<<Many of the big traditional stores are getting on the web like JC Penney, and soon probably Walmart, Sears, Dayton Hudson, Nordstrom stc. The barrier of entry is so low. Catalog sales are coming back via the internet. Where will that leave companies like ONSL, UBID? >>
ONSL is moving to the business to b sales relative to vertical net. the number of particpants with v-net continues to grow. you have a tremendous number of small businesses without an effective largescale outlet for their goods. ONSL has thus far provided such an outlet. Yahoo's small business site is expanding - the Walmart's Sears, D-Hs, Nordstroms, et al., will find it challenging to compete on an equal basis - the net washes all that out; thus the need for congregation with the portal sites where the traffic is the most significant. this is the idea.
there are Six billion people in the world. Japan has never shopped at Nordstroms or Walmart - but they do know about Softbank. Euorpe is another challenging market relative to v-net.
ONSL has 140,000 visitors to their site per day. How many visit Nordstrom's site on a particular day? Will this number grow? It hasn't been going down for certain. |
