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Online Shopping
Customer buying behaviour in digital environment

The marketing around the digital environment, customer's buying behaviour may not be influenced and controlled by the brand and firm, when they make a buying decision that might concern the interactions with search engine, recommendations, online reviews and other information. With the quickly separate of the digital devices environment, people are more likely to use their mobile phones, computers, tablets and other digital devices to gather information. In other words, the digital environment has a growing effect on consumer’s mind and buying behaviour. In an online shopping environment, interactive decision may have an influence on aid customer decision making. Each customer is becoming more interactive, and though online reviews customers can influence other potential buyers' behaviors.

Subsequently, risk and trust would also are two important factors affecting people's' behavior in digital environments. Customer consider to switch between e-channels, because they are mainly influence by the comparison with offline shopping, involving growth of security, financial and performance-risks. In other words, a customer shopping online that they may receive more risk than people shopping in stores. There are three factors may influence people to do the buying decision, firstly, people cannot examine whether the product satisfy their needs and wants before they receive it. Secondly, customer may concern at after-sale services. Finally, customer may afraid that they cannot fully understand the language used in e-sales. Based on those factors customer perceive risk may as a significantly reason influence the online purchasing behaviour.

Online retailers has place much emphasis on customer trust aspect, trust is another way driving customer’s behaviour in digital environment, which can depend on customer’s attitude and expectation. Indeed, the company’s products design or ideas can not met customer’s expectations. Customer’s purchase intension based on rational expectations, and additionally impacts on emotional trust. Moreover, those expectations can be also establish on the product information and revision from others.

Online Marketplace
Online marketing intermediaries

The intermediaries in online environment marketing that offer customers a destination site about connecting online customer with product information, for example, some search engines, like Google, Facebook and MSN. This method is easier for customer to gather information, and have a preview bout the product. Such as the price and the product detail information. Online intermediaries enable customer and online seller maximizes the efficiency and effectiveness. The information would be exchanged though Internet, B2B and B2C are both benefit from online intermediaries. In addition, online intermediaries sometimes provide support for online social networks, which create a social community for supplier and customer in order to directly connecting each other, such as the dramatically increase trend about e-commerce development, online site allow supplier and customer to do business at digital environment.

It is different with the traditional method, online shopping intermediaries offer third-party sellers the opportunities to freedom to choose sale prices, and they only charge a percentage of referral fees from the final price. Though the online environment sellers become more efficient, comparing with conventional sells channel, in-store sales, online shopping and intermediaries enable company save from without involve physical store. And also it bring convenience for customer, in other words, online shopping intermediary’s level of search help decrease the level of differentiation in the product category. Customer may have a clear classification to search what are they seeking.