Tong: Nine City group playing business-to-business? Chance！

Just login donews, see a News "nine City group confirmed that the downsizing of 140 people said business-to-business is still important direction", and regaling the company and Business-to-business fate.

This nine-city group is not the Nineth city, it has been listed in Nasdaq for 2004 years, it is a very low-key company, the reason is low-key because they do before the listing of things very lucrative, not to High-profile, a high-profile, everyone to rob them of business, they may not go to the city, So their idea of making money in silence is very correct. Their main business is http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14297.html "> E-government, for home quality inspection system, customs system, and more than 130,000 import and export enterprises to provide customs Service software products, Market share of nearly 90%, almost monopoly, indeed compared to cattle.

Since 2005, the company has been planning to do business-to-business business, but at a very low efficiency. By the second half of 2006 years, the nine cities to be launched in 2005, the Business-to-business Web site even do not do a good job, this efficiency makes the human!!!

In the end they may feel that they really do not even have a business-to-business site to do, so they spent 5 million of dollars to invest in a Super Rotten Business-to-business website www.globalmarket.com, this broken business-to-business website to the current daily traffic giant small, Alexa ranked 37,000. 5 million dollars, to buy such a rotten site shares, really make people dizzy.

April 2007, nine cities acquired the business-to-business vertical search site ya Bee network. The price is silly high, 27 million dollars. The network traffic is not as good as the above the Broken Business-to-business website.

Business-to-business Vertical Search, the concept is good, but it is not easy to do well. Nine cities after the acquisition of the bee, integrated into the tootoo.com

Just saw a tootoo Alexa rankings, more than 3,000, and then a look at the graphs and related data, smiled, because their Alexa rankings are cheating, as shown:

This curve, not cheating is strange, and then look at the Alexa Traffic Data analysis:

The 85.2%
Taiwan 4.5%
Kong 2.1%
United States 2.1%
Japan 1.8%

An English-dominated business-to-business website, China's traffic accounted for 85.2%, indicating that the database sent, are from China's IP, hehe! It seems this site, almost no foreign traffic. Do not know is to face, or cheat, but make so obvious Alexa rankings cheating, really funny!

E-government and engage in E-commerce there are great differences:
To engage in e-government is to deal with government agencies, relying on the relationship between the fix;
To engage in E-commerce is to deal with small and medium-sized enterprises, relying on the real to provide SMEs with benefits.

There's a big difference between software and the Internet:
The software sells products.
Doing Internet selling services

And, for business-to-business e-commerce sites, selling online marketing services. A company that even its own network marketing do not good business-to-business website, how can the customer's network marketing services do well?

These differences doomed the nine cities can not play business-to-business.  So, is the Kowloon City Group playing business-to-business? Chance！