The main models for doing business online include business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C). B2B consists of companies doing business with each other, whereas B2C involves businesses selling directly to the end consumer. In the mid-90s, when Internet marketing first began, the B2C model, represented by companies like Amazon.com, was the first to emerge. B2B transactions were more complex, often involving bidding or invoicing systems, and came about later. A third model for doing business online has emerged with the rise of eBay and others. It’s called peer-to-peer (P2P), and it involves individuals selling goods to each other.

Yellowseed offers a number of ecommerce solutions to serve your needs. For retail clients, we offer secure and stable technology for managing, inventorying and processing online payments, including top-of-the-line shopping carts, auction and classified systems. For Business-to-Business (B2B) clients, Yellowseed offers estimating and billing systems that work seamlessly with your website. 

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Yellowseed can set up an estimating system for almost any type of business.

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The shopping cart also processes the checkout, calculating the total for the order including taxes, shipping etc. before facilitating an online payment.

Yellowseed works with Paypal, Expression Engine, and OSCommerce to provide an array of stable, secure and affordable shoppinig cart solutions.

Our basic shopping cart solutions are solid and affordable solutions for small businesses. The set-up cost is low and there are no ongoing fees. Transactions are processed by Pay Pal.

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Pick your niche, or leverage your community, Yellowseed uses open-source classified and auction technology to bring you systems that can handle thousands of users and tens-of-thousands of items.

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Yellowseed recommends Google or Yahoo Ad Affiliate programs and PHPAdsNew for banner Advertising.

We also provide training on how to make the most of your banner advertising, including how to charge, sell, and manage all the ads on your site.

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According to Jupiter Metrix, total online purchases of U.S. travel and leisure services will be about $63 billion in 2006.  Considerm that 29 percent of U.S. online consumers research and purchase travel on the Internet, while 29 percent research leisure travel online but ultimately purchase offline. Any company hotel, bed-and-breakfast, guiding outfit or outfitter not making use of the Internet is missing at least 29% and as much as 58% of possible customers. 

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Goodbye eBay, here comes GBuy

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Yahoo, eBay Team Up To Battle Google

Yahoo gets ad placements on eBay, while eBay auctions will appear on Yahoo, and PayPal becomes payment backend for Yahoo online payments.

The overtures of a merger? Read this story here.