B2B marketplace growth

B2B marketplace growth that turns supply and demand into revenue.

Build a marketplace that attracts the right suppliers, generates buyer demand, and converts both into revenue. Digica is an embedded team of operators: traffic, qualified leads and sales, on both sides of the market.

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For B2B marketplace founders, operators and boards
The problem

When did growth start feeling this hard?

Your numbers flatten, and the instinct is to fix the product. Usually the product is fine. What stalled is the flow of qualified people into the top of the funnel, or the activation of the supply already listed. No onboarding project rescues a supply problem that started three steps earlier. So before you rebuild anything, we check whether the right people are arriving, and whether they find what they came for.

What we help marketplaces do

Six jobs, one B2B marketplace growth engine.

Supply, demand and revenue have to grow together. SEO, AI search and GTM are how we get there, not the goal.

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Acquire supply

Build and activate the right supplier network, in the categories where buyers already search. Learn more →

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Generate demand

Create predictable acquisition channels for buyers and project opportunities. Learn more →

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Build marketplace SEO

Capture high-intent searches across categories, services, locations and use cases. Learn more →

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Improve liquidity

Increase the probability that buyers find relevant suppliers and suppliers receive qualified opportunities. Learn more →

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Monetize supply

Turn profiles, subscriptions, promoted listings, leads and transactions into revenue. Learn more →

06

Expand categories and markets

Launch new verticals, locations and supply segments in a repeatable way. Learn more →

How we work

Our B2B marketplace growth method.

01

Audit the funnel

We map where traffic, supply and leads come from today, and where they stall. You get a ranked list of leaks and a 90 day plan with owners.

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Build the engine

Supply acquisition, demand channels, category pages and AI visibility. Built on your site, owned by you.

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Run it with your team

We work inside your team on monthly targets for traffic, qualified leads and sales, and stay until the engine runs without us.

Who it is for

Is this for you?

B2B marketplace growth fits platforms with real supply and stalled growth: vertical marketplaces, agency and service directories, industrial and technical B2B marketplaces, and AI marketplaces finding product market fit on both sides.

  • Growth has slowed and more spend no longer moves it
  • Traffic grows but matches and transactions do not
  • Vendors churn at renewal because leads are thin
  • You want a senior team inside yours, not a report
Case studies

B2B marketplace growth, from the operator's seat.

Case

B2B Marketplace Growth case study: DesignRush

From five people to 40,000+ listed agencies and over a million monthly users. As General Manager, Gianluca Ferruggia built the supply side and the organic engine, with 3,200% growth and a 150-person international team.

Case

B2B Marketplace Growth case study: Aguato

A water and wastewater B2B marketplace founded by Gianluca. The engine was applied from the first vendor onward: site architecture and content took organic impressions up more than tenfold within six months.

Case

Partner growth case study: an unnamed SaaS business

The same engine pointed at a SaaS partner motion. Referred signups arrived as real accounts, and 94% of referred accounts stayed active after onboarding.

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

Liquidity-led growth vs. traffic-led growth.

Two ways to grow a B2B marketplace
Liquidity-led growthTraffic-led growth
North starMatches and transactions per categorySessions and signups
SupplyRecruited where demand exists, activatedListed everywhere, often inactive
DemandSearch and AI answers pointed at liquid categoriesBroad traffic across the site
Vendor valueLeads they renew forImpressions
OutcomeA marketplace that compoundsGrowth that stops when spend stops
By industry

B2B marketplace growth in your vertical.

Further reading

B2B marketplace growth guides.

FAQ

Questions we hear first.

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What is a B2B marketplace?

A B2B marketplace is a platform where business buyers find, compare and buy from many suppliers or service providers in one place, from industrial parts to software and professional services. It grows when supply, demand and matches grow together, which is the work we do.

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What is B2B marketplace growth?

Growing both sides of a B2B marketplace at the same rate: acquiring the right suppliers, generating buyer demand, raising liquidity in each category, and turning the matches into revenue vendors renew for.

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What does a B2B marketplace growth consultant do?

We diagnose where your marketplace loses buyers or vendors, set the growth plan, and work with your team to execute it: supply acquisition, demand generation, marketplace SEO, liquidity and monetization.

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How is this different from a marketing agency?

An agency runs channels. B2B marketplace growth works on liquidity: matching the right supply to the right demand. We own the outcome with you, inside your team, not a campaign at arm's length.

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What is marketplace liquidity?

The likelihood that a listing finds a buyer, or a buyer finds what they need, within a reasonable time. It is the metric that tells you whether more traffic will compound or leak.

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Do you work with early stage marketplaces?

Yes, if there is a clear category and some supply. For pre launch platforms, our GTM consulting covers which side to launch first.

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How long before results show?

The audit and plan take the first weeks. Search and authority work compounds over months. On a technical B2B marketplace, organic impressions grew more than tenfold within six months.

The B2B marketplace growth stack

Go deeper on each part of the engine.

Tell us where it stalled.

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

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