The Role of Your Sales Team in B-to-B Ecommerce
Any business-to-business organization deploying an ecommerce site that forgets its sales personnel is asking for trouble.
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5 Low Cost Tips to Boost B-to-B Retention
Because of the high cost today of generating business-to-business leads and customers today, retention is critical. Even though it is critical, you know you cannot spend more than you can recover in ROI. How do you boost retention and achieve a good ROI?
What Lies Ahead for AmazonSupply?
How will AmazonSupply.com will play out in the business-to-business marketplace? Here’s Monsoon Commerce vice president of marketing Casey Carey’s take.
How to Integrate ERP into your B-to-b Ecommerce Site
Because it can be so daunting, some organizations choose the path of least resistance and duplicate the ERP data and business logic into the ecommerce system, leaving the two systems decoupled. Unfortunately, this decoupling opens the door to a host of headaches, and companies find themselves wrestling with data replication and timing errors. Understanding and following a few golden rules will ensure that the b-to-b ecommerce site complements the ERP system, and does not try to replace it.
5 Tips for B-to-B Reactivation
Profile your new customers, lapsed customers and repeat customers to determine which ones are more likely to buy again and which ones are not. You can use transactional data, like how recently they bought, how frequently they bought, which products they bought, and how much they spent. You should also use the products they bought and the channel through which they bought them. Patterns should emerge.
Experts Say AmazonSupply Will Change B-to-B Ecommerce
Amazon.com’s launch of its business-to-business marketplace has the potential to alter the landscape for b-to-b merchants. But while some industry experts see the launch of AmazonSupply.com as an all-out game-changer for b-to-b merchants, others see Amazon’s entry as an added plus for b-to-b sellers.
5 Ways to Test B-to-B Offers
While the potential exists to improve, many tests actually cost money because they do not even replace the sales of the traditional method you are using, leave alone improving them. So the question is: how can you minimize the risk and maximize the success of your testing efforts, especially in business-to-business marketing? Here are five tips to get you started.
B-to-b Ecommerce Challenges: Creating Support in the Organization
Among the many initiatives an organization takes on in any given year, a b-to-b ecommerce project can be one of the most challenging. Not only do these require resources whose days are filled with conflicting priorities, but it introduces an entirely new sales channel which changes the dynamic of the organization’s working business model. Here’s why the first tactic in a successful b-to-b ecommerce initiative is often the most overlooked as companies charge full steam ahead