Ecommerce – The $250 Billion Dollar Industry
Wow, I knew ecommerce was a big industry but I didn’t realise just how big!
Forrester Research have published a report which predicts that online retail sales will continue to grow and by 2014 online sales and ecommerce are estimated to reach $248 Billion dollars!. These figures are for US and does not include online sales for Europe, Japan and the rest of the world.
Graph data courtesy techcrunch.com
With online retail and ecommerce cart sales at US $155 Billion dollars in 2009 and increasing steady year on year the future looks bright for ecommerce. So as the world emerges from the GFC and with ecommerce sales climbing, now has never been a better time for would be entrepreneurs to enter the ecommerce market. I will soon be publishing a series of free independent ecommerce ebooks that will be available for free download form this website soon.. so stay tuned.
Regards
Steve
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