Week 4 Discussion - ISYS

Week 4 Discussion: E-Commerce Strategies

Post by Day 3, a 200- to 250-word explanation of the strategies that at least two companies you make electronic purchases from use to market products to their customers. If you have not made electronic purchases recently, identify two e-commerce sites that carry products you would like to purchase.

Explain the strategies used by the companies you selected to market products to their customers.

In addition, compare the strategies the companies you selected use to those used by the companies that sell to other businesses.

Finally, compare the IT components and systems (e.g. security, payment) for the business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce models.

Below are three UNRELATED EXAMPLES of how to cite within a paragraph in APA format. You need to cite resources in your discussion post to support and justify your thinking:

Haag and Cummings (2003) base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and...

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and... (Haag & Cummings, 2003).

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time. They stated that “…IT is the most important aspect that needs attention by upper management” (Haag & Cummings, 2003, p. 89).

Now, draft your response of at least 200 words below:

After you have finished addressing all elements of the Discussion prompt, do not forget to include your references in APA format. You will need to write the references to any resources that you cite in your Discussion Response. Below are examples of references, including your course texts. When complete, please copy and paste your response in the appropriate thread in the Discussion Forum.

References

Haag, S., & Cummings, M. (2013). Management information systems for the information age (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Below are UNRELATED REFERENCES from a journal, a newspaper, and Web site. These references are only intended to illustrate correct APA formatting:

Ismail, A., Mohamad, M. H., Mohamed, H. A.–B., Rafiuddin, N. M., & Zhen, K. W. P. (2010). Transformational and transactional leadership styles as a predictor of individual outcomes. Theoretical and Applied Economics, 17(6), 89–104.

Porter, E. (2014, May 13). The politics of income inequality. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/business/economy/the-politics-of-income-inequality.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D

Walmart. (n.d.) Our business. Retrieved from: http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-business/