💸 How to make $5,200 a month with some elbow grease and buying this saas

Nano Thought

Don't overthink your domain names!

Well...actually..It might be worth some effort to think it through. The power of a great domain is, well...powerful.

But dont get stuck on it for days and days on end...you will see why in a second.

Similarweb just released its list of the 100 fastest-growing companies online. One of them really stuck out to me.

​Licorice.com​

Not a bad domain name. Go ahead click it, or dont. Id bet you can guess what they sell. Its not tractors, I can promise ya that.

Its a great example of an obscenely simple domain name, that tells you exactly what you are gonna get. Its probably worth $250k+ on its own.

Their parent company is G.O.A.T. FOODS Brands, and they also own Chocolate.com, Caramels.com, & Pretzels.com.

Idk maybe I just geek out on that stuff, but THAT'S SO COOL TO ME!

But this is all besides the point. The other domain names on this list...are NOTHING like the ones above.

For example:

​http://Finesse.us A fashion site that uses AI

or

​JapanWonderTravel.com with over 3,000 reviews of tours of Japan

Either way, neither of those domains are particularly exciting to me - yet both are on Similarweb's list of the 100 fastest-growing companies online

DON'T OVERTHINK YOUR DOMAIN IF STARTING SOMETHING NEW. Just give it a couple of days and consider it. Make a decision and move forward. Luck rewards action-takers.

The one and only Glen Allsopp did a larger breakdown here, worth reading:

Glen Allsopp 👾 @ViperChill Similarweb just released its list of the 100 fastest-growing companies online. I went through each one to find how reliant they are on SEO and whether there were any interesting businesses to learn from. Spoiler: Some are incredible. One is wrong (?). Here's what I discovered..… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1747979368184643714 5:48 AM • Jan 18, 2024 42 Retweets 314 Likes Read 22 replies

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This Week’s Opportunities

Deals this week

​B2B Database Saas​

"PodcastDb is a database and search engine of all 2.6M+ Apple Podcasts. Customers use our data for guest outreach and finding potential ad opportunities w AdsDb"

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🎉 Here's a site for sale you might be interested in on Flippa

We LOVE a little saas over here at Nano Flips. Database saas' are pretty hot right now and can be super easy to maintain. If this biz passes your due diligence, it could be perfect for someone who works in podcast editing, agencies, PR teams doing booking for clients.

Or just anyone who sees the opportunity

Key Highlights

• Comprehensive database of all 2.6M+ Apple Podcasts (wow...)
• Capable to compete with Podchase, ListenNotes, and many other multi-million dollar companies.
• User-friendly search engine can be used to build outreach lists, and exported to CSV
• 739,146 verified public podcasts emails / 577,005 unique emails
• Everything was built in-house with Node.JS/ Express/ Postgres and Bootstrap (a paid Bootstrap theme was used, and then customized)
• Fully automated data platform running on just one OVH server (can be upgraded upon request) can currently handle heavy amounts of traffic.

The seller strikes me as a coder...not a marketer. This could be perfect for a marketer.

The LTV (lifetime value) of a customer is $607 - I would play with pricing and see if we could get that a bit higher, but even if not that may leave some meat on the bone.

A new owner could play with some great cold outreach campaigns, or paid ads, and set a max budget of $200 to acquire each customer. This would leave some pretty healthy margins.

I would look into LinkedIn outreach, and organic SEO for this. I wouldn't be surprised if you could acquire a customer for less than $200-300 on paid traffic as well.

If you are already a podcaster, then hitting up a podcasting conference like Podcast Movement would allow you to meet alllllll the people and brands with booths trying to advertise to podcasters already.

It should be completely doable to close 20 per conference with some decent networking.

Can't make it to the conferences? Luckily for you, most conferences will sell the contact info of the sponsors

Here is a list of podcast conferences for ya: https://vidpros.com/most-exciting-podcasting-conferences/​

"I dont know how to email those people though James!

ok well there are lots of tools to help like Lemlist​

but here is a great breakdown too: https://www.revenews.co/p/approach-cold-emailing​

Anyone advertising at one of those is your customer!

50 customers paying $100 a month is $5k a month

With some good cold outreach campaigns, it's very reasonable to hit those numbers and make this business worth $150k-200k

Adding a 0 with more effort would NOT be impossible either

Want something smaller? Let's keep looking below...

Other Businesses This Week

Here is a little breakdown of some of the listings we see on the marketplaces and brokers in the media space. This includes newsletters, content sites, and more.

Some require a little love and TLC from the right buyer to run them, and some are just cranking away out of the box :)

Content Sites

​SBA Pre-Qualified: Health & Fitness Content Site - 130%+ Rev and SDE Growth | 2.5M+ TTM Page Views - Everyone is always asking about SBA pre-qualified deals. Well here is one.

As always...do your own due diligence, the above is based off of what we see as an opportunity from the info provided in the listing and some light due diligence, not a deep dive. It just one of many scenarios that could play out and its up to you to do your own due diligence and see if this makes sense for you!

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​Thought Leader Theater

​BUILDERS BUILD IS RETURNING!

For those of you who have been around a while. You will remember my old podcast with my friends Oren and Colin.

We cracked the top 100 entrepreneurship podcasts on iTunes...and then let it fall off as work inevitably took over.

Well? Screw that, we are bringing back the alpha and recording next week again.

So on that note, lets look at one of our old ones to refresh ya memories, or intro you to the podcast if you haven't heard it before.

"How to Scale and IPO a Grocery Chain (with Liver King!)"

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What’s on the episode?

"We’re breaking away from the standard pod for a show or two, bring y’all a couple of opinion pieces on trending events happening right now, and a few what-if scenarios… like this one, featuring Liver King as our influencer…

Here’s the scenario: Sadly, Colin’s long-lost uncle, Thadious Landforce, passed away. Little did Colin know, Thad (as his friends called him) was the founder and sole owner of a natural foods-based grocery store chain.

Luckily, young Colin Landforce as his sole heir, inherits the grocery store and recruits his 2 best friends, Oren and James, to help him expand internationally and build a sizeable fortune.

To be honest…none of this happened, BUT we did play out this scenario and see how the team would grow this type of business.

Plans include:

• creating food deserts
• going public on a German stock exchange
• hiring Liver King to be the face of the brand
• And more

Ways to listen to the audio below:

​Spotify​

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Thanks y'all; see ya soon!

(James)

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