An overview of online marketplace and its challenges

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What is online marketplace? What is hot about it that makes many people go for it? What are the reasons behind? If you intend to build an online marketplace, what do you need to prepare and what are the challenges? These are the common questions asked by you, I, and those who are interested in marketplace model and want to build one.

Thanks to the technology advance, there’s hardly any limit to what people can do. Marketplace models aren’t new, instead, they have existed for decades. But with the latest technology, marketplace is brought online and quickly becomes a popular trend.

Amazon, eBay, Uber, AirBnB, Etsy are typical examples of online marketplaces. However, to build such a successful marketplace is not easy. It’s not an overnight success, but requires a thorough preparation, an effective business strategy and a lot of hard work. In this series, we want to share our knowledge and experience after years helping thousands of customers build up their marketplace businesses.

This series will cover topics about: Opportunities and challenges of building an online marketplace; Different kinds of platform and business models; Choosing the right business model; What you need to know when building a marketplace website with WordPress.
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MjE Paystack Extension Is Here – Powering Secure Payments For Nigerian Businesses

MjE Paystack Extension Is Here - Powering Secure Payments For Nigerian Businesses

Today we’re glad to announce the release of another payment gateway in MicrojobEngine – MjE Paystack Extension. After 1 month since MjE 1st Birthday, we’re back with a new extension and prepare for more upcoming features.

As you know, we have a complete MicrojobEngine Roadmap for the whole year 2017 and are growing MjE User Community where we interact with MjE customers in the best way we could. Initially, MjE Paystack was not our top priority. However, we’re quite flexible with our product plan and always try to listen to our customers via MjE Roadmap and User Community. After learning that many customers are looking for Paystack payment gateway in their MicrojobEngine, we decided to adjust the plan to adapt to it. That’s why MjE Paystack is here today.
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Video Tutorials: The Complete Guide to Setting Up and Using MjE Bookmark Plugin

Last month, we released MjE Bookmark – a handy extension of MicrojobEngine theme, allowing users to save their favorites items from anywhere on the platform and put them in collections.

Today, we carry out this video tutorial to give you an ultimate guide to install and set up MjE Bookmark, as well as demonstrate its workflow on the front-end. Let’s follow the video and start!

If you don’t like the video or need more instructions, then continue reading. (more…)

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Happy Birthday MicrojobEngine! We Have A Special Offer For You

Happy Birthday MicrojobEngine - Do What You Love

Today MicrojobEngine is one year old. The last twelve months have been an amazing journey for all of us.

One year ago, when we first started to create MicrojobEngine, we did do it with all our passion and determination. We’ve been making it our mission to help businesses the world over build up their own complete marketplace website. Now, with so much more energy and enthusiasm than ever, we’re on our way, strongly determined to develop MicrojobEngine to be the most ultimate WordPress theme solution for professional businesses.

We’re so happy and proud of what we have achieved in twelve short months and can’t wait to see what the next twelve hold. THANK YOU for being a part of MicrojobEngine journey! There have been good and bad days, easy and tough times, the journey ahead will be challenging but we do believe we can make it all in the end.

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MicrojobEngine 1.3.1 Has Rolled Out. Happy Our 1st Birthday!

As promised, today we’re here to announce you that MicrojobEngine 1.3.1 is officially launched, along with MjE Job Verification & MjE Bookmark to mark our incredible one-year growth and development. This version is conducted to improve the user interface, therefore we hope you will find it more elegant & cutting-edge than that of previous ones.

***Note: Before you update your site to the latest version of MicrojobEngine 1.3.1, we recommend you to backup your site in advance. Please follow this tutorial for the instruction.

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MjE Bookmark Extension – A Quick And Easy Tool To Save Your Favorite mJobs

MjE Bookmark Extension - A Quick And Easy Tool To Save Your Favorite mJobs

Tomorrow is MicrojobEngine 1st birthday. As promised in our post 2 months ago, today we’re happy to announce the release of MjE Bookmark extension. There’s nothing so big about this extension, we just want to give your users a handy tool to easily save their favorite items, creating a better and more joyful user experience.

P/s: Please note that the MjE Bookmark requires MicrojobEngine 1.3.1+ and PHP 5.6 to function properly.

Let’s take a look at MjE Bookmark extension.
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MjE Job Verification Extension – Upgrade Your Site Quality With Verified mJobs


The wait is finally over!

MjE Job Verification extension has officially been released. It’s an extremely powerful extension that allows your sellers to claim their mJob, helping them prove that their mJob is offered with high quality.  As a result, buyers will also find it more clear-cut to select a reliable provider amongst lots of sellers on your service marketplace. You, on the other hand, can also earn commission on each claim from sellers who want their mJobs to be verified.

P/s: Please note that the MjE Job Verification requires MicrojobEngine 1.3.1+ and PHP 5.6 to function properly.
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Meet Our MicrojobEngine Guys: Shinya – Product/Project Manager

Meet Our MicrojobEngine Guys: Shinya - Product/Project Manager

Next week MicrojobEngine will be turning 1. We know we’ve repeated it again and again, but this is such a significant milestone for a new young team. Over the past few weeks, we’ve introduced each member in MicrojobEngine team and this post is the last one in this series. As people usually say “last but not least”, in this special article, we will talk to the big brother of MjE team: Huy Tran (Shinya Tran as you know in MjE Community).

Meet other MjE members:

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DirectoryEngine 2.1.10 Is Here With New Homepage Layout & Other Feature Improvements

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DirectoryEngine 2.1.10 is officially released with new attractive homepage layout. DE MultiRating will not be supported from this version.

Notes:

After your theme is updated to DirectoryEngine 2.1.10, you MUST:

  • Deactivate DE MultiRating since from DirectoryEngine 2.1.10, this extension will not be supported (Plugins → DE MultiRating → Deactive).
  • Update database to avoid losing the entire rating score (Engine Settings → Upgrade Database → Update Rating Score).

P/s: You are recommended to back up your database before updating your site to DirectoryEngine 1.2.10 to avoid any possible problems.

  • Update Google Map API Key. Particularly, you must ENABLE Google Places API Web Service option besides Google Maps Geocoding API, Google Maps Directions API, and Google Maps Geolocation API when getting API Key to ensure your Google Map runs seamlessly.

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Sneak Peek: MjE Job Verification – A Powerful Extension To Verify Seller Services

Sneak Peek: MjE Claim - A Powerful Extension Verifying Seller Services

MjE Job Verification – the third extension for MicrojobEngine is about to roll out. As planned in MicrojobEngine Roadmap, MjE Job Verification, together with MjE Bookmark, will be released next week. We’re so excited and can’t wait to introduce these new stuffs to you.

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FreelanceEngine 1.7.13 Has Arrived With Improvements & Bug Fixes

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FreelanceEngine 1.7.13 has released with improvements involved in notification displays, reCaptcha, etc. Some minor bugs are also resolved. (more…)

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Video Tutorials: Only 1 minute to set up the payment plan with MicrojobEngine!

Continuing the series of MicrojobEngine video tutorials, today we’re thrilled to give you a quick guide to set up the payment plan that will display on the post a mJob form.

What is the payment plan?

Payment plans are price packages you create for your users to choose when posting mJobs. Each payment plan shows package name, price, period (in days) a mJob will be activated on your site and the number of mJobs that can be posted with the package.

To set up the payment plan, please follow the video tutorial below:

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A Sneak Peek At MjE Bookmark – A Handy Extension To Save Your Favorite mJobs

MjE Bookmark sneak peek

Have you ever been in the situation of seeing something you really want to have but at that time cannot afford it and you wish you could save the items to buy at a later time? Surely you did, and so did your users.

Therefore, we decided to create MjE Bookmark to help users easily save their favorites items from anywhere on the platform. MjE Bookmark allows your users to bookmark as many mJobs as they wish and put them in collections. With just a few clicks, everything will be stored in a place.

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Meet Our MicrojobEngine Guys: Hoai – An Energetic Developer

Meet Our MicrojobEngine Guys Hoai - An Energetic Developer - 1

Another Friday and we meet again for another interesting talk with a guy in MicrojobEngine team. This time is Hoai N. – MjE developer.

Missed the last 3 interviews?

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MarketEngine 1.1 Has Arrived With Resolution Center!

MarketEngine & ZeroEngine v1.1 have come out with Resolution Center feature, allowing your buyers to send the dispute on a listing.

***Note***

  • You should update your site to the latest versions of both MarketEngine plugin & ZeroEngine version 1.1 to make sure everything runs well.
  • After your site is updated to MarketEngine & ZeroEngine version 1.1, you must update the permalinks from back-end (Settings → Permalinks) to run the Resolution Center.

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