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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

But the B2B ecommerce market is growing exponentially , estimated to reach $1.2 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. B2B ecommerce: 2 key differences of B2B buyers.

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Five Ways to Prepare for the 2014 E-Commerce Season

YoungUpstarts

The e-commerce shopping season kicks off in earnest on Cyber Monday, which will fall on December 1 in 2014. Add PCI compliance capabilities to follow regulations on the transmission of payment-card data, and avoid attracting negative attention from regulators. Make sure your store can handle traffic spikes. There’s no time like the present.

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[Infographic] The Potential Of Social Media For B2B In 2014

YoungUpstarts

It’s often said that social media is much harder to crack for B2B businesses than it is for consumer-based ones. In many cases, it’s true – but increasingly social media platforms have become the choice for B2B marketers, and budgets have also correspondingly grown to take advantage of this space.

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10 Things All Founders Should Do in the Last Months of 2014

Up and Running

What has your business accomplished in 2014, and what is still left to do? If you’re a B2B company, take advantage of leftover funds from over-budgeted campaigns and projects. Budget planning and allocating funds for 2015 should be a priority toward the end of 2014. The new year is fast approaching. Closing Q4 Sales.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. Thank you for reading our insights and our story.

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B2B Marketing in 2014: Content + Technology

VC Cafe

2014 will be a BIG year for Digital Marketing. AdAge’s annual survey of top B2B marketers found that 80% have boosted their digital marketing budgets, the highest proportion ever. In 2014, those bucks will flow toward content marketing, social media lead-gen and analytics tools.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment. That not only bodes well for strong companies seeking to go public, regardless of whether they’re B2B or B2C.

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