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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Disintermediation. Disintermediation is when you sidestep everyone in the supply chain and sell directly to consumers, allowing you to potentially lower costs to your customers and have a direct relationship them as well. Examples: Threadless, YouTube, P&G Connect and Develop, Cuusoo. Examples: Water companies, HP Instant Ink.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

The image above shows the label for Buttface Amber Ale – one of a number of ridiculous beer names in the marketplace (see full post in the Random Fun section below) from huffingtonpost.com. The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. The Most Ridiculous Beer Names Of All Time – [link].

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

ConversionXL

FLoC IDs use non-descriptive names, like “43A7,” to prevent the ID itself from passing information about users.). The flock names will likely be inscrutable to users, but could reveal incredibly sensitive information to third parties. A FLoC ID protects users based on a principle of k anonymity. The value for k is still unresolved.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

When I type in the name of my son and Sushi, I get just one photo back! If I type in his name and the word beach , I get pictures of him on a beach… throughout his entire life! Photos can keep track of him from baby to today. Cool, right?

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[Review] To Sell Is Human

YoungUpstarts

The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. Finally, we’re taught that we should make our offers personal (using photographs, names and individual information), and to make them purposeful. Rebirth of a Salesman.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g.

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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation. Alibaba is a household name for anyone doing business in or purchasing from China, and the company has grown into an international e-commerce empire.