Thursday, July 2, 2009
Online B2B Marketplaces: Should You Dive In?
By Minda Zetlin
Business-to-business marketplaces are proliferating on the Web. Here’s how to tell a site is right for you.
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KaBloom is a Massachusetts-based online florist in business since 1998 that has a patented technique for shipping fresh-cut flowers in water overnight. The company found that sales increased dramatically after switching to a new online payment platform that allowed the firm to better communicate with customers and allowed customers to more easily process payments, CEO David Hartstein tells IncTechnology.com.
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The Long Tail and the Black Swans
by Vijay Chittoor
Technology has enabled sellers and marketers to serve a long tail of needs and wants. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have built successful businesses around the idea of selling a large number of unique items, each in small quantities. However, in order to understand this model fully, you need to factor in the effect of the unlikely hit, or the "Black Swan."
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In the end, any computer with a modern dual-core processor can have Vista working at its very best.
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