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Re:One month from concept to $1000 in revenue by BartBoch on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:21PM (#17645608)
There is some, to be honest. I am running at $0 profit (as per my report). I have got a nice discount for leads (I am categorized as a research project since I strip all the personal data). This gives me the ability to run this. There is some time required for each order and there will be no way this could be 100% hands-off project.

There is no low cost option like ours because of two reasons:

1) There is barely any competition, so companies just use that to hike up prices.

2) They provide the leads that answered the survey, so they cannot be categorized as a research project. This makes those leads cost 5-10 times what I pay.

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Re:One month from concept to $1000 in revenue by jajern on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:36PM (#17645731)
OK, that makes sense. I'm sure you've thought of this, but you are inline with your lead generators terms of service by charging for your product? I'd hate to see you get in trouble since you are getting some social traction here.
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Re:One month from concept to $1000 in revenue by BartBoch on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:38PM (#17645744)
Yes, that is allowed. I can sell results, not actual data. No risk for me whatsoever as long as I make sure no personal data of leads is given to the end customer.
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Re:One month from concept to $1000 in revenue by jajern on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:41PM (#17645769)
Great, sounds like you found a perfect product for your use case.
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Re:One month from concept to $1000 in revenue by UncleEntity on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:22PM (#17647645)
> They provide the leads that answered the survey...

That, in itself, seems like it's worth the extra cost so you could do things like "Hey, your survey information was very helpful, here's 50% off your first meal at BurgerBarn!"

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Re:One month from concept to $1000 in revenue by BartBoch on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:04PM (#17648010)
Yes, but as of now, I cannot offer this. The cost of tests and validate this model would go into thousands of dollars. I might try that in the future.
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