Issue#114: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS Products around Attribution Software, Payments and Commissions
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No fluffy content. If your goal is to build a $100m ARR business, this is not the right post. Here I am NOT going to talk about building the next Facebook or Twitter. If your goal is to make a $1K to $10K MRR, continue reading.
This post will cover one SaaS area and talk about multiple niches in this space. This post also explains how to do tech implementation, do market analysis, how the current players are doing, and ends with a cost analysis to understand the overall cost for 100 users.
Let’s see some of the players around charts, graphs and data related tools.
⛳ ⛳ Current Players
ZenVoice: Lets customers generate, edit, and download Stripe invoices. Crossed $2K/month in revenue.
Podscan.fm: Social listening and full-text search for podcasts.
Tapfiliate: Affiliate tracking software for online services, eCommerce and SaaS that integrates seamlessly with a website. Tapfiliate's estimated annual revenue is $580K
CommissionCrowd: An online platform for companies and B2B sales freelancers to connect and manage successful working partnerships globally. Reached $1.8M/year in revenue.
Chartable: Podcast analytics and attribution tools to help publishers grow, and help brands & agencies understand their spend. Reached $940.9K in annual revenue.
Mumbler: Lets creators sell podcasts/audios directly to their audience. Crossed $2K in monthly revenue.
Aryel: a no-code platform to create, distribute, and optimize immersive display advertising campaigns while gathering valuable data, including audience emotional states and facial features. Reached $1.2M in annual revenue.
Insiteful: Form abandonment solution to track partial entries, recover lost leads & boost conversion.
Everflow: A platform to manage partnership relationships, track the performance from every marketing channel, and easily analyze the results to make actionable marketing decisions. Estimated annual revenue is $5.7 million
Zulio: an API to track influencer campaings and determine which sales are driven from that campaign.
GrowthPanels: Lets businesses offer incentives to drive growth and product adoption
Trackey: Specialized surveys for Shopify merchants to precisely understand what motivates customers to make a purchase.
CallRail: a platform for tracking and managing calls, forms, texts, and chats to optimize marketing efforts. Estimated annual revenue is $60.1M
WhatConverts: lead tracking and reporting software for PPC and SEO professionals, enabling them to capture and organize leads from calls, forms, and chats, and providing insights. Reached $14M/year revenue
Tremendous: A way for businesses to send rewards and payouts globally. Reached $3.7M in annual revenue. Trusted by over 10,000 companies
Broker Mint: Transaction, commission management and analytics for real estate back office. Estimated annual revenue is $2.1M
Triple Whale: Manages and automates analytics, attribution, merchandising, forecasting & more. Estimated annual revenue is $25.3M
Storyclash: AI-powered Influencer Marketing Platform that helps teams boost sales and brand awareness. Storyclash's estimated annual revenue is $2.3M
🙅♀️🙅 Pessimists
Negative Nancy says - “Podcast Attribution and Analytics is tricky and complex”
Me - Agreed. This is more complex especially with hundreds of new podcasts coming in every day. That is where products like Chartable are playing significant role and many founders are also leveraging AI to help with this. Chartable is making close to $1M in annual revenue.
Negative Nancy says - “It is tough to integrate Affiliate/Referral programs into existing SaaS/company and most existing companies may not use my Affiliate/Referral software”
Me - It was tough to integrate affiliate and referral programs into existing saas/company a few years before. But not anymore with the news SaaS referral tools. There are a lot of referral tools that just warp up everything in a simple widget and or as a hosted site automating the affiliation and referral process. All the customer has to do is to place the widget on their page or start using the hosted affiliate page
🤿🤿 Deep-dive &&💡💡Some niches
Micro SaaS for Podcast Attribution and Analytics
The problem with Podcasts lies in the lack of clear insight into listener behavior and the effectiveness of marketing efforts. Without proper attribution and analytics, podcasters struggle to understand how their content resonates with audiences, hindering their ability to optimize strategies and grow their audience. Podcast Attribution and Analytics based products provides a SaaS offering with detailed insights into listener demographics, engagement metrics, and conversion rates. By tracking listener actions across platforms and episodes, podcasters can identify which content performs best, refine targeting strategies, and monetize effectively through sponsorships or advertising. This approach helps podcasters to make informed decisions, enhance content quality, and maximize the impact of their podcasts. See Chartable that reached $940.9K in annual revenue. Chartable podcast analytics and attribution tools help publishers grow, and help brands & agencies understand their spend.
Micro SaaS for Customer Rewards
Many businesses struggle to keep customers coming back and staying loyal, especially in tough competition. SaaS products around Customer Rewards help by offering customizable loyalty programs and rewards. These platforms let businesses create special offers, points systems, and personalized rewards to encourage customers to stay. With data analytics, they can see which customers are loyal and what rewards work best. In the end, these tools help businesses build better relationships with customers, sell more often, and make more money. Moreover, these SaaS products simplify the management of loyalty programs, eliminating the need for manual tracking and administration. Products like GrowthPanels solve this problem to a good extent by helping founders offer incentives to drive growth and product adoption of their SaaS products. Tremendous, trusted by over 10,000 companies is another good product in this space that reached $3.7M in annual revenue.
Micro SaaS for Self-Serve Stripe Invoicing
After making a Stripe transaction, generating invoice needs manual action by the founders. The invoice may sometimes need to be edited to add more details to the invoice like VAT details, Address, Company name etc. SaaS founders using Stripe for payments find it a pain to handle invoicing manually. It's time-consuming and easy to mess up, which can lead to delays and mistakes in their records. By automatically generating invoices based on transactions, SaaS products in this space eliminate the need for manual data entry and ensure precision in invoicing. Additional features such as invoice customization, recurring billing, and seamless integration with multiple accounting software can help improve the traction. ZenVoice solves this problem better by letting the end customers generate, edit, and download their Stripe invoices. ZenVoice crossed $2K/month in revenue.
Affiliate Tracking Platform for SaaS founders
Handling affiliates in large numbers takes considerable amount of time for SaaS businesses. As the number of affiliates grows, it becomes crucial to have better tools to understand how different marketing strategies and affiliates are performing. Keeping track of their performance and payments becomes complicated and time-consuming. Tasks like signing up affiliates, communicating with them, and paying commissions also become difficult to manage. To tackle these issues, SaaS businesses often use specialized Affiliate Management Software. It makes setting up and managing affiliate programs easier, allowing companies to reach more people through marketers promoting their software. These tools provide analytics and reports, showing which affiliates and strategies are bringing in the best results. Tapfiliate has built something in these lines and grew to $580K ARR. EverFlow is another player that helps track and understand the engagement and revenue from each partner and marketing channel.
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Correct me if i am wrong but, Stirpe does have invoicing feature. You can automatically generate invoice. Only issues is that once it's generated you can't edit it.