Turning $8k into a $30k/mo drug and alcohol testing business

đź‘‹ Hey Failories! It's Nico over here.

On Monday I sent an email asking you for feedback on Failory's new project, which consists of launching our first digital product. 93 people have replied to it and it'd be incredibly helpful if you do it if you haven't yet ;) Here's the link. I promise it won't take you more than 1 minute!

Besides that, this week we published two new interviews and carried out our monthly report, which you can find at the bottom of this email. The report was well-received last month so I'll keep sending them ;)

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INTERVIEW

Turning $8k into a $30k/mo Drug and Alcohol Testing Business

Chuck found a gap in the market when he realized that employers were losing time and money having an employee and supervisor go to a clinic to do drug testing. He joined a business competition, ended up in second place, and won an $8k prize, which he used to kickstart a business in this niche. Nowadays, they are making $30,000 a month.

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Colorado Mobile Drug Testing

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INTERVIEW

How Money Management Killed Adleaf Technologies

Back in 2013, Chetan Vashistth founded his first startup business called “Adleaf Technologies”, a blend of programming bootcamps and software solutions. Business was good for a while, but the challenge of multiple bad business decisions paired with failed money management proved to be the business’s demise.

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I hope you've enjoyed this week's content.

One more time, I insist that it would be really helpful (seriously) if you could reply to our survey. It won't take you more than 1 minute and it'll help us build a better digital product that will hopefully solve a challenge you're facing with your business / projects.

Now let's get into the promised September's numbers:

Website traffic:

  • 74,983 users
  • 43,711 of the users (58.29%) came from Google searches
  • 93,342 sessions
  • 134,362 page views


Email newsletter:

  • 369 new email subscribers
  • 117 unsubscribes
  • 7166 email subscribers
  • 29.14% average open rate
  • 3.95% average click rate


Revenue:

  • $240 from newsletter sponsors
  • $925.93 from affiliates (may slightly change)
  • $1,165.93 in total


Expenses:

  • $13.56 is PayPal fees
  • $131.58 in tools (Webflow, Promote Quuu, a WP plugin & Zoho Mail yearly subscription)
  • $154.50 in content writing freelancer
  • $49.57 in outsourced VA work
  • $299 in consulting from Dru Riley
  • $648.21 in total


That's a profit of $517.72, which I'll be re-investing in more content creation and future projects. I'm re-investing 100% of the profits as for now ;) Let me know if you have any comments / suggestions.


That's all. Hope you have a great weekend.

- Nico

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What should Failory's #1 digital product be?

Monday, August 31, 2020

3-question survey. Takes less than 1 minute. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. I'm sending you this email because I need your help. It won't take you more than 1 minute (I promise) and

$20k/mo SaaS: From Losing a Business Partner to Shut Down

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Watu is a shutdown staffing SaaS. Learn what happened! 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Last week, our article on the most common startup mistakes went viral on Hacker News, which brought lots

Startup Mistakes: Lessons from 80+ failed startups

Thursday, August 20, 2020

We've analyzed the most common mistakes made by +80 failed startups. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. A lot of new stuff today. I particularly recommend you the first article, which is a

Why did Vine shut down? Does TikTok have the same risk?

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Learn what happened to Vine & Yik Yak 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Yesterday we published two completely re-written articles, which dive deep into the failures of two well-known social

Making $$$ by helping small businesses find softwares

Thursday, August 6, 2020

👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Last week's article on the startup failure rates (here's the link if you've missed it) received a ton of positive feedback - this made me realize

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