B2BPedia™ - The B2B Encyclopedia

Welcome to B2BPedia™ -- The B2B Encyclopedia

Our Mission:
Provide consumers with faster, easier access to the information, products and services they want.

We search the major search engines and remove the duplicates, the advertising sites, the pop-up ads, and anything that might harm your computer. Then we include all the related products and services in this easy-to-remember place where you spend less time searching, and more time finding what you want.

Busines to Business News Links:
FT' Launches Global B2B Ad Campaign
2 Sep 2010 at 12:51pm
The Financial Times is adding a business-to-business component to its advertising campaign as it ...
BPA Worldwide certifies Bizoa s audience data
2 Sep 2010 at 12:32pm
Bizo Inc., a b2b advertising network, announced Wednesday that the audience data from its Bizo An...
What can email do for my lead-generation efforts?
2 Sep 2010 at 12:31pm
Email paves the way for the most effective lead-generation campaigns. We recently conducted a stu...
FreightCenter uses email to build b2b customer base
2 Sep 2010 at 12:31pm
Last year freight logistics company FreightCenter.com catered to both b2b and b-to-c customers.

B2B:
Business-to-Business (B2B) describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer. Contrasting terms are business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-government (B2G).

The volume of B2B transactions is much higher than the volume of B2C transactions. The primary reason for this is that in a typical supply chain there will be many B2B transactions involving subcomponent or raw materials, and only one B2C transaction, specifically sale of the finished product to the end customer. For example, an automobile manufacturer makes several B2B transactions such as buying tires, glass for windshields, and rubber hoses for its vehicles. The final transaction, a finished vehicle sold to the consumer, is a single (B2C) transaction.

Etymology:
The term "business-to-business" was originally coined to describe the electronic communications between businesses or enterprises in order to distinguish it from the communications between businesses and consumers (B2C). It eventually came to be used in marketing as well, initially describing only industrial or capital goods marketing. Today it is widely used to describe all products and services used by enterprises. Many professional institutions and the trade publications focus much more on B2C than B2B. This is a strange development as most sales and marketing people work in B2B.

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