• Newspaper and magazine readership is steadily declining and therefore, what is going to happen to the advertising space and how is the internet going to fill the gap for business advertising?
– Benefit from the increasing returns to scale
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Personalisation and Customisation
1. Personalisation and customisation can:
– Help build customer loyalty – Make it less likely for customers to switch to other
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Disintermediation and Restructuring
• Disintermediation (i.e., , i.e., no agents, no middle-men
and others to translate or sell them for you in a new country, but straight to the retail and customers)
computer hardware and software
the growing array of telecommunications, and info-learning-leisure services
• Dot Com retailers such as Amazon. Com, Google, Dell computers, Microsoft, etc., are obvious major players, but old economy players are also investing in electronic marketing (all major retailers and manufacturers of cars, toys, housing, boats etc).