Web Based Business Models: Direct Sales Model, Franchise Model, Advertising Model, Brokerage Model, Merchant Model.

1. Web Based Business Models

3. Direct Sales Model

4. Industry: Personal
Founded: 1886
Founder: David H. McConnell
Headquarters: New York, United States
Key People: Douglas R. Conant (Chairman)
Sherilyn S. McCoy (CEO)
Products: Cosmetics, Perfume, Clothing, Toys
Revenue: $9.955 billion USD (2013)
Slogan: The Company for Women
Avon is an American international manufacturer and direct selling company in beauty, household
and personal care categories. It is the fifth-largest beauty company and second largest direct sell-
ing enterprise in the world, with 6.4 million representatives.

5. Industry: Direct Selling
Founded: November 9, 1959
Founder: Rich DeVos
Jay Van Andel
Headquarters: Ada, Michigan, United States
Key People: Steve Van Andel (Chairman)
Doug DeVos (President)
Products: Amway Home, Glister, G&H,
Nutrilite, Artistry, Amway Queen
Revenue: $10.8 billion USD (2014)
Slogan: We are listening
Amway is an American company that uses a multi-level marketing model to sell a variety of products,
primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets. Amway was ranked No.26 among the largest
private companies in the United States by Forbes in 2012.

6. Franchise Model

7. Subway is an American fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads.
It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates. Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the
world with 44,488 restaurants in 111 countries. It is the largest single brand restaurant chain and the
largest restaurant operator in the world.
Industry: Restaurants
Founded: August 28, 1965
Founder: Fred DeLuca
Peter Buck
Headquarters: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Key People: Suzanne Greco (President)
Products: Submarine sandwiches, Salads, Wraps
Revenue: $19.8 billion USD (2015)
Slogan: Eat Fresh

8. Industry: Restaurants
Founded: 1958
Founder: Dan Carney
Frank Carney
Headquarters: Plano, Texas, United States
Key People: David Gibbs (CEO & President)
Joe Kim (COO)
Products: Italian-American cuisine
(Pizza, Pasta & Buffalo Wings)
Revenue: $5.5 billion USD (2014)
Slogan: Flavor of Now
Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise known for pizza and side dishes a subsidiary
of Yum Brands the world's largest restaurant company. Pizza Hut has a total of 11,139 branches worldwide.

9. Advertising Model

10. Industry: Internet
Founded: January 1994
Founder: Jerry Yang, David Filo
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Key People: David Filo (Founder)
Maynard Webb (Chairman)
Marissa Mayer (CEO)
Products: Yahoo (News, Mail, Finance, Search, Messenger)
Tumblr
Flickr
Revenue: $4.61 billion USD (2014)
Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally
known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo!
Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video
sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website.

11. Industry: Internet
Founded: February 14, 2005
Founder: Steve Chen
Chad Hurley
Jawed Karim
Headquarters: San Bruno, California, United States
Key People: Susan Wojcicki (CEO)
Chad Hurley (Advisor)
Revenue: $4 billion USD (2014)
Slogan: Broadcast Yourself
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by
three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. The
site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and Adobe Flash
Video technology to display a wide variety of user generated and corporate media video.

12. Brokerage Model

13. Industry: Internet
Founded: September 3, 1995
Founder: Pierre Omidyar
Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States
Key People: Thomas J. Tierney (Chairman)
Devin Wenig (CEO)
Products: Ebay Classifieds, E-commerce, Gumtree,
Online Auction hosting, Kijiji
Revenue: $17.90 billion USD (2014)
Slogan: . Love it. Buy it. Sell it
eBay is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company providing consumer to consumer
& business to consumer sales services via Internet. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized
in over 30 countries.The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and
businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.

14. Industry: Financial Services
Founded: December 1998
Founder: Elon Musk
Luke Nosek
Ken Howery
Max Levchin
Peter Thiel
Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States
Key People: John Donahoe (Chairman)
Dan Schulman (CEO)
Revenue: $8.03 billion USD (2014)
PayPal Holdings is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system. Online
money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to traditional paper methods like checks and money
orders. PayPal is one of the world's largest internet payment companies.The company operates as an
acquirer performing payment processing for online vendors, auction sites and other commercial users
for which it charges a fee.

15. Merchant Model

16. Industry: Internet
Founded: July 5, 1994
Founder: Jeff Bezos
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States
Key People: Jeff Bezos (Chairman, President & CEO)
Products: Appstore, The Book Depository, comixology,
Game Studios, Video, Instant Video UK,
Audible, Instant Video German, Kindle,
Lab126, Studios, Twitch.tv, Woot
Revenue: $88.988 billion USD (2014)
Amazon is an American e-commerce and cloud computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is
the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States. Amazon started as an online bookstore later diversifying to
sell DVDs, Blu rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads streaming, audiobook downloads/
streaming, software, video games,electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry. It is the world's largest pro-
vider of cloud infrastructure services.

17. Industry: Retail
Founded: July 2, 1962
Founder: Sam Walton
Headquarters: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Key People: Greg Penner (Chairman)
Doug McMillion (President & CEO)
Products: Apparel & Footwear, Electronics, Ecommerce
Warehouse Club, Discount Store,
Supermarket, Hypermarket, Superstore,
Revenue: $485.651 billion USD (2014)
Slogan: Save Money. Live Better
Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount
department stores and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, United States the company was
founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. As of November 30, 2015, it has a total
of 11,598 stores in 28 countries, under a total of 65 banners. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail
warehouses.

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