Believe it or not, the technology your company is built upon does not determine the success of your business. Yes, our  Near Me technology is vital and underpins our value as a platform, but what stands out is the human connection and sense of team and family that our customers feel when working with us. Entrepreneurs and brands have come to us from all over the world to partner together to save them time, risk, and a significant amount of money on building out a flexible and powerful peer-to-peer marketplace. It's about trust, teamwork and technology. 

While we pride ourselves on being a highly reliable and sophisticated platform, we recognize that the majority of our customer’s success will mainly grow from many other factors. From my time using some very prevalent marketplaces such as Airbnb, Etsy and Lyft, I can say at the end of the day, what made me a frequent customer was not the hosting server, web framework, or database management system from which they were built upon. What made me actively return is their mission to give me the most addicting and intuitive user experience available, provide me the customer support I need and convince me they are the titans in their space that I can trust.

And it’s true-it takes a lot of time, resources and a series of right decisions to get to this point. No service will ever reach perfection. But when competition is fierce and the market is ready to bite, the most distinguishing factors will come down to marketing, growth hacking, attention to customers and the diligence to constantly improve.

Luckily, we had this in mind while building out the Near Me Admin Dashboard. Beyond facilitating transactions and seamless match-making in the marketplace, Near Me has integrated tools to capture content, build community through blogging with social integrations and enable customer support ticketing. These are just a few of our tools created to support our entrepreneurs and brands. At Near Me, we have our partner’s back. 

I’d urge our future partners to consider the importance of building a business beyond the technology--because that's our job. We are happy to be your IT department so that you can ultimately focus on the key areas of your business that will separate you from the herd. After all, we’re here to get you to basecamp with the right gear-now you got to be prepared to reach the summit.