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Where B2B and B2C Blur: A Lesson from the Polar Vortex

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Shyna Zhang Recently, I had dinner with a Marketing VP from a leading global shipping company. We often think of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) best marketing practices as completely different from one another, but consumers are also professionals who make B2B purchasing decisions.

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Getting B2B Ecommerce Right — Here's What I Learned From Experts

Hubspot Marketing

However, no matter how familiar you are with B2C (business-to-consumer) ecommerce, selling to businesses is an entirely different beast. Buying Cycle For starters, the B2B ecommerce buying cycle is much longer than B2C. Where sales volume might be the goal in B2C ecommerce, order value is prioritized in B2B ecommerce sales.

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Why we care about B2C marketing: A guide for marketers

Martech

Business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing continues to evolve rapidly to keep up with shifting consumer behaviors and trends driven by our digitized world. This article will explain B2C marketing and touch on B2C marketing strategies, challenges facing marketers, and trends for 2023 and beyond. What is B2C marketing?

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What Is D2C Marketing? Here Are 11 Tips I Found For Doing It Right [+ Examples]

Hubspot Marketing

D2C Marketing Strategy D2C Marketing Tips D2C Ecommerce Tips B2C vs D2C Marketing If you’re anything like me, D2C marketing probably sounds a lot like business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing. However, if you decided to go B2C with your lemonade enterprise, you wouldn’t sell directly to people on the street, let alone have a stand.

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8 Important Principles for B2C Content Marketing

Scoop.it!

No wonder 86% of B2C marketers believe content marketing is a key strategy. In this article, we’ll discuss these principles and share eight tried-and-true tips you can implement in your B2C content marketing strategy. But, most of all, the role of B2C content is to inform and educate potential customers. Source: Warby Parker 3.

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Why your marketing isn’t working — and how an audit can help fix it

Martech

Without taking a deep, objective look at your current efforts, you risk moving forward without clear direction like piloting a ship without a rudder. ChatGPT : While ChatGPT doesn’t have a specific persona builder, you can use prompts to help generate and refine personas for B2B and B2C businesses.

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Mail still holds appeal for younger generation

Martech

That’s according to new research from online postage and shipping vendor Stamps.com. Sixty-five percent of consumers still send letters and packages with nearly half (48%) of Gen Z sending mail one to two times per month. Why we care. The internet has not killed direct mail.

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