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Consumer Demand 3

By extending with a consumer application, you’ll help your merchants get closer to creating demand and reduce the threat of the other demand aggregators moving towards your market.

Dave YuanFounder and Partner, Tidemark

This is Part 3 of the Consumer Demand Series.Introduction‍Part 1: Merchant Front Office Apps - Setting the Foundation‍Part 2: Creating Demand with Merchant Facing Apps‍Part 3: Consumer AppsPart 4: The Big Leap to Two-Sided Marketplace

In Part 1 of this series,I covered front office applications that help a merchant acquire and retain customers, and engage with them over time. In Part 2, I explored solutions to generate incremental demand for a merchant. 

In this essay, I’ll discuss the role of consumer applications. To begin, I walk through the opportunity to land a wedge with the consumer in the form of a mobile app or consumer portal. These wedges typically are at the end of a VSV’s merchant workflow, to provide a consumer with strong utility or a better experience.

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