Tech Buyers Increasingly Prefer Buying From Third-party Marketplaces

B2B decision-makers in the market for software, including marketing technology solutions, have less patience with vendor interactions and increasingly look to buy from third-party marketplaces and re-sellers. That’s the main takeaway from the “2022 Software Buyer Behavior Report” from G2, the peer-to-peer technology review site. The survey of more than 1,000 B2B buyers, around the globe, also showed that software spending was likely to increase, or at least not decrease, in 2022 and 2023.

Freelance Marketplaces, Are You Prepared To Be Disrupted?

Freelance marketplaces being disrupted? Hold on. Wait a second, weren’t they the disruptors? How strange and yet obvious that possibility must sound to pioneers of the freelance revolution, a work construct that’s disrupting the staffing industry and only recently entered its second decade. Yet, the speed of change knows no mercy. In the very near future, prop or internal organizational talent marketplaces (short for proprietary) will be competing actively with public talent marketplaces. Freelance entrepreneurs beware.

B2B Payments: 3 B2B Marketplaces Add Solutions

Today in B2B payments, JOOR adds a B2B payments tool, Taiwantrade.com aims to build an “intelligent mobile ecosystem” and Indeal looks to solve challenges commonly encountered by businesses in Saudi Arabia. Plus, Payhawk launches its spend management solution in the U.S. and now serves 32 countries. Wholesale management platform JOOR has unveiled a tool for wholesalers called JOOR Pay, which can be embedded into checkout systems to speed the collection of payments from retailers. Wholesalers can offer 60-day payment terms to select buyers through the tool, which generates payouts within days of transaction processing and reduces the complexity of foreign exchange transactions.

Building Next Generation Procurement Through B2B Marketplaces

From fresh lockdowns in China to rocketing inflation, 2022 has opened a fresh chapter in this era of uncertainty. In a period of extreme change, procurement teams using 20th century models and technologies have often struggled to deliver the ingredients businesses need to remain agile. Digitalization gives the procurement function an opportunity to reinvent itself, accelerating processes and embedding flexibility, while avoiding a loss of control over cost and risk.

Enterprise Ecommerce in 2022: As TAM Expands, The Platform Wars Are Heating Up

Once every few months, we take a look at the world of enterprise e-commerce platforms to see how things are panning out, and our last assessment was pretty illuminating. Here are some stand-out statistics: 2022 is turning out to be a phenomenal year for enterprise e-commerce platforms. The pandemic was a reckoning for big corporations ambivalent about e-commerce, and the result of that ensuing clarity is evident in enterprise e-commerce adoption. The top enterprise e-commerce platforms have added more than 10,000 merchants.

How to Create an Online Marketplace with WordPress: The Ultimate Guide (2022)

If you run a small business, you can no longer ignore digital commerce. Ecommerce is rapidly changing the customer experience shopping for products, as more than 2.1 billion individuals around the world use the internet for buying. The market was enjoying steady growth before the pandemic, but the forced closure of many physical shops led consumers to flock to online sales channels in even greater numbers, pushing the ecommerce market to new heights. According to Digital Commerce 360, gross merchandise volume in the U.S. increased by $102 billion in 2020 and $116 billion in 2021 due to the pandemic.

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