Conducting business via the internet continues to expand at an extremely rapid proportion. In fact, e-commerce is growing at a phenomenal rate. According to Forrester Research "17 million households shopped online by the end of 1999, spending an average of $1,167 per household. By 2004, that number is expected to grow to 49 million households spending an average of $3,738 each (cited by the Institute for Policy Information, n.d.). The internet business owner needs to be able to determine the …showed first 75 words of 1437 total…

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