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Episode 200

Empowering Digital Entrepreneurs with Data: Blake Hutchison on Flippa’s Real-Time Data Insights

This week on The Exit: Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, discusses Flippa’s new Data Insights feature. 

The company has developed this tool to provide transparency and valuable market information for online business buyers and sellers.

The Data Insights feature offers real-time data on search intent, buyer liquidity, trading multiples, and time-to-sell across various business categories and price points.

Blake highlights how this tool benefits both buyers and sellers by providing accurate market trends, realistic expectations for selling cycles, and insights into global buyer demographics. 

The feature includes interactive elements like a global map showing buyer distribution and liquidity across different countries.

Flippa’s Data Insights aims to empower business owners and investors in transactions and educate users about the realities of the digital business marketplace, particularly for businesses valued under $10 million.

Blake also previews other Flippa tools like the Buyer Directory, which helps connect business owners with buyers who are actively searching for businesses.

For more details and insights, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.

Personal Bio: 

Blake Hutchison, (CEO of Flippa), has been leading the business for nearly 6-years while building their platform and expanding the business globally to help over 12,000 business owners sell annually. Flippa is building the investment bank for the 99%. With industry-leading technology and a worldwide network of brokers, Flippa provides intelligent valuations, AI-driven buyer matching, and integrated legal, DD, and payment services for end-to-end transactions. Flippa is the investment bank for the 99%, serving over 2 million users and facilitating nearly a billion in sales.

Blake on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/blakehutchison

Flippa: https://flippa.com/

Check Out Flippa’s Data Insights Tool: https://flippa.com/data-insights

For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit

The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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