Marketplace Product Management Insights From an Ex eBay PM 🛒
An online marketplace is a special place for eCommerce.
Instead of selling your company’s products to your buyers, you are providing a market for sellers and buyers to come together. This can be an amazing business as you don’t need to invest in any stock and can scale your business easily.
But as a product manager, you deal with two totally different customer groups - your sellers and your buyers.
There are many eCommerce marketplaces out there, from the giants Amazon and eBay to niche markets of collectibles or personalized gifts. They originated from the newspaper classifieds model that has gone online (e.g., craigslist or gumtree), but there is a major difference.
Time To Read: 5 Minutes
Published: February 2021
Link: Marketplace Product Management Insights From an Ex eBay PM 🛒
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