77 Innovations of Internet Profit model (II.)

24. Unprecedented ebay

It is said that September 1995 Pierre Omidele (Pierre Omidyar), in order to find a site for his girlfriend to exchange the collection, founded a site called ebay (a bit like the taste of unofficial history). It never occurred to me that ebay became one of the most successful business models on the Internet, and the famous electronic bay was born.

There are now as many as 6 million customers per month to patronize Ebay.com, who have completed about 2 million transactions. ebay collects 1.25%~5% fees for each transaction, with ebay trading at nearly $300 million trillion in the fourth quarter of 1998. Unlike Amazon, ebay is currently a handful of profitable internet companies, although the number is small, but no hesitation investors have raised ebay's market value to an astonishing 16 billion dollars. Someone exclaimed: One-on-one, consumer auction site for consumers is like printing money! ----ebay has created a new model of Internet commerce, and the idea of negotiating pricing has become one of the most powerful economic instruments on the Internet.

This may herald a day when the commercial model of a commodity with a fixed price will surely become a memory of history. Online auctions have even evolved into a phenomenon of cyber-culture, rummaging through their precious collections and getting them to auction for more than millions of people. E-Bay's business model is so successful that almost all shopping sites now have their own auction areas.

The operation of E-Bay also has many unique, one of the pioneering is the creation of customer opinion day. Each month, ebay invites 10~20 customers to the company to meet with new employees and presidents for communication and communication. But unruly fleas from the streets into the network's main commercial counters, it is inevitable that someone has been bitten. ebay, a user in Florida, has been ignoring his 23000-dollar reminders for some time, something that has plagued the nascent online auction business. According to the US Consumer Union's 1998 statistics, 2/3 of consumers ' complaints about the internet came from auction sites.

Pitt Wollman, a British antique businessman who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, flew to Texas to pick up a bronze and an ivory ornament he ordered. But after he glanced at the antique he had ordered, he realized that he had been fooled. They said they knew nothing about what they were selling. I think even in Las Vegas's Casino It's a lot more than online, and it's full of fakes. So the e-Bay has to insure for every deal.

Even so, online auctions have become a way of life, says Steve Wisley, deputy general manager at ebay Marketing, who is shaking with excitement at the hunt. In fact, the excitement for ebay is also about the retailers who sell here and, of course, the sensible investors.

25. Professional Auction Service

Susan Somos, a fashion designer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, followed her fiance to Iowa and now sells porcelain, pottery and old fur garments on ebay, earning 30,000 of dollars a month and customers as far away as Japan.

She said: "Now I earn 3 times times the original salary, and work time with my own arrangements." Rolando and Lisa Anzado, an antique businessman from New Jersey, closed their doors for years and moved to Florida, which is full of sunshine and beaches. Over the past year, they have been specialising in antiques on ebay, averaging 75 deals a month, ranging in value from 100 to 2000 dollars per piece. When I opened a shop, I sometimes had no business for three or four consecutive weeks. But now you see, it's really water. Online auctions have become a way of life for many Americans.

In the United States, many people like Susan Somos have made a fortune by running online auctions. Their trick is to do dozens of or even hundreds of auctions at the same time. The interface provided by andale.com allows you to centralize and manage all your auctions. Vendors can even bring together resources through it, and then sell their wares through other sellers whose reputations are higher than theirs.

In addition to the need to manage the auction business, customers need to inform the auction results, prevent auction fraud and so on. Auctions.com is the website that provides these services. This site was formerly called Auctionuniverse. Now auctions.com as an auction site, all the auction items are divided into 19 categories, including real estate. Although the market is not big, but the function is not bad. They opened a unique bidsafe third-party warranty, pager notification and other services.

26. Enterprises to buy

The internet can not only auction, but also can be bought, by the demand side of the licensing, supply side card. Ever heard of Micken? He founded the freemarkets.com. is challenging the fixed pricing system among enterprises. Through his company, any company (including coal companies) can use the Internet to buy any product or service.

In 1995 Glenmicken gave up a steady-income job at General Motors, and to Pittsburg created a free market company-a web-based material Exchange site.

It specializes in helping traditional companies find competitive semi-finished suppliers such as injection molds and casting suppliers. The company first provides consulting services in the offline state to screen potential suppliers. After the initial identification of some of the best suppliers, the company hosted online bidding. Here, from government procurement to farm machinery manufacturers, all entity individuals can post a list of products to be purchased on the site and then compete for business by suppliers. Micken's sales strategy is very tempting. Not only did the quality of products and services improve, but they also saved the buyer's 10%~25% procurement costs on average and helped them to procure effectively. So customers flocked, last year the company auctioned 1 billion dollars of goods, profit 7.8 million dollars.

Micken's business model is to extend the auction system to businesses and businesses, not just to individual consumers. At the same time for all walks of life to create a network of opportunities to buy, a comprehensive reform of business activities between businesses.

27. Personal photo Buy

This business model happens to be the reverse operation of the electronic bay. Since the Micken is to buy between enterprises, of course, between consumers can also be carried out.

Ewanted.com is such a website. When you come to the ewanted.com website, you may want to elaborate on what you are looking for and how you intend to pay. Your requirements will then be seen by many registered distributors, stores, and individual vendors who have expertise in a particular commodity area. If they have what you need, they will automatically get in touch with you (usually via email, the website's server will process the emails, remove the sender's name, address, etc.), and you can decide whether to buy or not. It works in the opposite way to auctions, and there are often several vendors vying to reduce the price of their belongings. It's really not the same shopping experience.

Like Iwant.com and ewanted.com, the Iwant.com website aims to bring together individuals who want to find their own items from a personal vendor or store. Once the two sides get in touch, they can negotiate the final selling price and trade through the website. If you're looking for an outdated magazine or something special, it's not as laborious as bidding on an e-bay website.

28. Barter

E-commerce may blow retro winds, allowing internet companies to do business in ancient ways. Use shells to exchange salt and exchange goods and services with each other. Currently, in the offline real world, there are already shops that allow companies to exchange goods for services, or to make companies and consumers barter. But the latest E-commerce craze seems to be moving the barter industry online, with a number of large online venture-capital companies quietly subsidizing the emerging-market novice.

Venture capital, a company that has funded network stars such as @home, Excite, AOL and Healtheon, is sponsoring a company that operates a business that deals with the business of bartering.--doublebill.com. Investors and entrepreneurs believe that the Internet is a good platform for goods and services transactions, can greatly enhance the feasibility of the barter.

Meanwhile, another company of the same type has begun to reveal its business strategy. Bartertrust.com has acquired three entities to barter positions, hoping to establish a basic dealer base for the launch of the virtual barter website. But it is a big challenge for these online property companies to gather considerable traders and allow traders to exchange sufficient goods and services.

There are many ways of online barter, for example, according to bartertrust.com business model, users to the virtual Bartertrust currency for their own goods offer, so as to set the trading price. For example, a lawyer, if he made an offer of 100 yuan per hour, and office equipment dealers would like to exchange a desk for a lawyer's service, then two people can deal, the two sides to pay fees to bartertrust.

Five, not only e-commerce needs to have a sound service, in fact, the service itself is an independent network industry. Now the website specializes in all kinds of service work, will also become an industry. The gist of the electronic service is to integrate the existing resources into the online flow of information. --Network soft service Industry (29-39) five. Network Soft service Industry

Not only E-commerce needs to have perfect service, in fact, the service itself is an independent network industry. Now the website specializes in all kinds of service work, will also become an industry. The gist of the electronic service is to integrate the existing resources into the online flow of information.

29. Shopping Tutor

Want to know which online shopping sites have high quality of service? Want to save time for shopping? You want to know the answer here.

BizRate.com is a shopping site for evaluation and statistics sites. The site collects a wide range of customer satisfaction surveys on 1700 online shopping sites, and then 5 stars based on customer satisfaction with the ordering process, selection and price of these sites. Its assessment is the most thorough and impartial. You must come here before you do business with a website that you have never dealt with before.

The difference between dealtime.com and other shopping sites is that even if you don't find a price-acceptable product, it will continue to serve you. As long as you tell this website what kind of product you want and your bid, it will keep searching the whole web for you until you find it. Then it will automatically notify you of the transaction. The dealagent new features of the site allow for real-time contact between customers and merchants, thus saving a lot of time for customers.

mysimon.com a number of online shopping sites to investigate, there are only 1500 tea-type sites. It has more than 10 kinds of classifications, most of the www.won.net can meet the general shopper requirements. You can also search through the site for auction sites such as e-bay sites and classified ads. Its search range includes all major businesses and advertisers.

Productopia.com will provide you with a lot of relevant material before recommending an online shopping website. Before making a purchase, consumers can read the guidelines it provides to you and go to online discussion groups to discuss online shopping.

Although these sites do not have direct economic relationships with consumers now, they can make sure that they are making a sensible decision. This is its commercial value.

30. Consumer Information Station

Businesses often have some discount information, free information, new product information, but consumers know? There are some sites that specialize in providing this information.

Credit cards offer a variety of different offers to users, but they may not be well understood by consumers. Hidden-money.com announced the introduction of smart consumer personal assistance services to consumers to provide credit card information. They expect the site to have a huge potential market, with 10,000 users expected in the first phase. The development of hidden-money.com in Asia is divided into two stages. The first phase will invest HK $50 million to open up the Hong Kong credit card information market, while the second phase will expand the site to mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea, with a second phase of total investment expected to be HK $50 million.

Freeshop.com is also a website that provides free information, tired of paying money for online shopping? Then try this website. There are more than 1000 kinds of free gifts on the freeshop.com. Of course, most of these are catalogues, product newsletters, coupons, and some product brochure, but there may be some kind of product that interests you.

31. Telecommunication service Station

Telsave.com's long-distance telephone company plans to put local, long-distance, mobile and Internet access on a single bill to simplify the lives of customers. If new customers sign up on the company's web site, make billing online, and pay by credit card, they can save money on billing and cash cheques, and also make it cheaper to sell online.

The efax.com enabled the fax machine to be useless. The free service provided by Efax.com has taken over the private fax number of 500,000 users. When someone sends you a fax, you will receive it via email. This also means that you will not lose any faxes or be overwhelmed by the failure of the fax machine. This website offers a fee-based service that allows you to send faxes via email, fax forwarding, and character recognition.

MyTalk provides a service that allows you to dial a toll-free number, listen and respond to forwarded emails using voice commands, and can play up to two minutes of local and long-distance calls within the United States. Recently, the site also added voice mail features. This also means that someone can dial your mytalk number, enter your personal ID, leave a message for you, and give you his phone number. After listening to this message, you only need to say: Call back his number (callhimback), you can play two minutes free call. The service is free, but you have to endure small commercials when using it. Currently, more than 100,000 users are using the service.

32. Postal Tariff service Station

Writing addresses, postal codes and postal tariffs are time-consuming, laborious and costly for businesses and individuals who often receive bulk mail. If there is a website can provide postcode, printing, mailing, unified postage, of course, both convenient and worry. Since there is demand, of course, there are people to meet demand.

Stamps.com can provide a solution to purchase and print postal charges (only for addresses in the United States) in accordance with the requirements of the user. Most lasers and inkjet printers can be used to print postage and addresses directly on labels and envelopes. Stamps.com Users accept free software, but pay a monthly fee to buy postage online. In addition, users have to pay 1.99 U.S. dollars to 19.99 U.S. dollars and other monthly user fees. Stamps.com can bring increased productivity gains for consumers and small businesses.

33. Private Information Service station

Now every institution and individual has many numbers and codes: ID number, bank card number, home address, and so on, but if you move, some letters will be sent to the old address, and more likely, your password is forgotten and nowhere to be found. There is now a website dedicated to providing storage services for private information.

Zcentral.com is a site where many of the features on this site help small businesses and individuals. The most useful is an online identification service--zkey, which contains the public or private information you choose to include. When you update your zkey information, it automatically updates anyone who knows you through the Zkey code about your online identity. The Zcentral.com Web site also includes a number of well integrated PIM applications, 20MB storage space for files, and private conferencing capabilities for virtual workgroups. All the services it offers are free.

34. Electronic Payment service Station

Now there is the so-called third generation payment concept. Founded in 1996, Echarge.com is a global online payment company. The company recently came to China and is conducting a third generation of payment experiments in Guangzhou and Shanghai. Unlike credit card payment methods, the company's Internet payment technology enables consumers to safely and reliably put the bill of goods in their online transactions into phone bills or water, electricity and gas bills. This is a way to keep the consumer secret, without the need for personal information and passwords. This approach is called the Internet's third generation payment.

For small payments, it can be done more easily. Once the customer decides to place an order, a variety of existing payment options are available. For more than 10 dollars, just leave the credit card number, or you can email (from the confidential page on your website), fax or telephone.

35. Life service Station

Superfamily.com is a family life service website that allows family members to exchange photos, news, and schedules through this site. On this site, you can get 15MB of free storage space, if you need more storage space, you must pay. The photography tool is the most famous service on the site, and in addition, you can prepare a home newspaper, share shopping and wish lists, conduct discussions and exchange emails.

Anyday.com is also a very good scheduling site. It includes an integrated timeline program, address Book, Reminder service, and task Manager. This task Manager has an event directory that allows you to mix your favorite sports events or TV shows.

Ehow.com is a complete Web site to help with housekeeping. How to set up a desk? How to deal with a cold? How to ask for a raise? How to repair the skate shoes? You can find detailed answers to thousands of similar questions on the Ehow website, and each answer is accompanied by a list of items that you might want to buy to help you solve your problems. The answers to the questions provided by this site are interesting and sometimes instructive. If the site does not have a ready-made answer to your question, it will try to provide one within a few days.

36. Recruitment service Station

The hotjobs.com Web site in the United States has hired about 3,000 registered recruiters to process resumes for more than 300,000 people who have already registered on the site. It also provides a special service, that is, when you submit your resume to the website, you can clearly state that you want to prohibit the company's inquiries, in other words, not welcome headhunters. Anyone who wants to look up a resume in a database on the site must first answer multiple multiple-choice questions about the site's design.

The most interesting thing about the Monster.com Web site is its talent market, which has 97000 people who have registered a network of freelance professionals. If you want to find a traditional job, you can search the website database according to the region (US or worldwide) and the company two parameters, make a resume, apply online, and investigate the recruiting unit. According to statistics, the number of visitors to the site is more than twice times their competitors, which fully illustrates the popularity of the online talent market.

Success in business depends to a great extent on the people we know and those who meet at work. But how can we find friends and meet people who can help themselves? Networker.com has offices in 21 major cities across the United States, where online editorial responsibility is to provide Internet users with information on activities, trade exhibitions and professional meetings. In providing the above information, the editors will be targeted according to the specific circumstances of the registered netizens. Internet users only need to tell the site where they live in the city and what the individual interest. Once the registration is complete, you will soon receive emails telling you where to go and what kind of people you will see later.

37. Travel Service

The more developed society, the more leisure time, of course, the demand for travel more. Although the network can not give you a realistic experience of tourism, but for tourism to provide information services may not be comparable to other tools.

Expedia.com is a tourist service site. Since entering the 1999, it has added new features to improving services, including a family travel area, a cost-comparison feature (which tells you how much other people are paying for the airline seats you want to buy), a point system that helps you get the best seats, and stores your previous search queries, Holiday and sailing guides, as well as courier services for regulars. If you have any questions, you can find a customer service unit with 250 employees on the site.

Lonelyplanet.com is a site that provides visitors with detailed information about the destination of the trip. Lonely Planet series Travel guides are well known, and much of this guide is now being moved to a Web site of the same name, with a searchable format. In addition, this site also provides updated global travel news and can answer your questions about travel. Obviously, most of the visitors to this site are adventurous travellers, and you'll find all sorts of travel tips.

Travelocity.com is the boss of the current travel online service industry. Travelocity.com always retains a bit of technical advantage over rivals. It belongs to the Sabre group, which maintains the world's largest reservation system. This technical support enables travelocity.com to provide a number of unique services, such as a single click to learn from your place to the major metropolitan costs, and according to your travel needs to automatically search three cheapest routes. You can also choose E-mail, Travel bulletin boards, and a service that can send important flight information to your pager. 1999