Emerging Trends in E-Commerce 2013

E-Commerce is indisputable champion in leading growth trajectory of business, while market plunged last year still though E-Commerce witnessed upward movement. But environment for E-Commerce is rapidly moving towards major developments and larger customer base. In this process, new trends are fast emerging that can dominate E-Commerce and change it forever.

Emerging trends in E-Commerce that have potential to change customer outlook and business environment online are:-

Mobile Commerce or M-CommerceMobile commerce is recent phenomenon which is similar in functioning and features to its big brother E-Commerce, but the only difference is the platform it works on. Web technology for mobile application development is getting large acceptability and scalability, and new trend has emerged in mobile web world is M-Commerce. Mobile commerce facilitates handy transaction on the go from any part of the world. Mobile applications are also being created for purpose of mobile-commerce in wide variety of verticals such as entertainment, business, gaming etc.

Though mobile commerce doesn’t provide new market space rather provides handy option against E-Commerce. Mobile commerce expands accessibility to present traffic and at the same time, encourages more traffic to drop in. In 2011, M-Commerce could see unprecedented exposure with the help of advance mobile application development technologies.

Social MediaSocial media is commonly used for marketing purpose only, but now its use is expanding and in this expansion social media commerce is new emerging trend. But social media commerce is still in development phase. According to industry sources, popular E-Commerce websites are developing web tools and applications for Facebook that will enable their customers to directly purchase their products or services without moving towards main website. This is a big break through that will go a long way in propagating E-commerce online.

Real Time E-Commerce
Nowadays, E-Commerce software development websites are encouraging real-time E-commerce solutions that include real-time bidding, real-time transaction, real-time product or service customization, so on and so forth. Another such E-Commerce software development trend in vogue is Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn and Twitter updates, where followers are updated about products and services consistently. Here, an individual can also sell its services and products free-of-cost, and chances are high that he/she might get best deal than anywhere else. But again, it has its limitations as there is no lack of cheaters and spammers online who’re always ready to loot and steal.

Anything You Can Buy!

Large retail houses to small shopkeepers, all are moving towards E-Commerce making it all-inclusive. It is expected strongly that it is not a distant dream when everything will be available for sale on Internet. Everyday groceries, flowers, luxury cars, aeroplanes to property on distant planet or satellite like moon, almost anything will be up for sale.

But still basic question remains unanswered, that is security. The biggest issue in virtual world is security, which has been attacked consistently by cyber hackers to steal personal data and information, loot banks such as Citibank and threaten national security. So, to consolidate downlink of E-Commerce, software developers will need to develop solid security software development system that can strongly resist any powerful attack.