The process of selling products or services via the Web. Electric commerce: the conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. Specifically, ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications 

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There seems to be a prevailing attitude among Canadian business owners that the Internet will not affect their business. It is puzzling that they continue to take this stance in lieu of the evidence indicating that is in their best interest to get their business online.

On April 3 the Statistics Canada Daily reported "that the total value of private sector sales over the Internet, with or without on line payment rose dramatically in 2000, while the proportion of businesses selling on line fell.  

Canadian businesses received $7.2 billion in customer orders over the Internet in 2000, up 73.4 per cent from $4.2 billion in 1999. However, only 6 per cent of businesses reported selling goods and services on-line in 2000. These 6 per cent of businesses selling on-line accounted for one quarter of all gross business income."

What was even more disturbing in the Statistics Canada report was that of the businesses that had responded to the survey for every two that had started selling over the Internet in 2000, five had stopped doing so.

Why are Canadian business owners continuing to fight the Internet trend? Are they tired of the constant changes, the learning curves and the struggle to be like the Americans? Has the Internet inspired a renewed distain for our aggressive neighbors? Are commercials like "I am Canadian" and satires like Rick Mercer’s, "Talking to Americans", a result of this techno saturation backlash?

Or has the Internet created a global paradigm shift that Canadians business owners are refusing to accept?

Business to Business (B2B) sales have been a driving force of the Internet economy. According to the US Census Bureau, in a report that came out in March, B2B sales may have accounted for 90 percent of all ecommerce activity in the US in 1999.

The report found that USD485 billion of manufacturing shipments were made online.

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