A Crowded Space

APRIL 10, 2013

In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” There is a much more critical metric being overlooked because it’s just not as glamorous. . That metric is the number of full timers.

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A Crowded Space

DECEMBER 8, 2014

See Care.com ) However, this is another example of focusing on the wrong metric. Also, if someone is paying a membership, there’s a good chance they’ll want to make some good connections in the marketplace, disintermediate, and then cancel the membership. . The fix: Paid membership should be a plan B in my opinion.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 11, 2016

For marketplaces companies, GMV (gross merchandise value) is the number 1 metric that most focus on. Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. Disintermediation - GMV is stronger if customers are effectively locked in. Uber matches me with a different driver every time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those traditional metrics get thrown sideways but when you look at the experience that Google is trying to promote, they’re trying to create a consistent ability for a person searching to find what they’re looking for and take action because it’s so close to that transaction. Neil Crist: Without question.

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