SaaS Content Partnership ROI Calculator
Automated article monitoring & author outreach vs. manual PR team
Manual PR Approach
Team Size
2 people
Hours per Week
80 hours
Hourly Rate
$50/hour
Articles Tracked
~100/month
Monthly Cost
$16,000
Automated Approach
n8n (Self-hosted)
$0
Firecrawl
$30
Apollo.io
$79
GPT-4o-mini API
$35
Articles Processed
450/month
Monthly Cost
$144
Conversion Funnel
1
Articles Processed Monthly
450 articles
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2
Qualified Authors (After Filtering)
90 authors
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3
Positive Responses
14 conversations
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4
Published Articles
3 articles
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5
New Users Acquired (1% CTR, 5% trial conversion)
24 users