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Panos Kontogiannis
Panos Kontogiannis

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Advantages of E-commerce

  1. Faster Buying Process: E-commerce has speed up the whole buying process for customers. They do not need to visit physical outlets for shopping and can purchase products by just sitting at their home. It saves huge times and performs faster transactions.

    1. Eliminates Operating Cost: It has reduced the overall operating cost of businesses. E-commerce has eliminated the need of opening physical outlets by the business. For operating an outlet, there are huge expenses in terms of rent, utilities, various bills, and staff salaries. It saves all these expenses and operates all business activities through an online website.
    2. Personalize Shopping Experience: E-commerce enables customers in enjoying personalized shopping experience. Customers can search for a large variety of products as per their choice and needs without any restrictions. Online business shows products to customers according to their interest and their location.
    3. Available 24×7: Online shopping facility is available at all the time that is 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. This is one of the major advantages of e-commerce that customers can access online products at any time. Unlike physical outlets, there is no official opening and closing time here.
    4. Connects far and wide: Online businesses are able to reach and connect to customers at far distant places with no geographical limits. People can place their orders from any place and get their orders delivered at their location.
    5. Detailed Product Information: Peoples can acquire a full description in detail regarding the products online. It gives full information so that customers can make a comparison with other products easily and choose the best one.
    6. Retargets the Customers: Online shopping has made it easy for a business to retargets their customers. The electronic business acquires vast information about their customers while they are doing their shopping online. Customers can be contacted from time to time by sending them personalized emails, messages, coupons and discounts offers.

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