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 * A brief guideline to using this wiki page for designing and e-commerce website **
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 * Citing sources and references, explain what you think is the definite definition of the term 'E-commerce' **

Electronic commerce or e-commerce refers to a wide range of online business activities for products and services that pertains to any form of business transaction in which the parties interact electronically rather than by physical exchanges or direct physical contact. Reference from **"WIKI BOOKS"** which is an open books for an open world.

__**ADVANTAGES/BENEFITS OF E-COMMERCE**__
 * Flexilibity with efficiency. The ability to handle complex situations, product ranges and customer profiles without situation becoming unmanageable.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Improve relationships with trading partners. Improved communication between trading partners leads to enhanced long term relationships.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Lock in customers. The closer you are to your customer and the more you work with them to change from normal business practices to best practice e-commerce the harder it is for competitor to upset your customer relationship.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">New markets.The internet has the potential to expand your business into wider geographical locations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Advertising ones products over the web is made easier without incurring very high costs if you are to advertise in a local newspaper foreinstance.

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The major difference between E-commerce and E-business is that; <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">In E-commerce, the information and communication technology is used amongst the whole organization or business at large while in E-business, the information and communication technology is used on individual bases. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">And; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">E-business includes e-commerce but also covers internal processes such as production, inventory management, product development, risk management, finance, knowledge management and human resources. E-business strategy is more complex, more focused on internal processes, and aimed at cost savings and improvements in efficiency, productivity and cost savings. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">An e-business strategy is also more difficult to execute, with four directions of integration: vertically, between Web front- and back-end systems; laterally, between a company and its customers, business partners, suppliers or intermediaries; horizontally, among e-commerce, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management , knowledge management and supply-chain management systems; and downward through the enterprise, for integration of new technologies with radically redesigned business processes. But e-business has a higher payoff in the form of more efficient processes, lower costs and potentially greater profits.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What do you think is the major difference between E-commerce and E-business? **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">With reference to any e-commerce tool of your choice, (e.g quick response codes) explain how you think it could be effectively used to enhance transactions. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">Qr codes are a better track to the effectiveness of offline, print media by creating a tracking URL and embedding it in to a business Qr code hence making it an easier way of aggregating information about the performance of offline media efforts.

QR codes are two-dimensional colorless images – like barcodes – that can be scanned by various smart phone applications

These days QR Codes are almost everywhere you look. Whether it be on packaging, clothing, posters etc. the list could go on forever. __** How Qr codes can effectively be used to enhance transactions **__ =1. QR Codes Can Grow Your Business= QR Codes give your customers and prospects real world hyperlinks that connect your printed materials with online content such as video, audio, special landing pages, and much more.

**2.** Quick Response codes (QR codes) are expected to achieve widespread – and for good reason, Consumers want immediate access to what’s relevant and QR codes are being used to make that possible.

**3**. The QR codes have the ability to connect people with each other and to multimedia digital content which is very useful for businesses and consumers alike.

educational efforts.
 * 4. ** With the right target audience, QR Codes may have a positive impact on the success of one's marketing and

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">INDIVIDUAL COURSE WORK __


 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">Task 1 **

<span style="color: #009933; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">Insert the following link < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">[|__www.__][|__**mobile**__][|__-__][|__**barcodes**__][|__.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">> <span style="color: #009933; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">in your mobile phone's browser. Install the relevant barcode reading software depending on the model of your phone.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">Generate any bar or matrix tags (using <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">) that you will place on any product of your choice. Embed relevant marketing details (This could be a link to a product's website, phone number, details about the product, text, link to video, audio description of the product.).



<span style="color: #009933; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 19.3333px;">Design a mobile e-commerce website which advertises any business product of your choice (Consider all the qualities of a good e-commerce website as presented in class). Explain the marketing details here. Embed the qr code you have designed, any multimedia files, pictures etc about you product here.