Master B2B Friday 15

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Master B2B Friday 15 episodes

July 11, 2025 Are B2B eCommerce Teams Understaffed?
Key takeaways from this week's episode:

Home Depot continues expanding into B2B, leveraging its digital strengths and logistics infrastructure.

B2B eCommerce teams are significantly smaller than their B2C counterparts, often due to legacy thinking.

88% of the Master B2B community believes B2B eCommerce teams are too small.

Many B2B companies lack foundational digital roles like merchandisers or CMOs.

Understaffing can lead to lost revenue, poor customer experience, and missed market opportunities.

B2B companies must rethink how they structure and resource eCommerce teams to compete in today’s digital-first world.
23 min
July 03, 2025 Mythbuster: AI Will Revolutionize Human Decision Making in Commerce
One of the big questions of the moment in AI is whether we are experiencing a REvolution or an Evolution when it comes to whether new technologies will enhance the decisions eCommerce practitioners make in their day-to-day roles, or whether it will soon take over many of the decisions practitioners make.

Join Andy Hoar, Brian Beck, and HCL's Brian Gillespie as they try to bust the myth that AI be making all of our decisions for us.

The Mythbuster discusses:

– Can Agentic AI agents build dynamic experiences on the fly based on multiple factors (e.g., weather, inventory demand, etc.) for buyers?

– Will all the elements of experience design be automated?

– Have we reached the end of complex, cumbersome pricing rules because pricing will be dynamic?

– Are we getting to a point where AI understands the context of human relationships?

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30 min
June 27, 2025 Why Is B2B Lagging in Mobile Investment?
When we surveyed B2B practitioners, we learned that they have chosen not to invest in mobile, even though their B2C counterparts have long ago made the shift to focus on mobile.
We heard that 34% of B2B companies have less than 5% of their sales on mobile, while 18% don’t even track mobile sales.
In this podcast, Andy and Brian talk about some of the reasons why mobile is on the back burner, and why this is a huge missed opportunity for most companies.
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20 min
June 20, 2025 Part 2: Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Taking Over SEO
In B2B eCommerce practitioners are all asking the same question: how do I get my products to show up in search results when people are searching on an AI tool like ChatGPT or Perplexity?
The answer, it seems, is to create authority around your listings, and in this podcast Andy Hoar and Brian Beck discuss exactly how to do that.
24 min
June 13, 2025 Is Generative Engine Optimization Replacing SEO for B2B eCommerce Companies?
Andy and Brian dig into the new (and mysterious) world of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and what that means for how B2B eCommerce companies that are looking to drive traffic to their websites (which is, of course, all of them).

How will it replace their SEO efforts (if at all?)

They share 5 emerging GEO best practices:

- AI answers reduce clicks (AI provides the answer up front)
- Semantic relevance rules: focus on topics, not just keywords.
- Expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness (EAT) now more important than anything else
- Structured, scannable content wins
- Visibility is more important than ranking: Success now includes being mentioned in AI outputs, not just appearing in top search results.
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24 min
June 06, 2025 How Should You Select a System Integrator?
Andy & Brian offer six criteria for how B2B eCommerce practitioners should select a system integrator when they are embarking on a commerce technology project.

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25 min
May 30, 2025 Should you hire your platform or your implementation partner first?
This week - Andy and Brian debate whether someone looking to implement a new eCommerce platform should choose their system integrator first, or whether they should select their technology first. And whether that's the right question to be asking at all...
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25 min
May 16, 2025 May 2025 Executive Roundtables Roundup
Andy & Brian talk through their key takeaways from the dozen executive roundtables they held with B2B eCommerce practitioners across the country.
24 min
May 09, 2025 A Report from B2B Online - Chicago
Andy and Brian recap the key themes from B2B Online in Chicago, including what it means when younger executives take over senior roles in a company, and how practitioners are talking about tariffs.

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24 min
May 02, 2025 Is the private equity model effective for the B2B industry?
Andy and Brian recap their on-stage debate from B2B Online where they wrestled with whether private equity is ultimate good or bad for B2B companies. Is it true that PE firms never invest for the long-term? Is it true that your career is at risk if your company is bought by a PE firm? Are there benefits to having a PE owner?

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23 min

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Each Friday Master B2B founders Andy Hoar and Brian Beck take a quick 15 minute spin around the world of B2B eCommerce, with their take on breaking news and lively conversations about the most…