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How to Create a Services Marketplace

Neil Patel

Over the last decade, service marketplaces have sprung up and distributed how we work and live. For instance, Airbnb , a marketplace for vacation rentals, has over four million hosts who have welcomed over 800 million guests. Food delivery service marketplaces are expected to reach $154.34 That’s not all.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

SaaStr

Rapid expansion and new service integrations negatively impacted net income. Circle’s story is a reminder that adding new products, markets, or services can actually destroy profitability if not carefully managed. Revenue increased 16% year over year while net income fell by 42% and EBITDA decreased 29% year over year.

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12 Niche Marketplaces to List Your B2B Services

Neil Patel

B2B brands are finding huge success in the digital marketplace industry and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Globally, B2B marketplaces make up a $31 billion market. Amazon Business, arguably the biggest player in the B2B marketplace scene, grew from $1 billion to $10 billion in sales in only three years. Data Capabilities.

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5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to The First $10B in ARR With Ex-CRO Cameron Deatsch

SaaStr

By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers.

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How to Use the LinkedIn Marketplace as a Freelancer

Neil Patel

What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? Given this new dependency on freelance laborers, it makes sense that LinkedIn, the most successful professional social networking site, would set its sights on creating a marketplace that allows freelancers to connect with companies searching for contract talent. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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3 Key Automations to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Growth

SaaStr

Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. While offering developer tools for customization, the ideal solution should also have a marketplace of pre-built integrations and connectors for quickly and effectively integrating common use cases.