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5 Biggest Differences Between B2B and B2C Sales Strategies

Tom Spencer

It also means being able to correctly classify your market. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer.

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Consultant Marketing Listen or Lead?

Jerry Fletcher

Suddenly marketing gals and guys are debating whether to listen or lead and how the pandemic reaction will affect that going forward. Consultant Marketing is different…or is it? We know from 17 years of research that Consultant Marketing is not like traditional product marketing. Is it trending up or down?

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Five Ways to Position Your Business to Weather Recession

Makarios Consulting

If your data suggests that things are slowing down, acknowledge the trend and carefully consider what action you may need to take. If you are in the B2C space, you may not have personal relationships with your customers. If that is the case, carefully study the data you have with regard to the buying trends of your target customer set.

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Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market

Harvard Business

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. But by staying disciplined with the product and deeply understanding market trends, they’ve made the strategic shift from B2C to B2B work. Download this podcast.

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Five Ways to Position Your Business to Weather Recession

Makarios Consulting

If your data suggests that things are slowing down, acknowledge the trend and carefully consider what action you may need to take. If you are in the B2C space, you may not have personal relationships with your customers. If that is the case, carefully study the data you have with regard to the buying trends of your target customer set.

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Strengthening Digital Customer Engagement by Creating Buyer Personas

1 to 1

As B2C marketers continue to gain experience engaging with customers in digital channels, a growing number of practitioners are striving to become more adept at segmenting customers by psychographics and demographics as part of their efforts to deliver relevant content, messaging, and experiences for specific target audiences.

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How a Digital Storm Will Disrupt the Parcel and Express Industry

BCG

Business is solid, with stable revenue in B2B and rising volume in B2C. They’ve spent decades building highly efficient operations and dominant market share. But these are individual trends that will benefit all delivery companies equally; how could they bring on a paradigm shift in the industry as a whole?