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84% of consumers want to buy from small businesses this holiday season

Martech

Promotional periods earlier in the year like Amazon Prime Day pit big chains and ecommerce giants against each other for deal-hunting shoppers. But in 4Q, shoppers also show an interest in buying from SMBs. SMB decision makers in retail and other industries and 500 U.S. This survey of 500 U.S. Growth strategies. Get MarTech!

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Salesforce and Google Release AI-powered Commerce Tools with B2B Implications

ANNUITAS

While some players who focus more on the SMB and midmarket, such as Zoho, might have solid commerce tools growing, none of the other legacy enterprise CRM providers have really built out any modern commerce and full-journey support offerings to the extent of Salesforce.

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How Do People Really Feel About Amazon's Big Announcement? Here's What We Found Out.

Hubspot

In September 2017, Amazon released a public request for proposals from cities vying to become the location for its second headquarters -- setting into motion over a year of events that have caused a range of emotions and responses. I'm really excited about the potential Amazon offers," said U.S. The response has been mixed.

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Supporting Small Business Saturday with 2020-Conscious Marketing

Moz

Meanwhile, the last Civic Economics Prime Numbers report found that Amazon had displaced 62,000 shops and 900,000 retail jobs in just one year. As much as $7 billion in uncollected state and local taxes were lost in one year by local communities due to Amazon, depleting resources needed to cope with emergency and ongoing needs.

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Data Privacy Marks the End of Digital Feudalism

Content Standard

Tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple have built billion-dollar fiefdoms on the backs of customers whose data fuels their biggest revenue stream—advertising. The feudal system is alive and well in digital marketing. And those fiefdoms have reached monolithic scale.

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Ecommerce Wars: Who Are the Top Online Retailers This Holiday Season? [New Data]

Hubspot

Amazon Continues to Take the Lead. Amazon has not only maintained its #1 position on the list, as well as its lead lead over the other top four online retails on the list -- but has actually increased its lead over others on the list. But all three -- Apple, eBay, and Walmart -- have quite a way to go in the road to #1.

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Ultimate Pricing Power Part II: UNLOCK YOUR POWER WITH 4 KEY PRICING PRINCIPLES

Mereo

We supplemented our online research with 15 in-depth buyer and seller interviews focused on C-level executives that procure and sell software, as well as product management and sales executives of software providers — representing the spectrum from SMB to enterprise companies. Microsoft or Amazon Web Services).

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