Techdows - Acquisition and Exit
A high domain authority tech blog
100%
The founder received 100% of their earnout
3X
Increase in Revenue
200%
Return to shareholders
Original Story
The owner of Techdows, founded tech blog as he was passionate about helping people troubleshoot issues to fully benefit from technology. It started as a side hobby but soon grew into a full fledged business. The founder wrote and edited content, managed SEO and handled all other business aspects.
The revenue streams were limited to sponsored posts and as a one man army he did a great job. But growth was stalling and after over 15 years of hardwork he wanted an exit
The Challenge
When we first met Venkat, we were blown away by his passion and dedication. He had built such a good foundation, earned trust from peers, and built a site with an extremely high domain authority. However, as he was working on it alone and since a very long-time, he could not monetize the platform well.
We saw a tremendous opportunity to build on what was existing, and hence we decided to offer him the amount he wanted to buy the website.
How we helped
The takeover was smooth; we completed the deal in 5 days and immediately got our design team to rebrand Techdows to position it as a leading source of information for everything technology.
Our SEO team swooped in and reworked all the existing pieces to give them a boost. At the same time, we executed both on-page and off-page SEO to quickly rank higher on SERP. Finally, our strong ad monetization helped us to increase revenues instantly with the least effort.
Results & Outlook
Techdows was a quick exit for us. We got a great offer from one of our friends, Matt, founder of MarketBeat, and in under 3 months we were able to:
Triple the revenue
Get a significant boost in traffic numbers and time spent on-site
Generate great returns
