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#62: Gin Making Kit $150k/year
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May 13, 2024
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Sending this on a Monday this week, been traveling a lot in the last week.
In this week’s issue:
☁️ SaaS - 2 listing
🛒 eCommerce - 1 listing
🗄️ Traditional business - 2 listings
🛒 eCommerce - 3 listings
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🚀 Startup Spotlight
Discover profitable online and traditional businesses.
💰 Asking Price: $80,053
A dynamic software platform tailored for brick-and-mortar businesses to launch and manage subscription models akin to Panera's coffee subscription program. Ideal for diverse enterprises such as coffee shops, IV clinics, and restaurants, it offers the flexibility to customize subscription terms, including frequency of orders and item eligibility.
Type: SaaS
✅ Key Highlights
$23,000 in TTM revenue
$16,000 in TTM profit
$2,000 in revenue last month
$1,000 in profit last month
🚀 Growth Opportunities
Diversification: While the majority of current customers are coffee and juice shops, expanding into new verticals, such as IV clinics, medspas, and manicure businesses, presents a significant growth opportunity. These sectors have shown interest in the platform, and targeting them directly through tailored marketing campaigns could yield more customers and revenue.
❓ Questions
How has the valuation been agreed on? Seems rather high for this current business.
Why is the owner selling? Seems like they have 5 businesses but want to scrap this one.
What’s been the current main growth strategy?
💰 Asking Price: $135,000
SaaS platform for dropshippers & e-commerce businesses to find winning products with advanced Adspy tech & Facebook ad library research tool.
Type: SaaS
✅ Key Highlights
$57,338 in TTM revenue
$48,564 in TTM profit
$4,779 in revenue last month
$4,047 in profit last month
84% Profit margins
Churn rate 42%
🚀 Growth Opportunities
Community: Reach out to influencers with large communities and offer an affiliate commission to everyone who uses the software in that community. Best way to grow is if the influencer has also grown through short form content.
Content: Start producing your own content through this tool. Create long form content that can be cut into small pieces of valuable content for social media.
🚩Cons
Churn: Large amount of churn almost at 50%. Dive into the business + operations to see reasons why there’s so much churn currently and where the friction points are.
💰 Asking Price: $150,000
Craft your own unique gin blends in under two days with DIY gin-making kits for spirit enthusiasts.
The service provides do-it-yourself gin-making kits that allow spirit enthusiasts to craft their own unique gin blends at home in less than two days without the need for distillation.
Type: eCom
✅ Key Highlights
$150,000 in TTM revenue
$16,000 in TTM profit
$6,000 in revenue last month
$2,000 in profit last month
🚀 Growth Opportunities
Influencer: Current revenue comes all through search + organic traffic. New operator has the chance to grow this business through influencer ads + TikTok shops
Community: Adding a community aspect to the program will allow you to generate more value for customers. With such a niche market and passionate customers you’ll be able to find out how to get more users sharing different ways to use your product.
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