by Casey Winters for Casey Accidental In marketplace businesses, the network is the product. If you’re not growing both supply and demand, the product generally isn’t getting better over time. And your network effects which compound organic growth are not getting better, and probably getting worse. Most marketplace founders and leaders intuit this over time, so they obsess over growth metrics. In this essay we explore one channel that helps many marketplaces scale faster than others: supply driving demand. If a marketplace has the potential to use this channel and doesn’t, it leaves them unoptimized and susceptible to competition. But if…
The Best Way to Drive Demand in Marketplaces is Hiding in Plain Sight
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