Archive for July, 2010

Virtual Business in a Purely Virtual World

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

The “virtual” portion of the term virtual business is actually returning closer the words original roots as technology and society’s obsession with computer driven socially interactivity increases.  As virtual business has evolved from mere simulation to real money transaction, the spheres in which it takes place is creeping back to now include the non real.  [...]

Dot-Com Bubble: A Cautionary Tale

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Today’s virtual business market is thriving (relatively, in this economy of course), but it is doing so under a heightened sense of awareness and caution as compared to preceding eras.  As is the case with some technological advancements, forward thinkers and idea guys take off with a concept before the realities necessary to make it [...]

Amazon.com: a virtual business pioneer

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Amazon.com is not only a true heavyweight in the online commerce industry; it helped to pave the way for other virtual business entrepreneurs and pioneers to follow in its supremely successful footsteps.  Today, Amazon is the largest online retailer in the country, with little to no imminent threat to challenge the crown.  Staples, the silver [...]

Combining Virtual with Brick and Mortar

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Though virtual business in its purest form has no structural headquarters, well established companies and corporations across the globe have enhanced their already viable business models with virtual business strategies and tactics.  In fact, any company that claims it is operating at its utmost level of efficiency, without maintaining a functional website on which transactions [...]

What is Virtual Business?

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Though at the beginning of its origin virtual business was merely a term for simulated business transactions or transactions that do not actually take place or matter in the real world, stealing from the mother idea of virtual reality, this definition does not hold true in regards to the modern virtual business world.  While simulating [...]