Franchise UK
👤 Joel Bissitt (Grew and sold an IT firm on SEO first, so he knew he could rank a dull franchise directory and sell the leads.)🌐 site𝕏
He'd built and sold one company on SEO. Then he did it again — a franchise directory he ran for 20 years.
Will it work? · our read
Boring compounds. An unglamorous SEO directory that a proven operator ranked and left to compound for 20 years. The ceiling is UK franchising and whatever Google decides to do next.
01How the money moves
Rank the directory for UK franchise searches (SEO)
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Prospective franchisees browse and enquire for free
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Franchise brands pay for listings + lead-gen marketing
02The numbers
$600K/yrStatedrevenue, per Starter Story
2022
Founder-reported to Starter Story (2022). The dollar figure is Starter Story's US-normalized number; prose corroborates only the 50% growth. Starter Story
About $50K/mo, bootstrapped from £1,000 (about $1.3K), no investors.
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Starter Story — Franchise UK ($600K/yr) · founder interview (revenue source).franchise-uk.co.uk · the directory itself.Joel Bissitt on X · founder.
Revenue is STATED: $600K/yr is the figure Starter Story's 2022 founder interview reports for the business, and that string is present in the source page. The interview prose only quantifies '50% turnover growth last year,' so the hard dollar figure lives in Starter Story's founder-supplied metrics box, which is US-normalized (Franchise UK bills in GBP, roughly £480K). Not a regulatory filing. Founding year 2004 inferred from 'For 18 years' as of the 2022 interview. Competitor bars are our rough read of UK reach, not revenue; rival positioning (global vs UK) is stated, not their finances. We never score you.