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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

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Ecommerce sales are growing for traditional B2B businesses as well as direct-to-consumer brands, which are opening wholesale sides to get a slice of the growing B2B ecommerce pie. But if your B2B ecommerce site differs on any of those elements—high prices, large quantities, or a need to serve B2C and B2B buyers—things change.

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

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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. While they knew that—and that might seem weird—I did start my career as a sales development representative (SDR) selling demand generation SaaS products.

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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). Weekly” (via Vero).

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

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So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. million customers total) in 2012.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.