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How to Solve the Biggest Shipping and Fulfillment Challenges of 2019

Up and Running

By 2021, global B2C ecommerce sales are expected to surpass $4.5 Late or missing deliveries drive B2C customers to competitors. Below is a list of the most common problems you can face in 2019, and what you can do to address them. trillion —almost double the $2.3 trillion reached in 2018. International shipping.

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How These Brothers Went from Hip-Hop Duo to Transforming the World of B2B Sales

ReadWriteStart

It was late 2019 when they started Accord, the world’s first Customer Collaboration Platform. Think of everything that’s happened in the B2C buying process in the last 20 years… buying insurance, a trip abroad, or a new car. You can’t replicate a frictionless B2C experience using home-grown tools. .

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How Important Is Mobile Readiness For Hotels?

YoungUpstarts

Hotels are often B2C and therefore it is essential that we are communicating to customers in the best way. Mobile readiness allows for easy and fast access to a website and it is something for hotel owners to think about if they want to generate higher traffic to their site and platforms.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

This is in addition to their 2019 acquisition of Anchor, LinkedIn launched a new ‘Creator Mode’ and is experimenting with social audio – “We’re doing some early tests to create a unique audio experience connected to your professional identity. Spoon – audio live streaming. like a Twitch, but with audio.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. That not only bodes well for strong companies seeking to go public, regardless of whether they’re B2B or B2C. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Pivot They’re Making in Their Business in 2020

Hearpreneur

We are also focusing a great deal on cyber-security as we have seen an all-time high in risks associated with doing business online in 2019. In 2019 we focused on adding new content to the site. During 2019, we found that writing useful articles really helped to increase our monthly visitors. Photo Credit: Murat Bicak.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019. Fifth, after the incredible success of HomeAway and RetailMeNot, which were B2C roll-ups (i.e., As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is just four-years old?—?for

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