Here are some internet jargon you might come across while reading my entries. I hope they make sense. Note: Thanks to Mr Terry O for contributing to the cause.
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Affiliate Programs - An automated marketing program where a Web advertiser or merchant recruits webmasters to place the merchant’s banner ads or buttons on their own Web site. Webmasters will receive a referral fee or commission from sales when the customer has clicked the affiliate link to get to the merchant’s Web site Web site to perform the desired action, usually make a purchase or fill out a contact form. The most common types of affiliate programs include pay-per-click, pay-per-lead, and pay-per-sale.
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B2B / Business to Business – A business model where a business’ customers are other businesses
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B2C / Business to Consumer – A business model where a business’ customers are non-business consumers
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Dropshipping - Getting an external supplier to provide products for your store and to handle your order fulfillment (product delivery to customers) on your behalf
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eCommerce - This pertains to doing business online and making transactions, sales, refunds and selling online. This pertains to any online sales, and the way businesses communicate and grow
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Online Exchange or Marketplace – A service which electronically connects buyers and sellers in a particular industry. These services hope to reduce administrative costs, facilitate quicker information exchange (and thereby reduce excess inventory) and introduce greater competition
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HTML – HyperText Markup Language is a language to specify the structure of documents for retrieval across the Internet using browser programs of the WorldWideWeb
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Offline Business – Traditional way of doing business where consumer has to leave home to make a purchase
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One-page Checkout - A quick and easy interface for making orders online
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Online/Internet Business – See ecommerce
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SEO - Short for search engine optimization, the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user. It is common practice for Internet users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward the site. SEO helps to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine
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Shopping Cart Program/Software - A software package that runs as part of a Web site to collect and record purchasing decisions by a visitor. Shopping cart programs are stored on Web servers.
