How to build your marketplace supply | Marketplace Academy

Описание: This chapter of the Practical guide helps you build your marketplace supply. We share tactics to help build your initial marketplace supply when you don't yet have customers. Written by Juho Makkonen.

Topics
0:00 Introduction
1:42 How to find the first providers for your marketplace
1:58 Contact providers who are active in other marketplaces
2:50 Use Google, business directories, or offline aggregators
4:18 Find marketplace supply through online forums and Facebook groups
5:06 How to convince the providers to list on your marketplace
6:04 Offer a better experience than existing marketplaces
7:47 Highlight the exclusivity of your marketplace
9:59 Communicate buyer potential
11:04 Create a single-player mode
11:51 How to "fake" marketplace supply
12:15 Create the initial supply yourself
13:00 Pay for the marketplace supply
13:53 Aggregate existing supply
14:49 How to build supply for a personal trainer marketplace
16:29 Summary

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