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The Amazon Effect: Must Distributors Keep Up?

Whether an Amazon-style fast-shipping and delivery experience is necessary in B2B e-commerce may depend on who you ask.

November 23, 2021

Is E-Commerce Data More Important than Products?

E-commerce data may be more important than products you sell. Why? For one, your troves of data are helpful to manufacturers and customers.

October 22, 2021

Tech & Operations

FleetPride Launches Enhanced E-Commerce Solutions

FleetPride executives say digital, customer-focused service plans are tailor made for distributors looking to buck pandemic trends and are key features of their recently launched enhanced e-commerce solutions.

October 21, 2021

Technology

FleetPride Creates New E-Commerce Site

Texas-based truck and trailer part distributor says new site allows customers to search more than 176,000 products .

October 14, 2021

Technology

How to Bridge the Disconnect Between Buyers and Sellers Online

It’s clear that sellers overvalue an in-person/high-touch customer experience and undervalue online features important to today’s buyers.

September 23, 2021

Technology

Is Headless the Future of B2B E-Commerce?

Panelists discuss headless versus full-stack e-commerce solutions — including what these terms even mean — on the latest MasterB2B “un-webinar” from Andy Hoar and Brian Beck.

May 11, 2021

Technology

Key Elements that Can Make or Break a Digital Distributor

In a recent MDM webcast, Mike Marks explains how, when it comes to meeting customers’ needs, a distributor is better equipped than a $25 billion giant.

April 5, 2021

Technology

2 Ways to ‘Marketplace’ Your E-Commerce Site

As platform strategy 101 tells us: the technology is a commodity. The power is in the network. As a result, Applico is seeing two types of marketplace technology providers: SaaS (software as a service) and, more recently, MaaS (marketplace as a service).

March 8, 2021

Technology

5 Ways an E-Commerce Strategy Can Strengthen a Distributor’s Playbook

While e-commerce platforms and marketplaces aren’t new, the pandemic is fueling the need for distributors to take a harder look at them. The latest MDM webcast featured Zoro's Tracy Buelow breaking down how distributors can have a successful presence online.

February 22, 2021

Operations

Fastenal Execs Shed Light on ‘Evolving’ Branch Model

On January’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Fastenal CEO Dan Florness and CFO Holden Lewis pulled back the curtain on how they view the company’s diminishing role of physical branches.

January 20, 2021

E-Commerce

E-Commerce and the Economy: MDM’s Top Blogs of December

Three of MDM’s five most-read blogs published last month focused on e-commerce and digital, while the tenuous economic situation plus Ferguson’s 2021 forecast also grabbed readers’ attention.

December 30, 2020

Technology

How to Make E-Commerce Part of Your Post-Pandemic Plan

Here are the Top 10 (plus one) digital commerce enhancements you can make to successfully navigate the post-COVID-19 environment.

December 15, 2020

Technology

Commentary: Content May Be King — But There is a Catch

Many distributors are under the assumption that if they load a bunch of content onto their website and/or into one-off marketing emails, they’ve done their job. But such a Create It and They Will Come strategy can be a waste of time and resources.

December 9, 2020

Technology

Content May Be King — But There is a Catch

December 9, 2020

Technology

Manufacturers Differentiate Distributor Support Based on E-Commerce Investment

And other critical reasons why e-commerce investment is the smart choice for nearly all distributors, from Channel Marketing Group's David Gordon.

December 7, 2020

Technology

2 Things Amazon Does Better Than Anyone Else

How owning customers’ attention and their data pays off big for the massive e-commerce site.

November 13, 2020

Technology

The Pandemic Made Your Website More Important Than Ever – But Are You Open for Business?

Five questions to ask yourself that will help measure the effectiveness of your e-commerce capabilities.

October 27, 2020

Technology

Manufacturers Among B2B Businesses Experiencing ‘Rapid Digitization’

U.S. manufacturers are digitizing at twice the rate of other businesses, Alibaba.com survey finds.

October 20, 2020

Technology

The Technology Behind Amazon’s Search Dominance

How the online juggernaut uses AI-backed search expertise to improve its e-commerce effectiveness and overcome competitors.

October 19, 2020

Technology

Amazon’s Secret to AI-Powered Product Recommendations

Amazon’s success is not an accident. It is the result of imaginative planning, technological enablement and top-notch execution — that distributors can emulate.

October 12, 2020

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