A short YouTube clip by Chris Koerner pitching a small-business software opportunity: many US print shops (he cites ~44,000) have outdated websites without interactive quoting. He describes building or sourcing a low-cost WordPress quote-widget (he found contractors charging $8–$12/hr or $200–$500 per project versus a $30,000 quote) and scaling installs to sell broadly to printers.
There's a boring, ugly industry here in the US that is sitting on a gold mine of an opportunity that no one's thinking of. There are over 44,000 print shops in the US and almost all of them have an outdated website that don't have an interactive quote feature. Look at this website behind me. All of them look like this. If you want to quote for some business cards, banners, flyers, you've got to fill out a form and talk to someone on the phone. But the more sophisticated companies like vistaprint allow you to do all that online. The widget that enables this is not that complicated nor expensive to build. And you don't have to build it. I'm advising a business owner right now that owns a print shop that wants a widget like this on his website because he spends four hours a day quoting jobs manually. So I said, no problem, I'll do it. I went and posted a simple job looking for a virtual assistant to build this widget for 2 to $400. He was quoted $30,000 for the same widget. I found dozens of people to do this job, as you can see behind me, quoting 8 to $12 an hour, or 2 to $500 for the whole project. His site's built on WordPress. You can scrape every single WordPress site site right here and cold email or text all of them. And you copy and paste the same widget on all of the WordPress sites owned by printing businesses. Pay 300 once for the widget and install it hundreds of times for 1, 2, 3, 4, $5,000. You will save the business owner thousands of dollars a year. Build once, sell a thousand times. Follow me for more.
