Exploring a New Business Idea: Drone Roof Inspections and Selling Leads to Roofers
Synopsis
Open Q&A covering: contacting building managers to sell HVAC SaaS, pricing a cold-email agency, rebranding towing for drunk riders, selling 40,000 pairs of eclipse glasses, drone roof inspections sold as leads to roofers, approaching waste haulers at conferences for an IoT startup, a $99 LinkedIn video service for job seekers, a virtual assistant agency in India, scaling a $90K/year trophy business, funding a startup studio, and a Carfax-for-homes data service.
Ideas in this episode
- Virtual assistant agency
The Q&A includes a virtual assistant agency in India plus pricing a cold-email agency, a $99 LinkedIn video service, and property-data lead ideas.
- Vertical industry data SaaS
Chris's Q&A includes drone roof inspection leads and a Carfax-for-homes service as local data and lead-generation variants.
- Lead scraping service
Build the data-aggregation piece: a Carfax-style property or contractor-data service on top of a scraping stack, selling leads to local service pros.
- Vertical SaaS for a specific industry