E-Commerce Strategies

E-Commerce Strategies

Contents
Question 1...............................................................................................................................3
Question 2...............................................................................................................................3
Question 3...............................................................................................................................4
Question 4...............................................................................................................................4
Question 5...............................................................................................................................5
Question 6...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Question 1
Ebay is another competitor which also deals in many of such similar services which are also
provided by Alibaba in china. Alibaba provides different services like business to business
transactions where the suppliers and needs of the buyers are matched. Here companies upload
their products and services which re open for sale and buyer upload their requirements.
Thereafter with the help of this site the requirements are matched with one another and
accordingly commission is earned on every successful exchange that take place (Wulf, 2010). It
has a separate site Alibaba.com which works in English language and make the sales possible
between the importers and exports from more than 240 countries. It increased the overall scope
of the business for china and now business can be done at huge scale. Another services are
provided in Chinese language which re facilitated through site 1688.com. this works for making
the transactions within China which are mostly made between the two different business (Wang
and et.al., 2018). Apart from this one touch services are also made available through Alibaba site
which help clients in reserving their space at the Chinese ports which helped much in the export
and important business.
Question 2
There are many competitive advantages with Alibaba among which the most important one
is of its global reach. Now it is doing its business in more than 200 countries which add much
strength to its existence. Strategies made by this firm are found to be beneficial as it earned great
return on its Initial public offering which it made in 2014. Since than the revenues of the
organisations are continuously growing. The volume of sales which are made by Ali baba are
more than the combine quantity sold by eBay and amazon (Shen, 2010). It has great dominance
in the china market and it is predicted that in the coming future the China e-commerce area will
be greater than that of US., Japan, Germany etc. Another competitive advantage which this site
has that it offers services in many different languages like Chinese, Japanese English etc. which
further rise its use at international level. Company has aggressively invested in its expansion and
now has market in India, Pakistan and Brazil too which shows that it has immense opportunities
to offer in the market. apart from this the referred to enterprise has challenged to create 1 million
jobs which is a huge number. This way it becomes a socially active organisation and hence can
enjoy the competitive advantage in the market. the sites are designed in a way that user do not