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Alibaba’s Business Model – How the eCommerce Giant Makes Money

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It is a wholesale marketplace where manufacturers, trading companies and resellers trade goods in large quantities. Then sellers ship merchandise directly to customers via third party logistics providers. Launched in 2010 AliExpress is a global retail marketplace. Source: Statista. Hema grocery stores. Source: Investopedia.

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6 Ways Farfetch is Disrupting Luxury Retail

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Commissions typically range from 25%-33% depending on whether in addition to providing eCommerce functionality Farfetch manages shipping, returns or other services. This model is in contrast to Farfetch’s rival Net-a-Porter which operates primarily a wholesale model where it owns the inventory sold on its site.

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6 of the Top Reasons Online Businesses Fail

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An innovative idea and a slick website might get customers excited but many founders eventually realize it’s actually pretty hard and expensive to acquire customers when you don’t have any retail stores. And when your customers demand free shipping or when return costs add up a promising business can be put into jeopardy pretty quickly.

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