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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. The assumption was that online platforms would completely automate all supplier-customer transactions including retailing, wholesaling, and procurement. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. Alibaba is an exception.

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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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Shattering The Mold: Unleashing the Creator Economy in B2B Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

Shattering The Mold: Unleashing the Creator Economy in B2B Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Christie Horsman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Christie Horsman, who brings a decade of expertise in both B2B and B2C marketing within the SaaS arena.

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How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. What was needed? What’s new? [07:37]

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

They encompass the effectiveness of marketing (the startup’s ability to reach and resonate with target customers) and stickiness (the product’s ability to deliver value to customers over time). I previously wrote about startup benchmarks in the context of funding readiness, so it was time to give it a re-fresh.

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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. It’s a shared workspace so buyers and sellers can work together throughout the laborious B2B sales process—making it a lot more collaborative and a lot less painful. . Q: How will B2B sales evolve in the future? .

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The False Dichotomy of B2C and B2B

Venture Chronicles

Ray Wang wrote a summary of CRM Evolution that I found particularly interesting, and one point in particular resonated with me because it aligns to something I have been talking about at Get Satisfaction for a while now… B2B and B2C distinctions are dead. B2C and B2B is dead. It doesn’t make sense.

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