Marketplace Marketing Agency Turn searches into buyers, sellers & repeat orders.

Budget varies with how many categories you're stocking and how far the marketplace is from real liquidity, but most sellers and shoppers on our marketplace clients see a few thousand dollars a month spread across the site, ads, SEO, and email — on top of whatever you put behind ad spend. For Google Ads, we charge 10% of the monthly budget you set, with a $600 floor, and we never mark up what you actually spend with Google — every dollar of your ad budget goes to Google, not to us. SEO work runs $50 per page per month, with a 10-page minimum to start. If you need a custom site or storefront rebuild, that's a one-time project priced in eight packages between $1,500 and $20,000+ (see /websites for what's in each). There's no setup fee, and a free proposal with your exact numbers lands within one business day.

If you're still fighting chicken-and-egg between sellers and shoppers, your cost to acquire either side keeps rising, or people buy once and never check the marketplace again, that's usually a sign an agency built around two-sided platforms is worth the spend. We take the site, the ad campaigns, the SEO, and the lifecycle email off your plate so your team can stay heads-down on sourcing inventory and vetting sellers. If growth is already healthy on its own, you're probably fine without us for now.

It's the team running growth for your inventory side and your shopper side at the same time, not just chasing top-of-funnel clicks. We build the storefront and checkout flow, run ad campaigns toward whichever side is short on volume, win the category and “best place to buy” searches your future shoppers are already typing, and set up the email sequences that get a seller restocking and a buyer reordering — one team handling supply and demand together.

We check where your marketplace is actually running thin. If categories are sparse or listings are stale, early budget goes into recruiting sellers — a nearly empty catalog won't hold a shopper's attention no matter how much traffic you buy. If inventory is solid but orders are slow, budget shifts toward shoppers instead. We track signups and completed listings separately by side, so the call is based on what's happening in your catalog, not a hunch.

Ask whether they'll build separate campaigns, pages, and tracking for your seller side and your shopper side, or just run one blended traffic plan and hope it sorts itself out. Ask specifically how they'd get your thinnest category stocked, and whether they can show cost per acquisition and lifetime value split by side. Then check who keeps the keys — your storefront, ad accounts, and customer data should sit in accounts you own, not the agency's.

Paid campaigns can start putting new listings and orders in front of shoppers within a few weeks of launch. Category-page and comparison rankings are slower — plan on 3 to 6 months before they take hold — but they keep compounding as your catalog grows, since every new listing is another page that can rank. Lifecycle email starts moving repeat-order rates almost immediately, so you're not waiting on SEO alone to see traction.

Most agencies pitch one channel and call it a growth plan. We run the site, the paid campaigns, the SEO, AI-search visibility, and the email sequences as one system, with your seller-side and shopper-side numbers kept separate the whole way through, so you can see which side is stalling instead of one blended number hiding it. Our prices are posted, not quoted. There's no annual contract, just month-to-month with a 30-day window to walk away if it's not working, and your storefront, ad accounts, analytics, and customer list stay in accounts with your name on them from the first day.

Yes, and for a young marketplace it's usually the right place to start — a catalog with ten items in a category won't convert traffic no matter how good the ads are. We run seller-recruitment campaigns, build landing pages aimed at people with inventory to list, and set onboarding email around getting a first listing published and a seller profile filled out, with goals tied to listings published rather than raw signups.

We do track them separately. Every new account gets tagged as a seller or a shopper the moment it signs up, which lets us pull a real cost-to-acquire number for each side and track what a typical buyer or seller is actually worth once they're placing repeat orders. That's the number that tells you whether the next dollar should go toward stocking the shelves or driving more foot traffic to them.

You do — your company's name is on the accounts, not ours. That covers the storefront, brand assets, ad accounts, analytics, and every buyer and seller record. We work month-to-month, so if you ever move on, everything stays exactly where it already lives, under your login.

Yes. Whatever you're already running — Stripe Connect or another payment processor for seller payouts, your CRM, your product analytics, your shipping or fulfillment tool — we plug into it rather than asking you to switch. Signups, listings, and orders keep flowing into the systems you already have, so you can trace a sale back to the exact ad or search term that produced it.

Most storefronts and landing pages we build go live in roughly 2 to 4 weeks. What speeds it up or slows it down is how quickly we get real product photos, your category list, and your sign-off on each round — we'll map out a specific timeline before any work starts.