The Trading Post Is Now Open!

[Zwielicht]

The Trading Post is now open to submissions.

As I went over in the coming soon thread, we went with the pre-approval process that only requires you to be Sapphire Eligible to submit a thread for review.

If you're interested in having a sales listing on OO, you can submit a thread via the Pre-Approval Listing Submissions section.

Have a portfolio of your work ready to go. This is something many of us in the internet marketing industry already have for our clients, so you shouldn't have to build something from scratch just for OO.

How you present a portfolio for the review is entirely up to you, but I'll list a few examples below:

• For graphic designers, a portfolio showcasing graphic design work you've done in the past is sufficient.
• For web designers, it would be pretty much the same expectation we'd have for graphic designers.
• For link builders, that one is a little tricky. Generally, anonymised case studies based on links you built are a minimum expectation.
• For proxy services, I've come across some proxy sellers who have ready-made videos showing their proxies working, so we'd accept this here as well.
• For software services, we'd accept similar video examples as we would for proxy services. However, we do also expect a virus scan of your software.
• For content services, we'd expect a portfolio of written work. Note that we will check these for plagiarism and AI content alongside any claims or proficiency made in your sales listing.

The portfolio can be on your own personal website, on a social media page you own, a download ZIP file; you get the point.

If you're not sure how to showcase your work, you can ask what's expected in the review thread.

As time goes on, we'll build up a longer list of examples in Section 8 of Chapter 1 of the Trading Post rules thread.

If there are any issues with the Trading Post, please post a forum feedback thread about them so that we can fix them.

 

[Berry Scary]

This is great news, I'm looking forward to seeing more services on here. I might think about submitting a writing service if I have the time.

 

[INCC]

For link builders, that one is a little tricky. Generally, anonymised case studies based on links you built are a minimum expectation.

I sold niche edits and guest posts for years, and I don't have a single case study.

Then what?

The links were decent because I outreached them, but I can't imagine running a case study for a couple of placed links

 

[Zwielicht]

I sold niche edits and guest posts for years, and I don't have a single case study.

Then what?

The links were decent because I outreached them, but I can't imagine running a case study for a couple of placed links

Yeah, I mentioned that one was tricky. It's why this is the Trading Post 1.5 instead of 2.0.

If anyone submitted a service like that, we'd work with them to find a way to review the service.

In the case of a guest posting service, any examples of work done that the trader is comfortable with sharing could be sufficient.

With niche edits, I suppose all we really need to see is that the trader had an article edited with a niche-relevant link added to it for a customer. We can just confirm that was what was done by looking for an archived version of the article from before the edit took place.

 

[Preying Mantis]

Bro good to see this open.

What about if I want to sell a single domain at some point where I made a couple $$$$ from?

 

[Zwielicht]

Bro good to see this open.

What about if I want to sell a single domain at some point where I made a couple $$$$ from?

In that case, we'd just need to verify that you own the domain as well as a monetary claims you made in the sales listing.

As for how you verify ownership over the domain, something like adding a DNS TXT record should be sufficient.