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4 cybersecurity questions to examine before integrating a SaaS Marketplace.

Before integrating a new B2B marketplace solution into your company's ecosystem, cybersecurity leaders should ask applicants 4 questions during the audit process.

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Best ways to optimize its shipping costs

Running a business can be expensive. There are a large number of expenses that must be addressed, including some reoccurring costs. One of these reoccurring expenses is the cost of shipping. This will be applied every time you need to bring an order of supplies in. If brands and retailers can save money on shipping costs, it can help their business become more profitable in the long run.

4 tips for a great customer care in B2B

Too many businesses in the B2B environment have poor customer care. They concentrate solely on fantastic supply and cost saving methods at the expense of this. While great supply and low prices is important, providing immaculate customer care is equally as beneficial to a successful B2B relationship. The below are 4 ways in which you can improve your customer care.

Free line sheet template

A line sheet is an essential tool for your B2B sales. If you are not using solutions like Uppler, creating a line sheet from scratch can be pretty painful! This is why we give for free 2 line sheet template (one vertical and one horizontal, depending on your pictures dimensions)

Rungis Market: towards a B2B marketplace

La Semmaris, the Rungis market management company, started in early 2017 a new project: launching the world's largest international marketplace of fresh products.

8 tips not to feel lost during tradeshows

Tradeshows are where products are examined, and where relationships are formed. If you attend a fashion trade show as a retailer, you may leave with a lifelong supplier or customers. However, although these trade shows may be useful, they can also be overwhelming. It can be easy to feel lost during one, so we will be going over some tips to help you feel more prepared.

What are the technical requirements of a B2B marketplace?

Let’s touch up a little bit on the technical issues of the marketplace creation. First we need to understand how marketplaces operate as programs. A marketplace functions thanks to interactions between four basic layers

Which go to market strategies choose for a B2B marketplace?

The B2B features are crucial to creating a trust environment, ie where products are updated regularly and where delivery is ensured. In addition to those features, B2B marketplaces are meant to fit within a larger ecosystem of softwares. More often than not, B2B sellers will need the marketplace to be integrated with their CRM (customer relationship management) or their PIM (product information management) software. On the other end of the spectrum, buyers might want to plug their marketplace on their company’s accounting software…

5 key requirements and features of a B2B marketplace

First: Confidentiality is one of the main rifting points between B2B marketplaces and their B2C counterparts. Sellers must be able to protect sensitive information about their products. Their appearance (fashion industry), their tech specs (electronics) to avoid copycat, and of course their price. It is also useful from a brand equity perspective. Sellers should be able to select buyers depending on their positioning. A premium fashion brand might try to avoid being distributed by a discount retailer. From that perspective, filling exhaustive profiles, and having them duly checked by an operator, is the key to building trust between both sides of the marketplace.

What shortcomings had the early B2B marketplaces?

One could definitely lay the blame on market conditions; overfunded and burning their cash at insane rates, the first generation of B2B marketplaces were doomed to fail. But a curious reader might take a closer look at the intrinsic reasons of this bloodbath.

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