The Changing MARKETPLACE.

Old business in new ways...

The global marketplace is a virtual one, but it is driven by the same business realities as traditional exchanges in local market squares. Here is what businesses can do using new technologies such as the Internet, as they have done in market squares:

* Collect business information

* Conduct marketing

* Exchange documents

* Deliver services

* Generate sales

* Obtain payment

...And new business opportunities

New technologies give us new opportunities to trade existing goods and services in far-away places. The technologies also open up completely new product and service...