| Clicks-and-Bricks Strategy | A business model that combines both a bricks-and-mortar approach and an online presence.
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| e-Commerce Marketplaces | Internet, intranet, and extranet Web sites and portals hosted by individual companies, consortiums of organizations, or third-party intermediaries providing electronic catalog, exchange, and auction markets to unite buyers and sellers to accomplish e-commerce transactions.
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| Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) | The buying and selling, marketing and servicing, and delivery and payment of products, services, and information over the Internet, intranets, extranets, and other networks, between an inter-networked enterprise and its prospects, customers, suppliers, and other business partners. Includes business to- consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce.
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| Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) | The development of banking and payment systems that transfer funds electronically instead of using cash or paper documents such as checks.
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| Infomediaries | Third-party market-maker companies that serve as intermediaries to bring buyers and sellers together by developing and hosting electronic catalog, exchange, and auction markets to accomplish e-commerce transactions.
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| Search Engine Optimization | A process by which a website can advance the likelihood that it will be listed for a particular website query.
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