"B2B e-commerce"

How To Start An E-Commerce Business Without Screwing It Up: The Most In-Depth Guide & Tips For The Recession Of 2023-2024

- E-Commerce

how to create business online

Starting a new e-commerce business may be frustrating when you do that for the first time. Especially when it takes place during an economic recession. But don’t be afraid to get your feet wet. If the overall uncertainty frightens you, we know how to smooth the edges. This most in-depth guide will help you learn how to start an e-commerce business without screwing it up during the global economic recession of 2023-2024. We offer a list of steps to start a new online enterprise. Our guide includes lots of groundbreaking strategies and bright examples of success and failure.

You will learn what e-commerce type to choose and which e-commerce model is more suitable for your business case. We will assist you to define your products and services, choose your company name, conduct basic market research, and write your first business plan. This article also sheds light on how to register an e-commerce business in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union. After that, we focus on the selection of sales channels and explain what steps are necessary to create a fully-functional e-commerce website. You will also learn the basic marketing steps essential to start an online business and strategies to survive the ongoing recession. Continue Reading

The Biggest B2B Ecommerce Trends to Prepare for the Digital Commerce Era

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Digital Commerce B2B

Ecommerce has seen tremendous growth over recent years. As technology evolves and customer preferences change, B2B ecommerce companies are transforming their approach to managing their business. In the coming years, new ecommerce trends will require business-to-business sellers to quickly adapt to the changing environment and deliver personalized experiences to their clients. For modern B2B buyers, online shopping is a norm, and they are looking for the same experience when making purchases for their companies. The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic added to the changes in B2B customers’ purchase behavior, motivating vendors to look for new ways to meet buyer expectations and adapt to the transforming business environment.

This article sheds light on the leading trends that will shape the B2B ecommerce sector in the nearest future and presents ideas on how to address the main challenges in the unfolding digital transformation. It also describes the core features of the Magento Commerce B2B program as a solution that allows B2B companies to modernize their business model and meet growing customer demands.

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Magento 1 Business-to-Business (B2B) extensions and solutions

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Magento b2b extension

Companies are shifting from offline to online, and the result of this process influences both relations between businesses and end users as well as between companies. Thus, digital commerce appears in all possible spheres. Of course, B2C ecommerce develops faster than its B2B counterpart, but there are already a lot of ecommerce solutions aimed at digital B2B relations, for example, different marketplaces which work only with companies. And since custom ecommerce adds tons of new opportunities, different B2B ecommerce solutions give rise to dozens new professional ecommerce websites. One of key roles in this process belongs to Magento. In this post, we have gathered the best B2B Magento extensions and solutions developed to improve the default capabilities of the platform.

UPD (17.08.15): Magento B2B Program

UPD (15.03.16): More B2B modules

Best Magento extensions for building Magento based multi vendor marketplace

Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce in 2015

Magento 2 Business-to-Business (B2B) extensions and solutions

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How To Become A Successful E-Commerce Merchant

- E-Commerce

E-Commerce Success Guide

By 2017, e-commerce is going to pass the milestone of $400 billion in sales in the United States only. The industry is rapidly growing worldwide, so everyone can participate in the competition. E-commerce seems like such a simple money source at first glance, but actually it is much more complicated. There are tons of important nuances which separate online merchant from success. In this ecommerce startup guide, we offer a complete compilation of key advices, which will help you enter the new business level with your online store. The article include tips for both B2C and B2B businesses. There is also a checklist, which shows the readiness of ecommerce website. Last but not least are success stories related to different platforms. Let’s start the journey.   Continue Reading

Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce in 2015

- E-Commerce

everything about B2B e-commerce

Business-to-business is a complex of commerce transactions which occur between companies. The most common examples of B2B relations are transactions between manufacturers and wholesalers, wholesalers and retailers. The overall volume of business-to-business transactions surpasses the volume of B2C transactions, because a typical supply chain consists of many B2B transactions and only one B2C transaction. For instance, a smartphone manufacturer buys processors, modems, camera modules, and other necessary components to produce the mobile device. The number of transactions can range from few to dozens. But there is alway one final transaction – a finished smartphone is sold to the consumer.

Another area of B2B relations is communication and collaboration. Many B2C companies relies on social media to interact with their consumers, but social tools are also effective in business-to-business relations. In this situation B2B social media marketing takes place.

What is B2B marketing? What are the nuances of B2B e-commerce? What are B2B e-commerce trends? We will try to answer these and others questions in this post. Continue Reading