If you're an offline marketplace operator (flea market, car boot sale, night market, festival, carnival, etc), one of the most important aspects of your operation is the ability for you to rent out all your stalls on every business occasion. Perhaps you're considering selling your stalls online or maybe it hasn't crossed your mind yet. Whichever it is, here are some reasons that could help your decision-making process.

Getting Bookings and Payments Upfront

This is probably the most compelling reason why you should sell your booths online. You can receive bookings and payments from future vendors even before they set up shop at your market. You can even set it as early as a year prior. One sales strategy you could employ is offering early-bird discounts such as 20% off for bookings made three months earlier. That way, you can guarantee the future of your business. Setting dates ahead of time can be done by using the StallPaul stall booking platform.

Knowing What Vendors Are Keen To Sell

By receiving early bookings, you are inadvertently collecting data from sellers. You could know in advance what vendors are interested in selling and by knowing this, you could tell the trends in the retail or trading sector. For example, getting multiple bookings for your stalls to sell glow stones can be a sign that this item is hot in the market. With this information, you could organize glow stone talks or shows at your marketplace to educate people about this trending consumer product. StallPaul allows you to collect additional information from your vendors simply by adding a new custom field.

It's Easy to Set Up Your Market Sales Page

These days, it is so easy to create your market sales page, thanks to the free booth booking platform by StallPaul. You don't have to pay expensive web developers to build a stall booking system for you. All that is already done on StallPaul platform that offers indispensable features such as setting stall numbers, uploading photos, setting prices for each stall, and even setting sales prices at certain dates. Check out these video tutorials to learn how to start selling stalls online.

Social Media Is Your Friend

Since everyone is virtually on social media these days, you can exploit this ubiquitous media to promote your physical marketplace, right after you've designed your sales page. You can conduct free or paid promotional campaigns on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more. To automate your social media posting for free, try Buffer or SocialBu.

Getting Free Promotion

We at StallPaul do help marketplace organizers to promote themselves on its platform. If you're in need of marketing help, please contact us. We can offer digital design work such as poster and banner design and video editing services for free.