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Originally Posted by rainmaker1855
I like the idea personally; but I would focus on one niche of sales services (market, sector, style or product/service etc) and grow outwardly from there. Maybe it's IT services, maybe consumer goods, large or small box manufactured items, maybe consultation services. That should make attracting qualified sellers and buyers to the site and you can expand once you get your feet under yourself at that point. Another reason why laser-focusing early on is important is setting your pricing; what you charge as a % fee or flat rate can be largely dependent on the type of company buying the services and their industry margins/cadence of selling their product.
overall though, I think it's worthwhile to consider. the next step would either be to build a quick test site and see if you can get users to sign up/post a job and/or consider building your functional spec of the platform so you can get an idea of cost and feature needs.
I've been researching it for my own business. I found a few. Time To Hire seems like the best, but they aren't cheap, but they seem legit and professional.
If I were to create my own, I'd need back end web development which would get expensive, plus compete with the others out there. Seems like a big undertaking.