Simply Seven Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business [Paperback]

Published as part of Palgrave Macmillan's IE Business Publishing Series, Simply Seven is a practical guide to Internet business for students, entrepreneurs and executives. The book presents a practical blueprint created to get entrepreneurs and executives started on finding the right Internet business model for their web site.Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION - THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT MODEL Your Second Priority Getting Started Simply Seven: That's it Business Model Design The Business Model Hype Phases The Making of this Book Stress-Testing the Simply Seven The Selection Criteria Initial Results: Seven Confirmed Our 21 Companies Retail Leads in Sales Many Users and Rapid Growth: The Advertising Business Model Market Valuations: Advertising, Again Margins: The Beauty of Aggregation Key Financial Indicators PART II: THE FIRST BUSINESS MODEL -? SERVICE SALES Plain and Straightforward A Business Model with Problems 'Can I Skype you? PART III: THE SECOND BUSINESS MODEL - SUBSCRIPTIONS The Heaviest Weapon in the Arsenal The Rise and Fall of AOL The 'Bouncer Effect' In the 'Dog House' The Future of Clubs Getting People to Subscribe PART IV: THE THIRD BUSINESS MODEL - RETAIL Don't Treat Online like Offline The Million Books Project Early Death in May 2000 Being Good at Bricks is Not Enough The 'Long Tail' vs. 'Superstar Economics' Fighting the Clutter The Future of the Shop is Personal PART V: THE FOURTH BUSINESS MODEL  COMMISSIONS Don't Believe your Clients are Stupid The Beauty of C2C Listings * ASPs * Conversion Rates = GMV Fraud The B2B Trap Beware of the Smart Client Reports of the Death of the Intermediary PART VI: THE FIFTH BUSINESS MODEL - ADVERTISING You Force it, you Lose it Spam and Pushy Banners Search Revolution 'The Wisdom of Money' The Death of the Newspaper The Sexiness of Statistics Advertising as a Service PART VII: THE SIXTH BUSINESS MODEL - LICENSE SALES You Will Need all your Friends Intellectual Property 300 Years after Queen Anne The Indecisivlƒ(