Distribution Events
Thought Leadership and Software for Wholesale Change Agents
B2B Ecommerce & Marketplaces
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Why Some Distribution Verticals Are More Vulnerable to Disruption
To understand how vulnerable a distribution vertical is to disruption, look at the relationship between the product category’s complexity and the ability for the distributor to deliver that product using common small-package carriers.
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Wholesale Change Show: The Real Reason Digital Fails: It’s Not Because CEOs are Dinosaurs (October 7, 2020)
Successful ecommerce in B2B is wildly more complex than in retail. Multiple users, workflows, e-procurement, punchout, email-to-order conversion and many more challenges make it tough to succeed.
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Wholesale Change Show: Fix Your eCommerce System (September 23, 2020)
Do you feel like your ecommerce platform is broken – not delivering the ROI you expected? You’re not alone.
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The 3 Ingredients You Need to Build a Successful Marketplace
Marketplaces are among the most successful business models of the modern era. From Amazon to Google to Grainger’s Zoro, there’s clearly good money in the marketplace.
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Wholesale Change Show: Which Distribution Verticals Are at Most Risk of Disruption? (September 16, 2020)
Some distribution verticals are much more vulnerable to disruptors than others. Why was office supplies hit so hard by marketplaces but building products has hardly been affected? In this episode, Jonathan Bein and Ian Heller will talk about how different product verticals – and business models – drive varying levels of disruption vulnerability. We promise…
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HD Supply White Cap-Construction Supply Group Deal is a $4B Look into the Future of Distribution
If you’re a distributor, keep an eye on White Cap, which – thanks to the help of CD&R and The Sterling Group – is modeling one of the only viable paths to a successful future.
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Real Advice About AI in Distribution: Get Ready for the Next Tech Revolution
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just “advanced technology” – it’s a learning technology that improves on its own without human intervention. AI relies on big pools of data that are fed into machine learning algorithms (math formulas) to continually make decisions, evaluate their own performance and get better over time.
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Digital or Die: The Time is Nigh for Distributors to Embrace eBusiness
The gates are closing. It’s now or never for digital adoption in B2B markets. The sharp increase in online engagement with customers in March and April 2020 was more than just a one-off blip due to COVID-19. More and more surveys are emerging that are reinforcing the idea that while COVID-19 spurred the shift to…
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Why Improving User Experience on Your Website Should Be a Top Priority
These days, your customers care about more than their relationship with a sales rep. That’s because people are shopping differently – namely, online. As such, the experience that B2B distributors create on their websites for their customers has a big impact on their success. And a negative experience could negatively affect your engagement on other…
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Wholesale Change Show: Should You Build Your Own Marketplace? (July 22, 2020)
The Wholesale Change crew will talk about how, why and if you should build your own marketplace to fight back.