Web scraping agency with a 50% profit margin offering custom data collection services and off-the-shelf datasets. Requires under 2 hours of work a day.
The business under review operates with efficiency, requiring under two hours of work per day while maintaining a 50% profit margin. Its offerings are niche, providing hard-to-obtain data with potential for scalability. The agency offers two main services: selling datasets of ecommerce and marketplace data, available for self-service through its website, and a customized web scraping service that delivers ready-to-use datasets from any requested website. The founder, who does not possess technical skills, communicates with developers for data scraping tasks. Hence, technical expertise is not essential for new ownership, although experience in collaborating with technical personnel is beneficial.
Customer acquisition primarily occurs through Google Ads, with the majority of clients based in the United States. About 25% of the revenue is derived from recurring projects involving scheduled data monitoring and collection, while one-time projects and dataset sales make up the remainder. Clients typically need data for sales purposes and include service providers to ecommerce entities, such as marketing and logistics companies.
Financially, the business's revenue and profit levels have remained stable over the past two years. This stability is due to the founder's decision to maintain a minimal time commitment while concurrently managing two other ventures. The new owner has options to either scale the business significantly or maintain it as a profitable, low-maintenance side operation. The agency is being sold because the founder wishes to focus on a separate SaaS company that has recently gained traction.
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