Question from Tokyo, Japan. What is the most remarkable business model
for the field of e-business in US today?

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 05 Apr 2004 21:45 PDT

Hi!

The term "remarkable" business model is a very subjective one. Would a
list and description of the different business models for popular
e-business sites in the US be ok as an answer?

Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by yuuuka-ga on 05 Apr 2004 22:27 PDT

easterangel, 
Thank you for your advice.

As you said, the answer I requested is the different business models
for popular e-business in the US.

Thak you.

Yuuuka

Hi! Thanks for accepting my proposal for formulating an answer.

The free online e-commerce course ?Managing the Digital Enterprise?
provides a good description of the general business models prevalent
in the web today. The article also has sub models of each business
type and examples of popular web companies employing such business
models.  I will provide a short outline here but it will be very
useful to read the whole article to understand the different concepts.

a. Brokerage Model
b. Advertising Model
c. Infomediary Model
d. Merchant Model
e. Manufacturer (Direct) Model
f. Affiliate Model
g. Community Model
h. Subscription Model
i. Utility Model   

?Business models on the Web?
http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html 

Note: Thorough discussions of the business models are available on the
left and right sidebars of the webpage.


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Finally the most popular e-commerce companies in the US like Amazon,
AOL and Yahoo usually patent the different business models they
develop. If you want to see some of their patents, the same course
provides such valuable information. These patents show the uniqueness
of the models these different companies have developed.

?BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS?
http://digitalenterprise.org/ip/patented_models.html


Again the issues of business method patents are thoroughly discussed
on the accompanying articles provided on the sidebars of the page.


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