Forget AI. Make $10K+ With These Offline Side Hustles Transcript, AI Summary & Key Points

00:00 He would make like 20 to 30k a job. That was  like his average job. And you could set up a job in a day. Yeah. He made several hundred grand  while doing it and then sold the company for 600 grand 18 months later, which he said he now  regrets because he sold it cuz he was bored. He actually wasn't doing anything. Yeah. It was too  passive cuz all the panels were just rented out, which is like the dream of most people, right?

00:22 I love it because you pay off all your equipment in like one to six rentals. Yeah. And after  that it's it's just gravy. It's a great side hustle. Yeah. Or it could scale if you wanted  to scale. Yeah. So for max 2 days at the very start and 2 days at the very end you're working.  Yeah. And for the rest you're just collecting a check. There's no maintenance.

00:42 This could be a  business that you don't need any money to start. My oldest kid when he was about 15 and a half,  he started thinking about buying his own car. He thought I was going to buy it for him. I said  no. I had to buy my first vehicle. I feel like it taught me a lot of stuff. And then we looked  on BTO, started tracking different auctions. We found a rug auction and I'm like, do you  want to win this thing?

01:01 And so we won the auction and as of this last week, he bought his  first car. So he is No way. Yeah, he's pumped. Does AI have you bummed out? All these terms,  acronyms that you don't understand? That's fine because today we're going to talk about five  different business ideas where you can make $10,000 in either a year, a month, a week, or  a day.

01:24 And they're all offline. No AI stuff, no internet stuff. This is sweaty startup type  stuff. Please enjoy. Tell me about your temporary fence friend. Yeah, so I have a friend that  started a temporary fence rental business in a suburb of Sacramento, not a big town where  he focused. and he had no domain expertise at all before starting this and but he's a smart  guy and he's a good salesman and so he started he decided to do it and so the first thing that  you do is you have to buy the panels you have to buy the

02:04 temporary fence things like chain link  fence I think mostly he did um like plastic so they they'd be like plastic barriers and then the  panel between okay and they're like 12 feet apart and you know you got the So you just put those to  protect the job site. Yeah. And then you put the plastic job. Yeah. Okay. So So he bought those. I  don't know how many feet he bought, but he bought enough.

02:29 So there's obviously costs. You don't I  don't think you have to buy them before you get your first job. You just have to be ready to buy  them when you do get your first job. Make money on your first job. Yeah. And then how he would get  his customers is he would just go to construction sites that are new that didn't have any temporary  fencing up yet and he would just say, "Do you want a temporary fence?

02:52 I'll rent you mine." Yeah. For  cheap. And he would start making bank. And he did this. They're about to buy it from someone. Yeah.  Because they need it. It's like a liability thing. Well, it's a legal thing, too. They're probably  like zoning. Yeah. Laws. Yeah. Yeah. So, you have a hot buyer, like they know they need it. They  don't have it yet. Worst case scenario is they already paid for something that hasn't shown up  yet, I guess.

03:14 Uh, but I would assume legally like, oh, if you start a construction, you need within  x amount of days, you need your fence up. That's probably the rule. If you wanted, you could like  anyone in the world can see uh building permits when they're file filed. Those are filed days,  weeks, or months before they ever show up on the job site. So, you could get way ahead of  it.

03:34 Yeah. Yeah, you totally could. So, yeah, he didn't even do the that version of it. He was  just literally when he would drive around and when he would see a new construction site, he would go  there, he would go to the little mobile, you know, whatever that thing is, the trailer set up and  find the person in charge and then he'd pitch it and then he would sell it and then he would charge  by the foot and then sort of length of time.

03:51 So, the longer you have it, it'd be less per square  foot. And he would charge like four bucks linear foot or linear foot. He would charge like four  bucks a foot and then maybe eventually it'd get down to like two bucks a foot if they had it for  a longer amount of time, which he said was super, everybody knows in construction things  always take longer than you think.

04:10 Mhm. So, you get this passive income that just really  starts to add up because the amount of work you have to do on this job other than make the sale  is setting up the fence. Yeah. And then whatever, eight months later taking down the fence. Yeah.  It's active on the front end. Yeah. active months or years later. Yeah. Right. If you build a, you  know, a commercial building, it could take two to four years even.

04:36 Yeah. So, for max two days  at the very start and two days at the very end, you're working. Yeah. And for the rest, you're  just collecting a check. There's no maintenance. You don't have to clean these things. You don't  have to remove them. If they like accidentally hit it with a tractor, they just move it back anyway.  It's their job, too. And um yeah, you have to buy the pan whatever enough panels.

04:56 Yeah, you have  to buy the temporary fence, but other than that, there's no extra ongoing costs of any kind. And he  started growing it and he was making I asked him he'd make like 20 to 30k a job. That was like his  average job. And you could set up a job in a day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Depending on how big your crew  is or whatever. Okay, guys. I literally added an upstairs to my house and spent tens of thousands  of dollars building out this awesome studio.

05:20 So, if you like it, just hit subscribe and it would  mean the world. And he started it in like the summer of a couple years ago. Well, he made  several hundred grand while doing it and then sold the company for 600 grand 18 months later,  which he said he now regrets because he he sold it cuz he was bored. Yeah. Honestly, probably  bored that he actually wasn't doing anything.

05:49 Yeah. Because all the too passive for him. It was  too passive cuz all the panels were just rented out. He all the panels he had bought were on jobs.  Yeah. So he's literally doing you get to a point where you got to either like triple down and keep  buying more and more and more panels or you just start cashing checks. Yeah. It was literally too  passive for him.

06:04 So he's like I'm just going to sell the company. So he sold the company. 600  grand after 18 months of plusive along the way. Yeah. After months of passive work that became too  passive which is like the dream of most people, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, let's like let's crunch  the numbers. You said four bucks per linear foot. Uhhuh. So, I have a 2acre property that is 900  ft by 100 ft, right?

06:27 It's very long and narrow. Okay. So, 900 by 100. So, if he were to set up  temporary fencing on my property, 2acre property, which is not unreasonable at all for a commercial  property. Yeah. Um that's a,000 linear feet times four. So, that would be $4,000. Yeah. Okay. So, to  get to 10 in a day, you need like a five acre lot. Yeah, right. I multiply that by two and a half.

06:52 Yeah. You would need a 5 acre lot um of temporary fencing to fence off the whole thing. I would  assume these are monthly numbers that he was charging. Oh, really? Oh, and it comes down  based on Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. So, crap. So, be four for yours. You're saying it'd be 4,000.  So, if it's a month Yeah. So, if it's a 10-month project, Yeah. you're not collecting 10,000  cash in a In this, if we want to get technical, you're signing a $10,000 contract that you collect  over 10 months and you're doing the work for it

07:20 in a day. If we really want to get ticky tacky. Yeah.  True. But some of these are bigger where they might pay you the 10K right away or or more. Or  you just you give them a discount to pay up front. Yeah. Yeah. He said his average was 20 to 30k a  job. So I bet a lot of them were like 75% upfront, 25% at the end or 50/50 or something like So, we  could sit here and talk about like, oh, you got to make this AI agent that goes, but like really  get in your truck or car and go talk to these job sites.

07:52 Yeah. Drive around or when you're going out  to dinner, keep an eye out on what what looks like it's going to start soon. What construction site  looks like it's going to start soon? Yeah. Call They all I feel like they all have the big old  banner like, ah, whatever. Kerner Construction and the big old phone number, right? Call that number  and say, "Hey, I I saw your thing.

08:10 I saw the site. I saw you don't have the temporary fencing." Yeah.  I've actually got the best rates in the city. Who do I talk to? And don't go buy your fencing  first. Sell your first job. Yeah. Then go buy your fencing. Yeah. You probably need all that  money to buy your first fencing. Yeah. Yeah. So, theoretically, this could be a business that you  don't need any money to start.

08:27 If you get paid up front, a lot of ifs, right? Yeah. But still. Yeah.  Totally. That's a banger. Yeah. All right. So, I've got an interesting one for you. I was on  Facebook Marketplace and there's a guy that makes mini mini golf holes. Okay. Mini mini or  many mini mini, right? They are mini golf holes that are portable and smaller than a normal mini  golf holes.

08:51 So they're mini mini golf holes. Yeah. And picture like you know four 2x4s in like  a rectangular frame. Call it like 6 feet by 3 feet or 8 feet by 3 feet. And then you've got like  astroturf down the middle and you've got like some obstacles uh and it's just sitting on plywood.  And so he he sells these for hundreds of dollars, maybe even close to $1,000 each.

09:16 So if you wanted  your own 18hole mini golf course, theoretically you could buy 18 different ones from him. He  has different designs and patterns. But his biggest business is renting them out to weddings,  events, parties, etc. for $300 per hole per day, which is less than the cost of the materials,  right? Yeah. So, he rents this thing out once on Facebook Marketplace.

09:38 His customer acquisition  channel is free because it costs nothing to post them and it's paid for and anything after that is  just gravy. Yeah, that's awesome. That's a super fun idea, too. As like somebody who I don't throw  events, but if I were to, that would be a very fun thing to have at the event. Very unique. Yeah,  it is. I think it would be a hit.

09:54 Yeah. And to, you know, math into this $10,000 a month, you  basically need to rent out 35 of them if it's $300 a piece. 35 holes. 35 holes or one hole 35  times, which is less likely or just two sets of 18 holes and you're good. Yeah. And you've got  10 grand. And your first month, let's say you do that your first three months, you pay off all your  materials.

10:20 After that, it's basically net profit. It's your time. It's your gas money posting for  free to Facebook Marketplace. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. This is in Dallas Fort Worth. There's  8 million people here. I'm sure it could support more than one guy doing it. Yeah. I'm sure Utah  could support a handful of people doing this. So, yeah, that's a good idea.

10:39 Yeah, that would totally  do 10K in a month. Yeah. Okay. off of that. I saw very recently, like this week, for the first  time ever. It is some RV resort or something, but this is just like an amenity there that you  could do a version of this for, too, which is they had a mini golf course at this RV thing in like  Arkansas. Uh, but it's all cornhole, which I've never seen before.

11:04 So, it's just a bunch. It's not  as fancy as golf. Because with golf, you need to have the thing where the um you know, the ball  goes in and around and through and whatever. So, this is just a bunch of cornhole, what do you call  them? Boards. Yeah. Holes. Yeah. And then your bag. And then so you just go from thing to thing.  And they have like obstructions.

11:22 You I'll I'll send you the thing so you can like put it here or  whatever. They have obstructions where you kind of have to throw it around or over or through. And uh  and so it look and it's like themed or whatever, but it looks super fun, man. Wow. And no one's  ever played cornhole mini golf before. Yeah. And so they had I don't remember if it was 9 or 18  holes, but it looks amazing.

11:43 And I bet the cost of that would be even cheaper cuz you can get a  cornhole board. You can make them even cheaper. Just Yeah. thing of plywood and a stand and a  hole. But you could buy them for like 30 bucks off Amazon. So you just need a handful of those.  A handful of bags. You don't need a ton of bags cuz you just walk with the next bag each time.

12:01 I  own RV parks. We could like I would pay someone to install these. I don't want to go through the  headache of working out like what obstacles to put. Like that's one avenue is go to the RV parks.  Just show them the website of that RV park. I do this for you. I charge $700 per hole and it's  yours forever. Yeah. And then I I'll maintain it. Maybe there's a small monthly fee to come  by and check on Facebook.

12:24 U bring your own bags. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Or you could do the Facebook  Marketplace route like this mini mini golf guy. Yeah. Um, you could sell them. You could just you  could just make and sell cornholes, right? Forget the course. Yeah. Or you could you could rent them  out to events. Yeah. Right. Well, you wouldn't even need like for mini golf, you need turf for  the ball to roll on before it goes in.

12:42 With this, you don't need anything. You just walk on a path.  Yeah. So, any place that is walkable, grass, gravel, dirt, plop down the board, throw some  obstructions there, and you're you're done. Oh, man. That needs to be at more than just like one  random RV park. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, when I saw it, it just came up in my algorithm. I was hoping because  of that it was in Utah.

13:03 Well, I was sad it's in Arkansas. It will be after people watch. I hope  so. Yeah. Somebody please do it. I mean, Utah, the land of copycats. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, while  we're on this Facebook Marketplace/outdoor theme, what do you know about like outdoor inflatable  movie rentals as a business? I don't know much. I've seen it a little. I would as a consumer pay  for that.

13:24 Yeah, I think that would be good. What do you know? So, you can buy all of this equipment  for 500 to 3,000 bucks. What you need is uh an inflatable movie screen. Okay. Okay. And it's just  like a bounce house. Yeah. Okay. You can get them from Alibaba for cheaper. You can get them on  eBay. You can buy them from whoever else. But you just plug it into the wall like a bounce house  and it inflates and it's just a big white screen with like a frame around it and it stands up and  then you can stake it down in case it

13:52 gets windy. And then you buy a projector. You can buy those  as cheaply as like 50 bucks. I wouldn't suggest that for this. Yeah, you can buy nice ones. We  bought like a really nice one for our family that's like a smart projector. It has all the  apps, like all the Roku apps on it. That's cool. Those are like two or three hund bucks. Okay. And  then a Bluetooth speaker.

14:08 Uh and you can get those nice like nice ones for 100 bucks. Like a standup  Bluetooth speaker, maybe two for each side of it. Yeah. And um backyard parties, birthday parties,  um events, uh like neighborhood stuff, HOA stuff. Uh, I just went to an HOA party and they rented  one of these for the kids to watch while everyone else was like eating food and stuff.

14:31 Oh, yeah.  That's fun. There's a few companies that scaled this to multiple millions and tens of millions of  dollars. Oh, that's crazy. So, there's one in uh California called Funflixick. Okay. They're like  a franchise. They have over 40 locations. Southern Outdoor Cinema. They're in Atlanta. They do three  to four million a year in revenues in revenue.

14:50 They've been in business for 17 years. There's one  in Austin that that has 20 other locations outside of Austin. I just I love it because it's much like  the um the mini golf businesses. You you pay off all your equipment in like one to six rentals.  Yeah. And after that it's it's just gravy. Creators are moving their podcast to Beehive.  And I want to tell you why.

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16:12 Yeah. Well, and you lightly mentioned bounce house. Everybody  knows bounce houses. Everybody knows like the blowup obstacle course versions of bounce houses  and stuff. And I've rented those for some kids' birthday parties over the years. I'm amazed how  much money those guys still make, too. And yeah, you have to pay up front for the big old bounce  house things.

16:32 But every time I return mine, there's a line. I'm waiting in a line behind  everybody else who's return because everybody's always returning them like Saturday night  because the party was like Friday night or Saturday day and it's always like, "Oh, you got  to return it by 8:00 p.m. or whatever." At least the one I get it from. So, there's always this  massive line.

16:51 The things are frankly not Well, the companies don't seem that wellrun. Yeah. The  things don't even seem like that well taken care of. They don't clean them in between and  they're raking in the cash. Yeah. Every weekend. Yeah. Sure. It's a little like weather  dependent, but depending where you're at, you can make a ton of money with that still.  I did a deep dive on the bounce house business last year.

17:14 We'll link to that, but that's one  thing that she said like if you just clean your bounce houseses between every rental, you will be  in the top 10%. And just say that. That's it. Say, "We clean it every time." Cuz I that's my main  hesitancy in doing it as a as a dad. It's like, "Oh, those things are going to be gross." Yeah.  Yeah. And they are. And in this new world of AI, I think people are going to treasure real  outdoor in-person experiences more than ever.

17:40 Yeah. Because the like push back of being like too  online and stuff. So, I don't necessarily see this slowing down or the outdoor movie or whatever.  Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, next one. Now, you were telling me a story, and I had to interrupt  you because I wanted to hit record first. Oh, yeah. About a family member that buys artwork  in Europe. Tell me tell me that story.

17:57 Yeah. So, so my wife and I, we like to travel and when  we travel, we try to find a piece of original art. Like if we were in a different country  for a meaningful amount of time, we'll try to find a piece of original art there that we think  could go on like our art. We have like a section in a one of our rooms where it's like our art  wall. Okay. It's just stuff from every place we've been.

18:24 It's it's super fun and and and  it's pretty and all that kind of stuff. Now, how much are you spending on this art on? maybe  20 to 60 bucks per. Okay. They're almost always or pretty much always originals. We try to find  originals. Every now and then we might splurge for one that we like absolutely love and it's already  framed and that might be like 150.

18:41 Yeah. But these aren't like big names. It's not fine art. Nobody  I've ever heard of. Yeah. And it always has to still fit in a suitcase on the way home. So like  it's not going to be huge. It's offline stuff. Like this is not sold online. It's not found  online. It's from local artists in whatever area you're visiting. And ideally, we find these  in like little nook and cranny type stores, like antique stores, not of course whatever the  version of Walmart is in Italy.

19:08 Not Hobby Lobby art. They are originals. Yeah. So, anyway, we love  doing that. My sister-in-law recently was uh on a trip in the UK with her her husband and kids,  and they were there for a little longer uh than just like a quicker trip. So, she had the idea  to do this, but to kind of do it at mini scale, let's call it, and to then sell them back when she  got back into Utah, to use it to pay for her trip.

19:40 So, that was her thesis. Put the trip on a credit  card. Yeah. Also use a credit card to buy artwork, bring it back home, sell it to pay off the credit  card. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I don't hate it. Yeah. So, she, I want to say, bought like 12 to 14  originals. Okay. Across the UK. I think it was mostly from Ireland and they're stunning.  So, it's like Irish countrysides, coast, uh, beautiful homes, like little streets, just  a bunch of different ones.

20:05 Do you know what she spent on average? I don't think she's telling that  many people how much she actually spent cuz she's selling these for like a few hundred bucks each.  Okay. And some even a little higher than that. So, she's probably paying like 50 to 100 bucks, I'm  guessing. Yeah. or maybe maybe maybe more towards the 50. Okay, I'm sorry sister.

20:26 Yeah, don't watch  this friends of her please. But whatever. Like she did the work. She even if she bought it for 50  and is selling for 400, I I can't just be like, "Oh, well, I'm just going to go there and buy it  for 50." Yeah. Well, then I have to fly out there and find the store and like Right. That's not  feasible. So, I don't think it's wrong in any way to buy something for 50 and sell it for 400.

20:46 It is worth art is worth whatever anyone wants to pay for it anyway. We're going to buy one from her  that she is about to sell because she kind of just like sells it in waves and she has an Instagram  account that is set up that is just for these. Um, and they're all super pretty. They're all  original. A big Instagram account. Oh, no. No. It's more just like a personal little side thing.

21:04 Yeah. I mean, it probably has a 100 followers or less because she shared it from her personal,  right, to say, "Hey, if you want my art that I bought, go to this new account." But I think  she'll be able to pay for a meaningful part of a longer trip in Ireland. with her family just from  this art because she can probably clear at least a few from just these originals that she bought.

21:27 A few from the UK. There you go. Jeez. Yeah. But I mean, how cool is that? Like retroactively pay  for a trip with the unique stuff you bought in the country. That's amazing. It's free. It's free  vacation plus spending money and it takes a little work, but for some people it's actually not work.  Like I I love going into random little shops, but dude, like if I'm hurt, I'm going to like  those shops are listed on Google, right?

21:52 Like they're online. Probably how she found them. Yeah.  They might not have a website even, but you could find them online. Yeah. I would just call them  up and say, "I know this is weird. My name's so and so. I live in Dallas, Texas. I love artwork. I  have no idea what your artwork looks like. Do you even have artwork?" Yeah, we do. Can we FaceTime?

22:11 Can we like WhatsApp? Can I see your artwork? Like I'm willing to buy it. I'll pay for shipping,  right? Sure. So, we're facetiming that one, that one, that one. All right. Those are 50 bucks  each. I'll take 10 of them. Could you do 350 for all 10? Sure. All right. How much is shipping? Can  you roll it up in a tube? Shipping's 50 bucks. Is that That's okay.

22:30 I'll pay for it. You're getting  10. They're all in the same. Yeah, you could scale that without having to fly actually. Yeah, there  was uh last time I was in the UK was a few years ago and we were in we stayed in the Cotswalds  which is like 2 hours west of London. Anyway, there's a lot of cute little towns there and shops  and there were tons with amazing art.

22:48 And so I didn't think about what you just said, but I'm  going to call one of them. Yeah. because some of them were like they was too big for us to like fit  in our stuff to bring home. So, we just didn't buy them. But, they were cheap and they were beautiful  and they were originals. They were just too big. So, I should just call them and I'll buy the  one or two that we wanted and then I'll say, "Hey, what if I bought like seven more?"

23:12 Yeah.  Um, can you give me a discount on shipping or whatever? And then I'll just try to resell them  for fun. Dude, how about this even better? Calm up. You have any artwork? Cool. I know this. Like  this might take you 10 minutes and it's annoying, but I promise I'm an interested buyer. Can you  just take your iPhone, take pictures, like nice pictures up close of each piece of artwork you  have and text them to me, WhatsApp them to me, whatever.

23:38 Yeah. Then you list them on Facebook  Marketplace. Original artwork from the Cotswalds, right? 375 before. Yeah. That's it. Yeah.  And then it's like, hey, shipping, delivery could take two to four weeks. Yeah. You spend  a week selling them, collecting deposits. Yeah. Right. And then you come back and you say, "Hey,  remember me? You sent me the pictures?"

23:54 Yeah. I actually have some friends that want to buy these.  Yeah. You're honestly just telling the truth, right? Yeah. And then I'll pay you upfront. Yeah.  And just ship them to me. Yeah. I mean, the only downside to that is you could sell something that  was then bought Yeah. before. But I think that's going to actually pretty rare. Yeah. Because they  probably sit there for months.

24:14 Yes. It's like, I'll send you a deposit back. Sorry. It sold. It's  no longer available. Yeah. the people that's gonna be rare anyway and and and even in that situation  be like I've got 10 others ready so yeah that's that's yeah you and or I should do that that'd be  fun I should do it for a test video like I should record myself calling these shops and actually  doing that I like that idea a lot yeah that's a good idea so this is 10 grand in a week someone  could do this I think this would be harder but like we're

24:46 talking 30 30 pieces of artwork  for 300 bucks that's nine grand right Yeah, 40 pieces of artwork. So, like you'd have to be  on. You could do 10 in a week. You could have the little Instagram account before. You could  talk about the pictures. You could, you know, about the paintings, all that kind of stuff. You  could tell people that you they are all going for sale to the highest bidder the last week of  May or whatever.

25:04 And boom, do it. Yeah. I mean, I'm just thinking like you don't really gain all  that much by flying there. If you're there, sure, of course. But like if you if you make 300 bucks  in profit and you buy 10 pieces of art in person, that's your whole trip. Yeah. You basically  break even, which is still great. You get a free vacation. Not knocking on that.

25:25 Yeah. But like  you don't usually when you go there in person, kind of like we were talking about in another  episode, like your close rate goes up when you're in person. But with this in person, it's just  like it's convenient because you're there, but to fly there purposely just for that. Yeah. It's  not super efficient because you're going to buy the same piece of artwork anyway.

25:43 Maybe because  you can see the texture a little better in person. But yeah. Yeah, I like this idea a lot. Yeah, I  uh I like vintage watches. I'm wearing one right now. I don't buy them for their resale value. Uh  nor do I buy based off of the brand or whatever. Nor do I even I don't even focus on buying  ones that are expensive, per se. This one that I'm wearing right now probably cost me I can't  remember exactly, but like under 100 bucks.

26:09 I just thought it was really cool and it was unique  and so I wanted to buy it. You can do the version of this for watches or apparel, especially if it's  in countries like Japan or South Korea, you know, places in Europe too would work. Even like Mexico,  you could do it from just places that have some history and unique creators and stuff like that.

26:30 But I think there's lots of different places and ways to find unique things that if you're there  or if you call them up, if I can find a vintage watch store in Japan and just be like, "Hey, can  we FaceTime? Show me your watch collection. Show me everything you've got that's under 100 bucks  that's like original. I don't want to see whatever Timex's or I don't know, Casios or something.

26:54 just show me all your original Japanese brand stuff and I'm going to I'm going to buy some and  resell or send me the pictures and do the Facebook thing. I think there's a version of this that  is really fun for the person who's doing it and they're providing value across the board. They're  not just a middleman, right? If you can find a watch in Japan for 40 bucks, send you a picture of  it, and then find me on Facebook Marketplace, and I'd be willing to pay 80, well, everybody wins.

27:25 Yeah. The the [ __ ] Japanese store won, you won, I win. We're all happy. Well, I love this business  because it's there's infinite variables. There's 300 countries out there. Yeah. There's thousands  of different types of items. Yeah. And there's always going to be arbitrage opportunities.  Yeah. Right. It's never going to be like a perfectly efficient market between all these  because like why not like import from Japan to Hungary.

27:51 Yeah. You know, from Poland to Colombia  or Argentina like it doesn't have to only be to the US or Colombia to Poland like like unique food  products. Like Hungary is known for their paprika, right? Oh man. Well, and the algorithms these  days, especially if you get into running ads, the algorithms are going to find if you're  making content on social about what you're doing, the algorithm the algorithms will find the  people who want what you are doing.

28:12 Yeah. So, if you're making if you are in Utah selling  Japanese watches on Facebook Marketplace, you will pop up in my algorithm. And even if your  video gets 400 views, it's going to be 400 of the right people. Yeah. Yeah. So being willing to do  that as well uh would for sure be key if you want to scale this up a little bigger. But yeah, tons  of potential here.

28:33 So if you watch me on YouTube, you notice I sell these $19 business plans.  They're 30 pages. They're awesome. But you can get all of them combined for only five bucks a month.  So check that out at the link in the description. In addition to getting $300 worth of free business  plans every month for the videos I post about, we also post exclusive videos not available to the  public only to you for five bucks a month.

28:54 Cancel whenever. We also give you priority replies to  your comments. You'll have a little badge by your username on YouTube so we'll see you. It's just a  cool way to say, "Hey, I'm more serious about this than everyone else watching these videos." Okay,  so tell me the rug story. Yeah. So, my oldest kid now just turned 16, but when he was about 15 and  a half, he started thinking about buying his own car.

29:20 I told him he had to. He wanted a car. He  thought I was going to buy it for him. I said, "No, I had to buy my first vehicle. I feel like  it taught me a lot of stuff." Anyway, I'm like, "I'm sorry, but I want you to have the same  experience." And at first, he was bugged. And then he came around. So, anyway, he at the time  had a part-time job cuz he's in high school.

29:35 He's a sophomore. He had a part-time job at a indoor  swim school. Okay. Just teaching little kids how to swim. He's super good swimmer and all trained  and all that in Utah where we live. And like after taxes get taken out like I don't know what his  actual hourly wage wages, but he gets like 11 bucks after all the taxes. Okay, that's how he  calculates it.

29:56 Anyway, so that's what he makes and he works like two days of like six hours and one  day of like four hours a week. Anyway, but this is in November. I said, 'd do the math on how long  it's going to take you to buy a car. And I started showing him cars for sale on bringatra.com, which  I love just browsing that site. And I'm like, now do the math on how long it's going to take you  to get the thing that you actually want with your current job.

30:21 Mhm. He did the math and he was not  happy. It would be like he'd be like 22 years old. Yeah. So, uh, so he's like, "Well, what should I  do?" And I'm like, "Well, I've been telling you forever like you should do your own thing. Like,  you can there are different ways to make money." So I showed him like 10 episodes of yours. We just  listened to them actually while driving home from Vegas.

30:41 Just 10 in a row. And I was like, "How  about this?" And he already had listened to you before, at least some episodes. So I'm like,  "Let's just listen to Chris and you just pick like tell me an idea that stands out to you." So  anyway, we listened to a bunch of episodes and then um somebody said something about selling  stuff and and then it kind of centered around, okay, what could we sell and what do we have room  for and you know, what could he do?

31:02 Like he can't like sell vacuums. He doesn't know anything about  fixing vacuums or whatever, right? So then we were just kind of going back and forth like what is  like the easiest thing to understand that you would have to sell where you like can't get it  wrong and we settled on rugs. Okay. Because there are squares or rectangles and whatever is on the  rug is what the rug is design.

31:24 There's nothing to fix. There's no moving parts. They don't expire.  Yeah. Okay. So we figured it was the simplest thing. I guess the one downside is they're heavy  and they're kind of big. Yeah. Yeah. Which also means other people probably aren't interested  in selling them as much, so there could be more demand than supply. Yeah. Yeah. So, we settled  on that.

31:43 So, I was like, "Okay, well, I'll try to figure out where to buy them from." And then  we looked on BTO, which is like a popular site for this kind of thing. And so, I started tracking  different auctions. Um, and would keep my eye on others for them. But, uh, we found a rug auction  and I'm like, "Do you want to do you want to win this thing?" And so, we won the auction.

32:02 And after  shipping it was like 1,500 bucks for 115 rugs. Yeah. Yeah. Like like eight bucks a piece. Yeah.  It was pretty cheap. Or like 12 bucks a piece. 12 bucks a Okay. 12 bucks a piece including shipping.  Uhhuh. For 115 bucks. 115. How much take? Like that would probably fill up this whole room.  Yeah. Yeah. It was bigger. So, I was actually out of town when they were delivered and it was  on two different pallets and we have like a steep driveway, but the guy helped luckily.

32:34 So, anyway,  brought it up, put it in I have a barn that is wasn't all the way used, so it it probably was two  times the size of this room amount. So, like like a two-car garage. Yeah. Yeah. It wouldn't have  fit it wouldn't have filled up a whole twocar garage. Okay. But Yeah. One and a half car garage.  Yeah. Yeah. because it adds up because some of these are like 8 by 12 and then rolled up.

32:56 That's  still it's pretty heavy too, right? Yeah, they're heavy. Two person job to move. So, I would say the  biggest one might have been more like 10 by 14 or something and then some they weren't actually  rugs. Some were literally just doormats. So, it got as small as a doormat. No. Okay, that  happens. So it got as small as a doormat and then yeah as big as a 10 by4 but it was it was  of the 115 probably whatever 90 were rugs with some doormats and then I guess some runners just  the just long and skinny things.

33:27 Okay. Yeah. And did you do any research on like how much demand  there would be for these in your area? Did you post them to Facebook before you bought them?  Yeah, good question. Could have, should have, would have done that. Didn't do any of that.  I just figured like people need rugs. Yeah. I don't know how many people need rugs. I don't know  how many people need rugs in Utah.

33:47 Did you go look on Facebook to see if other people Yeah, we did  do that. We And yeah, people were selling them. What were some like prices? Like it was it was a  pretty broad range between like 20 and like $200. Okay. So So and that's kind of why we decided  yes on the auction that we won. Yeah. It's like okay if we can get these for like 12 to 13 bucks  worst case scenario we sell them for an average of 20 bucks.

34:11 That's what I was thinking. Yeah. If we  could move 115 rugs for 20 bucks. Yeah. It's not a ton of money. Lose money. Yeah. Yeah. That's like  a year of working at the at the Yeah. So that was that was sort of the justification for just being  willing to jump in to do something that you know he didn't again you don't need to learn too much  about the industry but he didn't know anything.

34:33 But I also figured I thought I thought that it was  a good choice by I was happy he chose this as the thing that he wanted to do because I didn't want  him to do something where it would require like being on a screen all the time like building  an app and trying to do marketing for that even though that's sort of where how I'm built  skill-wise. I didn't want that.

34:49 And by selling rugs, you you actually do have to learn a lot. You  have to take pictures, learn how to position them the right way in a way that looks aesthetically  pleasing. You have to then list things for sale and figure out what they go for. You have to  learn how to negotiate. Uh you have to have people skills because he was just having them pick it up  in person because he couldn't drive.

35:09 So, you know, he had to have people skills. And I try tried to  teach him like how to do upsells. Like, hey, if they come for a $50 rug, try and sell one of those  doormats that we don't really want, right? Try and sell that for five bucks. Yeah. Like that kind of  thing. So, anyway, he learned a ton of skills. So, did he worry about like lighting for the pictures  or Yeah, I talked to him about that and and the background like there's a difference of having  a rug cuz at first it was like a rug on grass or on dirt and

35:39 I'm like well if you put the rug in  our house if you could then that would be better or like make a better background in the barn that  you could do or do turn one rug upside down then do all the other rugs pictures on top of that rug.  I mean, I bought a bunch of appliances to do this and it it wasn't that hard to list them because  they're all right there and I just walk around it.

36:00 But with this, you got to roll them out, move  them inside from the barn, take pictures of them. You might need two people to move them times 115.  Yeah, it's a lot of work. Yeah. All right. So, how did it go? Yeah, it went good. So, so he kept that  part-time job, you know, at the swim thing. And um but he he started doing this and I I had him  sell through my Facebook account cuz he doesn't have one.

36:22 So I was just like yeah just in the  description just say I'm actually Brandon's son. I'm trying to sell these. And you know I wanted  him to be like hey I'm trying to sell them to buy my first car. But he didn't really want to do that  very much but I think he only did it sometimes. Anyway, he has been doing that. Um it's been a  few months a handful of months and and then he did do one garage sale.

36:43 Oh okay. where well it's just  pitched as a massive rug sale and he put signs up all over our little town and that was that worked  really well too. So anyway, he has sold about 80 of the 115 so far. Wow. And as of this last week  he bought his first car. So he is No way. Yeah, he's pumped. He bought a He bought a 1995 or  something Toyota 4Runner uh in his favorite color and he is pumped and um I think he's going to take  good care of it cuz he had to buy it.

37:11 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, how much did it cost? Like three grand.  Wow. Yeah. Okay. So, he made he made enough. Yeah. The average price of the 80 is probably like 45.  Jeez. So, almost four times Yeah. his money on each rug. Yeah. Somewhere between a good bit of  work. Yeah. Yeah, but learning a ton of different skills. Yeah, he's made over three grand from the  80.

37:36 The rest will just be gas money or whatever, and he's still got the part-time job. And  honestly, I don't I don't think he loves rugs anymore. Like, I think he might be anti- rug as  an adult. Uh, but it helped him get his first car. So, did you like charge him interest or anything?  I did charge him a little bit of interest because I had to front the 1,500 to uh buy to buy him the  rugs.

37:59 So, I charged him $300 interest, which if you do the calculations, yes, I'm aware it's 20%.  It's pretty high. But, but I did give him free rent in the barn for the rug space. That's more  as well as licensed my Facebook account to him to sell it with, which you can't put a price on that  deal. And provided uh very expensive consulting services to him as well.

38:27 Yep. For free. So that  300 covered a lot. I agree. Um but yeah, no, I mean he he learned he learned a lot of stuff.  Yeah. And uh he's I don't know that I've ever seen a bigger smile on his face than when he bought his  first car. That feels good. Yeah, man. Yeah, I'm feeling good. So, can you make 10K in a year doing  this? Yeah. I mean, he's made 3K in like 4 months or whatever during very part-time.

38:51 He probably had  weeks where he didn't do anything. Yes. There were weeks when I was bugged. I'm like, "Hey, dude.  You've still got 100 rugs in my barn. I don't want them there when it's summertime." So, he had This  is through the winter, so it's like the worst time to sell rugs theoretically. I would I would assume  the best time to sell rugs is spring and summer.

39:13 But, yeah, he's only got like 30 left or whatever.  How many did his garage sale sell? He sold a lot there. He probably sold like he probably sold like  40ish of the 80. Yeah, that was that was those were the easiest sales he made. Yeah, man. He and  it was the easiest to upsell in that situation, too. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, today we're doing  ways to make 10 grand in a year, a month, a week, and a day.

39:37 Okay. So, that's the year option.  Yeah. Yeah. I mean, honestly, you probably can't do 10K in a week off rugs unless you have a  super dialed in plan, right? But yeah, 10K a year, there's lots of ways to make Anything can scale.  The question is, how hard is it to scale and is it worth it? Yeah. Did those rugs come from Costco?  Costco like Yeah, they were Costco returns and there were other rug listings.

39:56 Yeah, there was  only like one other one that we were tracking when this was months ago. There's probably more. Yeah.  Yeah, I'm sure there is. Yeah. So, anyone in the world with 1,500 bucks or a credit card could do  this business. Yeah. Anywhere they buy rugs. Yeah. which is everywhere. Yeah. Brandon, where can we  find you? Uh, yeah, just find me on Twitter.

40:09 Uh, Brandon Doyle or or Instagram, same thing. Okay.  Okay. If you like this content, please share with a friend, hit a like or a comment below,  and we'll see you next time on the Kerner