41) Exchanges proliferated during the early years of e-commerce, but many have failed, in part because they encouraged competitive bidding that drove prices down.
42) Automobile manufacturing is an example of a vertical market.
43) Building a successful e-commerce site requires a keen understanding of business, technology, and social issues, as well as a systematic approach.
44) If you have some experience with computers, you might decide to build the site yourself.
45) Unless you are fairly skilled, you should use a pre-built template to create the Web site.
46) Most businesses choose to outsource hosting and pay a company to host their Web site, which means that the hosting company is responsible for ensuring the site is "live," or accessible, 24 hours a day.
47) With a self-host agreement, your firm purchases or leases a Web server (and has total control over its operation) but locates the server in a vendor's physical facility.
48) Simple Web sites cannot be developed and hosted with a first-year cost of $5000 or less.
49) The Web sites of large firms with high levels of interactivity and linkage to corporate systems cost several thousand dollars a year to create and operate.
50) Mobile e-commerce is the slowest-growing type of B2C e-commerce, but it represented only a small part of all e-commerce in 2010.
51) In 2010, shoppers ordered about $2.1 billion in physical goods from Web sites via desktops (over $1 billion of that at Amazon alone).
52) Banks and credit card companies are rolling out services that let customers manage their accounts from their legacy devices.
53) Myspace is the leader in social networking; it has waged a constant struggle to develop viable methods of generating revenue.