Online Ordering Makes Fast Floors

Posted on January 23, 2009
Filed Under Floors, Floors Fast, Ordering Online |

Online commerce has drastically changed over a very short amount of time. In fact, the Internet as a whole has drastically changed over a very short amount of time. When the Internet first made its way into homes, it seemed that the primary uses were chat rooms and gossip columns. One could not exactly argue that a great resource had been created. All this has since changed as the number and quality of sites has increased ten fold. For example, take the conversation of online commerce. At one point, making purchases online was not even an option. Rather, companies had websites to promote their products and/or services and that was about it. Some years later, e-tailing hit mainstream and making purchases online transformed from science fiction to reality.

For anyone living under a stone, e-tailing is the selling of retail goods and more recently of services via the Internet. Short for “electronic retailing,” and used in Internet discussions as early as 1995, the term seems an almost inevitable addition to terms such as e-mail and e-business. E-tailing is synonymous with business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions but also includes some B2B (business-to-business) transactions. This is becoming more and more prevalent as businesses are learning that many of their needs can also be met online. This is a logical transgression, since businesses are run by people, people who have been using the Internet to satisfy their personal needs, and have since figured out that there is no reason they cannot take that same efficiency into the office. E-tailing began to work for some major corporations and smaller entrepreneurs as early as 1997 when Dell Computer reported multimillion dollar orders taken at its web site. While Dell has seen some contraction in its business in the last few years, they will certainly go down in history as pioneering that business model. Now, FloorMall has done this for the laminate flooring industry.

The success of Amazon.com hastened the arrival of Barnes and Noble’s e-tail site. These sites were then followed up by the now enormous and prevalent ebay.com. This was just another step and layer in the process because here was the emergence of sites that allowed individual people to in a sense, e-tail on their own with no company to speak of. This has more or less become a glorified yard sale all from the comfort of your own home without having to invite strangers into your garage and without having to post those silly newspaper ads and neighborhood signs.

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