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How Does B2B CX Quality Impact Loyalty? — A Forrester B2B Summit 2022 Session Preview

Forrester eCommerce

Since 2015, client brands have used our CX Index scores to track how their […]. Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) captures data about customers’ perceptions of the quality of their experiences for more than 500 consumer brands. We use statistical algorithms (e.g.,

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Why Automation May Not Mean Workforce Reductions

Forrester eCommerce

But lessons drawn from Forrester’s 2015 forecast, Death Of A (B2B) Salesman, raise doubts on that theory. In that report, we projected that 1 million US B2B salespeople would lose […].

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It’s Time To Mainstream ABM

Forrester eCommerce

When account-based marketing (ABM) burst onto the scene in 2015, it was positioned by a number of vendors as the death of traditional marketing. And while that controversial approach might have been great for creating buzz and drawing attention, it created significant confusion for the mainstream B2B marketer.

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B2B on Amazon: Should You Sell Through Amazon Business? | Salsify

Salsify

In 2015, Amazon launched a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace to claim a slice of the rapidly increasing need for B2B ecommerce. Providing a convenient way for businesses to order items on-demand gave the e-tail giant a glimpse at the wants and needs of business buyers.

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How eCommerce Impacts B2B Account Management

GetElastic

While I had some exposure to eCommerce in my past, specifically when I managed the Lenovo account as consultant, I constantly find myself internalizing how eCommerce impacts B2B account managers. Market Trends in B2B eCommerce. Time = Money. Source: J.D.

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How I Turned My Father’s 90s B2B Business into California’s Fastest Growing Online Succulent Seller

BigCommerce

My father still had his full-time B2B family business. How did I go from an interesting, family side hustle to bring my father’s B2B business (which we still operate) to a consumer audience via the web? Back in 2015, I was getting emails like crazy from apps and tool companies trying to get me to use their service.

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Staples Attempts to Buy Office Depot — Again

Retail TouchPoints

billion offered in the original 2015 merger agreement. Perhaps the third time will be the charm. Staples is making another bid to acquire its rival Office Depot , this time with a bid of $2.1 billion — one-third of the $6.3 That deal was shut down in 2016 due to antitrust concerns.

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