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How to Start a Heavy-Duty Parts Business in 5 Simple Steps

Strategy Driven

You will want to hunt for the best and most skilled individuals who can handle each of the positions that will be part of your overall business model. In other words, you’ll need to decide whether you’re operating a B2B or B2C company. B2B means business to business, while B2C means business to consumer.

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10 Lessons That All New Business Owners Must Heed In The Modern Era

Strategy Driven

The thought of being in control of the entire business model may seem like perfection. Your Approach To Operations Is Key. Both B2B and B2C customers are now invested in brands like never before, they want to work with companies that they can relate to. You Can’t Go It Alone.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

Much of the conversation about customer-centricity focuses on business-to-consumer (B2C) firms. And while these companies were the first to acknowledge the business benefits of delivering a great customer experience, business-to-business (B2B) organizations are increasingly getting in on the game.

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How Industrial Systems Are Turning into Digital Services

Harvard Business Review

Railway operators and wind farm owners were among the first to deploy the concept. This has led to new business models, putting SKF squarely in a position to provide “knowledge as a service” (KaaS), as more than a half million machines are already connected to the SKF Cloud.

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data. Overwhelmingly, those IoT 1.0

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You Found Your Product-Market Fit. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; 3) Developer-driven. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Don’t engage in over-the-top discounting that trains customers, both in B2C and B2B markets, to buy cleverly on price and price alone. The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. In many cases they created radically new business models.

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