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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

Barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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What Data From 62,000 Payment Forms Says About Boosting Online Sales

YoungUpstarts

They’re relatively inexpensive, and buyers tend to differentiate cases by style rather than functionality. Now compare that to buying health insurance, which could easily cost $500 per month. He has 25+ years of international B2B and B2C marketing experience. They’re an invitation to benchmark your goods and product categories.

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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

ConversionXL

Focus offline conversations on high-value points of differentiation. That’s true even among B2B customers who are supposedly more rational than their B2C counterparts. Does a video demo differentiate your product, or does it focus attention on your utilitarian UI—an aspect where a shiny but ineffective competitor product excels?

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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

Self-printed cost is $0.46 Marketing gurus often refer to it as “differentiation.” And best of all, they don’t cost any money!” The guide is delivered electronically to their mailbox so there’s little cost involved. cost = $0 other than some time). Inspire Customers To Call You. Do something really different.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center).

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Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

Both Sides of the Table

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. But how to mobilize same-day deliver cost effectively? I talked about Deliv in my LeWeb keynote because I found their model fascinating.

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