Is there a difference between B2B vs B2C email marketing? What works best? And can we take some of the best strategies from B2C and apply them to B2B?Let's have a big ol' email showdown and find out which type of email marketing wins!SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: (0:29) Grab our amazing resource Click Tricks totally for FREE!(3:23) What do we mean by B2B, B2b, and B2C?(6:50) The difference between B2B and B2C email marketing.(9:46) What about the different sales cycles between B2B and B2C?(12:13) Who is sending your emails?(16:06) How do people join your list?(19:33) What can B2B learn from B2C email marketing?(24:20) Subject line of the week.[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]What do we mean by B2B, B2b, and B2C? We believe there are three categories of businesses when it comes to selling:B2B - business to BIG business.B2b - business to small business.And B2C - business to consumer, where you sell things to do with people's hobbies and lives.Most of the businesses we sell to are B2b, which means we sell to owner-run businesses or a one-person band. The owner may be working with a partner or a small team, but the business is small. And we consider ourselves one of those businesses too as unless you’re making more than $10 million a year, you're still a small business.The key here is that businesses in the B2b category behave like consumers. When buying products or services for their company, business owners tend to use their own money. So it's worth bearing in mind that at the end of your emails, there are human beings who expect to hear from you in a certain way.The difference between B2B and B2C email marketing Let's say you're a large government lobbying organisation to do with climate change. You'll be expected to show up in a way that's very different from the way we show up in people's inboxes, for example (i.e. with rude jokes full of innuendo and swear words!) The reason we act the way we do is because of our understanding of ourselves and our market. We show up in a way that’s acceptable by our market but that’s also different and makes us stand out.A large government lobbying organisation will communicate with its clients in a completely different way. They still have to build trust and authority, just like all of us do, but it’s done differently. If they started going off on a tangent about something silly (like we do in our emails), that wouldn’t give the right indicator for them as a company.And it’s not just about the words because those only contribute to a small percentage of the way someone may interpret that message. How you say something is what allows people to read between the lines and get the real essence of what you're like. You can build trust and authority by showing testimonials and social proof, but you can also do it through the tone in which you speak. If you get an email that reads as if a college professor wrote it, it'll have a different level of credibility than something jokey.The words aren’t that important. What matters the most are the campaign structures that you create, the stories you put together, and the tone you use. They can be ridiculous and funny (if you want to) for B2C but more authoritative and professional if your market is more serious. And the beauty of the campaigns we offer inside our membership The League is