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11 Essential Best Practices from Leading Enterprise Marketplaces

11 Best Practices from Leading Enterprise Marketplaces

Unlock the definitive guide to enterprise marketplace success

In recent years, enterprise marketplaces have become the largest and fastest-growing drivers of eCommerce growth. In fact, retailers that operate a marketplace or dropship model grew 4x the rate of eCommerce in 2024.  Today, marketplaces continue to outpace traditional eCommerce in growth across industries. 

Navigating this new environment requires a modern playbook: a definitive guide dedicated to helping businesses launch and scale enterprise marketplaces of their own, regardless of industry. To help, we’ve created the 11 Essential Best Practices from Leading Enterprise Marketplaces. Built on insights from over 450 leading enterprise marketplaces across industries, these 11 best practices offer a proven framework for unlocking the full potential of the marketplace model.

In this eBook, you’ll discover:

  • How to use an enterprise marketplace to unlock innovative growth opportunities.

  • Guidelines around marrying scale and curation to ensure you’re maximizing choice while preserving brand integrity.

  • Common pitfalls to avoid when launching and scaling an enterprise marketplace.

  • In-depth case studies and real-world examples from leading businesses such as Macy’s, Decathlon and Toyota Material Handling.

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Best practices backed by marketplace-leader insights

The 11 best practices fall into three categories, each supported with case studies, examples and insights from leading innovators across industries.

  • Strategic vision

    Creates the foundation for a successful launch and drives the continued growth that defines the world’s most successful marketplaces.

  • Key operational decisions

    Determine how your buyers experience your enterprise marketplace, and ultimately whether they’ll come back for more.

  • Enablers and change management

    Create the internal conditions to foster, monitor, and respond to marketplace success by creating the right conditions for growth.

Hear from industry leaders who are using Mirakl-powered marketplaces to stay ahead

Launching and scaling an enterprise marketplace has become mission critical for any organization seeking to meet its customers’ needs. Doing so successfully requires a new playbook.

These best practices represent the strategies that every organization – regardless of its industry – must embrace to build a successful, continually scaling enterprise marketplace business. They’ve been developed with the expertise that comes from supporting more than 450 leading marketplace and dropship operators as they create trusted, high performing, customer-centric experiences, powered by Mirakl, to fuel their growth.

Every enterprise has the opportunity to do the same, using their brand, reputation, and deep customer knowledge to create even more value for buyers.

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Learn how mistakes such as fears of cannibalization, limiting competition, and falling into the "do it yourself" trap can inhibit your marketplace's success.

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