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Incredibly, many businesses today still buy and sell supplies and materials with paper invoices, faxes, and checks. It’s a huge opportunity on which the two largest e-commerce companies in the U.S., eBay and Amazon, have not focused. Both companies run marketplaces, but they specialize in consumer-facing goods, not wholesale items and business supplies. Amazon has been running AmazonSupply, a wholesale site, in beta for two years, as CEO Jeff Bezos promotes increasingly flashier schemes around drone delivery, TV shows, mobile phones, and publishing.

But there is one true giant in the category: Alibaba, the Chinese retail darling that last week revealed plans for a $21.12 billion initial public offering, which has dominated in B2B e-commerce. I was reminded of this over the weekend while listening to Planet Money’s entertaining explainer of the Alibaba wholesale market. Through Alibaba.com and 1688.com, the company provides to people everywhere access to the Chinese supply chain. This means tinkerers, builders, entrepreneurs, and small businesses can order custom motors and parts from Chinese factories without having to travel there, find a scout, and forge a relationship with a manufacturer before doing business.

email certainly remains the king of the digital channels, with an installed base of email accounts growing to 3.1 billion in 2011 and expected to grow to nearly 4.1 billion accounts by 2015.

corporate email accounts will increase faster than consumer email accounts because of the growth of affordable cloud-based email services.

Subscribers have begun to expect you to keep the conversation going via social media and mobile channels. Witness the increased activity for B2B users on LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social networks and likely on your own corporate blog, too.

The benefits of using event management software It can make your life easier The main benefit of using such solutions is that they can help you maximize registrations, while minimizing the resources that may otherwise have been needed. Once you’ve set up an event on your chosen software, then you should just be able to press go and let it get on with things – leaving you to concentrate on promoting the event. If you’re running multiple events, or a regularly occurring event, then this can be particularly useful. Saves time needed for manual processing Good solutions will help you automate most processes. They will offer features like registration tracking, payment processing and also tools that can aid audience engagement. You’ll be able to grab a quick snapshot of what’s happening, who’s registered, who’s paid, who went on to attend and more. Plus, you’ll have an easy way to track how much money an event is bringing into the business. It will save time for your communication sequences too. With just a few clicks you should be able to send out tailored emails, including “thank you for attending” messages to those that made it and “sorry we missed you” to those who didn’t. Aids professionalism and the overall experience A further benefit is that it can make the management of the process feel that much more professional. The whole experience should run more smoothly. Nothing should be missed, which you can easily risk with a manual system. The payment of any monies can also be managed more easily and you’ll have the ability to manage multiple events easily. Can help increase engagement Engagement is at the heart of all marketing. It needs to start long before an event takes place and be supported and encouraged during and after. Good event management software will provide tools to aid participant communication at all stages. It will also give you the ability to see and analyze the global picture of your overall engagement levels. Supports targeted activity Marketing is at its strongest and most effective when it is highly targeted and tailored to an individual. (The key principal of account based marketing). You can use specialist solutions to tailor your event and all associated marketing activity. For example, by creating unique guest lists and email lists, and sending out targeted emails to those different attendees using certain parameters. A holistic approach Overall, event management software can act as a hub, holding together all elements of the event’s process. It can help keep everything connected, from the agenda, to speakers, any sponsors and the attendees.

B2B sales models were complex. They needed to incorporate negotiated contracts, special pricing and distribution or channel partners and typically involved multiple buyers from the same company.

B2C companies, on the other hand, were more consumer or end-user focused. They had to offer features such as ratings, reviews, communities of interest and promotions.

Influenced by the emergence of Web 2.0, where people collaborate and share information online in ways previously unavailable, B2B buyers increasingly expect B2C-like personalized experiences, creating a whole new challenge for B2B providers.

The e-marketplace aims at transforming the B2B hospitality procurement space for buyers as well as suppliers across the country

widest catalogue of choicest items with curated shopping experience and secure collaborative space for suppliers & buyers.

more than a decade of experience in business management, product development and cross-platform technologies.

London-based travel technology start-up Pathway GDS is providing agents with access to holiday rental inventory to allow them to compete with the likes of Airbnb and HouseTrip.

now providing a tool to give access to apartment and private home inventory that’s on a par with search for hotels.

Marchant claimed the technology is a first in the holiday rental sector and will allow agents to enter a fast-growing market as well as differentiate themselves.

Cvent, which offers web-based software for meeting selection, online event registration, sourcing, management, email marketing and web surveys to corporate and government clients, has been looking to expand beyond B2B.

In 2012 alone, Seed Labs created 82 apps for 38 events, all of which include interactive schedules, maps, calendars, bios, image galleries, videos, and notifications — features that aim to enhance the consumer experience of events. Cvent wants to take these features and Seed Labs’ mobile infrastructure and carry it into new markets.

Sabre acquired a fellow Texas company, Irvington-based Genares, a provider of central reservations systems software and digital marketing services for hotels.

Sabre Hospitality Solutions is an established player in the hotel-tech arena as its CRS was the largest third-party provider “based on our approximately 27% share of third-party hospitality CRS hotel rooms distributed through our GDS

Amex says the deal will allow it to combine two "advanced travel technology and development platforms" in a bid to create more products and services to the pair's corporate customers.

Amex GBT CEO Doug Anderson says: "The technology roadmaps of each business provide a powerful platform from which to drive future innovation. We will deliver a superior client and traveller experience through fully-integrated travel management solutions, including booking and expense management products."

The acquisition marks a reasonable shift in the power base of the major corporate travel management companies.

Companies embracing ecommerce marketing strategies are experiencing rapid growth.

ecommerce is replacing the need for in-store retail experiences.

Using personal online data

Hotel property management system (PMS) is known as a platform that enables the group or a particular hotel to manage front-office tasks, such as room assignment, guest check-in/check-out, booking reservations, managing billing, and room rates.

Production is analyzed with respect to different regions, types, and applications. Here, the price analysis of various Market key players is also covered.

Both, sales and revenue are studied for the different regions of the global market.

Linga has announced that its flagship product, the Linga rOS (restaurant and retail operating system), will now share its premium set of enterprise features with hotel properties using Oracle's OPERA PMS or Micros' Fidelio PMS. Enterprise features like its award-winning point of sales, mobile ordering, loyalty programs, employee scheduling, text alerts, self-order kiosks, central kitchen management, payment processing, inventory management, among others, will function seamlessly on the two leading property management systems.

"The goal of integrating Linga rOS with two of the largest and most-used hotel and resort management platforms was to offer solutions that made managing a hotel/restaurant business easier, faster, and more efficient for guests and staff.

Integrating with Linga provides hotels and resorts with a cloud-based restaurant operating system that includes workflow and business automation, real-time data, and connections to powerful hubs for CRM, human capital management, inventory, finance, and more

Consumer marketers will often send emails out about abandoned shopping carts, offering discounts and upsales based on Web behavior. These emails often prompt customers to complete their orders. B2b marketers can do the same and gain similar results.

use failed internal search terms to dictate email offers

use simple browsing data to add content to regular emails related to whatever the last thing your customers were browsing for, he said

The branch of technology that incorporates the electronic media in the buying and the selling process is known as the Ecommerce

With the technical world advancing rapidly, and online stores gaining more momentum, environ is such that the consumers buy products regardless of their geographical barrier. This unprecedented growth of the E-commerce website has made this a feasible option making it probable for the sellers to deliver their products all over the world.

The various components of the E-commerce Website Virtual storefronts integrated in the website with online catalogs, which is clustered to form a "virtual mall." The demographic data collected through Web contacts. Electronic Data Interchange or the business-to-business exchange of data. Email, Fax and the use of media to promote the future endeavors and to establish the consumers. Secured business transactions. B2B trade and selling.