The Next Web

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Gregg Schwartz is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Strategic Sales & Marketing, an industry-founding lead generation company specializing in major account B2B lead generation. The past few years have seen a lot of economic turmoil.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

And we did that all the way back in 2008 and we said it, everyone went, you know, absolutely no way not gonna happen. (03:03): Now, you know, in 2023, people are going, well, you know, that's nothing new like Tiffani, like we've been doing this a while, but remember this was 2008. 03:51): Do we create a new role? Is the paper bamboo?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2011

Despite the intense competition, the company has established a strong position in the B2B events industry, with market presence in Asia Pacific (APAC), Africa, and the Middle East. Salvo was badly hit by the financial crisis in 2008 when clients either tightened training budgets or cut them out altogether. This is what keeps us going.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

by Dan Adams , author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ As a B2B supplier, you can approach new product development one of two ways. Of course, performing more effective B2B customer tours will require you to make some changes and acquire new skills. Image Credit: Crown Audio ].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. Thanks to Niesha Kennedy, Kennedy Robinson PR ! #12- Photo Credit: Sandeep Todi.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. We have the ability to help excellent companies throughout their life cycles.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A refresh of an old post from my now-defunct personal blog from 2008 (ya 2008!). By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. read more at Business Insider.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A refresh of an old post from my now-defunct personal blog from 2008 (ya 2008!). By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Read more: [link]. read more at The Next Web.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. In 2008, KFC used a Brinks armored truck and briefcase marked “Top Secret” to transport the recipe while upgrading the vault.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. In 2008, KFC used a Brinks armored truck and briefcase marked “Top Secret” to transport the recipe while upgrading the vault.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

I’m not coming from a judgmental place because when I started in SEO, I launched my first site in 2008. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. I was there. I lived in a little apartment in New York.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies , Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces , and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. Film was Indiegogo’s first campaign category when the platform launched in 2008.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. According to the Content Marketing Institute , 70% of the surveyed B2B marketers say they are creating more content this year than they did back in 2016. You want more effective content.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 22, 2017

percent of B2B invoices issued were unpaid by the due date, 5.2 Don’t forget that while banks have significantly tightened their lending criteria since the financial crash of 2008, alternative lenders are often much more flexible and apply quite different criteria, so you stand a good chance of being accepted.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

by Dan Adams, author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Maximize shareholder value. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times. It’s the pledge of allegiance recited in boardrooms around the world, the North Star used to guide the decisions of the business masses.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In fact, ReadWriteWeb first wrote in 2008 about tools to monitor what's being said about you online and later in 2009 talked about the future of social media monitoring. In fact, according to CMI : "B2B marketers allocate approximately 26% of their total marketing budgets to content marketing initiatives.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger). Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Indeed, a CMO Council study from 2008 found that: Over 50% of global marketers report that they have fair, little, or no knowledge of the customer demographic, behavioral, psychographic and transactional data. A B2C ecommerce company may have just a few clearly defined phases; a B2B SaaS company selling to the Fortune 100 may have more.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Anyone around then knows that B2B stood for “back-to-banking&# and B2C stood for “back-to-consulting.&# I took people’s money. So you combine my generation of cynics with the GenY generation of &# entitlement&# (until 2008 – you only saw BOOM years other than a short dot-com blip).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2012

When I launched the site back in 2008, it had a typical email capture form on the site: It got ~5 people / day join the list, out of ~500 daily visitors. In B2B settings it’s more difficult to come up with a good idea for a test, but a tool could be easy (although harder to put together). 1% conversion rate. Build a tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Or variations thereof.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. ▼ 2008. (11).

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It allows the company to eliminate the lines between their separate business units as well as improve customer satisfaction, 123 EDI Shipping Outsourcing, ArcGIS geographic authoring, BGT Partners consulting for B2B portal and CMS, Clarity Consulting for ABC QuickShip Application Development, Computer Aid, Inc. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

B2B: Business Media. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. B2B Publishing. Mix of B2B and Consumer Pubilshing. Featured Jobs. Newest Jobs. Job Seeker Login. Post a Job. Employer Login. Browse Jobs. Search Jobs. Post a Job. -->. --> By Topic. Audience Development. Assn/Non-Profit. City & Regionals. CMS Insights. Consumer Media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

3:27] What was startup life like in 2008? [5:16] 02:55): And this was 2009, 2008 and not a, a lot had changed in the last 10 years. John Jantsch (03:27): So go back to I guess that 2008, you know, what was startup life like at that point? But if you're doing b2b, you're probably not on a phone doing it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2017

A 2016 Content Preferences Survey Report stated that 47 percent of respondents (B2B) indicated they viewed three to five pieces of content before engaging with a sales rep. How about instead of pressuring our customers, we try working on nurturing and gaining trust from our customers until they are ready to buy from us.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. Also, anyone who has worked in a B2B service business knows that it requires quite a lot of hand holding. That was 2008. In 2008 I had lasik eye surgery and my vision has been perfect ever since. Know your talents, develop a skill people value.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 6, 2016

Amazon, customer experience master, was the subject of the New York Times article in 2008 , when the author had ordered a Playstation for his son. And now I’m a fanboy that is telling you all about their great service. When you put the customer first like this, people talk. Problem was, the Playstation didn’t come. to detractors.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use. Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

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