How to explain B2B (business-to-business electronic commerce) and C2C (person-to-person electronic commerce) and how they make money?

Many people don't understand what c2c is. C2c is actually a technical term of e-commerce. C2c is C to C, because the pronunciation of 2 in English is the same as to, so C to C is abbreviated as c2c. C refers to consumers, because the English word for consumers is C. Now you should know that c2c means e-commerce between consumers. For example, a consumer owns an old computer and sells it to another consumer through online auction. This transaction type is called c2c e-commerce. C2c e-commerce mainly refers to online auction. C2c mode is characterized by popular transactions, because it is a transaction between individuals! The development status of C2C China is in the fast-changing Internet industry, and one year is enough to change things. A year ago, the strong intervention of patting. Com makes C2C field form a tripartite confrontation. Taobao, Yi Bei and Paipai have their own advantages and disadvantages. Looking back after a year's storm, too many things have quietly changed the original pattern, and the eccentricity of strength has made C2C enter a more confusing post-Three Kingdoms era. Taobao: There is no doubt that Taobao's leading position in C2C field has not been shaken for the time being. However, Taobao has to bear the heavy pressure brought by this lead. Between the lead and the pressure, Taobao struggled forward. In China C2C market, Taobao's market share exceeds 60%. If it is in a traditional industry, Taobao can sit back and relax. However, in the rapidly changing Internet field, this advantage is not an insurmountable barrier. As early as May 2006, when the launch of Lucky Treasure was frustrated, Ma Yun realized that such a market position was not stable, and competitors might burst out with amazing energy, directly challenging the authority of Taobao. In this way, leadership itself has become a kind of pressure. After chasing troops, the road ahead is boundless. Nobody told you the way ahead. Every step you take has become a careful attempt. You may walk out of a vast world or get nothing. In the past year, Taobao has shown the courage to innovate, acquiring word-of-mouth network to launch classified information, vigorously expanding brand malls, making group buying a channel, expanding the horizon of transactions to the whole world, and launching a "global purchase" channel ... It is hard to say how much direct benefits these attempts have brought to Taobao, but Taobao also understands what it can and cannot do. Relying on constant attempts, Taobao maintains its leading position in Xiaoyiyi. For Taobao, there is still a price for leading, that is, huge capital investment. Whether the 2 billion investment boasted by Ma Yun is true or not, it is an indisputable fact that Taobao is facing increasingly obvious financial pressure. In silence, Taobao began to charge service fees for users who stayed in brands/shopping malls. However, the inclination of policies and resources to these merchants and the unconscious neglect of small merchants make free Taobao exist in name only. Obviously, the free Taobao has been unable to bear the huge financial pressure. In 2007, Taobao is still moving forward, but every step will not be as easy and comfortable as before. Pat:/kloc-more than 0/000 million products are just another starting point. Recently, Paipai.com announced that the number of online products has exceeded100000. The number of goods exceeds10000000, which means that as long as it is a normal purchase demand, users can be satisfied in Paipai.com. That's it. Row. Com has officially become one of the ten million commodity clubs. At present, only Taobao and Paipai enter the ten million commodity clubs in China. In March 2006, Paipai.com announced its official operation. With more than a year's rapid growth, Paipai.com, relying on Tencent, has become a dark horse with full potential in the C2C field in China. Last May, I patted the release of "Ant Moving". Com lets Ma Yun take this fast-rising competitor seriously. March 2007, pat. Com officially announced that the number of its online products exceeded10 million, becoming the industry leader who broke this record in the shortest time, but it was only one year after its official operation, and the growth rate was amazing. Of course, with the rapid development of Paipai.com, the C2C market structure in China is also quietly changing. The number of online goods exceeded10 million, which inadvertently narrowed the distance between Paipai and Taobao. In Alexa's ranking of world websites, Paipai.com ranks second in domestic C2C website traffic for a long time. "For shopping websites, commodity flow and people flow are two key indicators. In short: when a shopping mall is rich in goods and more consumers come to spend in it, it will be inevitable to increase the turnover of the shopping mall. In these two indicators, it jumped to the second place, which also means that the industrial structure of C2C is quietly changing, and the traditional three-legged pattern is likely to be replaced by Taobao and Pat Shuangfeng. " Industry experts believe that. Although there are 230 million QQ active users as the foundation, it is not easy to achieve such a growth rate. Industry veterans believe that the close tie-up with Tencent's other businesses makes Paipai have many differentiated advantages that other shopping platforms cannot match, which is another key reason for Paipai's rapid development. QQ Zone, which mainly deals in Tencent's value-added products, occupies an important position in the auction. On June 5438+00 last year, the QCC Mall launched by Paipai and QQ Space was a great success. According to a conservative estimate, the traffic and transaction volume brought by QCC Mall to Paipai increased by more than 20%. Although the growth rate in the industry is the fastest and the development momentum is strong, compared with Taobao, the market share gap in Paipai.com cannot be solved in one day. In this regard, Zhan Weibiao, the person in charge of Paipai.com, has a very clear understanding: "The breakthrough of online commodity volume10 million is only a new starting point for us. Next, we will continue to improve product search, shopping process, payment, logistics and other aspects to continuously improve the user experience. For example, in the recently launched new version of QQ, we have incorporated more patting elements, which can clearly display the information of sellers and goods during the dialogue, thus helping to reach a transaction quickly in the communication process. After all, the choice of users is the best criterion to judge whether a shopping platform has good development prospects. " In 2007, on the road to challenge, patting has a long way to go. Ebay: The pain of transformation has shifted from local enterprises to multinational enterprises, and then from multinational enterprises to local enterprises. Yi Bei is back. The difference is that its name changed from Yi Bei to Tom Yi Bei, and its boss changed from Shao Yibo to Wang Leilei. When Yi Bei and Tom merged last year, Wang Leilei boasted: "We should find a feasible profit model within six months." Half a year hasn't arrived yet, and it's not clear whether the brave words can be fulfilled, but what we can see is the obvious local flavor in Tom Yi Bei. EBay Yi Bei doesn't pay much attention to the community. Today, Tom Yi Bei pays attention to this community again. After New Year's Eve, Yi Bei rushed to launch the New Year's Fair and made a lot of publicity articles, which was unimaginable in Yi Bei before. Understand the habits of netizens in China and make corresponding adjustments. Yi Bei is approaching a purely local enterprise. However, it is an unavoidable fact that Yi Bei has been weakened after many twists and turns. In the hands of Wang Leilei, it remains to be seen whether Yi Bei can regain the status of king.