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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. How to monetize a B2B marketplace.

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

ReadWriteStart

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. . Account executives were running multi-year, multi-stakeholder, multi-million dollar deals with email and conference calls. . That’s coming to the B2B world. .

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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

So when she told us that she’s uncomfortable providing her email address to companies—including ours!—and and didn’t want more email clogging up her inbox, it made us stop in our tracks. We stopped requiring users to provide an email address upon signing up—which ultimately meant that we ditched our email marketing efforts altogether.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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Killer B2B Marketing Tips

YoungUpstarts

What comes into your mind when you hear B2B marketing strategies ? You have to employ both traditional and digital B2B marketing tactics to stay ahead in today’s competitive marketplace. You have to employ both traditional and digital B2B marketing tactics to stay ahead in today’s competitive marketplace.

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How B2B Brands Can Generate More Website Traffic

YoungUpstarts

B2B marketing has some crossover with B2C marketing, but when it comes to traffic generation, the tactics for those companies that target other businesses are significantly different. From improving brand awareness to making more sales, the right traffic generation can transform the future of a B2B brand. Ignore SEO.

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