Indiamart: Revenue Model: As they also offer free listing, no revenue is generated from this step.

But IndiaMART encourages them to have their own web site. IndiaMART offers its expertise on site building, hosting, offering higher listing on IndiaMART.com, search engine optimization for which it charges them such as Rs. 25,000 for a microsite. The other source of income is from the registration which is done by the firms who are listed on the IndiaMART site. They charge about 5000 to 15,000 for the registered listing of the web site. Although most of the companies/firms are listed free of cost, but the firms who are registered themselves on IndiaMART are provided with various special services which a free listed firm will not be provided. Thus they earn by a cataloguing plus basic listing fee that comes under registration revenue, pure listing fees which are on thee top of basic listing fees that could be premium listing and payed listing. The other sources of revenue are banner advertising which accounted for Rs. 35,86 lakhs. E-business solutions make revenue of Rs. 24.21 lakhs. Then there is a pay per lead income also. Before 5-6 years, their business was purely cataloguing and subscription revenue. Today they earn about 60-70% from cataloguing and about 30% earning comes from purely listing and quality/premium listing fee. Also the one other important revenue is business to business ( B2B ) auctions, which was launched in December 1999. This is the biggest auction platform in Asia, provides to their 500,000 global business to business buyers who visit to Indiamart every month. Here suppliers are provided facility to register online and list their inventoy for auction on an annual basis. The seller decides on Reserve Price, minimum bid price and bid increment amount. The buyers who are interested can bid on the items which are listed free of cost after going through the product information online. After the auction times out, the seller is introduced to the winner of the bid process to complete the transaction. The success of the the business to business auction portal can be estimated from the fact that, form its beginning in December 2001 it has already earned Rs. 0.48 lakhs through commissions in the financial year 2000. Last year IndiaMART.com generated a total revenue of Rs. 38 crore. Alibaba: REVENUE MODEL: A major part of the company's business lies in Chinese to Chinese interactions, which cannot be overlooked as a possible area of growth. In China alone, there are 1.2 million users of Alibaba.com In addition to its Chinese dealings, Alibaba.com also has site separately for Japan. After the site it was established, it did a remarkable job in attracting users and recorded a growth of double figure in the very first six months in terms of Japanese subscribers. The Japanese site is backed by established Japanese partners such as Sumitomo-Mitsui Bank, Nikkei BP, and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). The CEO along with his team of 18 founders were able to raise $25 million from some big capital firms--Softbank, Fidelity and Goldman Sachs. From the beginning, however, the CEO had explained to the people who had invested money in this venture that the site will not be able to make any money during at least first three years of its establishment, or until the company acquired at least 1 million subscribers. Major investors: YahooInc., SOFTBANK corporation, Fidelity Capital TradeIndia:

Revenue model:Tradeindia account for $15-20 billion of transactions of a total $100 Billion online B2B business. TradeIndia.com is apparently the Indias largest B2B marketplace, with a claim of over 700,000 registered users. The list for these marketplaces scope between Rs. 3000-13000 per year. No source for this information has been given. Revenues are expected to be double upcoming year, and company growth is 35% of year by year. It is no coincidence that Indias B2B will be set transaction volumes to $100 billion when trademarket will be shifting gears in a year when. Much of this is trade between fellowships facilitated by their own closed exploiter networks. But a cluster of enterprisers, who have promoted independent online marketplaces, including Tradeindia, Indiamart, Matexnet and Auction India, is already in control about $15-20 billion. Tradeindia.com is well developed on all search engines and receives an avg. of 135 lakhs page views every month. With the quality offerings Tradeindia has on offer that today as per estimates the organisation is contributing over US$ 3.5 billion of business to Indias international trade.