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Predictors of online buying behavior
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Predictors of online buying behavior

S. Bellman, G.L. Lohse and E.J. Johnson
Communications of the ACM, Vol.42(12), pp.32-38
1999
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Abstract

What personal characteristics predict whether or not people buy on the Net? Look for a "wired" lifestyle and time starvation, not demographics. Consumers worldwide can shop online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Some market sectors, including insurance, financial services, computer hardware and software, travel, books, music, video, flowers, and automobiles, are experiencing rapid growth in online sales [7]. For example, in Jan. 1999, Dell Computer Corp. was selling an average of $14 million of equipment online per day [3], and Amazon.com has become the third largest bookseller in the U.S., despite being in business only since 1995 [6]. With projections that the Internet will generate consumer and business-to-business sales in excess of $294 billion by 2002 [2], online retailing raises many questions about how to market on the Net.

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6 Social Sciences
6.3 Management
6.3.65 Consumer Behavior
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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
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