Marc Ostrofsky Quotes

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

If you are a manufacturer, an Internet company doesn't suit you. An Internet company does not display your product; it can't upsell. But we do a better job than any of the opposition.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

It's a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.

We really see the future of what we call 'distributed commerce,' so how we get our content, our products, and our brands to consumers.

We're not waiting for the fashion cycle to have 180 buyers come in and see the collection and go, 'We like it, we'll buy it, and we'll have it in June.' The only one we're selling to is Net-A-Porter, and the rest is through our site.

E-commerce is not an industry; e-commerce is a tactic.

Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.

We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

People who are using it to sell things on Craigslist to holding garage sales - campaigns - the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign both used Square to raise funds.

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.

The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.