Website Naming – A Vital Issue For Businesses

holidays that fall throughout the year. “We used to do that, but with the website, we get a lot more feedback from our customers and it really makes our relationship with our customers more interactive,” said Mr. McCann, the company’s director. By maintaining good customer relationships and understanding customer needs in a timely and quick manner, 1-800-flowers.com has an advantage over other companies in order fulfillment. They are strong at forecasting orders and delivering during the holidays, a challenge for all retailers but a necessity in the gift business.

Ice.com also proves that it is a “veteran” company in researching customer psychology and bringing trust to customers. Ice always puts the message “why you choose Ice.com” on the entire online shopping process as well as on the Ice.com homepage. This message, along with the free shipping policy, free gift boxes and 30-day money-back guarantee, are factors that help customers always remember Ice.com. If customers are hesitant to buy, these factors will help promote the buying process more easily. The combination of these factors proves that Ice.com has a thorough understanding of customer psychology in the sales process.

For Amazon: since 2002, when a customer visits Amazon's website for the second time, a cookie file is used to identify the customer and display the greeting: "Welcome back" and make shopping suggestions based on the customer's previous shopping activities. Amazon also analyzes the shopping process of regular customers and sends emails suggesting new products to customers. Statistics of customer opinions and reviews of products allow customers to make choices.

accurate selection and increased customer confidence in the shopping process at Amazon.com compared to traditional shopping. Thanks to that, Amazon has attracted many customers to choose its products.

3.1.2. Lessons from failures

3.1.2.1.Naming a website – A vital issue for businesses

The most important decision in marketing is naming a product. In the age of positioning, names are very important. In the age of the Internet, names are vital. Some companies have failed in the online business market because they chose too generic names to build their brand. For example, we can see that the best-selling book site on the Internet is not Books.com but Amazon.com; the top auction site on the Internet is not auction.com but Ebay.com; the top job search site on the Internet is not Jobs.com but Monster.com. Some companies choose to name their brand a common noun that was initially successful, when online business was not popular. For example, in their initial issuance of shares, Pets.com raised $50 million, eToys raised $166 million. But all of these companies are now bankrupt due to ineffective operations. There are two main reasons: 1. When the internet was relatively new, there were very few websites up and running, and very few people knew the names of any websites. So naming with a common noun was an advantage. Customers who wanted to buy shoes just typed in Shoes.com. However, today there are many businesses selling the same products online, and without a unique name for their products, it is very difficult to attract customers and leave a brand in the minds of customers. 2. Generic names are easy to confuse customers, thereby creating conditions for other companies to copy their products. For example, the company eToys lost 73 million in its last years of operation just because there were

Companies with similar names were founded such as iToy.com, Toys.com, Toystore.com, eToystore.com, etc. So it was no surprise when eToys went bankrupt and closed its website on March 7, 2001.

This reinforces the marketing lesson: The customer owns the brand. What this means is that a business owns its trademark, its manufacturing facilities, and its distribution channels, but it does not own its brand. The value of a brand depends on the perception of the brand in the mind of the customer. So give it a unique name and don’t let it get lost in the sea of ​​other businesses in the same industry.

3.1.2.2. Focus on the area of ​​expertise

Is the online world any different from the real world? The answer is no. To be successful on the Internet, you also have to appeal to the psychology of the customer. Once you have represented a product or service in the mind of the customer, it is difficult to change that image. Apple Computer suffered because of its lack of focus. It was the only major computer company that wanted to make and sell both computer hardware and software, including its own operating system. As we know, Apple started out as a personal computer hardware company, then moved into the production of operating systems, software programs, and PDAs. Apple lost its direction, its CEO, and almost everything else until Steve Jobs took control of the situation and refocused Apple on its core business, which was personal computers. It should be noted that the leading computer hardware company Dell Computer does not sell software and the computer software company Microsoft does not sell computers.

Once you have a large market share, try to hold it and protect your market leadership. Microsoft is a strong brand not just because it makes better software, but because it has 95% of the PC operating system market share and 92% of the office software market share.

Some companies argue: “We can enter other markets because we have products, people, systems, momentum and team spirit. So why not?” However, the crux of the problem is: You can have everything, products, people, systems, but you still lack one thing: the “concept” of the customer.

This is true for Vietnamese businesses today. Currently in Vietnam, there are very few businesses that are “kings” in a certain field. For example, when it comes to coffee, we have Trung Nguyen coffee, when it comes to milk, we have Vinamilk, when it comes to software, we have FPT… there are many other fields that do not have a “king”. If businesses know how to take advantage and develop their business in their comparative advantage, they will be successful. Successful businesses that want to expand and diversify their business lines need to consider carefully because diversification is really a double-edged sword for each business.

Applying to the retail sector: Businesses should choose a certain business sector and dominate in that sector, which is much better than doing business in too many different products at the same time. Currently, Picoplaza is a strong brand in the retail of household electronic devices, thegioididong.com is famous for its mobile phone business, tienphongvdc is strong in selling books. That is a right direction because once online retail websites grow more and more quickly, the above brands have a place in the eyes of consumers and from there can easily promote successful and effective marketing strategies.

3.2. General orientation on e-commerce and e-marketing development in Vietnam

With the explosion of the Internet and e-commerce applications in the world, developing e-commerce and e-marketing has become an inevitable task for Vietnam if it does not want to fall further behind developed countries. Realizing this, the Vietnamese government has been taking the right steps and actions to deploy e-commerce in general and e-marketing in particular. The government has directed ministries and branches related to e-commerce (such as the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Information...) to carry out a number of research programs to perfect e-commerce policies and all affirm the support of the Party, the State and the Government for e-commerce and consider this a necessary condition for the Vietnamese economy to be able to promote economic growth, achieving the set goals by 2020.

E-commerce and e-marketing can only develop when and only when necessary factors such as legal infrastructure, information technology infrastructure, payment systems, human resources, etc. are developed. To promote the development of this field, in 2008-2009, Vietnam issued many relevant legal documents to create a legal infrastructure (see table 2.3 below). This has helped mark a major step forward in continuing to perfect the legal framework so that businesses can confidently conduct e-commerce transactions, encourage e-commerce development, protect the rights and interests of participating parties, and also serve as a legal basis for adjudication when disputes arise.

The Prime Minister issued Decision No. 32/2006/QD-TTg dated February 7, 2006 on the Planning for the Development of Telecommunications and the Internet in Vietnam until 2010 with a number of Internet development targets:

Implement Internet universalization to all regions and areas in the country with increasingly high quality and services. By 2010:

- Internet subscriber density reaches from 8 to 12 subscribers/110 people (of which 30% are broadband subscribers).

- The rate of Internet users reaches 25% to 35% of the population.

- Ensure that the majority of cadres, civil servants, public employees, teachers, doctors, university and college students, vocational high school students and high school students have access to the Internet.

- Promote the universalization of Internet to all communes nationwide. By 2010, ensure that 70% of communes have public Internet access points, 100% of districts and most communes in key economic zones are provided with broadband Internet services.

- Ensure that all ministries, branches, State administrative agencies, provincial and district authorities are connected to broadband Internet and connected to the Government's wide area network;

- 100% of research institutes, universities, colleges, vocational high schools and high schools have connections to access broadband Internet; over 90% of secondary schools and hospitals are connected to the Internet.

2010 is the final year, the year that determines whether the Plan is implemented as originally set out. Therefore, during the two years 2008-2009, the State issued many Decisions, directives, and orientations to create a solid foundation for e-commerce and e-marketing to develop in the right direction and achieve the goals [22].

Table 3.1: Legal documents related to e-commerce activities (2008-2009)



Abbreviation


Document issuing unit


Text format


Text content


Date of issue of document

37/2009/TT-BTTTT

Ministry of Information and Communications


Circular

Regulations on documents and procedures related to licensing, registration and recognition of organizations providing certification services

digital signature


December 14, 2009


28/2009/ND-CP


Government


Decree

Regulations on administrative sanctions for violations in the management, provision and use of Internet services and electronic information on the Internet.

Internet


March 20, 2009


59/2008/QD-BTTTT

Ministry of Information and Communications


Decision

Issuing the List of mandatory standards applicable to digital signatures and digital signature certification services


December 31, 2008


58/2008/QD-BTTTT

Ministry of Information and Communications


Decision

Issue regulations on reporting information on activities

digital signature authentication of the

digital signature certification service provider


December 30, 2008


12/2008/TT-BTTTT

Ministry of Information and Communications


Circular

Guidance on the implementation of some contents of Decree No. 90/2008/ND-CP dated 13

August 2008 Government's Anti-Spam


December 30, 2008


40/2008/QD-BCT


Inter-ministerial, Sectoral


Decision

Promulgating the Regulations on management and use of digital signatures, digital certificates and digital signature certification services of the Ministry of Industry and Trade


October 31, 2008

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Website Naming – A Vital Issue For Businesses



78/2008/TT-BTC


Inter-ministerial, Sectoral


Circular

Guidance on the implementation of some contents of Decree No. 27/2007/ND-CP dated 23

February 2007 on electronic transactions in financial activities


September 15, 2008


97/2008/ND-CP


Government


Decree


On management, provision and use of Internet services and electronic information on the Internet


August 28, 2008

90/2008/ND-CP


Government

Decree


About anti-spam


August 13, 2008


05/2008/CT-BTTTT

Ministry of Information and Communications


Directive


On promoting the development of Vietnam's information technology industry



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According to estimates, in 2010, the proportion of investment in Internet Marketing in the total marketing budget is forecast to continue to increase sharply in many developed countries. Vietnamese enterprises alone can invest 7-10% of their marketing budget in Internet marketing. On the other hand, because the Internet is growing rapidly, fast-moving consumer goods enterprises are also promoting Internet marketing with potential customers such as young people and office workers. Another advantage is that Internet marketing does not depend on the size of the enterprise, whether large or small, any enterprise can conduct marketing activities and communicate with customers worldwide.

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