New Client Sell Side Engagement - Online Marketplace Handmade Goods & Craft Supplies

Acquisition Opportunity

We operate an online marketplace and community for artists, makers, craftsmen and independent businesses where thoughtful consumers discover and buy unique goods and build relationships with the people who sell them.  Handmade goods by artists, unique items and craft supplies from users around the world are at the core of our marketplace.  We're committed to promoting artisan shops and encouraging appreciation of authorship on a global scale.  Our omni channel, social enabled platform allows users to manage all aspects of their online business.

·         The Omni-Channel Imperative: Retailers are responding to the Amazon success by creating their own marketplaces like Sears.com or acquiring a platform like Wal-Mart's acquisition of Jet. The growth in retail is clearly in the online space.

·         Recurring Revenue Business Model: Generated from a mix of marketplace flat rate shop fees, Item Listing Fees (ILF) and variable fees on sales volume. Seller pays for services such as prominent placement in search results via a Featured Store.  Other revenue includes the fees we receive from a third-party payment processor and from a third-party advertiser.

·         Proprietary expertise: With the original Marketplace established in 2008, this battle tested platform not only delivers the latest technology, but has helped sellers generate over $100 million in lifetime gross merchandise sales.

·         Current Market Metrics This "ETSY Like Marketplace" has almost 12,000 active merchants and over 8 million unique visitors over the past 12 months.

·         The Strategic Acquirer:  Can immediately leverage this marketplace technology and expertise into your Omni-Channel offering, acquire a loyal community of sellers and buyers and incorporate a virtuous circle of craft product suppliers and buyers as well as makers / sellers and buyers of handcrafted goods.

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Dave Kauppi is a Merger and Acquisition Advisor and Managing Director of MidMarket Capital, providing business broker and investment banking services to owners in the sale of information technology companies. To learn more about our services for technology business sellers click to visit our Web Site MidMarket Capital