Success can be achieved more quickly than ever before, but failure is equally rapid. New opportunities are profound, but so too are the challenges. Part 2 of this book discusses the structures, skills, and capabilities that retail enterprises and their leaders will need if they are to be successful. This second edition presents more than 25 detailed case studies of innovative and successful enterprises alongside more than one hundred smaller examples to illustrate the themes discussed. A new afterword also presents ten central areas business leaders must focus on in order to build organizational resilienc in the wake of COVID-19 and the profound uncertainties retail enterprises now face. Frameworks and practical guidance are offered to help readers contextualise the nature of change occurring on a global scale, and identify the capabilities, skills, and perspectives that will be needed at both an enterprise and a personal leadership level.

Retail is 'going digital,' and grocery shopping is no exception. While some businesses are relaying on their corporate website to make the sale, both traditional brick-and-mortar and new disruptive business models are increasingly using online marketplaces to offer their products online. European Union law has been gradually updated to reflect this new reality, with Intellectual Property Rights legislation and Consumer Law leading the way toward a suitable regulatory framework in the Platform Economy. However, the EU has not devised a comprehensive strategy for tackling the challenges posed by the online sale of physical consumer goods, such as effective public enforcement in online environments. In fact, sector-specific legislation, including Food Law, largely ignores online transactions. In this context, the book evaluates the impact that online marketplaces are having on European Union sector-specific legislation and its e-nforcement. The goal is to assess whether the existing regulatory and policy framework are sufficient for promoting compliance and bridging the enforcement gap in the digital single market. Focusing on the e-food market, the book presents a state-of-the-art overview of how online marketplaces are altering EU law and its enforcement by public authorities.

This edited book is comprised of original research that focuses on technological advancements for effective teaching with an emphasis on learning outcomes, ICT trends in higher education, sustainable developments and digital ecosystem in education, management and industries. The contents of the book are classified as; (i) Emerging ICT Trends in Education, Management and Innovations (ii) Digital Technologies for advancements in education, management and IT (iii) Emerging Technologies for Industries and Education, and (iv) ICT Technologies for Intelligent Applications. The book represents a useful tool for academics, researchers, industry professionals and policymakers to share and learn about the latest teaching and learning practices supported by ICT. It also covers innovative concepts applied in education, management and industries using ICT tools.

There are a lot of e-business security concerns. Knowing about e-business security issues will likely help overcome them. Keep in mind, companies that have control over their e-business are likely to prosper most. In other words, setting up and maintaining a secure e-business is essential and important to business growth. This book covers state-of-the art practices in e-business security, including privacy, trust, security of transactions, big data, cloud computing, social network, and distributed systems.

The world is changing, and so are our donors. In the future, it will become even more important for organizations to find leads, supporters and new donors online - because digitization is a bottleneck in fundraising.This book highlights universal fundraising opportunities. It explains the fundamentals of lead community fundraising and why, especially in digital times, it is important to start with the people - the community. The main topic of the book is the current state of digital fundraising, which is becoming more and more important. More than 45 examples from international fundraising practices provide a valuable foundation for all practitioners in this field.

Examine select retail business scenarios to learn basic mathematics, as well as probability and statistics required to analyze big data. This book focuses on useful and imperative applied analytics needed to build a retail business and explains mathematical concepts essential for decision making and communication in retail business environments. Everyone is a buyer or seller of products these days whether through a physical department store, Amazon, or their own business website. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding and managing the mechanics of markups, markdowns, and basic statistics, math and computers that will help in your retail business. You'll tackle what to do with data once it is has accumulated and see how to arrange the data using descriptive statistics, primarily means, median, and mode, and then how to read the corresponding charts and graphs. Analytics for Retail is your path to creating visual representations that powerfully communicate information and drive decisions. What You'll Learn Review standard statistical concepts to enhance your understanding of retail data Understand the concepts of markups, markdowns and profit margins, and probability Conduct an A/B testing email campaign with all the relevant analytics calculated and explained Who This Book Is For This is a primer book for anyone in the field of retail that needs to learn or refresh their skills or for a reader who wants to move in their company to a more analytical position.

Mobile Marketing is a clear, practical guide to harnessing the mobile consumer and tackling the rising challenges of divided user attention across multiple screens at the same time. It demystifies the vast spectrum of tools and techniques now available and explains how to optimize these dynamics into an innovative and effective mobile marketing strategy. Now that website search rankings take into account mobile optimization, no serious marketer can do without a thorough understanding of mobile. The first edition of Mobile Marketing won the Judge's Choice Award in Social Media at the Small Business Trend's 2014 Book Awards. This fully revised 2nd edition includes straightforward explanations on mobile optimized content, app development, social media and proximity based marketing. It has also expanded to include two brand new chapters on mobile and email and on location-based devices, plus cutting-edge updates on advances in wearable technology, mobile payments, virtual reality and strategies for the changing user journey. Integrated with tactical checklists, easy application frameworks and powerful case study insights such as Heineken, WordPress, MailChimp, Nike Training Club (NTC), Google Play and Moz, it provides a full overview from service provision and technology integration to content strategy, ready to capture fast-moving consumers on the go. Online resources include a digital marketing instructors manual, supporting lecture slides, example exam and self-test questions, and a content calendar template.

This book discusses trade relations and facilitation issues at both the regional and the continental African level, highlighting the increasing business opportunities and challenges that confront Africa in the digital age. It also examines the effects of trade policies and other policy instruments on Africa's economic development and presents workable policy measures for a more business-friendly ecosystem. Discussing various topics, including trade relations between African countries, African and international trade agreements, and trade liberalization policies, the book appeals to scholars of economics, business and management as well as professionals and policymakers interested in fostering free trade and sustainable business development in Africa.

With retail e-commerce sales topping $263.3 billion in 2013, and millions of people now flourishing as internet entrepreneurs, the web is the place for new businesses to be. This guide makes tapping into highly lucrative markets with an easy-to-start, inexpensive internet business easier than ever. Readers can use the successful strategies and extensive step-by-step process outlined in this book to turn their dream of entrepreneurship into a lucrative, online reality. With information on everything from choosing a domain and building a site to search engine optimization and cashing in on affiliate programs, this indispensable guide will become every "netpreneur's" business-building bible.

An illuminating insight into the Metaverse - what it is, how it works, and and why it will soon be playing a major role in business, technology and society.

In Into the Metaverse, Cathy Hackl, a globally recognized futurist and one of the world's first Chief Metaverse Officers, shares her insights on what companies need to do to harness the next iteration of the internet - the metaverse. In this book you'll find a wealth of information on issues such as:

- What is the metaverse and what it means for your brand, organization or company
- How to make money in the metaverse through understanding the underlying concepts behind it such as gaming, synthetic media, spatial computing and artificial intelligence.
- How to lead in the metaverse through industries that are already forging ahead, such as fashion and marketing.
- Who should manage the metaverse function within your organization and why some companies should consider creating a role for a Chief Metaverse Officer.
- Finally, how to protect the metaverse and action steps you can take towards the future.

Essential reading for any executive, Into the Metaverse, will reshape how you think about the internet and its place for those who want to lead successful businesses, today and into the future. If the internet was first used to connect us to information, and then developed into a social media forum to connect people, then Web3, which connects people, places and things, will help enable the successor state to today's mobile internet - the Metaverse. It will bring together and merge our physical and digital lives, and - in the same way that social media upended our lives and our businesses - the Metaverse will shake things up even more. Into the Metaverse is the essential business guide to understanding the ground-breaking technologies that enable this monumental shift and the opportunities it presents from a business and societal perspective.

Protocols for Secure Electronic Commerce, Third Edition presents a compendium of protocols for securing electronic commerce, or e-commerce, in consumer- and business-to-business applications. Attending to a variety of electronic payment systems currently in use around the globe, this edition:

Updates all chapters to reflect the latest technical advances and developments in areas such as mobile commerce

Adds a new chapter on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that did not exist at the time of the previous edition's publication

Increases the coverage of PayPal in accordance with PayPal’s amplified role for consumers and businesses

Expands the discussion of bank cards, dedicating a full chapter to magnetic stripe cards and a full chapter to chip-and-PIN technology

Protocols for Secure Electronic Commerce, Third Edition offers a state-of-the-art overview of best practices for the security of e-commerce, complete with end-of-chapter review questions and an extensive bibliography of specialized references. A Solutions Manual and PowerPoint slides are available with qualifying course adoption.

Table of Contents

Overview of Electronic Commerce

Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce

Effects of the Internet and Mobile Networks

Network Access

Barcodes

Smart Cards

Parties in Electronic Commerce

Security

Summary

Questions

Money and Payment Systems

Mechanisms of Classical Money

Payment Instruments

Types of Dematerialized Monies

Purses, Holders, and Wallets

Transactional Properties of Dematerialized Currencies

Overall Comparison of the Means of Payment

Practice of Dematerialized Money

Clearance and Settlement in Payment Systems

Drivers of Innovation in Banking and Payment Systems

Summary

Questions

Algorithms and Architectures for Security

Security of Open Financial Networks

OSI Model for Cryptographic Security

Security Services at the Link Layer

Security Services at the Network Layer

Security Services at the Application Layer

Message Confidentiality

Data Integrity

Identification of the Participants

Biometric Identification

Authentication of the Participants

Access Control

Denial of Service

Nonrepudiation

Secure Management of Cryptographic Keys

Exchange of Secret Keys: Kerberos

Public Key Kerberos

Exchange of Public Keys

Certificate Management

Authentication

Security Cracks

Summary

Appendix: Principles of Symmetric Encryption

Appendix: Principles of Public Key Encryption

Appendix: Principles of the Digital Signature Algorithm and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

Questions

Business-to-Business Commerce

Drivers for Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Four Stages of Systems Integration

Overview of Business-to-Business Commerce

Short History of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Examples of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Evolution of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Implementation of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

X12 and EDIFACT

EDI Messaging

Security of EDI

Integration of XML and Traditional EDI

New Architectures for Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Electronic Business (Using) Extensible Markup Language

Web Services

Relation of EDI with Electronic Funds Transfer

Summary

Questions

Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer

Architecture of SSL/TLS

SSL/TLS Security Services

SSL/TLS Subprotocols

Performance of SSL/TLS

Implementation Pitfalls

Summary

Questions

Wireless Transport Layer Security

Architecture

From TLS to WTLS

Operational Constraints

WAP and TLS Extensions

WAP Browsers

Summary

Questions

The SET Protocol

SET Architecture

Security Services of SET

Certification

Purchasing Transaction

Optional Procedures

Efforts to Promote SETs

SET versus TLS/SSL

Summary

Questions

Payments with Magnetic Stripe Cards

Point-of-Sale Transactions

Communication Standards for Card Transactions

Security of Point-of-Sale Transactions

Internet Transactions

3D Secure

Migration to EMV

Summary

Questions

Secure Payments with Integrated Circuit Cards

Description of Integrated Circuit Cards

Integration of Smart Cards with Computer Systems

Standards for Integrated Circuit Cards

Multiapplication Smart Cards

Security of Smart Cards

Payment Applications of Integrated Circuit Cards

EMV® Card

General Consideration on the Security of Smart Cards

Summary

Questions

Mobile Payments

Reference Model for Mobile Commerce

Secure Element in Mobile Phones

Barcodes

Bluetooth

Near-Field Communication

Text Messages

Bank-Centric Offers

Mobile Operator–Centric Offers

Third-Party Service Offers

Collaborative Offers

Payments from Mobile Terminals

Summary

Questions

Micropayments

Characteristics of Micropayment Systems

Standardization Efforts

Electronic Purses

Online Micropayments

Research Projects

Market Response to Micropayment Systems

Summary

Questions

PayPal

Evolution of PayPal

Personal Accounts

Business Accounts

Summary

Questions

Digital Money

Privacy with Cash and Digital Money

DigiCash (eCash)

Anonymity and Untraceability in DigiCash

Evaluation of DigiCash

Questions

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

Background

Bitcoin Protocol

Operation

Risk Evaluation

Summary and Conclusions

Appendix: The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

Appendix: Bitcoin as a Social Phenomenon

Appendix: Other Significant Cryptocurrencies

Appendix: Service Offers Based on Bitcoin

Questions

Dematerialized Checks

Processing of Paper Checks

Dematerialized Processing of Checks

Virtual Checks

Summary

Questions

Electronic Commerce in Society

Harmonization of Communication Interfaces

Governance of Electronic Money

Protection of Intellectual Property

Electronic Surveillance and Privacy

Content Filtering and Censorship

Taxation of Electronic Commerce

Trust Promotion

Archives Dematerialization

Summary

Questions

References

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Shedding new light on the human side of big data through the lenses of emotional and social intelligence competencies, this book advances the understanding of the requirements of the different professions that deal with big data. It also illustrates the empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of data scientists and data analysts, the two most in-demand big data jobs in the labor market. The book provides recommendations for the higher education system to offer better designed curricula for entry-level big data professions. It also offers managerial insights in describing how organizations and specifically HR practitioners can benefit from the competency-based approach to overcome the skill shortage that characterizes the demand for big data professional roles and to increase the effectiveness of the selection and recruiting processes.

Master technical analysis, step-by-step! Already the field's most comprehensive, reliable, and objective introduction, this guidebook has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances. Selected by the Market Technicians Association as the official companion to its prestigious Chartered Market Technician (CMT) program, Technical Analysis, Third Edition systematically explains the theory of technical analysis, presenting academic evidence both for and against it. Using hundreds of fully updated illustrations and examples, the authors explain the analysis of both markets and individual issues, and present complete investment systems and portfolio management plans. They present authoritative, up-to-date coverage of tested sentiment, momentum indicators, seasonal effects, flow of funds, testing systems, risk mitigation strategies, and many other topics. Offering 30% new coverage, Technical Analysis, Third Edition thoroughly addresses recent advances in pattern recognition, market analysis, systems management, and confidence testing; Kagi, Renko, Kase, Ichimoku, Clouds, and DeMark indicators; innovations in exit stops, portfolio selection, and testing; implications of behavioral bias, and the recent performance of old formulas and methods. For traders, researchers, and serious investors alike, this is the definitive guide to profiting from technical analysis.