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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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The Strategy Behind Building A Thriving Online Community For Your Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

3:59] Who needs to be thinking about community — B2B brands or B2C brands? [5:58] 10:42] What are the benefits of a B2B company growing a community? [12:41] B2B is actually one of the most popular areas of people starting community right now. Are B2B communities B2C? What's a tip for using this area.

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B2B Social Media Marketing Strategies Guaranteed To Be Effective

YoungUpstarts

An important thing that every B2B business owner needs to understand is that while all marketing follows the same general guidelines, there are significant differences in B2B and B2C approaches. However, some strategies will be more effective for B2B businesses in particular. Experiment with content and posting times.

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Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

Both Sides of the Table

Another one of his big themes has been B2B crowd-sourcing and he had a company in mind already even before he joined – Deliv. But my take is this: We know that B2C crowdsourcing of tasks and products has started to play a transformative role in our economy from everything from Uber to Airbnb to TaskRabbit to DogVacay.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo Also this is almost exclusively B2B unless it’s something “luxury.” If something goes wrong they’ll cancel and not be willing to pay out the rest.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Max dropped out of Stanford after his first quarter.

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The Should-How Fallacy (Or Why “Correct” Isn’t “Useful”)

ConversionXL

The first two are more familiar to B2B marketers; the last one often applies to B2C. Give actionable steps: Write your introduction after you’ve written the rest of the article. The before-and-after of consuming your content should change at least one of three things: The way someone does something. Exceptions abound.).

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