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Alibaba S-1: Sizing Up A Giant

Agile VC

The initial business, Alibaba.com, was a B2B marketplace to enable global buyers of manufactured goods to connect with Chinese wholesalers and suppliers of such goods. At the time B2B marketplaces were huge in the US… during the late ’90s bubble companies like VerticalNet and others were valued in the tens of billions.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The rest of the story is familiar. Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Rather than a traditional round of pre-release promotion, Beyoncé released a full album on iTunes in 2013 with no advance promotion. But few could wait to learn more. Image source ).

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Business Tips For Women Business Leaders

Mike Michalowicz

In fact, for the rest of my lifetime I expect to see women becoming the leading force in business. Thanks to Dr. Marc Tinsley , Fitness For The Rest Of Us. Work to expand your EQ as it is essential in all those B2B interactions. When I started my first company in 1996, it was still very much a guys only world. It’s A Job.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The rest of the story is familiar. Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Rather than a traditional round of pre-release promotion, Beyoncé released a full album on iTunes in 2013 with no advance promotion. But few could wait to learn more. Image source ).

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

A tax services center could focus on “ prepare 2013 taxes” now, but in September might focus on 3 rd quarter filing services for freelancers. Get plugged into the rest of the marketing team, also. Seasonality – Most businesses have a seasonality factor that influences top converting terms. Let’s take a look at a few examples –.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

As we look into 2014, we thought it was important to reflect on our activities in 2013 and refocus and refine our thinking and messaging as a firm. As they say, the rest is history. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b. There is also a b2b theme as companies like ooomf and emissary.io

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Everything You Need To Know About Designing Valuable Customer Surveys

ConversionXL

In the rest of this article we’re going to be concentrating on qualitative data, more specifically getting it through qualitative surveys. Research from the CMO Council & Penton Media in Q4 of 2013 found that only half of the companies surveyed felt they had good transactional, behavioral & customer support data.