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“Invaluable Verbatims: SMBs Unplugged” Talk Alignable 360 on Between2Bs Podcast

March 19, 2025

“Invaluable Verbatims: SMBs Unplugged” Talk Alignable 360

Between2Bs explores Alignable’s new “360” networking features with three small business owners. The platform helps them find quality prospects and partners within Alignable’s 9.5M-member network. Users praise its ability to create meaningful connections based on real-time data rather than random networking.

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Selling SMB Tech Since 1997: Chris Shank on Between2Bs Podcast

March 12, 2025

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Selling SMB Tech Since 1997: Chris Shank on Between2Bs Podcast

Chris Shank, Verizon Business VP with 27 years in SMB sales, shares insights on winning customers amid AI disruption—a revolution not seen since the internet’s early days. His analytical approach and “plain-speak” expertise offers valuable perspective on successful B2SMB tech sales in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace.

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Two Builders TalkBuilding AI2SMB

February 28, 2025

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Between2Bs Podcast: Two Builders TalkBuilding AI2SMB

Our latest Between2Bs welcomes VP of Product Marketing Rachel Nulman-Schapiro (vcita) and CPO Chris Vasquez (AWeber) to discuss AI in the B2SMB marketplace. They’ll explore SMB adoption patterns, implementation strategies, managing rapid innovation, and future product development talent needs in this “Builders’ banter” about AI2SMB.

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Between2Bs: WSJ Best Selling Author Sangram Vajre

February 24, 2025

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Between2Bs Podcast: WSJ Best Selling Author Sangram Vajre

Join us as B2B “Top 21 Global Marketing influencer” Sangram Vajre unpacks his proven Go-To-Market (GTM) framework from his WSJ bestseller, “Move.” Drawing from his career building breakouts, including two $100M+ exits, he shares how businesses at any stage can adapt and thrive in today’s rapidly changing $2.5T B2SMB marketplace.

Always a fun ride, expect to be enlightened, engaged and entertained!

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10 Predictions For Transforming Customer Experience In 2025

February 18, 2025

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Between2Bs Podcast: 10 Predictions For Transforming Customer Experience In 2025

InfoBip CBO Ivan Ostojic shares his 10 predictions for Next-Gen Customer Experience, from foundational data infrastructure to Agentic AI to Conversational Analytics and Rich Messaging. Based on his recent Forbes Business Council column (and experience running a Global leader in omnichannel engagement), Ivan explores how business-customer interactions are about to be reshaped.

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Bryce Colburn of Forbes Advisor

February 12, 2025

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Forbes Advisor Small Business editor Bryce Colburn talks AI’s impact on SMBs, emphasizing its role as a competitive equalizer against the Big Guys. He highlights AI’s evolution from buzzword to practical tool, its potential for real personalization, and how it can enhance creativity as a “tireless teacher” that helps entrepreneurs explore and develop ideas.

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Between2Bs: NewBie-2SMBs: Member Marketplace and SMB.co

February 4, 2025

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Between2Bs Podcast: NewBie-2SMBs: Member Marketplace and SMB.co

This week’s Between2Bs podcast features Cherie Edelson of Member Marketplace, whose building commerce hubs for small business groups, like ShopIowa.com, and Joe Brown of SMB.co, building a “Zillow for Small Business”, connecting SMBs looking to sell their business, and verified Buyers. Join us for insights into their innovative marketplace solutions!

Always a fun ride, expect to be enlightened, engaged and entertained!

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Between2Bs: The New Sell Of AI – The New Sell With AI

January 30, 2025

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Between2Bs Podcast: The New Sell Of AI – The New Sell With AI

Breakout AI-player Augment’s co-Founder Jordan Ritter talks to Dave Walker of B2SMBI about how his Team is building AI into the “New Sell.”

As our B2SMB marketplace explodes with new AI-based products directed at SMBs, are Sellers to Small Business applying AI to their own efforts to engage, qualify and close prospects?

We’ll explore what’s possible and what’s fast becoming must-have in a “next wave” sales environment demanding:

Hyper-personalization
Offer-customization
Rich-data contact management
And a boost of AI-generated insights

Always a fun ride, expect to be enlightened, engaged and entertained!

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Year in Review, Year to Pursue

January 13, 2025

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Year in Review, Year to Pursue

B2SMB Institute’s CEO Dave Walker is joined by CGSO Maciek “Magic” Szczesniak to abbreviate the many hours worth of dialogue they’ve had on 2024 and 2025 in the world of Business-to-Small-Business.

Riffing off the expansive “Year in Review, Year to Pursue” now available for free download, Magic and Dave cover the waterfront of trends, developments, forecasts and more.

Sitting at the center of the Business-to-Small-Business ecosystem, they draw on the direct conversations they’ve had with B2SMB Enterprise C-Suites, Senior Marketers and Sales Execs, break-out Product Developers, SMB Influencers and Media, and more.

Highlights include:

The economy and the SMB – up, down or sideways?
The democratization of SMB “tech transformation” – can you say AI?
The throughline of 2024 into 2025 – is the Playbook written for us?
Recommendations from the recommendations – greatest hits from our many B2SMB Leader interviews in the last few months

Always a fun ride, expect to be enlightened, engaged and entertained!

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“Invaluable Verbatims: SMBs Unplugged” Talk Alignable 360 on Between2Bs Podcast

Selling SMB Tech Since 1997: Chris Shank on Between2Bs Podcast

Two Builders TalkBuilding AI2SMB

Between2Bs: WSJ Best Selling Author Sangram Vajre

10 Predictions For Transforming Customer Experience In 2025

Bryce Colburn of Forbes Advisor

Between2Bs: NewBie-2SMBs: Member Marketplace and SMB.co

Between2Bs: The New Sell Of AI – The New Sell With AI

Year in Review, Year to Pursue