Gary Drenik: For people who haven't heard of McFadyen Digital, can you tell us a little bit about what you do?
Tom McFayden: McFadyen Digital is a global strategic commerce agency that creates top-notch ecommerce experiences for brands predominantly across the retail, grocery, and B2B spaces. To explain this in simpler terms, we help our customers develop the best online experiences for their shoppers, creating touch points for recurring engagement while minimizing any friction that could dissuade shoppers from sticking around.
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Meet the marketplace: Flippa - Tamebay
Here at Tamebay we love marketplaces and so it was interesting to find a marketplace for selling businesses and that’s exactly what Flippa is. We spoke to Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, to find out how the marketplace works, why someone would sell their business and how to estimate what your business might be worth.
While you can sell any type of business of Fippa, including online business, blogs, domains, affilate sites, ecommerce stores and even apps, naturally our ears pricked up at the news that you could sell your marketplace business such as an Amazon FBA store. We asked Blake to tell us more:
In case you are keeping track:
SEEN: Make It Up State Marketplace
Were you Seen at the Make It Up State Marketplace on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, at 865 2nd Ave. in Troy, N.Y.? The market is held every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in partnership with The Troy Waterfront Farmers Market and showcases local handmade goods and food.
Freelancer marketplace Upwork's stock soars as Q4 revenue, profit top expectations, forecast
CEO Hayden Brown called 2020 "a watershed year" for the company, noting it had produced the "highest year-over-year growth since going public" in late 2018.
Added Brown, "Nearly a year into the pandemic, organizations are embracing remote work to unleash the potential of a global workforce of independent talent that gives them the agility, skills and efficiency they need.
"Our results demonstrate that we are optimally positioned to capture the exciting opportunity ahead by serving customers as the world's work marketplace," said Brown.
LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know.
The service is similar to platforms such as Fiverr and Upwork, which host freelance work from web design to home repair and make money by taking a cut (13%-27%) of the job.
However, The Information notes that Marketplace is more than just a revenue-generating opportunity:
Microsoft tried to acquire high-growth business lines in separate deals for TikTok and Pinterest, but neither materialized .
While Marketplace will give more surface area for Jimmy to reach out to people, the reality is that moving the needle on Microsoft's $143B in revenue is a tall order.
Senate to hold hearing on SolarWinds supply chain hack - Marketplace
The Senate on Tuesday will hold a hearing investigating the SolarWinds hacks. SolarWinds is a massive IT company that contracted with the federal government. Its ubiquity let hackers get into at least nine federal agencies, including the departments of — just to pick three of the scariest options — Defense, Homeland Security and Treasury.
Camille Stewart: As more things like this happen and people demand of their providers to understand how they can better protect the user, that will drive companies to better understand their supply chain. But quite frankly, we need to impose some requirements or restrictions on our broader supply chain, so that even as companies do so there can be some uniformity in our understanding of our supply chain.
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