Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Even B2B companies need a point-of-contact to provide solutions. In 2011, I was working as a Web Project Manager for the Yellow Pages (now hibu). Restaurants have waiters and cashiers. Boutiques have shop assistants. Software companies have project managers, sales people, and sometimes whole customer service departments.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

She was a visionary who was undeterred and in 2011 she sold to AOL for more than $300 million. After working essentially as a leading consultant with a publishing services company helping publishers go digital, I purchased my own niche, declining b2b directory company- and turned it around.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. During this time, more decisions were being made by the insurance companies and more procedures that I had the expertise to perform were being denied. Photo Credit: Sandeep Todi.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

Now consider that in Google’s Zero Moment Of Truth report, they found that the average buyer in 2011 used 10.4 Something to consider with video testimonials (if you’re in B2B) is the customer’s position within their company. sources of information before buying. Can you guess which sources shoppers found most influential?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Below are the headlines for December 2011 (mid month update!). As of April 2011, the site claimed more than 20 million visitors a month, up sharply from the 1.5 For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MICROSOFT ACQUIRED ISRAELI START UP VIDEOSURF . million it was claiming in 2009. LEADING US COOPERATIVE CHS BUYS ISRAEL’S SOLBAR.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it. Austin, Texas. Disrupt NY 2012. New York City.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Since I left my job in November 2011, I have personally sold around $3 million of business to date (without an enterprise sales background). It was a calculated risk — I had a family to support but did not pursue investors or venture capital.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

9 that are B2B. We’ve been pleased to back both first time founders straight out of school (such as IS2, RentJuice, and ThredUp out of B-school and Plastiq that was founded by two Harvard undergraduates from the class of 2011) as well as experienced entrepreneurial executives and repeat founders much further along in their careers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2011

It’s the smart brands that are harnessing this power to drive engagement withtheir business in both the B2C and B2B spaces. Young Upstarts is a Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia and Apps World Asia 2011 media partner. Time and again we see the damage that can be done by lack, or simple mismanagement of brands’presence.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012. Employees got used to working with the best tools and expect them to be available Good UI/UX for B2B software is now table stakes Anyone can purchase the product with a credit card Freemium model used to onboard new users Mobile, remote access is key.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

term has evolved to become muddled since I first read what analysts in 2011 meant by it. I think any SaaS startup would be wise to identify if their B2B market has a natural network effect to tap into. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0 although the SaaS 3.0 It is one of the key ingredients we look for.

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David Teten

JANUARY 3, 2013

The Shirt was named Oprah’s “Must Have Fashion Item” of 2011, and is distributed through Bloomingdale’s, boutiques, and www.the-shirt.com. - Smallknot is a TechStars NYC 2012 community crowdfunding platform for small businesses.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I wrote about that previously in my blog 4 Tips to Increase B2B Sales for example. Some B2B sales leaders have split their team into hunters and farmers, with the latter focused on customer success. On October 17, 2011 Alcove9 appoints Rudy Reyes, Vice President of Customer Success. On August 2, 2011 Zenprise Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What's really interesting is now what we're seeing, even with Zen Media, with clients with different, we have a lot of data too that we analyze and look at, which is wonderful, B2B, a lot of tech, even B2C clients. So dark social, the concept is basically this. And by the way, this term was coined in 2014, so it's not new.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Partnerships - B2B business development work can commence before you have a product. Google+. | © 2011 Nik Cubrilovic | Login. Is there a similar product that already exists that perhaps you can partner with? (ie. instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

A B2B website that educates potential buyers isn’t a personal “weblog.” The CXL blog started in 2011 and, currently, includes about 700 articles. The traditional blog format—regular, sequential publishing of diary-style entries—no longer makes sense for most businesses. To be honest, it never did. It doesn’t age the same way.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

B2B Search Marketing. Google Disapproved 134M Ads And Disabled More Than 800K AdWords Accounts In 2011. PRO Guides. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. SearchCap Daily Newsletter. All Columns. All Things SEO. Enterprise SEM. Enterprise SEO. In House Search Marketing. Keywords & Content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2020

I joined full time in 2011, and that was kind of when we went to market with it. ” And that was back in 2011! And again, I don’t care whether this is B2B, B2C. Would you say that this is an offshoot of that or something completely different? We’ve been doing this for a long time.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the case of B2B business, the ideal way is to come up with a robust symbiotic gamification model for business progression. Shahid Mansuri co-founded Peerbits , one of the leading mobile app development companies, in 2011. The ideal way is to determine the areas you intend to improve.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

According to Marketing Sherpa’s 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report, 78% of respondents said that generating high quality leads was their top priority for 2011. We have solid momentum coming out of 2010 and the ReachForce Team is very excited about our prospects in 2011 and beyond.”.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Then came the third wave, which included WhatsApp (2010), KakaoTalk (2010), Viber (2010), WeChat (2011), LINE (2011), and Facebook Messenger (2011). Case in point: Earlier this year, we ran a secret shopper-style survey where we filled out lead capture forms and made sales inquires on 433 B2B websites. Image Source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

2011, we grew 150% over 2010. examples: A B2B case study, featuring Madison Electric Products, and one of 2011’s break-out. And, it’s a good place to be. How do you see your company growing in the future? We’ll continue to add clients and staff, but like I mentioned earlier, at a manageable pace. Of course, I hope that means.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

What I find most useful about this report is the ability for B2B companies to gain insights with regards to their leads or prospects (could be applied to lead scoring within a CRM). com/2011/11/23/case-study- slow-page-load-mobile- business-metrics/ …. For example: The site we’re looking at is in the healthcare industry.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist. SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer. Monday, April 4th, 2011. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. The Google Small Business page on Facebook is an example of a B2B strategy. This hurts.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

The former includes the Twitters, Facebooks, Linkedins, Tesla Motors of the World and the latter is the 95% of companies (B2B SaaS, Semiconductors, Cap Equipment, Biotech, MedTech, etc) that need to be marketed (Supply Push) by legions of brokers. And I agree with Mike Arrington that what is going on now is different.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2016

But the vast majority of marketers and companies, especially in B2B, continue to struggle with content marketing. there were only 150 in 2011). For example, did you know that only 39% of B2B marketers recycle content into other formats? Image Source: Lisa Brewster. What’s the problem? ” Think about it for a moment.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

How to Choose a Meaningful Name for Your Startup « Zeus River says: October 31, 2011 at 10:53 am. [.] How to Choose a Meaningful Name for Your Startup - Zeus River says: October 31, 2011 at 3:39 pm. [.] b2b marketing. September 18, 2011. |. June 29, 2011. |. October 4, 2011. |. September 27, 2011. |.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When I moved back to Europe in 2011, I had to reduce my activity significantly in this area, as there was not enough going on. The first is the B2B global platform play, such as Algolia, the search-as-a-service API Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine have built out of Paris.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

October 28, 2011. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. Author howerl. Previous Entries.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

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