Chapter 4 Flashcards
is a person or a registered company which makes finished products from raw materials in an effort to make a profit.
Manufacturer
is an entity or a company that purchases noncompeting products or product lines, stores them in warehouses, and resells them to
retailers or directly to the customers.
Distributor
is a person or business that purchases goods from the wholesaler or directly from the manufacturer
Retailer
can be a manufacturer, distributor or retailer. It is a method distributing products or services involving a franchisor.
Franchise
It is a model that refers to the old-fashioned street-side business that sells products and services to its customers face-to-face in an office
or store that the business owns or rents.
Brick-and-mortar
It is a model where a company combines its online and a physical presence. Customers may place their orders online and then pick up the products from the physical stores.
Bricks-and-clicks
In this model, products are directly sold to the customers
Direct Sales
This model uses a lot of human interaction and involvement in
order to the experience highly personalized.
High Touch
is owned and operated by a family.
Family-owned
This model makes use of the lowest price strategy in selling basic product or service to the customers.
Nickel-and-dime
This model is a combination of free and paid services normally used by tech companies in the Software as a Service (SaaS) or apps business model
Freemium
This model is an upgradation of the old-style brick-and-mortar business model. It focuses on buying and selling of goods or services creating
a web-store using the internet.
E-Commerce
This model offers a long term contract to customers by paying a
fixed amount every month or year.
Subscription
This is a network model, the company acts as a middleman
between two individual parties.
Aggregator
is a collection of different sellers into one platform.
Online Marketplace
In this model the company offers its services for free. The Company earns revenue streams from advertisements which are paid for by identified sponsors when information is shared.
Hidden Revenue
The Internet has given rise to the importance of data. Data is the major element in the web technology where companies need vital information to perform its operations and gain profit.
Data Licensing / Data Selling
This is a partner company that has specialization in doing non-core business activities such as advertising, digital marketing, PR, even janitorial and security
Agency-Based