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Strategybuilt for marketplaces

Pure-play and hybrid marketplaces: assortment, economics and seller growth.

What we take on in marketplaces

A marketplace has to be run from both sides at once, and the economics sit in between.

  • Assortment that converts
    The listings a buyer actually finds, and the gaps worth filling.

  • Seller growth
    Bringing sellers on, and keeping the ones who carry the catalogue.

  • Take rate and unit economics
    What the platform earns on an order once fulfilment has been paid for.

  • Own stock beside third party
    Two kinds of supply, priced so they do not compete with each other.

Diagram: sellers on one side and buyers on the other, meeting at the platform, with the take rate drawn where it is earned.SellersThe marketplaceBuyersTake rate

Case studies coming soon

We are writing up the marketplaces work now. In the meantime, the published studies show how the same people run an engagement end to end.