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Mira is Sharetribe's Head of Content and SEO expert. She's the Editor-in-Chief of Marketplace Academy – a resource that has helped thousands of founders build, launch, and grow their marketplace businesses.

Best articles by Mira Muurinen

Marketplace SEO: the complete guide
Get a comprehensive introduction to the world of SEO, tailored specifically to online marketplaces.

Marketplace payments: The complete guide
Marketplace payments are very complex. This guide helps you list your feature requirements and compare and choose the best marketplace payment provider for you. (Yes, there's a comparison table!)

“Make your marketplace unit economics work,” says Fabrice Grinda
When one of the world’s most successful angel investors talks marketplaces, we listen.
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Fondy marketplace payments: overview of key features
Are you considering Fondy to power your marketplace payments? Here's our thorough overview on its key features, pricing, and more.

How to build a freelance marketplace
Freelancing is growing in popularity. Here's how you build a platform like Upwork or Fiverr.

Trustap marketplace payments–overview of key features
Is Trustap the right marketplace payment partner for you? Here's an overview of Trustap's key features, pricing, support, and more.

How to build a website like Fresha
The guide to building a website like Fresha with online booking and salon management.

How to create a multi-vendor marketplace
Why multi-vendor marketplaces are a great business – and how you can build your own.

Ryft marketplace payments—overview of key features
Are you considering Ryft to power your marketplace payments? Here's a detailed overview of Ryft's pricing, key features, and more.
How to build a website like Alibaba
Learn how to build a website like Alibaba with our step-by-step guide, covering ideation, MVP creation, achieving product-market fit, and more.

How to build a website like eBay
eBay is the world's second-most visited online marketplace. Learn how to build a website—and a business—like eBay.

What is a marketplace?
The definition of a marketplace, benefits, types, how to build one from scratch, and more.

How to build a website like Amazon
Learn how to build a website like Amazon with our step-by-step guide.

Stripe marketplace payments – overview of Stripe Connect key features
Stripe Connect key features, fees, security compliance, integration and more.

Adyen marketplace payments – overview of key features
Should you choose Adyen for your marketplace payments? Read this article to know Adyen's features, fees, supported currencies and countries, tax handling, & more.

PayPal marketplace payments – overview of PayPal for Marketplaces key features
PayPal for Marketplaces is a widely used marketplace payment provider. Explore its features, fees, available countries, currencies, payouts, and more.

Mangopay marketplace payments – overview of key features
Are you considering Mangopay to power your marketplace payments? Here's a detailed overview of Mangopay’s marketplace payment features.

Marketplace payments: The complete guide
Marketplace payments are very complex. This guide helps you list your feature requirements and compare and choose the best marketplace payment provider for you. (Yes, there's a comparison table!)

Having clear user journeys helps your marketplace SEO – An interview with Gregory Edwards
Gregory Edwards shares his advice for the best marketplace SEO results.

Weave SEO into your marketplace right from the start – An interview with Michael Caldwell
Michael Caldwell shares how to take both users and search engines into account when creating your website.

SEO can drastically improve a marketplace’s bottom line – An interview with Mike van der Heijden
Mike van der Heijden shares how investing in SEO can considerably increase a marketplace’s traffic and valuation.

Link building for marketplaces
Backlinks are key to your marketplace's SEO authority. Here's how you can build backlinks – and the tactics you should avoid.

The complete guide to essential marketplace website features
Learn about the key marketplace features you need to make your platform viable – and lovable – from day one.

Keyword-targeted content marketing for marketplaces
Marketplace content marketing with an SEO mindset.

How to build a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace
A step-by-step guide for building a peer-to-peer marketplace.

Keyword research for marketplaces
How to find your initial set of keywords and get started with a marketplace keyword strategy.

Technical SEO for marketplaces
This article introduces the basics of technical SEO and suggests ways to tackle common technical marketplace SEO issues.

Opportunities and challenges of marketplace SEO
How to avoid common marketplace SEO pitfalls – and tap into the unique opportunities.

Marketplace SEO: the complete guide
Get a comprehensive introduction to the world of SEO, tailored specifically to online marketplaces.

How to build a website like Fiverr – the complete guide
Creating a micro jobs marketplace where freelancers can post their skills? This guide helps you get started.
How to make a website like Etsy. Fast.
Building a peer-to-peer product marketplace a bit like Etsy? This complete guide helps you launch fast and grow your marketplace iteratively.

Build a marketplace – with Wordpress or SaaS?
Comparison of building a marketplace with Sharetribe or Wordpress + plugins.

How to build a rental marketplace?
What is a rental marketplace – and how to build a successful rental platform?

Investor Josh Breinlinger on why investors love B2B marketplaces
Thinking of building a B2B marketplace? Watch Josh Breinlinger’s interview for some tactical advice.

Makerist founder Axel Heinz on how to validate a marketplace idea
Axel Heinz’s story proves that you can prevalidate your marketplace idea extremely affordably. And that you should.

Investor Axel Bard Bringéus on what a scalable marketplace looks like
Tips for scaling your marketplace from Spotify’s former Global Head of Markets.

What do PSD2 and SCA mean for marketplaces?
Prepare your marketplace for Strong customer authentication (SCA). Here's what you should know about implementing 3D Secure 2 to comply with European payment regulation in 2019.

How marketplaces can help users succeed
James Berdigans believes his B2B platform thrives when its customers and providers thrive.

Investor Ben Narasin on how marketplaces can disrupt large markets
Follow Ben Narasin’s advice to build the next marketplace unicorn in an unconquered market.

Why Canon Australia ventured into the sharing economy
Kyōyū, Canon's first-ever gear-sharing marketplace, was built on Sharetribe. What benefits does the Fortune 500 company see in the sharing economy?

Investor Carmen Alfonso Rico on what makes a marketplace defensible
Carmen Alfonso Rico’s strategies for building a marketplace that is defensible against competitors.

“Make your marketplace unit economics work,” says Fabrice Grinda
When one of the world’s most successful angel investors talks marketplaces, we listen.

Lemoncat CEO Doreen Huber on how to build a marketplace success story
Doreen Huber discusses Lemoncat’s success story from the moment the idea was born.

What do investors look for in marketplaces?
Mathias Ockenfels shares his love of network effects – and how he spots them early on.

Competing with marketplace giants — An interview with Connor Gillivan
How can a marketplace startup compete with platform giants? Connor Gillivan, co-founder and CMO of the freelance marketplace FreeeUp, shares their story.

Brian Rothenberg at the Marketplace Conference: Driving growth via buyer/seller overlap
Trust Eventbrite’s VP of Growth: if customers are turning to providers on your marketplace, you’re on to something magical.

James Currier at the Marketplace Conference: 19 tactics to solve the chicken-or-egg problem
This article discusses James Currier's 19 actionable tactics to solve the chicken-and-egg problem for marketplaces. This is the fourth article in a series covering our favorite talks from the first Marketplace Conference in San Francisco.

Josh Breinlinger at the Marketplace Conference: How to maximize liquidity and transaction quality
A long list of actionable tips for marketplace entrepreneurs, courtesy of Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director at Jackson Square Ventures. This is the third article in a series covering our favourite talks from the first Marketplace Conference in San Francisco.

Sarah Rose at the Marketplace Conference: UrbanSitter's playbook for Geographic expansion
This talk by UrbanSitter’s COO is a must for any marketplace entrepreneur planning on launching new markets.

Jessica Tiwari at the Marketplace Conference: Building trust in two-sided marketplaces
This article series brings you some marketplace wisdom and inspiration from the first Marketplace Conference in San Francisco. In this article, we discuss a talk about building trust by Upwork’s VP of Product Management, Jessica Tiwari.

Validate your marketplace as you go
Stasher co-founder and CCO Anthony Collias reveals how Stasher validated their business idea, built their tech, found partners and funders, and expanded the marketplace to three continents.
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