#23 - For Sale: Plant business ready to scale 🚀

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This weeks lineup is perfect for anyone who loves plants 🪴

In this week’s issue:

• ☁️ SaaS - 1 listing

• 🛒 eCommerce - 1 listing

• ✍🏽 Content Site - 1 Listing

• 🔐 5 more listings for Paid Members Only

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🚀 Startup Spotlight

Discover profitable startups and side-projects.

#1. InboxZeroNews (💸 Pre Revenue)

💰 Asking Price: $25,000

A new way to read newsletters without clogging up your inbox.

Very interesting piece of tech that I haven’t seen other competitors for so far.

Type: SaaS

✅ Key Highlights

• Pre-Revenue

• 100 visits per month

🚀 Growth Opportunities

• Expand User Base and Monetization Strategies: While the platform currently offers a free forever plan, there is potential to implement various monetization strategies to generate revenue. Consider introducing premium subscription tiers with advanced features, enhanced storage, priority support, or ad-free experience for users willing to pay. Additionally, explore partnerships with newsletter creators, publishers, or businesses looking to reach a targeted audience through sponsored newsletters or featured content.

• Differentiator: Unique product and something different for users to consume newsletters on. The platform it self will help grow through word of mouth as more people start using something new. Product-led growth.

🚩 Cons

• New Platform: The only con I see with this business is it’s a new platform that users have to get accustomed to. Getting them off gmail into a seperate platform to consume newsletters could cause a lot of friction.

URL: InboxZeroNews

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#2. Subpod(💸 $4.8M TTM Revenue)

💰 Asking Price: $2,000,000

eCommerce brand with $4,800,000 Min TTM revenue that creates user-centric composting & gardening products that help people turn their sustainability aspirations into tangible action. Its in-garden compost system works with nature, using worms and microbes to compost organic waste without the odors, vermin, and hard work of traditional composting.

It also becomes the ‘growth hub’ for your garden. By building soil fertility and plant health, it allows you to grow nutrient-dense food at home with ease.

Type: eCom

✅ Key Highlights

• $4,800,000 in TTM revenue

• $206,000 in revenue last month

• -$23,000 in profit last month

• Note: Financial figures are all in AUD

🚀 Growth Opportunities

• Returning Customer Rate: New business owner should monitor returning customer rates to figure out LTV. Figuring this out could help create new CAC goals to spend more on marketing budgets.

• Profitability Improvement and Cost Management: While the business has achieved substantial revenue, its current profitability is negative. One growth opportunity is to focus on cost management and operational efficiency to bring the company back to profitability. Analyze expenses across the business, identify areas where costs can be reduced without compromising product quality or customer experience, and optimize processes to achieve a positive net profit. This may involve renegotiating supplier contracts, streamlining logistics, or optimizing inventory management.

🚩 Cons

• Expenses: The current P&L shows the business is operating at a negative net profit.

URL: Subpod

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#3. Home Niche Content Site (💸 $13K MRR)

💰 Asking Price: $210,933

This listing is for a display advertising and Amazon Associates business created in October 2020 in the home and hobbies niches.

The WordPress site features informational articles, guides, product reviews, and listicles about a popular craft. The site contains high-quality and trustworthy content with established organic rankings. Traffic is well spread across the site, with no page receiving more than 2.52% of total traffic.

Type: Content site

✅ Key Highlights

• $13,269 in monthly revenue

• $12,409 in monthly profit

• 94% profit margin

• 76% of income comes from display ads

🚀 Growth Opportunities

• Expand Affiliate Programs: Research exisiting customer audience to understand what they’re spending habits look like and provide offers that tailor to those habits to increase revenue from affiliate channel.

• Ad Placements: Experiment with different ad placements and formats, especially within high-traffic pages. Test the performance of various ad types and positions to maximize ad revenue without compromising user experience.

🚩 Cons

• Traffic: Last few months have had low traffic and revenue volume. The listing suggests it’s due to a technical issue on the website but they haven’t mentioned if that’s something they’ve looked into fixing.

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