You have questions, we have answers. We spend a lot of time going over the different aspects of TARTLE and how our system works and how it could benefit people in many different areas. Yet, that doesn’t mean every question gets answered in detail. Since we are all about transparency, we decided it was high time we got to some important questions from the perspective of the buyer. This is going to be the first in a series answering some of the most common questions we get from buyers.
One of the biggest and most important of those questions is how long does it take to complete a transaction between buyer and seller?
The answer depends, if you are after data from a specific demographic that is already part of our system, then it won’t take long at all. If the needed data isn’t in our marketplace, then it will naturally take a little longer. Based on our experience, once we start targeting a group of people it takes about seven to fifteen days to bring them into the TARTLE world and about another two weeks to get them up to speed on the system and convinced of the ROI on sharing the specific data you are after. Naturally, once you have established that connection, then that data is available much quicker.
So why wait thirty days? There are a few reasons. One is that once the connection is made you are getting real-time data much faster. Another is that the data is of higher quality as it’s based on a direct connection between you and the seller. Finally, we aren’t trying to game you in any way. A lot of third-party data sellers are companies that get their data in ways that can be highly questionable, scraping from various online interactions and transactions. They also tend to embed trackers in that data, trackers that let them know every time you access and manipulate that data. We don’t do that. Instead, we treat you the way we treat the sellers. The data is first the sellers and once you purchase it, it’s yours. We only serve as a broker to facilitate the transaction. Once the transaction is done, we have nothing more to do with your data.
How about the bid cycle? How does that work? This gets back into how quickly a transaction can take place once people are part of the TARTLE marketplace. The first thing is that the sellers list their information as being for sale. Then let’s say you as the buyer find 10,000 users with data that you need and you put in a bid. The way that works is that you bid the price that you will pay each individual. The sellers then have 24 hours to respond. If only 80% of the sellers do so, you only get charged for 8000 units of data rather than the full 10,000. In short, you only pay for what you get. Once the transaction is agreed upon and money changes hands then the data is sent to you in a convenient downloadable package.
How easy is it to sign up as a buyer? Extremely easy. Just go to tartle.co, and sign up as a buyer. It’ll be the button that says “I’m a buyer”. We’ll create your account and then you are free to roam. You can take your time to see what kind of data is available and learn how the system works and you do it all for free. When you work with TARTLE, you only pay when you want data and you only pay for the data you actually want. There is no sign-up fee, no subscription service to make sure you’re feeding our coffers whether you are getting anything for it or not.
That’s what we are all about here. We want you to only pay for what you get and not just pay us for existing. And that’s what sets TARTLE apart, we treat our sellers and our buyers as real people deserving of respect.
What’s your data worth?
