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

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Merchants on Taobao pay a fee to rank higher within the site’s search engine results, similar to the way Google works. Alibaba does not charge merchants on Taobao listing or transactions fees. Merchants are charged a fee to list on Tmall as well as a sales commission and advertising fees. Source: Statista. AliExpress.

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11 Things to Know About China’s eCommerce Market

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“In fact, we saw the acceleration of offline retail as well—there’s more of a shift toward a true omnichannel integration.”. If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. Digital Payments. Do you like this content?