Is my service worth a marketplace membership?

mmhat22

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I always tried to program my way out of any problem, so when I started my Lead Generation agency I just did what I did best: build scrapers and bots and whatnot to get the data I needed. That eventually led me to get data from Google Maps.

In my journey, I found myself offering local businesses' contact data (phone numbers, websites, review numbers) on LinkedIn without any success. I'm confident about the value of this service and that this could be only an error in channel selection, but I could be wrong.

So today I'm here for my first post, asking my fellow black hatters if they think it's worth buying a marketplace membership and advertising directly here!
 
Scraping google maps? No, there are too many decent free and great paid tools to do that.
 
There are plenty of businessmen lurking around the forum unregistered. It's worth a shot, and the price is not that expensive.
Even if you get just 2 clients in a year, at least you won't end up losing money.
 
You are almost at the 60-day mark to qualify for Jr. VIP, so I would consider just building up your post count through quality contributions and applying for Jr VIP and submitting a marketplace thread then, rather than upgrading to a marketplace seller account. If the money isn't a big deal to you and you have more money than time, I would just go ahead and submit and let the mods and market decide if it has value. The reality is also that even if you have a good service, sometimes people just don't buy from you. You can also consider partnering with someone else who has experience selling on BHW through a Joint Venture.
 
If you really own an agency 130 bucks is nothing to test a marketing channel. Also, lead generation has almost nothing to do with lead scraping.
Absolutely, but that wouldn't include the costs in terms of time and resources to write the copy, build a custom landing page (possibly), and in general set everything up. Nothing wrong with trying to understand the value before committing in any case.

p.s The membership is 500$ for a year, isn't it?
 
You are almost at the 60-day mark to qualify for Jr. VIP, so I would consider just building up your post count through quality contributions and applying for Jr VIP and submitting a marketplace thread then, rather than upgrading to a marketplace seller account. If the money isn't a big deal to you and you have more money than time, I would just go ahead and submit and let the mods and market decide if it has value. The reality is also that even if you have a good service, sometimes people just don't buy from you. You can also consider partnering with someone else who has experience selling on BHW through a Joint Venture.

I think he passed the 60 day mark long ago .. "Joined May 8, 2021" .. =)
 
If you can organize and present it in a professional manner, then yes.

Go for it.

You can get your JR.VIP sub paid off with signatures alone and doing reviews for people on fiverr from the HAF section.

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p.s The membership is 500$ for a year, isn't it?

It is either "BHW Marketplace Seller $499.00 per year" if you want it now, or "Jr. VIP Membership $97.00 per year" if you wait until you have 100 posts on your account. Plus a $30 fee for every Marketplace thread you open per year. Read more here.

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Dude, you got a stroke or what, hope your fine. Just don´t post any more stroke posts in the lounge please, talk with a real doctor.
 
Before you present any "product" to the market - you have to decide on a few things

1. Does it solve a current pain point?
2. Is there a demand?
3. Is your capacity to deliver reliable enough?

Once that happens, you need to "perfect the product". You keep working on it, till it turns into the best possible iteration of itself. And then work on it some more.

In your case, you need to figure out the latter, first -

- Take a look at the Linkedin section on the forum, see what the pain points are. Figure out how you can solve it programmatically.
- Understand that Lead Scraping != Lead Generation (as @todordonev pointed out)
- Figure out what can be done with the Business Listings you're scraping
- Figure out how you're better than the scores of scripts available for scraping Google Maps and GMB
- Figure out how you can augment your product. How you can solve a common pain point for the average person who buys this data.

Once you've done that and you see a demand - consider going in for a Seller or Jr. VIP (depending on your post count) and open a BST.
 
My personal opinion, I doubt it will work.
 
Honestly, if you are already asking this
means, you are already self doubting your services.
So it's a hard press no from me.
 
Honestly, if you are already asking this
means, you are already self doubting your services.
So it's a hard press no from me.
I'm open to doubting everything if that leads to any improvement, but I would say that I'm doubting more the marketing channel than the service.
Before you present any "product" to the market - you have to decide on a few things

1. Does it solve a current pain point?
2. Is there a demand?
3. Is your capacity to deliver reliable enough?

Once that happens, you need to "perfect the product". You keep working on it, till it turns into the best possible iteration of itself. And then work on it some more.

In your case, you need to figure out the latter, first -

- Take a look at the Linkedin section on the forum, see what the pain points are. Figure out how you can solve it programmatically.
- Understand that Lead Scraping != Lead Generation (as @todordonev pointed out)
- Figure out what can be done with the Business Listings you're scraping
- Figure out how you're better than the scores of scripts available for scraping Google Maps and GMB
- Figure out how you can augment your product. How you can solve a common pain point for the average person who buys this data.

Once you've done that and you see a demand - consider going in for a Seller or Jr. VIP (depending on your post count) and open a BST.
Thank you, that's very helpful!
 
there's a couple services like this out there, for example sales.rocks but if you manage to put some twist on it i don't see why you wouldn't make money
 
All depends on price. Scraping google maps is easy as 2+2 so if you plan to charge alot... It wont work.
 
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