The Mall Wins! Sharing Economy Platforms
Lynnie explains why sharing economy platforms, big online malls, are your main home for renting and reselling, and how to make a profile people trust.
Lynnie explains why sharing economy platforms, big online malls, are your main home for renting and reselling, and how to make a profile people trust.
In the sharing economy, where you list your items matters as much as the items themselves. In this article, we explain why sharing economy platforms, meaning marketplaces, are your key profile, when a website can help, and how to build a profile people trust. As in other income techniques, marketplaces play a central role in the sharing economy. Here, though, they are often essential rather than optional.
Lynnie explains selling on marketplaces for beginners: a little shop inside a big one, where buyers, payments and rules are already there for you.
If you want the easiest way to start selling online, a marketplace is usually the answer. Selling on marketplaces for beginners means you open a shop inside a platform that already has buyers, payments and rules in place. In this article we explain what a marketplace profile is, why it is so beginner-friendly, which marketplaces fit which business models, and how to stay safe. There are three key profiles we differentiate: Marketplace, Website or Social Store.