Ask HN: efreeme.com Head to head with etsy.com, marketing help?

2 pointsboonez1231 comment

Okay. I've built the site efreeme.com, proven it works, done the bare minimum required to get it off the ground, however now I'm looking for the marketing angle to push this. Any ideas?

My big competitive advantage over etsy.com is that we are completely free for both the buyer and sellers.

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Well your proposition is buy and sell handmade goods at no additional cost. Market that angle.

But I think soon you'll find you want a new proposition. There is a lot of work involved in processing payments, dealing with chargebacks, keeping customers happy, etc.

It looks like your revenue model is completely ad based? You need a way to start getting money now, rather than earning spare change each month via adsense.

Running customer service and daily operations take money. If you don't value your time (more than just spare time if you want this to grow) or don't mind paying out of your own pocket for someone else's time, I think you'll need to start taking a cut somewhere.

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