u/CommissionAce
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Where are you guys having the most success sourcing high quality brokers lately?
Hey everyone,
Trying to grow our broker network right now and honestly just looking for some real advice. The ISO space feels like a total minefield lately with all the recycled leads, stacked files, and guys who ghost after sending one bad submission.
For the other funders/lenders in here, where are you actually finding clean writing brokers?
Are you guys having better luck at trade shows, or is it mostly just grinding out cold outreach online? Also curious if anyone has had success pulling reps from adjacent industries, like merchant services or equipment leasing.
Just want to know what's working to filter out the noise and find people who actually want to do clean business.
Drop a comment or feel free to shoot me a DM if you'd rather chat off the main thread. Appreciate any insights.
u/CommissionAce — 12 hours ago
WTB Rare Starling Marte Flagship Parallels
Hey guys,
I am looking to track down some very specific, tough-to-find Starling Marte cards for my personal collection.
I am strictly looking for low-numbered parallels from flagship products (Topps, Topps Chrome, Bowman, and Bowman Chrome). Think early career stuff, refractors, short prints, and low print runs.
- What I want: Any Low numbered parallels. /25 or less. (if its from a very new set I probably already have it)
- What I do NOT want: No autographs, no relics/patch cards, no unlicensed stuff (Panini/Donruss), and no base or high-print run modern inserts.
If you have any rare Marte flagship color stashed away in your boxes please drop a photo in the comments or send me a DM with your price!
Budget is anywhere from $5 to $100+ depending on the year, card, and specific parallel.
Let's see what you guys have got!
u/CommissionAce — 3 days ago
▲ 1 r/SideProject
Built a quick landing page for a zero-subscription creator ad marketplace. Would you use this?
Hey everyone,
I’m at day zero with an idea and just put up a basic landing page to see if it’s even worth building out the backend. I want raw truthful feedback.
The site is https://simplisiq.com/#home
The basic thesis is that buying and selling direct sponsorships or ad slots right now is too complex. If you're a small business, current platforms lock their databases behind expensive monthly software subscriptions before you even spend a dime on an actual ad. If you're a creator, you're stuck dealing with annoying agency gatekeepers or manual back and forth email chains just to fill your inventory.
I want to build an open, self-serve marketplace that focuses on simplifying the complexity of media buying. It works like standard e-commerce: a creator lists their available ad slots, and a business can browse for free and just check out.
- No Agencies: Direct brand to creator matching.
- No Subscriptions: Free to browse. We’d just take a transparent transaction fee when an ad slot is successfully booked.
- No Minimums: Small businesses can buy a single ad slot without needing a massive enterprise budget.
I need some raw validation from actual content creators and small business owners on whether to pursue this, tweak it, or just scrap it.
If you’re a small/midsized business owner: If an open platform like this existed where you could directly browse and buy individual creator ad slots without a monthly software subscription fee just to look around, would you actually use it to test your marketing?
If you’re a content creator: Would you list your open slots on a purely transactional, pay-as-you-go platform like this to fill your inventory, or do you strictly prefer hunting for long-term agency retainer deals?
What's the hidden trap I'm completely missing here that makes the industry lean so heavily on gated subscription models? Be as brutal as you want, I just want to find the holes in the logic before I start pouring time and money into this. Thanks!
u/CommissionAce — 3 days ago