The 21st century is often described as the information age, when shopping online has become increasing popular all around the world. Buy flowers online today is gradually accepted to be an exceptional floral service. Online florists usually offer competitive prices and incredible selections. Also, many will offer free delivery and discount.

According to the introduction of baidu website, the starting bid price of online flowers is only RMB 0.1 yuan. The biding scope just begins from RMB 0.01 yuan, but the bidding price climbs rapidly and reaches record high of RMB 5 yuan. Till now, the price gets good stability of RMB 3 yuan. The positive market reactions to the flower price are beyond expectation. Also, to a certain degree, it not only reflects steep competition in flower market, but indicates that merchants have agreed to sell flowers online in aid of bid ranking organism. We can see from the jump bidding price that online flower business is no doubt good and profitable.

As there exists no quality differences of flowers between online and face-to-face business, online flower shops can easily find a ready market. Further to this, shopping online is more direct and convenient, and most online flower shops have adopted start-to-finish services that combine flower orders with flower delivery. Through internet, buyers can easily send flowers and heartfelt blessings to their friends in time.

As everyone knows, flower consumption connects closely with festivals. When the winter is coming, kinds of east and west festivals follow on their heels like Halloween Day, Easter Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. These festivals provide good business opportunities to flower consumption and there is no doubt that flowers are selling well online during this period of time. The next year’s Valentine’s Day falls into the Spring Festival long holiday. It is thus true that the price of online flowers will probably reach a new high.

Due to these famous festivals, the bidding price of flowers keeps increasing and the highest price is still unknown till now. Even if the price will return to balance reasonably, the hot situation will probably last for a long time. Although e-business success can’t just depend on hot sales of online flowers, in a sense people have noticed that e-business age is coming.

According to a report in Jiangxi Daily on May 13th, Yu Nianhai from Dingnan town in Jiangxi province received 1500 flower seedling orders through internet during the National Day. We can see the miniature of online flower sales in his town.

Recently, Dingnan town aims at flower market in costal areas and leads the farmers to adjust products structure. Today, flower plantation has become a leading industry in this town, where there are 35 thousand acres of flower planting bases and the year production has reached RMB 2 million yuan. In order to develop its market and help the farmers to become rich, scientific carders are organized to collect and send its flower information to 20 related websites. Hot sales of flowers here attract many merchants. Till now, the town has sold over 350 thousand of flowers and the business income has reached nearly RMB 1.5 million yuan.

We are living in the information age. In the 21st century, information-intensive society continues to expand and diversify. E-business, derived from such terms as “e-mail” and “e-commerce”, is the conduct of business on the internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners. With the development of e-business, online services will no doubt have a prosperous and bright future.