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This 4-page paper focuses on B2B and B2C Web sites, and discusses the differences between sites in terms of their purposes, their customers and their content. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that have been written about extensively -- the business-to-consumer model, known as B2C, and the business-to-business model, known as B2B. In this paper, well discuss both models, and compare and
contrast the differences. It could be said the B2B has been done electrically, well before B2C ever hit the Internet. This
is because B2B was launched, from a digital standpoint, through the electronic digital exchange, or EDI, which was a way in which many businesses could connect with their suppliers over
various computer networks. Looking back on it now, EDIs seem somewhat cumbersome, especially when comparing to todays Internet, but at the time in which it was used, during the 1980s,
it was considered state of the art. These days, of course, almost everyone is on the Internet, and not just suppliers
and businesses. But in terms of the differences, B2C Web sites sell through channels that play primarily a logistical role, treating
the consumers as end users, whereas B2B sites sell their products to other firms that, in turn, create other products for sale to the final end user, further on down
the value chain (Muhamed, 2002). Others point out that the major difference between B2B and B2C, when it comes to electronic
commerce and Web sites are that the sales processes tend to be longer for B2B functions (Warholic, 2005). The demands of the customers are different as well -- B2C customers
typically "log on" to the Internet to find the best price possible for a product or service, along with good customer service, to boot (Warholic, 2005). But its pointed out
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