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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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Changing Your Pricing Model: How Hired Went from a Transactional to a Subscription Model

OpenView Labs

Instead, we now pay a finite, fixed fee for mobile service. This simplifies our engagement with the provider and gives us the ultimate control over how much value we extract from the service. We needed to get clarity on how to bundle services into packages that were simple, easy to understand and priced to deliver strong value.