Everything John Rush said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Rush: Outrank blog posts on high-traffic keywords by building curated directories
“And then you find a keyword that has high traffic. And then you search for that keyword on Google and only blog posts are shown on the top. That's the idea. Like you just build a directory around that and Google really likes directories and eventually you will…”
Rush: SEO Bot has roughly 4,000 to 5,000 paying customers
“I think it's like five K or four K.”
Rush: Listing Bot generates over $50K/month from ~1,000 one-time buyers
“So this one is doing over 50 K a month and it's a one-time payment. So it's basically thousand people buying it every month.”
Rush: Owns 25 to 35 directories, mostly generating traffic rather than direct revenue
“Like I have directories. I have like 25 or 35 directories right now, like a lot of them. And most of them make no revenue. Some of them do pretty good, but most of them don't, but they drive traffic to all my other tools.”
Rush: End game is providing the full software stack for bootstrapped founders
“I actually want to End up having this full ecosystem where I have every single tool that a typical busy founder or like a bootstrap founder would ever need starting from tools for building products, tools for operating tools for growing and tools for monetizin…”
Rush: Tiny Ads hit $5K MRR and 1,000 publishers in 35 days
“So now after 35 days. We reached five K MRR and 10 K in revenue and almost 1000 publishers have joined the platform to serve the ads.”
John Rush generates $3M ARR across his apps with 1M B2B users
“All my businesses have combined around one million users in B to B and combined three million ARR, where seven products bring most of the revenue and the other products are bringing the audience And that channel to the paid products.”
John Rush paid nearly $1M to acquire Unicorn Platform in 2022
“In 2022, I decided to enter the bootstrap scene. I found the one tool that I liked the most. Called unicorn platform. And I reached out to the founder and I said, like, do you want to sell this product to me, the whole startup? And also when you sell it, you w…”
John Rush's Unicorn Platform has reached 600,000 users
“It's a website builder and directory builder for busy founders, and it has 600,000 users.”
John Rush uses free utility tools to funnel traffic to premium SaaS
“So I have over 20 tools where some tools are premium tools I make money on and some tools are just to bring traffic in and channel to Then my premium tools.”
John Rush's non-AI software products operate at 90% profit margins
“And then in non AI tools where the costs are pretty low, I have 90% margins.”
Rush: Google searches for 'business ideas' reach nearly one million monthly
“So business ideas is almost one million a month. That's a lot and competition low. This competition is, is about the ads. So people don't pay for the ads for this keyword.”
Rush: Acquire.com bans directories that lack revenue
“Acquire.com doesn't let directors in, because they don't have revenue, and they require their revenue.”
Rush: His average online directory makes $5,000 in monthly revenue
“In, in, in my case, I would say the average directory I have is there. It's on five K.”
Rush: Starter Story is a directory generating over $1M
“Starter story is a directory too, right? It's a directory of starter stories and he's making over a million.”
Rush puts micro-influencers on fixed 12-month retainers over one-off posts
“So I pay influencers fixed amount every month. And there is similar to partnership, like the football stars do with Nike, et cetera, but on a micro, on nano scale, right? So, and I pay them fixed money every month and they know it will be coming in whatever ha…”
Rush: Listing Bot tracks ~20,000 of ~100,000 global web directories
“I think there are a 100,000 directors in the world and probably we have around 20 K of them now.”
Starter Story 5
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2
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