WHY YOU SHOULD

List on

ONLINE MARKETPLACES

REACH Online marketplaces have their own,

rather large, audience They give you access to a larger

pool of potential customers

A LARGER AUDIENCE = LARGER POSSIBILITY OF

BUYERS

COMPARISON SHOPPING Your products are displayed next to other

brand’s products This can be good or bad

SHOW POTENTIAL BUYERS WHY YOU’RE BETTER

THAN THE REST

FULFILLMENT OPTIONS

Alleviate your story and shipping headaches by giving them to someone else!

EX: Amazon Fulfillment

Say goodbye to needy customers & shipping issues

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSMarketplaces have already conquered

the International Market…so you don’t have to!

REACH MORE CUSTOMERS BY BEING ACCESSIBLE

OVERSEAS!

INCREASE REVENUE

Recent studies show that 15% of sales come from marketplaces!

IT’S SIMPLE: THE MARKET PLACE HELPS YOU MAKE

MORE $

MAJOR PLAYERS

Of

THE GAME

AMAZON

#1 E-tailer in the world

137 customers/day

Users are 5x more valuable than eBay

EBAYReaches over 68 million people in US/month, over 100 million people worldwide

175 billion $ in sales in 2013

Auction-style selling

RAKUTENA Japanese electronic commerce & Internet company – going global

B2B2C

#1 e-commerce site in Japan

4.7 billion $ in revenue in 2013

NEWEGGFounded in 2001

Net worth of $3 billion

#2 online-only retailer

ETSYA marketplace focused on handmade & vintage goods

30 million registered users as of August 2013

1 million sellers

1 billion in total annual transactions