CS-Cart's Marketplace Academy

Learn how to start, promote, and grow an online marketplace. Shape your personal marketplace launch strategy.

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Self-paced education

Totally free

Certificate upon completion

Why starting your own marketplace is an outstanding idea

How to launch your own marketplace

How to make your marketplace popular

How to grow your marketplace

In the CS-Cart's Marketplace Academy, you will learn:

About CS-Cart's Marketplace Academy

We've been developing marketplaces and helping entrepreneurs start and run marketplaces for more than 17 years. We want to share our expertise with more entrepreneurs.

We'd like to show everyone who's thinking about starting their own online marketplace that it's not that hard and scary if you have a solid launch plan.

After completing our Marketplace Academy, you will clearly understand whether you need a marketplace and why, and have a clear strategy for the marketplace launch.

Looking for a way to diversify your business? Start a marketplace based on our guides and get your market share.

Companies that are launching a large online project

Want to start a large eCommerce project to grow your existing business? Good, our education can guide you.

Experienced entrepreneurs who want to go online

Have a working online store and want to scale it with a marketplace? Super, enroll and form your marketplace launch strategy.

Online store owners who want to go bigger

Have an awesome idea for a marketplace? Great, you only need a strategy, which you'll get from our education.

Startuppers with a unique business idea

Who the education is for

You don't need expertise in eCommerce and technology to start your education in our Marketplace Academy. What you need is the motivation to launch a successful online business and minor understanding of entrepreneurship.

What problems the education solves

Gives clear understanding of marketplaces as an online business

Provides clear instructions on how to launch and grow a marketplace

Allays fears of starting an online marketplace

Helps to shape your personal strategy for starting a marketplace

Helps to implement the knowledge into your live project

What problems the education solves

What exactly you will learn

Motivation and inspiration for the marketplace launch

Guide on the problems a marketplace can solve for you

What tasks you need to solve with a marketplace

What kind of marketplace is the best for you

What niches you can enter and what's going on in those niches

Why a good idea is a powerful business driver

What marketplace software is the best for you

A list of resources that helps you stay up to date with marketplace trends

What challenges you will face during the marketplace launch and how to overcome them

How to come up with awesome marketplace ideas

Steps on validating your idea

What marketplace business model is the best for you

How to pick the right marketplace platform for your project

How to launch a marketplace MVP

First steps on running a marketplace

What design and layouts you need for your marketplace

What shipping and payments methods you need on your marketplace

What legal documents to prepare for your marketplace

Strategy on attracting sellers to your marketplace

Best practices for managing your sellers

Ways of attracting customers to your marketplace

Strategy of setting up pricing for your marketplace

Understanding of how to process orders

Grow your metric tree

Understanding whether you need custom development

Checklist of problems that you can face after the launch and how to deal with them

…and much more on marketplace promotion and growth

Solidify your knowledge by shaping your actual marketplace strategy

Practical homeworks

Receive one lesson a week and learn at your own pace—no need to hurry and alter your schedule

100% self-paced

See your progress by completing a test in the end of each module

Exam, which finalizes each module

Do your homeworks in a real marketplace platform demo

Learning on real marketplace software

How you will learn

What you get after completing the education

Develop a shaped strategy for launching your own marketplace and get a certificate of completion.

Your personal shaped strategy for launching a marketplace

Guides and checklists to help you start and run a marketplace

Access to a live marketplace software for learning

Access to a community chat to exchange experience.

Opportunity to become our partner and build marketplaces for your clients

Certificate of completion

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