[My Journey] Drop Servicing Website - Potential Untapped Niche

[Tlacopan]

Good look bro

Thank you!

congrats on the achievement, is this in the US?

Thanks. Not US

 

[KungFu Eli]

congrats on the achievement, is this in the US?

I doubt

 

[blogmen]

I launched the website one and a half weeks ago and these are the results - five sales.

That's a nifty little racket you got going. Thanks for sharing it with us.

It's great that only one of your competitors is targeting SEO seriously, because that means you can rank number 2 fairly easy. You could create a better serp title than they do and get some extra clicks your way.

I will follow. Good luck!

 

[vinbamb]

Always wonderful to see people come up with original ideas. Good luck on your journey.

 

[J1218]

Simple and smart as fuck. Nice work so far; going to follow along and see where you take it.

One random idea I just had that may help with organic traffic is: along with targeting states, make pages targeting the larger cities in those states since they will be less competitive and you should be able to rank quicker.

Essentially adding a more local SEO element to the business model.

 

[Tlacopan]

That's a nifty little racket you got going. Thanks for sharing it with us.

It's great that only one of your competitors is targeting SEO seriously, because that means you can rank number 2 fairly easy. You could create a better serp title than they do and get some extra clicks your way.

I will follow. Good luck!

Thanks bro. Yes, my content strategy is targeting some real low difficulty keywords so hoping to see some ranking soon.

Always wonderful to see people come up with original ideas. Good luck on your journey.

Thank you! Appreciate the support

Simple and smart as fuck. Nice work so far; going to follow along and see where you take it.

One random idea I just had that may help with organic traffic is: along with targeting states, make pages targeting the larger cities in those states since they will be less competitive and you should be able to rank quicker.

Essentially adding a more local SEO element to the business model.

WOW! You've just given a massive idea away, thanks bro! Gonna implement this

 

[Ferreira]

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Obrigado!


Obrigado. Não EUA

pode dizer que documentos são estes?

 

[Ferreira]

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Welcome to my 2nd Journey.

I wanted to share this journey to show there are still some untapped niches out there and not everything is "oversaturated" (I hate hearing this).

I came up with this idea from my day job, which is in banking. This idea is specific to my own country and may not work elsewhere, but I want to encourage everyone to explore what they know in their day to day from their own day jobs, studying, or family, and find service or product gaps for you to explore. You will be surprised at what you will find and how lucrative they can be.

THE SERVICE
I won't be revealing it in full, but in a broad description - it is specific documents from a government register. No, it's not anything illegal or classified. It's something ANY citizen of my country can request themselves through state government websites at a cost.

The web design and SEO is so poor for the government that if you Google how to get this document, the gov websites do not appear on the first page of Google.

It costs between $22 - $28 (depending on the state/province) to pull these documents, and I am charging a flat fee of $70 per document for this. I post Google Ads driving to a landing page, people pay for the service. I manually go into the gov website, request required documents (it comes instantaneously) then I forward to the customer. I also have a blog that I am posting content for keywords related to this service.

I explored this idea as customers of the bank would contact me and ask me if the bank can provide these documents to them. The bank obviously has a direct access to this, but we can't provide them to freely to people because there is cost to the bank.

COMPETITION
There are two types of competition: resellers like me and information brokers.

-There are two other resellers doing this. One of them is a minor service offering by a small legal firm, so not a priority for them. The other is a more established business that is my direct competitor which is rather established and doing well SEO wise. However, you will see below there is still enough demand for newbies to jump in and make sales relatively quickly.
-The information brokers offer this on an individual level, however they are primarily B2B. Their main clients are banks, accountants, law firms, and settlement agents. Their advertising is 100% directed towards these businesses. I ran some of their sites through Semrush paid search traffic tool and there were zero ads targeting individual consumers.

Tive a sorte de encontrar um domínio envelhecido local com vários milhares de backlinks e uma baixa pontuação de spam.

RESULTADOS ATÉ AGORA
Eu lancei o site há uma semana e meia e estes são os resultados - cinco vendas. Sim, sim, ria de mim por usar PayPal - estou apenas usando-os por enquanto enquanto eu testo a ideia. Eu provavelmente vou mudar para outro processador de pagamento assim que as coisas nos escolherem.

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Eu só estou exibindo anúncios em um estado, com planos de expandir para outros estados em breve.

PRÓXIMOS PASSOS
-Meu foco principal no momento é otimizar meus anúncios. Eu sou um novato, então talvez eu esteja gastando demais, mas aprendendo à medida que avanço. Lendo muito neste fórum e assistindo youtube vids em anúncios.
-SEO. Meus concorrentes recebem muito tráfego orgânico, então estou publicando mais conteúdo para classificar por palavras-chave. Isso levará tempo.

Uma vez que eu tenha vendas suficientes (talvez 6-12 meses), vou abordar um dos corretores de informações para integrar sua API no meu site. Isso adicionará automação ao processo de vendas, onde os pedidos podem ser atendidos automaticamente. No entanto, eles só vão lidar comigo, a menos que eu possa provar que estou um pouco estabelecido e tenho uma base de clientes. Meu trabalho usa um corretor de informações para esses documentos, então pude falar com alguém sobre isso.

Obrigado pela leitura, vai postar atualizações como eles vêm.

pode dizer que documentos são estes?

 

[Tlacopan]

Vagem

pode dizer que documentos são estes?

No bro, not prepared to reveal as it's low competition

 

[anonsops]

Following

 

[Jame taric]

Good luck with your journey

 

[Tlacopan]

Following

Good luck with your journey

Thanks fellas!

 

[KriscoVA]

Your journey is really inspiring mate, it opened my eyes to the many opportunities we miss every day.

 

[Tlacopan]

Your journey is really inspiring mate, it opened my eyes to the many opportunities we miss every day.

Thank you, that's the reaction I was aiming for

It may not be the most sexy business model, but hey, it's something in demand and it's working!

 

[Tlacopan]

Providing an update on how this is going:
-Total revenue for Feb


Quite happy with this outcome, as it's only been a few weeks with this.

I mentioned previously there is an additional service I am looking to sell which requires a more "blackhat" approach.

Based on my day job, I am aware of certain data providers and how to get access to them. So, I have done this and will be selling reports they generate as a type of upsell. There is nothing illegal about this, just a breach of terms of service. I have a separate email established purely for these reports, so it will be difficult for them to link this account to me.

I did have a set back with my Google ads plans. I changed my targeting from individual states to country wide. Unfortunately this seems to be the same strategy as the other providers, and I found my cost per click going up to $5-7 which is way too expensive. I've now returned to initial tactic of going for individual states where it's around 70c per click.

 

[W_W]

Providing an update on how this is going:
-Total revenue for Feb
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Quite happy with this outcome, as it's only been a few weeks with this.

I mentioned previously there is an additional service I am looking to sell which requires a more "blackhat" approach.

Based on my day job, I am aware of certain data providers and how to get access to them. So, I have done this and will be selling reports they generate as a type of upsell. There is nothing illegal about this, just a breach of terms of service. I have a separate email established purely for these reports, so it will be difficult for them to link this account to me.

I did have a set back with my Google ads plans. I changed my targeting from individual states to country wide. Unfortunately this seems to be the same strategy as the other providers, and I found my cost per click going up to $5-7 which is way too expensive. I've now returned to initial tactic of going for individual states where it's around 70c per click.

Ooooh this is great result ,bro

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

Interesting journey! Instead of changing your winning campaign to country wide, you should duplicate it and change the new campaign to focus on another state only. No need to focus on the entire country if that's what the big players are doing! If you found one state with no competition I'm sure there are more.

What are your actual profits? After ad spend and service cost is deducted from Paypal?

I saw something similar when i moved to spain. The Nie, a document needed for some things here, costs around 9 euros per person but fill out the paperwork and make an appointment it is not very easy (for those who are not very practical). some websites resell the service by doing everything for you, with a cost of around €40-50.
Interesting, I will follow your progress. It's nice to see someone thinking outside the box, instead of the usual cpas and affiliations.

When I got my Nie the company I worked for hired an agency to get it fixed for all the workers. I think they charged way more than €50 per application. In this case I think it's good to have someone else do the process, especially as people who apply for Nie usually don't speak Spanish. You also have to consider they have to get paid for the work, even if it just takes 10 minutes to file most professions charge by the hour.

But yes, this type of business can be found everywhere, in all countries. Another example: People all over the world want to start companies in the UK, US etc. Companies exist that do this for you but they charge hundreds of dollars. In reality, setting up an LTD in the UK takes a few minutes and cost £12 if you do it yourself. Sure, there are other costs and steps associated and it's always nice to have a person of contact in the country.

 

[Tlacopan]

Interesting journey! Instead of changing your winning campaign to country wide, you should duplicate it and change the new campaign to focus on another state only. No need to focus on the entire country if that's what the big players are doing! If you found one state with no competition I'm sure there are more.

What are your actual profits? After ad spend and service cost is deducted from Paypal?

Actual profit is around $220. I'm a rookie with Google Ads, so probably losing a bit of money as I'm learning and working through it

Yes, I'm only targeting individual states now.

 

[LaLore]

LOL...I love it!! This reminds me of the people in the states charging $100+ to get and EIN from the IRS for new LLC's. It's actually free and takes less than 5 minutes but people pay for this service without complaint.

Boss On!!

 

[Blaksheimakw11]

looking to get some updates man