B2B

Businesses face several challenges when implementing technology. Over the last several decades, organizations have built their tech stacks to help them with their business processes, but as time goes on, business needs grow and customer expectations change. Many businesses are now finding they don’t have the funds or technical agility to evolve their technology to […]

On June 28, I will be speaking at IRCE, the commerce industry’s biggest and most influential annual event. Sharing the stage with our client, Geriatric Medical, I’ll explore how B2B businesses can use technology to empower their sales teams and transition their operation into the digital world. In an age of eCommerce, the modern B2B […]

What is conversational commerce? In January of 2015, Chris Messina, a former technologist of companies like Uber and Google, coined the term in his Medium post – Conversational Commerce: Messaging apps bring the point of sale to you. He saw an emerging trend, as others may have at the time as well. Andrew Bilak of […]

During last night’s Magento Imagine Excellence Awards, Perficient Digital – along with our client Baker Distributing Company – received the 2019 Imagine Excellence award for our work implementing a strategic eCommerce solution on the Magento 2 platform. The award-winning end-to-end solution developed by the Baker internal commerce thought leadership and development team, Perficient Digital and […]

I remember an experience early in my career when I became passionate about a point of contention in a meeting (I don’t remember now what it was) that someone told me keep emotions out of it. For many years in my ascent of the towers of commerce, I practiced that approach to decision making. Like […]

Many manufacturers and distributors find the concept of content marketing to be daunting and complex. In fact, only 39% of B2B organizations had a documented content marketing strategy in 2018. Senior commerce consultant Karie Daudt, who recently joined Perficient Digital after serving as VP of Marketing & Customer Experience for Insite Software, weighed in the importance […]

If you haven’t dealt with inconsistencies between revenue and order totals reported by your web analytics platform and the numbers reported by your eCommerce transaction platform, you probably will eventually. There are many possible causes for these inconsistencies. Some of the most common are: Incorrect transaction tracking implementation Incorrect web analytics filtering configuration Transactions that […]

With HCL’s acquisition of several IBM products, including Websphere Commerce, many are wondering how those platforms will be affected. HCL has asserted that they are not setting out to change the strategic direction of WebSphere Commerce, but rather they aspire to add to it. This acquisition isn’t going to fundamentally change the architectural direction that […]

B2BecNews recently published survey results indicating that most manufacturers and distributors are behind in developing a mobile strategy. In fact, less than 50% of manufacturers currently have a mobile-optimized website. Senior commerce consultant Karie Daudt, who recently joined Perficient Digital after serving as VP of Marketing & Customer Experience for Insite Software, weighed in on why this […]

The latest cutting-edge experiences in the B2C arena are shaping expectations for B2B transactions and relationships as well, so manufacturers and distributors need to be proactive in evolving their digital strategies and technologies in order to keep customers happy and earn new business. Wondering how to accomplish this? Join our Commerce, Digital Strategy, and Digital […]

B2BecNews recently published survey results indicating that for more than half of B2B sellers, eCommerce efforts are bringing in 10 percent or less of their total sales. Senior commerce consultant Karie Daudt, who recently joined Perficient Digital after serving as VP of Marketing & Customer Experience for Insite Software, weighed in on the causes of […]

The digital landscape continues to evolve rapidly, putting pressure on businesses to continue to meet and exceed the elevated expectations of consumers. This has been especially relevant for B2B organizations such as manufacturers and distributors, which have traditionally had very little interaction with their customers further down the supply chain. Businesses that have historically sold […]