Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) are two terms that are familiar to most business executives.
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The concept of business-to-business and business-to-consumer video communications has never existed in the enterprise-class video market.
On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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We're business-to-business and not business-to-consumer like Google, so it's not a direct competition.
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At the moment within the business-to-consumer space, Tmall is the clear leader with 33.5% market share according to Enfodesk.
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Mr. Quelch: I think that Chinese companies will add value initially in the B-to-B (business-to-business) sector, not the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) sector.
Over the summer, venture capital firm Emergence Capital looked at the post-IPO performance of business-to-business technology stocks versus those of business-to-consumer companies.
Other postponed IT programs include customer relationship management (25 percent), sales-force automation (22 percent), business-to-business e-commerce (18 percent) and business-to-consumer e-commerce (15 percent).
However, what few American investors are aware of is that Taobao is really using its popular consumer-to-consumer service to slingshot its business-to-consumer business.
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The implications of this regulation for business-to-consumer online trading are enormous, said Mike Pullen, a Brussels-based lawyer with U.K. law firm Dibb Lupton Alsop.
By 2014, they think business-to-consumer will be over 30% of the market (which itself is estimated to grow 6.5x what it was in 2010).
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Its Tmall business-to-consumer service, where they can charge up to 15% take-rates for certain products in certain prime locations on the website is also a growing force.
Moreover, the vast majority of business-to-consumer sales involve services, such as travel, that are exempt from sales tax or involve products that are exempt, such as prescription drugs.
That's six times the forecast for online business-to-consumer sales.
"We felt that working with Taobao Mall offered the best approach to reaching out to more consumers because it is so clearly the most influential online business-to-consumer sales channel, " said Christophe Bezu, chief e-commerce officer for Adidas, in an email.
Business-to-consumer product companies show the biggest increases in expected growth in marketing budgets (8.6%) and marketing budgets as a percent of firm budgets (17.4%), but not marketing budget as a percent of firm revenues (9.8%) which is dominated by business-to-consumer services companies (16.1%).
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Mohanbir Sawhney, professor of e-commerce at Kellogg School of Management and Steven Kaplan, at the University of Chicago Business School, argue in a recent article that the value created by business-to-business hubs, where every buyer and seller can potentially link with every other, vastly exceeds that of business-to-consumer models where there are lots of buyers, but just one seller.
Teen apparel retailer Aeropostale is looking to revamp its m-commerce (e-commerce through mobile) channel to strengthen its direct-to-consumer business.
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Telemarketing is a scripted, single-call-close, almost always targeting a small-ticket, business to consumer (B2C) model.
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So in 2003, he jumped from an in-your-face consumer business to the obscure world of industrial gases, a purely business-to-business activity.
This represents a take rate 13.5x larger take rate than what Taobao gets on the consumer-to-consumer business.
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The consumer-to-consumer business brings the traffic to Taobao.
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Crew to supplement his direct-to-consumer business from the company website.
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Further, Nike has focused efforts on attempting to expand global outreach by using a direct-to-consumer business model.
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Also, to compete in the business-to-business market, not just mass consumer.
Today more than 50 million players enjoy our games, a number that grows daily through a diverse business model that includes direct-to-consumer websites, social game development, and cross platform publishing, licensing, and technology.
Here, cloud technology has the potential to bring a consumer-grade experience to the business.
Urban Outfitters has a strong direct-to-consumer business, which is quite valuable for the retailer.
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