A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Solving the "marketplace" business model

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

These companies typically make money either by charging sellers for listing (akin to the yellow pages) or by charging a sales commission (akin to a "finder's fee"). Or a flat "finders fee" per lead? SpareFoot (a Capital Factory graduate) connects available public storage units with people trying to find units online.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How can you trust the apartment management company to pay you the finder’s fee? Jared: How would you go about saying you rented this apartment, and they printed this ad, and this is the person that did it? Jason: You’re right, it might not work.

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