NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – A new online rental marketplace is changing how people in our community are shopping by renting items instead of buying them. Ruckify is a website that lets you rent pretty much anything from people in your own neighborhood for a short period of time, instead of […]
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Winter Marketplace helps local businesses this holiday season
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – Crowds gathered at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Saturday for the third annual Winter Marketplace pop up. More than 100 local businesses popped their shops up to showcase products so people can get a head start on their holiday shopping. This event started as a […]
Ferndale business helping other small businesses through new marketplace delivery service
(WXYZ) — The challenges of COVID seem to be coming at all of us at every direction. And if you’re trying to run a business, it can feel like you’re spinning your wheels just trying to make it day to day. But as they say, where there is a will […]
Choice Marketplace provides home for business growth – L’Observateur
LAPLACE — The best way to handle grief is to funnel it into something productive, according to Bishop Antoine Jasmine. Over the course of this year, the building that once housed the LaPlace skating rink at 1005 Cambridge Drive in LaPlace has been transformed into a hub for small business […]
This online marketplace is connecting creative talents in Africa with customers
What if you could find and book creative professionals in Africa for their services with the click of a button? Nigerian entrepreneur, Fade Ogunro, started Bookings Africa, a digital platform with access to service providers like accountants, makeup artists, and social media influencers. Founded in 2019, it now has a […]
How the online marketplace paved the way for the circular shopping revolution
[iStock]: Getty Images In 1995 eBay, then named AuctionWeb, was born. The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. It was 1995 and the seller was founder Pierre Omidyar. Two years later came the apex of the Beanie Babies boom, and eBay soon became the go-to […]
Items That Sell on eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace
As cases of COVID-19 spread across the nation in the spring, Bob Moulton decided it was best to close his business, National Pawn, to walk-in sales. Although pawnshops were deemed essential in North Carolina and could remain open, Moulton didn’t want to risk the health of customers or employees at […]
Meet Thrilling, An Online Marketplace That Supports Small Vintage Stores
When the pandemic hit, Thrilling, an online marketplace that offers vintage and secondhand clothing from small businesses around the country, cut its commissions for the first two months. After brick-and-mortar businesses were forced to close their doors, and thus lose their main source of income, founder and CEO Shilla Kim-Parker […]
The online lesson plan marketplace boomed when the pandemic hit
The online lesson plan marketplace boomed when the pandemic hit The coronavirus pandemic has upended life as we know it, mandating we sequester ourselves to slow the spread of a potentially deadly illness that has killed hundreds of thousands of people globally. That reality presents a whole host of complications […]
Most money made through the App Store does not go through Apple, company says amid questions over the ‘digital marketplace’
Apple says that most of the money being “facilitated” by its App Store does not go through the company, as it unveiled new research into the scale of the digital economy. The App Store helped facilitate some $519 billion in billings and sales last year, it claimed based on new […]
How hucksters and would-be profiteers invaded California’s online COVID-19 marketplace
In early April, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a website where people and companies could help California gear up for the coronavirus pandemic. The portal was designed as a marketplace for middlemen, manufacturers and business giants to pitch deals and donations with the state, which was scrambling to obtain medical supplies […]