(i) Affiliate site is a form of third party marketing in which the site may be a price comparison, service or shopping directories or blogs that contain a link to normal retailing site.
(ii) They are paid when a customer makes a purchase through it.
(iii) This site usually attracts visitors by offering more information and tutorials on some specific product or a topic.

(i) Electronic Data Interchanges and teleshopping together paved the way for the E-Commerce,
(ii) E-Commerce became really possible when the Internet was opened to commercial use.
(iii) Large number of Dotcoms. Fin-Tech, Internet Startups have appeared due to vastly developed global Internet community, a strong foundation of electronic-commerce continues to build.

(i) Business structure and Registration: This step doesn't exclude from requiring business licenses and permits. The company must be registered before starting the trade. Registration includes: Business name, trade name, type (company).
(ii) Tax Registration: Taxation is unavoidable in any country. A company must have registered with tax department of the concerned nation and GST, and other tax norms is a necessary to begin selling online in India.
(iii) Business Bank Account: It facilitate payment systems. Once the company or LLP is registered successfully, then next step is to apply for a bank account with GST certificate essential (mandatory) to open a bank account for a business firm.

The major drawbacks of E-Commerce for a business organisation:
(i) People won't buy all products online: There are certain products like high price jewels, clothes or furnishings which people might not like to buy online.
(ii) Competition and Corporate vulnerability: Access to Global Market is an beneficial on one hand but it also come with a competition.
(iii) Security: Security remains to be a problem for E-Commerce. Fraudulent activities in traditional commerce is comparatively less as there is personal interaction between the buyer and the seller.

(i) Access to Global Market: The Internet spans the world of E-Commerce, and it is possible to trade with any business or a person who is connected with the Internet.
(ii) Lower Transaction Cost: E-Commerce reduces the cost of business transactions substantially.
(iii) 24 x 7 working: A website is open all 24 hours, 7 days in a week. E-Commerce can take orders, on delivery of electronic/tangible goods and receive payments at any time.

(i) It could be a consumer based retail sites or auction sites or trade between large business organizations related to Tangible and Electronic forms.
(ii) The commodity could be a laptop or a wrist watch or it could be an operating system or a simple browser plugin.
(iii) The goods, information or services are delivered in tangible or electronic form. Goods - E.g. Mobile phones, digital cameras, clothes, accessories, antivirus.

(i) When it has the ability to conduct business electronically over Internet
(ii) It manages payment transaction through Internet
(iii) It has a platform for selling products and services via Internet

A company can be called E-Business if and only if
(i) It has the ability to conduct business electronically over the Internet.
(ii) It manages payment transaction through the Internet.
(iii) It has a platform for selling products & services via the Internet.

(i) E-Business is grounded on technologies such as Network Infrastructures (like the Internet, Intranet, Extranet)
(ii) Multimedia content &network publishing infrastructures (like HTML, Online Marketing)
(iii) Messaging &information distribution infrastructures (like EDI, e-mail, HTTP, Computerized Inventory Management Systems) and
(iv) Other Common business service infrastructures (like electronic payments gateways, globalized. Supply Chain Management (SCM), Online Transaction Processing).

(i) Web 1.0 (Web of Content) is the early web that contained text, images, and hyperlinks and allowed users only to search for information and read it. There was a very little in the way of user interaction or content generation.
(ii) Web 2.0 (Web of Communication) is a read-write web that allowed users to interact with each other.
(iii) Web 3.0 (Web of Context) is termed as the semantic web or executable web with dynamic applications, interactive services, and "machine-to-machine" interaction.