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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

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If you’re a B2B ecommerce shop that sells… inexpensive products; in small quantities; exclusively to B2B buyers; The best B2 C ecommerce sites are equally good examples for your B2 B ecommerce site. What works with the average B2C consumer won’t always work with B2B ecommerce buyers. A more complex sales cycle.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

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We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Image source ). Opportunity.

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The Consumerisation of Enterprise IT is now the Standard

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The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012. The rise of enterprise “toys” – Techcrunch, 2012. What changed since 2012. “Toys” are new startups attacking a narrow or unattractive segment of the market.

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Email Subject Lines: 8 Principles for Improved Open Rates

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Amelia Showalter of Pantheon Analytics , who led digital analytics for Obama’s 2012 campaign, agrees… Amelia Showalter , Pantheon Analytics: “Eventually the novelty wore off, and we had to go back and retest.” (via Here’s an example from the 2012 Obama campaign… Image Source. via Bloomberg). The results?

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

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On the other hand, if you sold something like gifts for geeks, the sales cycle would be shorter, and the bulk of your emotion and “personality” could be communicated visually through bold images and nifty font choices. Emotional Design Influences Sales. million customers total) in 2012. image source.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand.