Ecommerce in 2007
Ecommerce trends in 2007 will likely be just as progressive as they have been since the internet was devised by the American military in the 1960s, but particularly since the inception of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
There are anumber of trends that indicate more widespread use of technology in several areas of ecommerce, of which the following five are likely to expand the most.
The first is the use of video.
Video is already in widespread use as a marketing tool, and no self-respecting internet guru would consider marketing a product without offering a streaming introduction or instructional video.
It is the advances in streaming video that made the widespread use of video technology possible.
Prior to that, video files had to be downloaded to be used, and nobody was going to be likely to download a large file to their hard disk simply tocheck out the latest offer of a great way to make money.
Streaming video made that possible since there is nothing involved in simply clicking on a button to watch a video of how other people make a living.
Apart from the fact that such videos have a lot to offer both new and experienced internet marketers, the novelty factor alone has contributed to their popularity as an advertising technique.
The use of video in blogging will continue to expand through 2007 and will be the recognized method of blogging by the end of the year.
In order to facilitate this, video camera technology will improve, and their prices will come down, making high quality video technology more affordable for the ordinary person.
Not only this, but digital photography in general will improve through the continuing development of photo software.
Online telephony will rocket with more use being made of inexpensive systems such as Skype as opposed to landline VoIP communications systems.
VoIP will be used increasingly online as a marketing technique and for marketing conferences, enabling tele-video-seminars to be conducted live to audiences round the world.
There are anumber of trends that indicate more widespread use of technology in several areas of ecommerce, of which the following five are likely to expand the most.
The first is the use of video.
Video is already in widespread use as a marketing tool, and no self-respecting internet guru would consider marketing a product without offering a streaming introduction or instructional video.
It is the advances in streaming video that made the widespread use of video technology possible.
Prior to that, video files had to be downloaded to be used, and nobody was going to be likely to download a large file to their hard disk simply tocheck out the latest offer of a great way to make money.
Streaming video made that possible since there is nothing involved in simply clicking on a button to watch a video of how other people make a living.
Apart from the fact that such videos have a lot to offer both new and experienced internet marketers, the novelty factor alone has contributed to their popularity as an advertising technique.
The use of video in blogging will continue to expand through 2007 and will be the recognized method of blogging by the end of the year.
In order to facilitate this, video camera technology will improve, and their prices will come down, making high quality video technology more affordable for the ordinary person.
Not only this, but digital photography in general will improve through the continuing development of photo software.
Online telephony will rocket with more use being made of inexpensive systems such as Skype as opposed to landline VoIP communications systems.
VoIP will be used increasingly online as a marketing technique and for marketing conferences, enabling tele-video-seminars to be conducted live to audiences round the world.
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