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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo simple enough to be self-service).

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI. The course is designed to help you create and define a strategic brand identity, so you can build a successful brand. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Twitter followers.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Is it a B2B or B2C email?” , “What is the company where this contact is working at?”

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Two or more different versions of the same content can be produced with different design, structure or layout and can be tested for engagement, leads and time spent. Produce more engaging content.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. Many companies will design their sales and marketing machine as a blend of each of these approaches. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Magical, really.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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