Revenue models for internet businesses.

How do companies/organizations and any other individuals in e-commerce industry generate their revenue (income)? There are a few common e-commerce revenue models that you must remember and think of before you start your online-money-making-projects;

• Sales - Companies (and YOU) generate revenue from selling products and services over their (and YOUR) websites.
• Affiliates - Companies (and YOU) receive commissions for referring customers to others' websites. Like i always told you, Clickbank.com, Linkshare and Amazon.com are among the most famous companies that offer affiliate programs for you to join and earn money from.
• Advertising fees - Companies (and YOU) charge others for allowing them to place a banner on their (and YOUR) sites. Or you can join advertising program from Google Adsense, place Google ads on your site, and get money each time people click the Google ads on your site.
  
• Subscription or membership fees - Customers pay a fixed amount, usually monthly to be a member or to get some type of service and products. Luckily we don't have to pay for Facebook, Friendster, or Myspace right? They are all free! *But you do have to pay some if you are really serious to play Mafia Wars in facebook right? That's one of their revenue strategy other than banner ads that you can see on the right side of their website.
  

These are the common revenue models on the net. If you have a famous website with high traffic, you can earn a lot of money $$$$$$$$ with those revenue models applied on your website!

Common types of e-commerce.

B2B (business-to-business) type of e-commerce is:
In which all the participants are either businesses or other organizations (including nonbusiness organizations and government). One simple example is that if your company are selling ebooks on how to make create a website to other companies so that they can expand their businesses or improve their operations.

B2C (business-to-consumer) type of e-commerce is:
The first perspective that would come to our mind when we are talking about e-commerce. Anyway it is a kind of e-commerce that includes retail transactions of products and services from businesses to individual shoppers. The simplest example is when you are buying a handbag from lelong.com or ebay.com.my for your love ones.

Nowadays, mobile commerce has emerged due to our needs to keep in touch with our businesses wherever we are. Mobile commerce applications generally involve mobile devices like handphones and PDA. We need them to conduct transactions when we are away from our computers (home or office). For example we can do our banking, blogging, chatting, and even ordering books from Amazon.com through our cell phones.