Consumer-to-business

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Consumer-to-business (C2B) is a business model in which consumers (individuals) create value, and firms consume this value. For example, when a consumer writes reviews, or when a consumers gives a useful idea for new product development, then this individual is creating value to the firm, if the firm adopts the input. Excepted concepts are crowd sourcing and co-creation.

C2B model, also called a reverse auction or demand collection model, enables buyers to name their own price often binding, for a specific good or service generating demand. The website collects the demand bids and then offers the bids to the participating sellers.

Another form of C2B is the electronic commerce business model, in which consumers can offer products and services to companies and the companies pay them. This business model is a complete reversal of traditional business model where companies offer goods and services to consumers (business-to-consumer = B2C). We can see this example in blogs or internet forums where the author offers a link back to an online business facilitating the purchase of some product (like a book on Amazon.com), and the author might receive affiliate revenue from a successful sale. .

This kind of economic relationship is qualified as an inverted business type. The advent of the C2B scheme is due to major changes:

Connecting a large group of people to a bidirectional network has made this sort of commercial relationship possible. The large traditional media outlets are one direction relationship whereas the internet is bidirectional one.
Decreased cost of technology : Individuals now have access to technologies that were once only available to large companies ( digital printing and acquisition technology, high performance computer, powerful software)

v t e Consumer behaviour

Concepts	Consumption (economics) Consumer spending Autonomous consumption Induced consumption Consumer debt Consumer economy Consumer culture theory

Research types	Consumer behaviour Marketing research Consumer neuroscience Consumer choice Consumer product Consumer economics

Consumer attributes	Consumer confusion Consumer's risk Consumer confidence Consumer socialization Consumer ethnocentrism Cultural consumer Homo economicus Consumption function

Processes	Consumer cooperative Consumer-to-business Factory-to-consumer Consumer service Consumerization

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Consumer-to-business

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