subject: Reaching erudite customers: The Changing Paradigm [print this page] Reaching erudite customers: The Changing Paradigm
The low cost of the PC and the growing use of the Internet has shown the tremendous growth of Ecommerce in India, in the recent years. According to the Indian Ecommerce Report released by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, "The total online transaction in India was Rs. 7080 crores in the year 2006-2007. In the year 2008-09, Global online shopping growth rate was nearly 8% to 10 % with India doing better at 30 %. Indian e-commerce market is estimated to be around Rs. 9,500 10,000 Crores.
With nearly 60 million Internet users India is among fastest growing Internet markets in the world encouraging online spending. Roughly 20 million internet users in India are doing financial transactions over internet. Although, as compared to the western countries, India is still in is its initial stage of development in cyber space, the Indian middle class is equal to the entire customer base in the US. Therefore, the future of Ecommerce in India is quite promising and the growing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have aided the process even more. All we need to look at carefully is to create a robust and safe infrastructure for carrying out this activity of users through online gateway. India is still a younger and unexplored market for e-commerce and holds a great potential.
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