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This article discuss research progress and future opportunities for modeling consumer choice on the Internet using clickstream data and also to compare the nature of Internet choice (as captured by clickstream data) with supermarket choice (as captured by UPC scanner panel data). Though the application of choice models to clickstream data is relatively new, and review existing early work and provide a two-by-two categorization of the applications studied to date (delineating search versus purchase on the one hand and within-site versus across-site choices on the other). The article discusses additional opportunities afforded by clickstream information, including personalization, data mining, automation, and customer valuation and also offers directions for further research in these areas. Notwithstanding the numerous challenges associated with clickstream data research.

This paper presents n conceptual model of Internet-based business-consumer relationship marketing with a focus on the context, content, and the process of relationship development from the consumer's perspective. The model con be divided into two broad groups. The first group is a set of contextual factors (environment, parties to the relationship, consumption task) that influence relationship development. The second group is the content and process of relationship development that can be viewed via three interrelated conceptual phases: consumer motives to seek interaction, exploration and interaction, and relationship bonding. With the rapid growth of E-commerce and on-line consumer shopping trends, the importance of building and maintaining customer loyalty in electronic marketplaces has come into sharper focus in marketing theory and practice. This paper also to present a conceptual framework of "e-loyalty" and its underlying drives.