Canadian e-commerce firms fight Google, Amazon

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Abe Books, Points.com and Emergis swap strategies at RBC conference

The Internet is as much a corporate graveyard as an e-commerce gateway and the key to avoiding becoming another bankrupt dot-com is a careful mix of aggression and focus, said several Canadian firms that operate online...

Abe Books’ strategy isn’t to compete with Amazon on volume, said Blum, but to sell books that the online giant may not be able to offer, like out-of-print books, rarities and first editions.

The ability to focus solutions on a given market is a way to overcome seemingly overwhelming competition...

..the key ingredient to dot-com success is focus..

full article: http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/ho...p?id=37500