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How To Become A Successful E-Commerce Merchant

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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

Best B2B E-Commerce Platforms

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B2B Platforms for Creating a E-Commerce Website

It’s not enough to have an ordinary website to run a successful online business, especially B2B business. Despite the popular opinion, that B2C companies are more customer orientated than their B2B counterparts (they really have vider target audience and more customers), ordinary B2B website always has more strict requirements, caused by the specifics of business to business relations. Even the abilities to communicate with customers and manage sales logistics are not enough to push your B2B organization to new heights. That’s why you should pay your attention to the best B2B e-commerce platforms listed below. Additionally, we’ve gathered information about different e-commerce software for B2B business, and advices on how to choose the right solution. And don’t forget to check our posts about B2B e-commerce trends and B2B Magento extensions. Continue Reading

Mobile Enterprise

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Everything about Mobile Enterprise

The way we live has been changed by mobile devices, and now we witness how they transform the way we work. On the background of this process, the phenomena of mobile enterprise was born.

Mobile enterprise is an organization that supports the use of business apps via mobile devices. Employees from a mobile enterprise use their smartphones and tablets to manage different projects: access emails, work with documents, conduct planning, provide customer relationship management, etc. They need a wireless network connectivity and a device equipped with a web browser  to get access to enterprise databases. As a result, employees can update them remotely from anywhere at anytime. Continue Reading

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

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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

E-Commerce: Upgrading to 3.0

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E-Commerce 3.0E-сommerce is gradually updating to version 3.0. What does it mean? What were the previous versions? And what are the features of the new one? In this post, we will try give the answers to these questions. The formation of e-commerce can be conditionally divided into three stages. The process itself is still unfinished, and e-commerce is going to get a lot of new forms and updates in the next couple of years. Some of them are obvious (like appearance of gamification and integration into mobile devices) while others are still unpredictable, but we can state with the confidence that all this changes are key elements of e-commerce 3.0 and further versions. For the better understanding of the stage as a particular and the phenomena as a whole, let’s start with versions 1.0 and 2.0.

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