B2B marketplace growth · Demand generation

Demand generation that brings buyers ready to hire.

We build predictable acquisition channels for buyers and project opportunities on your B2B marketplace: search, AI answers, earned editorial and partners. Measured in qualified leads for your vendors, not sessions. Part of our B2B marketplace growth practice.

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For B2B marketplace founders, operators and growth teams
The problem

Traffic is up. Why are leads flat?

Broad traffic fills dashboards, not vendor inboxes. Buyers with a project arrive through specific searches, comparisons and recommendations. When demand lands on pages with no matching supply, or on content with no next step, it leaks before it becomes a lead.

What you get

What we work on with you.

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Channels with buyer intent

Category and comparison searches, AI answers and earned editorial placements that reach buyers with a live project.

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Demand pointed at liquid categories

We send buyers to the categories where your supply can serve them, so visits turn into matches.

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Lead capture that qualifies

Briefs, request forms and routing that give vendors the detail they need to respond.

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Qualified leads per vendor

The metric vendors renew for, tracked by category and by source.

How we work

Three steps, one engine.

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Find where demand comes from

We map buyer searches, AI answers and referral sources by category and rank them by intent.

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Build owned channels

Pages, earned authority and partner programs on your site, owned by you.

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Run it to targets

Monthly targets for qualified leads. Channels that miss get fixed or cut.

Who it is for

Is this for you?

Demand generation fits B2B marketplaces with supply in place and buyers who are hard to reach: service and agency marketplaces, industrial platforms, and marketplaces whose paid acquisition no longer scales.

  • Paid acquisition costs keep rising
  • Vendors complain about lead quality
  • Traffic grows but requests do not
  • Buyers find competitors in AI answers, not you

A proven playbook, pointed at your problem

40,000+ agencies listed and over a million monthly users on a B2B marketplace grown from five people. 275+ editorial collaborations in one live program. 10x+ organic impressions within six months on a water and wastewater B2B marketplace.

Why Digica

An embedded team, not an agency at arm's length.

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A senior team, no handoff

Strategy and revenue from Gianluca Ferruggia, former General Manager of DesignRush and Forbes Business Council contributor. B2B content from Karen Sosoban. B2B SEO from Florentina Schinteie. Client delivery from Jamie Onisto.

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Operators, not vendors

We have built the engine four times on our own platforms and clients. We work inside your team, on your roadmap and in your channels.

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An asset you keep

Pages, authority and AI visibility stay with you. When we finish, the engine keeps producing.

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At a glance

An owned demand engine vs. paid traffic.

Two ways to generate marketplace demand
Owned demand enginePaid traffic
SourceSearch, AI answers, editorial, partnersAds
Cost over timeFalls as assets compoundRises with competition
MetricQualified leads per vendorClicks and sessions
TargetingCategories with supply to serve buyersWherever the budget reaches
When spend stopsKeeps producingStops
Further reading

Guides from the team.

FAQ

Questions we hear first.

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How do you generate demand for a B2B marketplace?

We build owned channels that reach buyers with a live project: category and comparison pages, AI answer visibility, earned editorial placements and partner programs. Then we point that demand at the categories where your supply can serve it.

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Is paid advertising part of demand generation?

It can test a category, but it is not the engine. Paid traffic stops when the budget stops. We focus on owned assets that keep producing qualified leads.

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How do you measure marketplace demand generation?

Qualified leads per vendor, by category and source. Sessions and signups are inputs. Leads that vendors respond to and win are the output.

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What is the chicken and egg problem in B2B marketplaces?

Buyers will not come without supply, and suppliers will not stay without buyers. We solve it one category at a time: seed supply where demand exists, then point demand at those categories until they are liquid.

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How does demand generation fit B2B marketplace growth?

It is the buyer side of the engine. It runs alongside supply acquisition, marketplace SEO, liquidity and monetization, so new buyers find suppliers ready to respond.

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Where this connects.

Tell us where your buyers should come from.

Thirty minutes. We will tell you which channel we would build first, and whether we are the right people to do it.

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