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Disintermediation–an old story playing out now

The Equity Kicker

Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. We’ve seen Betfair cut the middleman out of sports bets for a reasonable chunk of the football and horseracing gambling market in the UK but I can’t think of another large business that has disintermediated a consumer market.

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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

These tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams. Crowdsourcing business models are most frequently paired with advertising models to generate revenue, but there are many other iterations of the model. Disintermediation. Marketplace.

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

Marketing Disintermediation. While digital marketing departments are equipped to handle inbound inquiries, to really drive revenue a company needs aggressive and effective outbound sales teams to achieve growth. ITSMA did the research with almost 300 senior executives who were buying complex solutions valued at over $500,000.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

The solution has to balance four variables: Revenue for publishers that sell ad space; Targeting capability for ad networks; Return on ad spend for ad buyers; Privacy for users who see ads. Publishers will get their ad revenue. Ad platforms will keep selling inventory. But eliminating third-party cookies won’t improve ad targeting.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link]. Amazon Allows Kindle Magazine And Newspaper Publishers To Take 70 Percent Of Revenue [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link].

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Sonos + Alexa Strategy

Feld Thoughts

As more hardware companies start paying attention to revenue attach, following the lead of companies like Dropbox, Ring, and Peloton, there’s an obvious place for Sonos to do this. I hope they are thinking hard about it, rather than fearing being disintermediated by Alexa.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

For recurring revenue, Uber. Trailing twelve month revenues for the company is over $100 million and the company was valued at over $1.2 For recurring revenue, Uber. And in so doing they created a powerful recurring revenue business model based as much on their organizational design as on their marketing and technology prowess.