🍽️ AI Agents Eating Marketing Teams

Plus 5 more deals on Flippa unlocked and the week's digital asset news

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Richard Patey
December 04, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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📝 Patey’s Update

I’ve done nothing new this week, which is good as it means what I’m doing is finally working.

2024 has been the toughest year in business in my 15+ years, and I’ve spoken with many people recently who experienced the same. I’ve failed more times over the last 12 months than in my whole business career, trying so many projects to try to find demand:

So it’s great to close the year well with fractional CMO clients, multiple new customers for Letter Operators taking advantage of the black friday deal (going away soon, see below), and getting my first paying customer of Why Not Bot (took 12 months to make an “AI Automation Agency” play work!).

🛍️ Black Friday Deals (Last Chance)

Mine and Rockethub’s Black Friday deals are running until the end of the week (8th December):

  • DFY Skool community for just $1K (50% off) at CommunityOperators.com - comes with KW research and first 20 posts indexed (parasite SEO)

  • DFY newsletter operations for just $500/m (33% off) at LetterOperators.com - includes free beehiiv setup

  • My Fractional CMO service at Patey.Marketing is currently 33% off - I have up to 2 days a week remaining, lock them in at the following rates:

    • 1 day per month - normally $3,500/m, BF rate $2,333/m

    • 2 days per month - normally $6,500/m, BF rate $4,333/m

  • SEO Pilot - AI Powered SEO Content Writer - alternative to Koala Writer

  • Inro - Instagram DM Marketing tool - alternative to ManyChat IG

  • Dewey - all-in-one bookmarks manager - alternative to Pocket

  • MySEOAuditor - generate leads with seo audits - alternative to WebsiteAuditor

  • Highlighted - track mentions in AI results - alternative to SEOMonitor

📰 Digital Asset Industry News

😵‍💫 AI agents to replace marketing directors/managers (why fractional CMO wins) - Link

🤯 When syndicating content becomes the SEO parasite - Link

🔨 Atom is launching domain auctions with unique formats and AI tools - Link

🚀 Publishers on beehiiv now receiving 7 sponsorship opportunities - Link

₿ Is the Deal of the Century Trump Max? - Link

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🔓 Latest Flippa Deals Unlocked 

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Below are my thoughts on five listings, some of which were Confidential and/or First Access which I unlocked using my Flippa Premium membership. You can get 3 months access for free using this link and bypass NDA approval.

📱 App: A 'fake' live-streaming app on iOS & Android getting 70K/m downloads and making $40K/m profit, with very high rating and review number in the App Store. I’m not going to try it as I’m 25 years too old for the target market, but appears very popular, in fact was mentioned on a top podcast. Comes with email subscriber list, $1.5M asking price - Listing URL

📱 App: iOS App Store listing mentions academic potential, but Flippa listing states core customer demographic are enterprises that require AI-driven conversational tools (uses GPT4o) to improve communication, i.e. customer service. Said to be making $12K MRR from over 1,000 active paying subscribers, 100% organic traffic and revenue. $280K asking price - Listing URL

📱 App: Subscription-based VPN app that offers secure and private internet browsing. Making $8K/m profit with 5000 impressions per day boosted by search ad campaign in Apple App Store. Support is managed by a contract developer on an as-needed basis. $199K asking price - Listing URL

📱 App: Bundle of five apps which offer phrasebooks for Japanese, Thai, Korean, Italian and French to help users improve communication and language skills. The Japanese one linked in the listing has great reviews on the App Store. Portfolio making $5K/m profit primarily from subscriptions, $150K asking price - Listing URL

💻 Digital Agency: Offering paid marketing services (landing page design, google ads) along with local SEO and web design, this top rated agency on Upwork signs long-term contracts, has detailed SOPs and gets new clients from referrals. Averaging $16K/m profit, $900K asking price - Listing URL

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That’s it for this week, until next time, catch me in the community.

Cheers!

Richard (@richardpatey)

Disclaimer: Nothing in this email is financial advice and I am not a professional investment adviser. I send weekly updates on digital asset news and what I'm doing personally - consider it informational and for entertainment purposes only. There are native ad sponsorships from the beehiiv ad network and ones I source via Passionfroot. Plus I add affiliate links to software I use, website marketplace listings such as Flippa, and crypto exchanges.

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