Exam 9: Electronic Commerce

When using stock brokerage firms, customers pay a commission to ____ for each trade executed.

Text ads are simple text-based links that appear within the body of a Web page and are related to the content. These are also sometimes called ____ ads.

____________________ is when an intermediary from an industry, such as the traditional travel agencies, is no longer needed for the consumer to obtain the goods and services from the industry.

When ordering items online, the major private shipping companies in the United States include all of the following EXCEPT: ____.

Some online auctions provide escrow services that hold a buyer's payment until he or she is satisfied that the item matches the seller's description. _________________________

Digital wallet transactions occur ____.

An auction is an example of a direct transaction.

-The Web site shown in the figure above uses advertising revenue and membership ____________________ fees to support the business.

The text listed all of these drawbacks to online retail EXCEPT: ____.

MATCHING -a Web-only business

The introduction of new Web-based travel agencies into the travel industry is an example of ____.

Contextual ads change based on the content you are viewing or searching. They can be ____.

A(n) subscription is the amount that a user pays in order to access a Web site's content. _________________________

Amazon is a Web-only dot-com company.

The removal of an intermediary from an industry is known as reintermediation. _________________________

The most common form of e-commerce is ____, which refers to selling physical products on the Web. The items are located, reviewed, and purchased on the Web, and then shipped to the buyer.

____, a comparison shopping service site, provides an example of affiliate marketing.

Video ads may appear when a user views related content on ____.

Many subscription-based Web sites also display ____ to their subscribers.

PayPal is an example of a digital wallet.