I'm building a legal marketplace (info, lawyer directory, free Q & A) which is essentially a lead gen site for lawyers with a freemium model. On the demand/client side there is low scope for virality due to the often private nature of legal questions asked plus an unwillingness to bore social media connections; and On supply side there's a disincentive to refer colleagues outside their own law firm as increases competition on the platform. What are some imaginative ways to encourage referrals on either side? One thought I had for the lawyer side is create scarcity by limiting the platform to a certain number of lawyers per geo area but this doesn't really fit with a freemium model.
I would recommend you a blog post from The Family, a great French Accelerator, on this topic. They give you many advices on 2-side markets :
http://blog.thefamily.co/post/67650035686/koudetat-hacking-2-sided-marketplaces
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