10 B2B Ecommerce Facts for Retailers

Why wait till October to shop for marketing ideas? Isn’t that what most businesses do? They wait till October and then look around to see what is working for competition and then replicate or recycle ideas to market their products during the holiday shopping season. Smart businesses no longer rely...

Business-to-business (B2B), as the name suggests, involves business between two businesses and B2B marketing is all about the intelligent application of strategic insight and creative thinking to increase sales, generate growth of b2b ventures. There are a lot of misconceptions about b2b marketing. Here are 7 common misconceptions about B2B...

Unlike business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses, business-to-business (B2B) transactions take place between two business units. These transactions can happen between a manufacturer and another manufacturer, or a wholesaler or a retailer. B2B transactions are typically higher in volume and in value than B2C transactions. Here are five hot B2B opportunities: Computer hardware...

Exports are usually considered the domain of large companies with deep pockets. However, extensive data indicates that it is as beneficial for small businesses to engage in international trade as it is for large companies. The following are the top 10 reasons why small businesses should focus on exports: 1....

Facebook’s meteoric rise in the social media space has been nothing short of spectacular. Today’s infographic by Statista presents the second quarter earnings of Facebook. According to the infographic, Facebook recorded revenues of $1,184 million. Facebook’s revenue growth rate continues to slide. However, its non-GAAP net income increased from $205...

You own a small business that works on a budget, and you are unwilling to shell out extra bucks to hire a tax professional. In this scenario, the one thing that could come to your rescue is a tax software. Here are some benefits. Filing taxes is a highly complex...

According to modern strategists, the traditional sales and marketing approach is no longer as effective as it used to be. Today’s infographic  is about how the new “Revenue Department” differs from the Sales and Marketing Approach of yore. The Sales Department acts in the following way: Pushes arbitrary products based...

Business cards are cards containing business information. Typically, a business card has the giver’s name, company affiliation and logo of the company, address including mobile number, fax and email. Today’s infographic discusses what makes a successful business card. There’s a brief discussion on the card aspect ratios in different countries....

Today’s infographic is about the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange or OTX, which is a multinational effort to aggregate, and disseminate the fingerprints and forensics of the latest cyber attacks. The infographic is full of statistics on malware, hack attacks and such. Top IPs marked as malicious by country China United...

Today’s infographic by Statista provides information on Apple’s third quarter earnings. Here are the earning figures. In the third quarter, while revenues reduced to $35 billion, net income decreased to $8.8 billion. The revenues by segment are as follows: iPhone – $16.2b; iPad – $9.2b; Mac portable – $3.6b; iTunes...

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Most businesses use commercial trucks to transport raw materials to their factories or ship finished products. Today’s infographic by thetruckersreport.com is about the actual cost of trucking in the U.S. The average per mile operating cost for the trucking industry is $1.38. The average total annual cost of operating a...

Most firms throw away business by failing to respond to leads properly. Today’s infographic by Response Audit presents the best practices for lead response management. The infographic presents the findings of the research done by James Oldroyd, affiliated to Ohio State University and David Elkington, CEO of Insidesales.com. They examined...