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Consider This: The Churnstile of Death

Haines-Group

and its B2C counterpart at 5.7%. Part of that difference is due to the fickle nature of consumers, but about 40% of the differential is due consumer’s higher involuntary churn. Software/ SaaS While overall software suffers a relatively low average churn rate, the rate differs between B2B software at 4.5% for B2B products and 9.7%

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3 Tiers of Customer Value in the Product Management Maturity Model

Product Management University

This is where B2B and B2C product management completely diverge. Differentiation becomes easier now because your relevance quotient is much higher in your chosen markets versus horizontal-only competitors. It’s the easiest way to differentiate and not get forced into competing on price. Tier 2: Department Value.

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Market Segmentation: The Key to Unlocking Your Product’s Marketing Potential in B2B

Product Management University

In direct B2C marketing, market segmentation usually involves segmentation based on demographics, behavior, geography, and so on. The solution providers that truly have differentiating value built into their products are extremely good at this part. Segmenting a B2B market is much simpler because there are fewer variables.

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What to do if your product isn’t taking off

Lenny Rachitsky

For inspiration, here are the original ideal customer profiles (ICPs) for top B2B products and, below that, the original target audience for top B2C products (what I call the “super-specific who”). Change your target audience/ICP You may have the perfect solution to a different person’s problem.

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Mastering B2B User Research: Tips and Insights

UX Studio

As we delved into these industries, we realized that our usual research approaches for regular B2C (Business-to-Customers) companies weren’t really cutting it. When it comes to average purchases on a B2C platform, individual decisions are usually impulsive and driven by momentary preferences, emotions, and desires. Probably not.

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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. A startup focused on differentiation should consider methodologies where customer experience, time to market, etc. In other cases, regulations might be the way to transform industries.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. . The method to define what the core value and differentiation factor is very similar across business models and industries. B2B type of business will focus on different KPIs than B2C type of business.