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If you are new here from the Diary of a CEO episode, welcome. I am really glad you are here. And for everyone who has been with me from the beginning, I appreciate you more than you know.
In this episode I took all 254 past episodes and pulled out the very best ideas, lessons, guests and takeaways so you do not have to go back and binge everything unless you want to. I walk through my top 23 episodes and rank them from 23 to 1. You will hear why these ideas work, what I love about them, where people get stuck, and how you can use them no matter how much money or experience you have.
If you are new to my world, this is the perfect starting point because it gives you the full overview of the most tactical and approachable business ideas we have ever covered. If you have been listening for a while, this is a great refresh and a fun look back at what has actually changed people’s lives.
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Episode 55. How to Start a Six Figure Side Hustle Exclusively on Facebook Marketplace
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Episode 229. Starting a Drone Business and Drone Roof Inspections
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Episode 226. Domain Name Investing
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Episode 239. Laundromats with Tyler Purcell
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Episode 210. Etsy Print on Demand
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Episode 73. Porch Pumpkins
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Episode 186. Mailbox Repair
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Episode 196. Forestry Mulching
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Episode 162. Lessons Learned from Starting 75 Plus Businesses
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Episode 170. How to Get a Yes from Everyone
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Episode 175. Hummingbird Food E Commerce Brand
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Episode 144. How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life
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Episode 207. Which AI Should You Use to Make Money
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Episode 233. Beginner Friendly Ways of Making 10 Grand
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Episode 228. Three Million a Year from Tiny AI Tools
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Episode 203. How to Make a Million Dollars in Six Months
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Episode 230. How to Copy Businesses and White Label Them with Go High Level
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Episode 205. The Most Overlooked Business Idea You Have Ever Heard Of
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Episode 248. Eight Ideas for You to Start This Weekend
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Episode 169. Twenty Five Tips Tools and Tricks to Use ChatGPT
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Episode Transcript
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(00:00):
Welcome to the Kerner Office podcast.
This is Chris Kerner and this isepisode 255.
Today is December 8th. You're probably listening to
this on or after December 9th. And today was a big day for me.
I appeared on the Diary of Aceo podcast with Stephen Bartlett
and it is the second biggest podcast in the world and the
first biggest business podcast in the world.
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And so I assume I have a lot of new listeners today.
So I wanted to do something a little different and I wanted to
make an episode that would be great for both my existing, my
Ogs, my current fans that have known and followed me for a
little while, and an episode that was great for all of my new
fans coming over from Dyer of a CEO.
So whether you're new to me or old to me, you're going to love
(00:40):
this episode and it will apply to all of you.
What I'm going to do in this episode is take all 254 episodes
of this podcast and distill downthe best ideas, the best
learnings, takeaways, guess everything so you don't have to
go back and listen to all of them yourself.
You're going to get the best of the best right here.
And if you heard all or some of those episodes already, it's
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going to be a great refresh on some of the best episodes.
And I'm going to add kind of my take to these ideas, why I like
them, what I don't like about them.
And some of these episodes didn't do super well for
whatever reason. Maybe they had a title that
didn't describe it well enough or something.
But the common theme between allof these ideas is that they are
approachable for almost anyone to start, whether you're in the
(01:23):
US or abroad, you have a lot of money or a little.
So let me intro myself real quickly and then I'll get into
the ideas, and I'm going to rankthem based on how much I like
them. So there are 23 of these
episodes slash ideas and I'm going to rank them from 23 to
one, one being my all time favorite.
OK, but who am I? I'm Chris Koerner.
I live in the suburbs of Dallas,Fort Worth.
(01:43):
I have been married for almost 18 years.
I got married at 21. We had all four of our kids in
our 20s. My wife, her name is Jesse.
We were high school sweethearts.She is an amazing person.
She's incredibly loyal, incredibly patient with this
wild entrepreneurship ride that we've been on, and I couldn't do
her without her. My 4 kids are between the ages
of nine and 15. I have three boys and a girl.
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We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. We used to go by Mormons.
You probably see missionaries walking around with white shirt
and ties. That's us.
That was me from O6 to O8I served my mission in Hungary and
it was the most transformative, most amazing two years of my
life, hands down. Our faith is a big part of what
we do and we're pretty tight family.
We live on a few acres. We've had animals in the past.
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We've been in the same house forabout 9 years.
We don't plan on moving anytime soon.
I'm a huge foodie. I used to do endurance events,
running ultra marathons between 30 and 140 miles.
I'm basically an all or nothing person.
I'm either going to be fat and just sit around and watch TV all
day, or I'm going to be up and about doing way too much all
day, every day. I've learned that about myself.
(02:49):
And so I try to say on the rightside of the spectrum, because I
did spend about 10 years of my life obese, all of my 20s, I was
still building businesses, starting a lot of businesses I
talk about in this content. But I just didn't take good care
of my health. And at age 31, I fixed that.
I lost all the weight. I started running these
endurance events, and I've kept the weight off ever since.
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I was born in Utah. As you probably heard, my first
business was selling used golf balls.
And it's funny because a lot of the comments on my interview
were like, oh, you grew up poor,but you lived across the street
from a golf course. Yeah, I did.
All of those things are true. Look up Park Ave. in Logan, UT.
We sold our home for $40,000 in 1998, which was today's
equivalent of about $80,000. It's a 70 year old 1000 square
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foot home that was across the street from a golf course, Logan
River Golf Course. My dad worked in a greenhouse, a
nursery at Utah State University.
He ended up getting a job at theKennedy Space Center in Florida.
So when I was 11, we moved to Florida.
I started going to the beach, making friends, wrestling,
dating girls. That's when I met my now wife.
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I worked a bunch of odd jobs in middle school and high school.
I bussed tables, I waited tables.
I delivered pizzas for Pizza Hut.
I sprayed pest control every summer, I mowed lawns.
Just whatever it took to have some income.
My parents got divorced about four years after we moved to
Florida. I was 15.
I lived with my mom, my dad lived across town.
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My mom now lives in Utah. My dad is still in Florida,
living in the house that I livedin in Florida as I was growing
up. My parents are awesome people.
I have three siblings, an older sister, a younger brother, and a
younger sister. They live all over the country
and I love them very much. My mom waited tables as she
raised us at the same Mexican restaurant where I bus tables.
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It's still there. Eliancito, right on US1 in
Titusville. And my parents taught me the
value of being charitable, beingkind, being honest, and working
really hard, and I'm grateful for them.
Again, I served a mission for mychurch at age 19.
I got home when I was 21. I was a very average student in
high school. I was kind of the class clown,
but also introverted. If you knew me really well, I
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was extroverted. But to everyone else on the
planet, I'm very introverted. I got home in March of 2008 from
my mission. I proposed to my now wife one
month later to the day. We had never dated before.
We just kind of had a crush on each other from ages 13 to 14.
And then 3 1/2 months after thatwe got married on O8O8O8I.
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Spent hours and hours and hours that summer of 2008 reading
books, business books and real estate books at Barnes and Noble
in Melbourne, FL. And I basically took all of that
brand new business knowledge andpaired it with all of my
rejection experience and sales experience and grit experience
that I gained on my mission in Hungary.
I put them together. My wife was a student at the
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University of Alabama. I moved to Alabama right after
we got married so she could finish her school and I could
start school. And I took all that knowledge
from those books and I just hit the ground running.
We bought a single family home to live in about seven months
after getting married, and we bought another single family
home with $8000 tax credit that Obama gave first time home
buyers. We were waiting table at a Thai
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restaurant together and taking classes.
I did my first two years at Shelton State Community College.
I got my associate's degree and then I transferred to the
University of Alabama. In addition to waiting tables, I
worked at the Tuscaloosa County Jail as a guard.
It's the worst job ever. I also worked for a company
called Game Day Tents. I worked for Jimmy John's
delivering sandwiches. Whatever it took to make ends
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meet, I started my first real business in Tuscaloosa called
Phone Restore. That business has since been
sold the two times over, but that first retail location is
still there a whole 15 years later, which is crazy.
And to summarize the last 17 years since that point, I
finished college at the University of Alabama.
I got an MBA and master's in business administration from TCU
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Texas Christian University here in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
I did that in 2019 and from 2008to 2025, I've started about 80
different businesses and I've actually documented every single
one of those businesses that I've started on this podcast.
If you go back to episode 14, episode 21, episode 88, and then
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there's one more in there somewhere, I can't remember.
I've spoken about every single one of those businesses.
Entrepreneurship is my absolute passion.
Content creation is something fairly new to me.
I've been tweeting about business in real estate for the
last four or five years, but I just started, like other forms
of content, not even two years ago.
I started this podcast in February of 2024.
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I've released 255 episodes at this point.
Oh, I forgot to say this. I love emo music from the early
2000s, Brand new, Taking Back Sunday, Manchester Orchestra.
I love Tim Robinson the show I think you should leave, and I
love working out in the yard. Also, you can tell I have ADHD
because I'm all over the place. I got diagnosed at 35, I think,
and it was life changing, the diagnosis.
(07:49):
I really, really, really wish I would have been diagnosed
earlier, but my life has been immeasurably better since the
whole theme of this podcast. I try to keep it tactical,
right? I've had a few episodes where we
kind of go high level and talk about frameworks and stuff and I
love some of those episodes because I learn a lot from them.
But 95 plus percent of these episodes are very specific, very
(08:10):
tactical. Use this tool, use this wording
on your subject lines, start this business, here's how you do
it, here's a seven step plan, etcetera.
That's how I like for this podcast to be.
And it's kind of a double edged sword because the more tactical
a podcast is, the less broad it is, right?
So the chance of me becoming as big as a Dire of ACEO is almost
(08:30):
0 because it's so specific and tactical and it just doesn't
apply to the general population.But it is, in my experience, the
most effective way at encouraging people to start or
grow their business. They need real specific steps,
real tools, so we don't hold anything back.
And every time I interview a business owner about their
business, I go into it telling them people will want to copy
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exactly what you're doing. So if you're not OK with that,
you're probably not a fit for this podcast.
And for that reason, a lot of people don't come on the podcast
because if I start interviewing them and I'm like, how much
revenue do you make? How much profit do you make?
Where do you find your customers?
They're like, I'd prefer not. It's like, OK, nevermind.
You know, some episodes we'll talk about 5 to 10 different
ideas, hypothetically, not ones that we're doing, but just ones
(09:14):
that we think are interesting. Some episodes I'll talk about
stuff that I'm actively doing because I do launch a lot of
these ideas that I talked about.And then some episodes I'm
diving deep on one idea with onebusiness owner.
And I only do this when I surveymy newsletter.
You can join my newsletter for free at tkopod.com.
And I asked them, hey, here's 40businesses, Nisha's ideas,
(09:35):
whatever, vote on five to 10 of them that you want to learn more
about. And then I will specifically
reach out to owners of those ideas that you guys, my
listeners, watchers, followers, whatever, really, really want to
learn about. That way I don't hit publish on
an idea that just isn't interesting to people.
It took me a while to learn how to do that, but that's been
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working really, really well. I don't do much prep at all for
my podcast because I want to go in blind.
I'm not a good actor. I can't really fake surprise if
I'm asking a question that I already know the answer to.
So usually when I go into an episode with a business owner, I
know like a couple of things. Their business makes X amount of
dollars. It only took them Y amount of
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months or years to make that money.
It cost them so much to start itand the industry is what it is.
So that's about what I know. So without further ado, here are
my 23 favorite episodes slash ideas slash guest that I love
the most or my listener slash viewers love the most.
So if you like any of these ideas and you want to learn more
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about them, I will say the episode number in the idea.
Episode 1 is my oldest episode 255.
This one is my newest so you canjust Scroll down on Spotify,
Apple, or wherever and we will also for your convenience link
to all of them in the show notesso you can go binge him later.
OK idea #23 was episode 55 How to start a six figure side
hustle exclusively on Facebook Marketplace.
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I came across this guy named Alex on Instagram who was making
$15,000 of profit every month making simple garage shelves
from his garage and delivering them locally.
He found all of his customers onFacebook Marketplace.
I found this incredibly fascinating because that's a lot
of money. He quit his full time job to run
this. So that's episode 55, and I
(11:18):
actually did a follow up with him just last month.
That was episode 250 where he told us how it's been going over
the last couple of years. I love this business because
anyone with $100 saw and some 2 by fours can start it.
You just posted a Facebook marketplace and you find
customers. It's more competitive than it
used to be for sure. But he's doing other unique
things like building beds that have storage underneath them and
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building other things and more custom things and doing garage
clean outs. And business is going great for
him and it's going great for allof the people that started the
business based on hearing that episode.
So that's number 23 #22 is starting a drone business.
This was episode 229 and my bestfriend slash mission companion
Nick was on this episode with meand we both independently dove
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really deep on the drone roof inspection business.
And then we came back to this podcast, reported on our
findings, talked about what we loved and what we hated about
the idea. This was one of the ideas that
my newsletter said I want to learn more about drone roof
inspections. I never would have guessed that
you guys would find that interesting, but you did and
sure enough, it became one of mytop performing episodes.
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This is a great business becausethere's a crazy stat in there
that I can't quite remember, butlike 50 or 60% of like insurance
adjusters are baby boomers and will be retiring soon.
Also, it's a huge liability. It's dangerous to get on a roof
and inspect it. So drones are replacing that,
but there's not enough supply ofdrone roof inspection operators
to meet all the demand that there is for these jobs.
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You can make hundreds of dollarsper job.
You can get long term contracts with roofing companies, with
insurance companies, with commercial property managers.
There's just a lot to love aboutthis business.
And you can start this business for like 1000 bucks.
All right, now my 21st favorite idea from this podcast is going
to be episode 2/26. This is about domain name
investing. I have a friend that I met on
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Twitter. His name is Peter Askew, and he
makes really good money buying interesting domain names and
then building businesses around them.
So instead of saying, oh, I havea business idea, let me go find
a domain name to fit that idea. No, he wakes up every morning,
he drinks his coffee and he starts shopping for expiring
premium domain names, vidaliaonions.com, onions.com,
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duderanch.com. He'll buy a domain name and then
he'll build a business around it.
And because of the fact that he does it in the reverse, he has
immediate traffic on day one because people are typing in
these Emds exact match domain names and giving him business
from day one. He's an incredibly interesting
guy. He's eclectic.
He does a lot of really cool things.
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We had a double episode, but I believe the first one was
episode 226. And my 20th favorite episode is
about laundromats, episode 239 with Tyler Purcell.
This guy builds really, really, really nice laundromats in areas
that already have a ton of laundromats because those areas
usually have a ton of crappy laundromats.
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And so he thinks that the more competition there is, the better
because that's a signal that hismarket already has a ton of
people that frequent the laundromat.
So all he needs is a better one,not a different one, but a nicer
1A cleaner one. And yes, it is more expensive,
but he is transforming these communities with a laundromat
and they are extremely profitable, making hundreds of
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thousands of dollars a year in net profit, each with very, very
few employees. Now, this one is kind of an
exception because it's not nearly as approachable as most
of these businesses. It costs more money to get
started, but this episode crushed it regardless, and it's
an awesome idea. All right, My 19th favorite
episode was about Etsy print on demand.
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How to start reverse engineer research and build these print
on demand businesses where you sell stuff on Etsy like
printables like sticker designs or picture designs or mugs with
custom design on it. I had my friend Cody Schneider
on, he's doing this. He talked about using AI tools
to create hundreds and thousandsof listings on Etsy and see
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which ones are winners. Then once you post like 1000
designs to Etsy, 10 to 30 of them start doing well.
Then you triple down on those 10to 30 of them.
Very approachable, very affordable.
You can use a few AI tools to start.
This is a banger of an episode, episode 210.
All right, I'm going to combine my 18th favorite episode because
they're kind of similar ish and also I thought of a new episode
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but I've already said 23 ideas so I'm going to keep this 23 and
not 24 but I'm going to combine two of them.
So my 18th with an asterisk. Favorite episode slash ideas are
porch pumpkins and mailbox repair.
OK, both of these are happening in at the front of the house.
So hey, it's my podcast. I can combine these.
Porch pumpkins is owned by Heather Torres.
I saw her on Instagram a year and a half ago and she decorates
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porches with pumpkins for the fall.
That's it. And she makes over $1,000,000 a
year and she's absolutely crushing it.
And this can be done at any market.
She finds her customers from organic videos on Instagram.
No paid ads and referrals. It's very profitable.
It can be done in the Christmas time.
It can be done with seasonal flowers.
I interviewed another guy that does that in Long Island with
flowers. The porch decoration business is
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booming. That is episode 73 and then the
mailbox repair episode Part B ofthis one.
That was episode 186. And this is another one that my
newsletter really wanted to learn about.
If you look at Google Trends, everyone is searching for
mailbox repair and no one is thinking to start a business
repairing mailboxes. I've since spoken to a few
different guys that have startedthis business based on this
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episode and they're doing well. Chicago, Nashville, Austin, you
put up Google Ads and you fix mailboxes and you make hundreds
of dollars an hour. You can sell mailboxes, you can
maintain them, you can get referrals from the mailman.
There's a lot of ways you can grow this business and you will
not have very many competitors. So that is episode 186.
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All right, my 17th favorite ideahere is episode 196, Forestry
mulching. I interviewed a guy named Alex
who is up in Ohio, and he was a digital marketer by trade.
He knew nothing about home service businesses until he
needed to get some land cleared.He bought some acreage and he
had about 5 acres that he need cleared.
And guess what? He could not find anyone to do
it. No one.
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And he was in Cincinnati. This isn't like the middle of
nowhere here. And so he started doing a bunch
of research on keywords and traffic and Google Trends and
SEO and all this type of stuff that would show him how
promising this idea is or not inCincinnati.
And he learned, wow, yeah, there's a gap in the market
here. And so he started a forestry
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mulching business. And this business is crushing.
These machines are expensive, but you can rent them to start.
He uses YouTube ads and Facebookads to get all of his leads.
His average job size is I think $3400.
And he's spending like $100 to find these customers.
OK, So he's turning $100 into $3400 with ads on Facebook and
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Instagram. It's I think, my third or fourth
most popular YouTube video of all time.
And it's way up there on my audio podcast as well.
So that's 196. And my 16th favorite idea is
episode 162, Lessons Learned from starting 75 plus
businesses. This was a little more high
level, not as tactical, but I really spent hours to think and
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take notes and ponder and reflect on what I've learned
from all these businesses. And despite the fact that it
wasn't as tactical as my usual episode, it performed really
well and the feedback was awesome.
And my 15th favorite idea slash podcast is #170 how to get a yes
from everyone. I interviewed this guy named Stu
Heinecke. He wrote a book, a best seller
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called How to Get a Meeting withAnyone.
And it is incredible. Very, very tactical on how to
find a white whale of a customeror of a business partner or of a
vendor. How to get Mark Cuban to answer
your emails, how to get really important, awesome people to pay
attention to you. This was an incredible episode.
In my 14th favorite episode is episode 175.
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This was with my good friend Sam.
He's been on the podcast like 15times.
He's so entertaining. He's always growth hacking in
buildings, these awesome businesses.
And in this episode, episode 175, he talked about how he
launched a Hummingbird food e-commerce brand in like a few
hours because someone on the Internet said if it's so easy,
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why doesn't anyone do it? And that made him so mad and so
fired up that he went out and did it.
And now he's making thousands ofdollars selling sugar water to
people that want to feed the hummingbirds in their backyard.
I had no idea this episode woulddo so well because it was just
like Sam at his best. Maybe I just take him for
granted, but this is a banger ofan episode, especially if you're
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interested in e-commerce. All right, now, my 13th favorite
episode is similar to #15 How toGet a yes from Everyone.
This one's called How to get Everything You want out of Life.
It's episode 144 with my friend Jordan, and this is called
permissionless marketing. It's a lot like how to get a yes
from anyone. It's basically how to stand out.
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Jordan has always done very interesting things to get the
attention of NBA players, of business moguls.
And he built a framework around this, how to stand out, how to
get attention, how to sell anything.
And it is incredibly inspiring #12 this was a solo episode
where I just talk about which AIshould you use to make money,
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which is best at making money. It's episode #2 O 7.
And I think this is the one where I put a bunch of the AIS
against each other. Grok Claude Gemini ChatGPT
perplexity and I had them investin stocks for me and I actually
invested in those stocks. I put my real money into it
based on their suggestions and Iwanted to see which one was more
(20:55):
accurate. I had a ton of fun doing this.
I actually made money doing this, believe it or not, and I
learned a lot about options trading, which caveat disclaimer
for all the lawyers out there, this is not investing advice.
OK, I'm an idiot, but this is really great info on like what
AI to use. And my 11th favorite episode is
episode 233, Beginner Friendly Ways of making 10 grand on this
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one. I had my friend Brandon on.
He's been on about 1/2 a dozen times and we just riffed on cool
business ideas that will help you make 10 grand in like a
very, very short amount of time.Yeah, I think we talked about
ideas to make 10 grand in a day,a week, a month or a year.
And this one jam packed with business ideas.
And my 10th favorite episode wasepisode 228.
Three, $1,000,000 a year from tiny AI tools.
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Here's how you can too. I chatted with this guy named
John Rush. We met on Twitter.
He makes over $3,000,000 a year in recurring revenue from these
little AI tools that he built anSEO tool, a scraping tool.
A lot of these can be vibe codedif you don't have any coding
experience, which most of my audience doesn't, neither do I.
And he just shared his screen and he showed how he's doing it
and it was really good. But my ninth favorite episode
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was episode 203, how to make $1,000,000 in six months.
We discussed different ideas. This was me and my best friend
Nick. Again, I think by download
count, this might be my most popular or third or fourth most
popular. It's really, really tactical.
And we did what Brandon and I kind of did with the $10,000
idea. We just talked about specific
ideas of making $1,000,000 in 10months.
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We got really excited. The energy was high and you're
going to love it. And my eighth favorite episode
of all time was episode 230, howto copy businesses and white
label them with Go High Level. So Go High. le-vel.com is a
website where you can sell software without having to know
how to build software or build awebsite even.
And So what I do in this episodeis I just go reverse engineer
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companies that are already whitelabeling everything they do on
high level because it's listed online.
And then I go to the web archiveand I look at how they got to
where they are, how did they grow?
How did they find customers? What are they selling?
What are they doing differently,if anything at all?
And my 7th favorite episode is episode 205 Overlooked business,
The most overlooked business idea you've ever heard of.
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My friend Kyler, he lives in Utah.
He rents out washers and dryers on Facebook Marketplace.
He makes $10,000 a month in net profit.
It's actually more. That was like 6 months ago when
he told me that, and he's been growing ever since.
So he makes over $10,000 a monthof net profit just renting out
washers and dryers for 60 to 80 bucks a pop on Facebook
Marketplace. You can start this with $200 and
(23:28):
a trailer. You can rent a trailer from Home
Depot if you don't have one. This is probably my most viral
episode ever, but it's not #1 because it's not my number one,
but it's very approachable. And of all the ideas that I've
talked about that people have reached out to me and said, hey,
I started that, this is by far the most popular because it is
so approachable. And Kyler, props to him.
He basically invented this industry, right?
(23:50):
Washer dryer rentals have been athing from like Rent-A-Center
and big companies, but it has not been a thing for individuals
or for being done on Facebook Marketplace.
And my 6th favorite episode is again with my friend Nick,
Episode 248, eight ideas for youto start this weekend.
And we just talked about 8 awesome business ideas.
That's it. And they're awesome.
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My fifth favorite episode of alltime.
Episode one 6925 Tips, tools, tricks, hacks to use ChatGPT to
get the most out of ChatGPT. This is a solo episode.
I basically just share my screenand show everyone how I'm using
ChatGPT to get everything I want.
How to prompt it, how to massageit, how to upload references,
what model to use for what purpose.
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I had no idea this one would do so well, but it is a banger. 169
and my fourth favorite episode of all time.
I talk all about VO3, which is Google's video generation
software. This is episode 161.
How to start an ad agency with AI video generation, How to
generate videos with AI, How to use VO3.
Why VO3 will slash is changing the world.
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Why AI video is changing the world.
How can you make money from this?
Who cares if it's changing the world if we can't start a
business from it? So I share my screen and I show
exactly how I would do that and how to prompt VO3 to make
beautiful videos. And my third favorite episode of
all time is all about reselling liquidation items with my friend
Shannon. Shannon has been on this podcast
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about 12 times. I think this was our best
performing episode. But if you go on YouTube to my
playlist, you'll see all of my episodes with Shannon are on
YouTube. Unfortunately, Spotify nor Apple
has a playlist feature, so it's kind of harder to sort those all
out. But what Shannon does is he goes
to websiteslikebstock.com, whichsells overstock, Costco
supplies, Costco Returns, and govdeals.com, which sells stuff
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that the government is liquidating.
And he will buy pallets of itemsfor pennies on the dollar, like
or penny on the dollar, 90 to 99% off.
He'll get it shipped to his garage, his house.
He'll listen on Facebook Marketplace on eBay, he'll sell
it. He'll make a few phone calls and
he'll sell it. And this is such an approachable
business. Anyone with a few 100 bucks
could start it. Anyone with an iPhone with
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Facebook Marketplace access can start this business, so check
out episode 156 for that. And my second favorite episode
of all time is my Directories episode, Episode 164.
I had a guy named Frey Chu and he builds directories and I
talked about this on the Diary of a CEO podcast.
What is a directory? It's an ugly looking website
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that lists out a bunch of stuff,a bunch of locations.
All the dog parks in the area, all the fencing repair companies
in the area, all the Thai food restaurants in the area.
Thanks to AI, directories are needed more than ever.
People think that AI is competing with directories.
That is absolutely not true. AI is referencing these
directories because people have questions, they need answers and
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directories are a great way of getting that done.
So Frey makes 6 figures a year building directories and this is
incredibly passive. I don't say the P word a lot on
this podcast. Passive.
I don't do it because most things aren't.
This is like it takes activity to get it started to get it
launched, but then once it's launched, it's incredibly
passive. And my first, my number one, my
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favorite episode slash best ideaever covered on this podcast is
episode 2 O 4, which is called Istarted an online business in
50-6 minutes. OK, this was posted on August
4th. It's better to watch on YouTube
or on Spotify video because it is kind of visual, but this
episode got me so hyped up to film.
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What did I do in this video? I couldn't sleep.
I was so excited about AI and starting businesses that I sat
down at my desk at like 4:30 in the morning on a Saturday and I
started a business from scratch from Absolute 0, sharing my
screen the whole time. And at the end of 56 minutes, I
had a customer. That's it.
A customer that didn't know me. I didn't use my audience, I
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didn't use any cheats. I used tools that anyone on the
planet can use and I had a customer.
Now what was I selling? I was selling an AI voice agent
to him as a service. I don't know how to build an AI
voice agent, but I know how to use Go High Level.
So with about 6 clicks within GoHigh Level, I had created an AI
voice agent for a garage door repair business.
And the guys like I meant sign me up.
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I was so excited when I got him as a customer because I honestly
didn't think that would happen. It wasn't like a fake video
filmed over days or weeks. It all happened over the course
of this video. And that's why my number one
favorite idea right now is implementing AI into small
businesses. Period, end of story, AI and or
automation. And a lot of my excitement for
this idea stemmed from this video, from when I took this
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video. And I fell in love with that
idea so much that I actually started a community called
Playmakers where there's about 150 people in there doing
exactly that. They're starting an AI
implementation and or automationbusiness, an AI consulting
business. You can learn more about it at
playmakersai.com. It's also linked below.
And people are finding customers.
We have three to seven live calls per week.
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There's tons of hours of content.
There's templates. You can go from a brand new
beginner to an expert, all within the confines of this
community. So check out playmakersai.com.
And if you don't really like that idea, but you want to do
something with one of these ideas or any of these ideas that
I talk about, you should check out my other community called TK
Owners, T kowners.com, where there's about 700 people in
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there starting their first or their second or their third
business or growing their business.
It's very broad. We're not going all in on one
idea. We're discussing all kinds of
ideas. We also have weekly calls with
me. I do ask me anythings in both
communities every single week. Other experts are in there.
We have a Slack group. We have tons of exclusive
content, so check out TK owners.com as well.
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If you've been with me for a while, thank you.
I appreciate you. If you're just now finding me
from the Diary of a CEO podcast,welcome.
I appreciate you as well. Please hit subscribe, share with
a friend if you found this helpful.
If you want to binge one or any of these episodes that I've
talked about today, they are allLinkedIn, the show notes.
We'll see you next time on the Kerner Office.
Welcome to the Kerner Office podcast.
This is Chris Kerner and this isepisode 255.
Today is December 8th. You're probably listening to
this on or after December 9th. And today was a big day for me.
I appeared on the Diary of Aceo podcast with Stephen Bartlett
and it is the second biggest podcast in the world and the
first biggest business podcast in the world.
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And so I assume I have a lot of new listeners today.
So I wanted to do something a little different and I wanted to
make an episode that would be great for both my existing, my
Ogs, my current fans that have known and followed me for a
little while, and an episode that was great for all of my new
fans coming over from Dyer of a CEO.
So whether you're new to me or old to me, you're going to love
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this episode and it will apply to all of you.
What I'm going to do in this episode is take all 254 episodes
of this podcast and distill downthe best ideas, the best
learnings, takeaways, guess everything so you don't have to
go back and listen to all of them yourself.
You're going to get the best of the best right here.
And if you heard all or some of those episodes already, it's
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going to be a great refresh on some of the best episodes.
And I'm going to add kind of my take to these ideas, why I like
them, what I don't like about them.
And some of these episodes didn't do super well for
whatever reason. Maybe they had a title that
didn't describe it well enough or something.
But the common theme between allof these ideas is that they are
approachable for almost anyone to start, whether you're in the
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US or abroad, you have a lot of money or a little.
So let me intro myself real quickly and then I'll get into
the ideas, and I'm going to rankthem based on how much I like
them. So there are 23 of these
episodes slash ideas and I'm going to rank them from 23 to
one, one being my all time favorite.
OK, but who am I? I'm Chris Koerner.
I live in the suburbs of Dallas,Fort Worth.
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I have been married for almost 18 years.
I got married at 21. We had all four of our kids in
our 20s. My wife, her name is Jesse.
We were high school sweethearts.She is an amazing person.
She's incredibly loyal, incredibly patient with this
wild entrepreneurship ride that we've been on, and I couldn't do
her without her. My 4 kids are between the ages
of nine and 15. I have three boys and a girl.
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We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. We used to go by Mormons.
You probably see missionaries walking around with white shirt
and ties. That's us.
That was me from O6 to O8I served my mission in Hungary and
it was the most transformative, most amazing two years of my
life, hands down. Our faith is a big part of what
we do and we're pretty tight family.
We live on a few acres. We've had animals in the past.
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We've been in the same house forabout 9 years.
We don't plan on moving anytime soon.
I'm a huge foodie. I used to do endurance events,
running ultra marathons between 30 and 140 miles.
I'm basically an all or nothing person.
I'm either going to be fat and just sit around and watch TV all
day, or I'm going to be up and about doing way too much all
day, every day. I've learned that about myself.
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And so I try to say on the rightside of the spectrum, because I
did spend about 10 years of my life obese, all of my 20s, I was
still building businesses, starting a lot of businesses I
talk about in this content. But I just didn't take good care
of my health. And at age 31, I fixed that.
I lost all the weight. I started running these
endurance events, and I've kept the weight off ever since.
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I was born in Utah. As you probably heard, my first
business was selling used golf balls.
And it's funny because a lot of the comments on my interview
were like, oh, you grew up poor,but you lived across the street
from a golf course. Yeah, I did.
All of those things are true. Look up Park Ave. in Logan, UT.
We sold our home for $40,000 in 1998, which was today's
equivalent of about $80,000. It's a 70 year old 1000 square
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foot home that was across the street from a golf course, Logan
River Golf Course. My dad worked in a greenhouse, a
nursery at Utah State University.
He ended up getting a job at theKennedy Space Center in Florida.
So when I was 11, we moved to Florida.
I started going to the beach, making friends, wrestling,
dating girls. That's when I met my now wife.
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I worked a bunch of odd jobs in middle school and high school.
I bussed tables, I waited tables.
I delivered pizzas for Pizza Hut.
I sprayed pest control every summer, I mowed lawns.
Just whatever it took to have some income.
My parents got divorced about four years after we moved to
Florida. I was 15.
I lived with my mom, my dad lived across town.
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My mom now lives in Utah. My dad is still in Florida,
living in the house that I livedin in Florida as I was growing
up. My parents are awesome people.
I have three siblings, an older sister, a younger brother, and a
younger sister. They live all over the country
and I love them very much. My mom waited tables as she
raised us at the same Mexican restaurant where I bus tables.
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It's still there. Eliancito, right on US1 in
Titusville. And my parents taught me the
value of being charitable, beingkind, being honest, and working
really hard, and I'm grateful for them.
Again, I served a mission for mychurch at age 19.
I got home when I was 21. I was a very average student in
high school. I was kind of the class clown,
but also introverted. If you knew me really well, I
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was extroverted. But to everyone else on the
planet, I'm very introverted. I got home in March of 2008 from
my mission. I proposed to my now wife one
month later to the day. We had never dated before.
We just kind of had a crush on each other from ages 13 to 14.
And then 3 1/2 months after thatwe got married on O8O8O8I.
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Spent hours and hours and hours that summer of 2008 reading
books, business books and real estate books at Barnes and Noble
in Melbourne, FL. And I basically took all of that
brand new business knowledge andpaired it with all of my
rejection experience and sales experience and grit experience
that I gained on my mission in Hungary.
I put them together. My wife was a student at the
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University of Alabama. I moved to Alabama right after
we got married so she could finish her school and I could
start school. And I took all that knowledge
from those books and I just hit the ground running.
We bought a single family home to live in about seven months
after getting married, and we bought another single family
home with $8000 tax credit that Obama gave first time home
buyers. We were waiting table at a Thai
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restaurant together and taking classes.
I did my first two years at Shelton State Community College.
I got my associate's degree and then I transferred to the
University of Alabama. In addition to waiting tables, I
worked at the Tuscaloosa County Jail as a guard.
It's the worst job ever. I also worked for a company
called Game Day Tents. I worked for Jimmy John's
delivering sandwiches. Whatever it took to make ends
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meet, I started my first real business in Tuscaloosa called
Phone Restore. That business has since been
sold the two times over, but that first retail location is
still there a whole 15 years later, which is crazy.
And to summarize the last 17 years since that point, I
finished college at the University of Alabama.
I got an MBA and master's in business administration from TCU
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Texas Christian University here in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
I did that in 2019 and from 2008to 2025, I've started about 80
different businesses and I've actually documented every single
one of those businesses that I've started on this podcast.
If you go back to episode 14, episode 21, episode 88, and then
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there's one more in there somewhere, I can't remember.
I've spoken about every single one of those businesses.
Entrepreneurship is my absolute passion.
Content creation is something fairly new to me.
I've been tweeting about business in real estate for the
last four or five years, but I just started, like other forms
of content, not even two years ago.
I started this podcast in February of 2024.
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I've released 255 episodes at this point.
Oh, I forgot to say this. I love emo music from the early
2000s, Brand new, Taking Back Sunday, Manchester Orchestra.
I love Tim Robinson the show I think you should leave, and I
love working out in the yard. Also, you can tell I have ADHD
because I'm all over the place. I got diagnosed at 35, I think,
and it was life changing, the diagnosis.
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I really, really, really wish I would have been diagnosed
earlier, but my life has been immeasurably better since the
whole theme of this podcast. I try to keep it tactical,
right? I've had a few episodes where we
kind of go high level and talk about frameworks and stuff and I
love some of those episodes because I learn a lot from them.
But 95 plus percent of these episodes are very specific, very
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tactical. Use this tool, use this wording
on your subject lines, start this business, here's how you do
it, here's a seven step plan, etcetera.
That's how I like for this podcast to be.
And it's kind of a double edged sword because the more tactical
a podcast is, the less broad it is, right?
So the chance of me becoming as big as a Dire of ACEO is almost
(08:30):
0 because it's so specific and tactical and it just doesn't
apply to the general population.But it is, in my experience, the
most effective way at encouraging people to start or
grow their business. They need real specific steps,
real tools, so we don't hold anything back.
And every time I interview a business owner about their
business, I go into it telling them people will want to copy
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exactly what you're doing. So if you're not OK with that,
you're probably not a fit for this podcast.
And for that reason, a lot of people don't come on the podcast
because if I start interviewing them and I'm like, how much
revenue do you make? How much profit do you make?
Where do you find your customers?
They're like, I'd prefer not. It's like, OK, nevermind.
You know, some episodes we'll talk about 5 to 10 different
ideas, hypothetically, not ones that we're doing, but just ones
(09:14):
that we think are interesting. Some episodes I'll talk about
stuff that I'm actively doing because I do launch a lot of
these ideas that I talked about.And then some episodes I'm
diving deep on one idea with onebusiness owner.
And I only do this when I surveymy newsletter.
You can join my newsletter for free at tkopod.com.
And I asked them, hey, here's 40businesses, Nisha's ideas,
(09:35):
whatever, vote on five to 10 of them that you want to learn more
about. And then I will specifically
reach out to owners of those ideas that you guys, my
listeners, watchers, followers, whatever, really, really want to
learn about. That way I don't hit publish on
an idea that just isn't interesting to people.
It took me a while to learn how to do that, but that's been
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working really, really well. I don't do much prep at all for
my podcast because I want to go in blind.
I'm not a good actor. I can't really fake surprise if
I'm asking a question that I already know the answer to.
So usually when I go into an episode with a business owner, I
know like a couple of things. Their business makes X amount of
dollars. It only took them Y amount of
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months or years to make that money.
It cost them so much to start itand the industry is what it is.
So that's about what I know. So without further ado, here are
my 23 favorite episodes slash ideas slash guest that I love
the most or my listener slash viewers love the most.
So if you like any of these ideas and you want to learn more
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about them, I will say the episode number in the idea.
Episode 1 is my oldest episode 255.
This one is my newest so you canjust Scroll down on Spotify,
Apple, or wherever and we will also for your convenience link
to all of them in the show notesso you can go binge him later.
OK idea #23 was episode 55 How to start a six figure side
hustle exclusively on Facebook Marketplace.
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I came across this guy named Alex on Instagram who was making
$15,000 of profit every month making simple garage shelves
from his garage and delivering them locally.
He found all of his customers onFacebook Marketplace.
I found this incredibly fascinating because that's a lot
of money. He quit his full time job to run
this. So that's episode 55, and I
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actually did a follow up with him just last month.
That was episode 250 where he told us how it's been going over
the last couple of years. I love this business because
anyone with $100 saw and some 2 by fours can start it.
You just posted a Facebook marketplace and you find
customers. It's more competitive than it
used to be for sure. But he's doing other unique
things like building beds that have storage underneath them and
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building other things and more custom things and doing garage
clean outs. And business is going great for
him and it's going great for allof the people that started the
business based on hearing that episode.
So that's number 23 #22 is starting a drone business.
This was episode 229 and my bestfriend slash mission companion
Nick was on this episode with meand we both independently dove
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really deep on the drone roof inspection business.
And then we came back to this podcast, reported on our
findings, talked about what we loved and what we hated about
the idea. This was one of the ideas that
my newsletter said I want to learn more about drone roof
inspections. I never would have guessed that
you guys would find that interesting, but you did and
sure enough, it became one of mytop performing episodes.
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This is a great business becausethere's a crazy stat in there
that I can't quite remember, butlike 50 or 60% of like insurance
adjusters are baby boomers and will be retiring soon.
Also, it's a huge liability. It's dangerous to get on a roof
and inspect it. So drones are replacing that,
but there's not enough supply ofdrone roof inspection operators
to meet all the demand that there is for these jobs.
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You can make hundreds of dollarsper job.
You can get long term contracts with roofing companies, with
insurance companies, with commercial property managers.
There's just a lot to love aboutthis business.
And you can start this business for like 1000 bucks.
All right, now my 21st favorite idea from this podcast is going
to be episode 2/26. This is about domain name
investing. I have a friend that I met on
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Twitter. His name is Peter Askew, and he
makes really good money buying interesting domain names and
then building businesses around them.
So instead of saying, oh, I havea business idea, let me go find
a domain name to fit that idea. No, he wakes up every morning,
he drinks his coffee and he starts shopping for expiring
premium domain names, vidaliaonions.com, onions.com,
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duderanch.com. He'll buy a domain name and then
he'll build a business around it.
And because of the fact that he does it in the reverse, he has
immediate traffic on day one because people are typing in
these Emds exact match domain names and giving him business
from day one. He's an incredibly interesting
guy. He's eclectic.
He does a lot of really cool things.
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We had a double episode, but I believe the first one was
episode 226. And my 20th favorite episode is
about laundromats, episode 239 with Tyler Purcell.
This guy builds really, really, really nice laundromats in areas
that already have a ton of laundromats because those areas
usually have a ton of crappy laundromats.
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And so he thinks that the more competition there is, the better
because that's a signal that hismarket already has a ton of
people that frequent the laundromat.
So all he needs is a better one,not a different one, but a nicer
1A cleaner one. And yes, it is more expensive,
but he is transforming these communities with a laundromat
and they are extremely profitable, making hundreds of
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thousands of dollars a year in net profit, each with very, very
few employees. Now, this one is kind of an
exception because it's not nearly as approachable as most
of these businesses. It costs more money to get
started, but this episode crushed it regardless, and it's
an awesome idea. All right, My 19th favorite
episode was about Etsy print on demand.
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How to start reverse engineer research and build these print
on demand businesses where you sell stuff on Etsy like
printables like sticker designs or picture designs or mugs with
custom design on it. I had my friend Cody Schneider
on, he's doing this. He talked about using AI tools
to create hundreds and thousandsof listings on Etsy and see
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which ones are winners. Then once you post like 1000
designs to Etsy, 10 to 30 of them start doing well.
Then you triple down on those 10to 30 of them.
Very approachable, very affordable.
You can use a few AI tools to start.
This is a banger of an episode, episode 210.
All right, I'm going to combine my 18th favorite episode because
they're kind of similar ish and also I thought of a new episode
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but I've already said 23 ideas so I'm going to keep this 23 and
not 24 but I'm going to combine two of them.
So my 18th with an asterisk. Favorite episode slash ideas are
porch pumpkins and mailbox repair.
OK, both of these are happening in at the front of the house.
So hey, it's my podcast. I can combine these.
Porch pumpkins is owned by Heather Torres.
I saw her on Instagram a year and a half ago and she decorates
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porches with pumpkins for the fall.
That's it. And she makes over $1,000,000 a
year and she's absolutely crushing it.
And this can be done at any market.
She finds her customers from organic videos on Instagram.
No paid ads and referrals. It's very profitable.
It can be done in the Christmas time.
It can be done with seasonal flowers.
I interviewed another guy that does that in Long Island with
flowers. The porch decoration business is
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booming. That is episode 73 and then the
mailbox repair episode Part B ofthis one.
That was episode 186. And this is another one that my
newsletter really wanted to learn about.
If you look at Google Trends, everyone is searching for
mailbox repair and no one is thinking to start a business
repairing mailboxes. I've since spoken to a few
different guys that have startedthis business based on this
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episode and they're doing well. Chicago, Nashville, Austin, you
put up Google Ads and you fix mailboxes and you make hundreds
of dollars an hour. You can sell mailboxes, you can
maintain them, you can get referrals from the mailman.
There's a lot of ways you can grow this business and you will
not have very many competitors. So that is episode 186.
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All right, my 17th favorite ideahere is episode 196, Forestry
mulching. I interviewed a guy named Alex
who is up in Ohio, and he was a digital marketer by trade.
He knew nothing about home service businesses until he
needed to get some land cleared.He bought some acreage and he
had about 5 acres that he need cleared.
And guess what? He could not find anyone to do
it. No one.
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And he was in Cincinnati. This isn't like the middle of
nowhere here. And so he started doing a bunch
of research on keywords and traffic and Google Trends and
SEO and all this type of stuff that would show him how
promising this idea is or not inCincinnati.
And he learned, wow, yeah, there's a gap in the market
here. And so he started a forestry
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mulching business. And this business is crushing.
These machines are expensive, but you can rent them to start.
He uses YouTube ads and Facebookads to get all of his leads.
His average job size is I think $3400.
And he's spending like $100 to find these customers.
OK, So he's turning $100 into $3400 with ads on Facebook and
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Instagram. It's I think, my third or fourth
most popular YouTube video of all time.
And it's way up there on my audio podcast as well.
So that's 196. And my 16th favorite idea is
episode 162, Lessons Learned from starting 75 plus
businesses. This was a little more high
level, not as tactical, but I really spent hours to think and
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take notes and ponder and reflect on what I've learned
from all these businesses. And despite the fact that it
wasn't as tactical as my usual episode, it performed really
well and the feedback was awesome.
And my 15th favorite idea slash podcast is #170 how to get a yes
from everyone. I interviewed this guy named Stu
Heinecke. He wrote a book, a best seller
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called How to Get a Meeting withAnyone.
And it is incredible. Very, very tactical on how to
find a white whale of a customeror of a business partner or of a
vendor. How to get Mark Cuban to answer
your emails, how to get really important, awesome people to pay
attention to you. This was an incredible episode.
In my 14th favorite episode is episode 175.
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This was with my good friend Sam.
He's been on the podcast like 15times.
He's so entertaining. He's always growth hacking in
buildings, these awesome businesses.
And in this episode, episode 175, he talked about how he
launched a Hummingbird food e-commerce brand in like a few
hours because someone on the Internet said if it's so easy,
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why doesn't anyone do it? And that made him so mad and so
fired up that he went out and did it.
And now he's making thousands ofdollars selling sugar water to
people that want to feed the hummingbirds in their backyard.
I had no idea this episode woulddo so well because it was just
like Sam at his best. Maybe I just take him for
granted, but this is a banger ofan episode, especially if you're
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interested in e-commerce. All right, now, my 13th favorite
episode is similar to #15 How toGet a yes from Everyone.
This one's called How to get Everything You want out of Life.
It's episode 144 with my friend Jordan, and this is called
permissionless marketing. It's a lot like how to get a yes
from anyone. It's basically how to stand out.
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Jordan has always done very interesting things to get the
attention of NBA players, of business moguls.
And he built a framework around this, how to stand out, how to
get attention, how to sell anything.
And it is incredibly inspiring #12 this was a solo episode
where I just talk about which AIshould you use to make money,
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which is best at making money. It's episode #2 O 7.
And I think this is the one where I put a bunch of the AIS
against each other. Grok Claude Gemini ChatGPT
perplexity and I had them investin stocks for me and I actually
invested in those stocks. I put my real money into it
based on their suggestions and Iwanted to see which one was more
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accurate. I had a ton of fun doing this.
I actually made money doing this, believe it or not, and I
learned a lot about options trading, which caveat disclaimer
for all the lawyers out there, this is not investing advice.
OK, I'm an idiot, but this is really great info on like what
AI to use. And my 11th favorite episode is
episode 233, Beginner Friendly Ways of making 10 grand on this
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one. I had my friend Brandon on.
He's been on about 1/2 a dozen times and we just riffed on cool
business ideas that will help you make 10 grand in like a
very, very short amount of time.Yeah, I think we talked about
ideas to make 10 grand in a day,a week, a month or a year.
And this one jam packed with business ideas.
And my 10th favorite episode wasepisode 228.
Three, $1,000,000 a year from tiny AI tools.
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Here's how you can too. I chatted with this guy named
John Rush. We met on Twitter.
He makes over $3,000,000 a year in recurring revenue from these
little AI tools that he built anSEO tool, a scraping tool.
A lot of these can be vibe codedif you don't have any coding
experience, which most of my audience doesn't, neither do I.
And he just shared his screen and he showed how he's doing it
and it was really good. But my ninth favorite episode
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was episode 203, how to make $1,000,000 in six months.
We discussed different ideas. This was me and my best friend
Nick. Again, I think by download
count, this might be my most popular or third or fourth most
popular. It's really, really tactical.
And we did what Brandon and I kind of did with the $10,000
idea. We just talked about specific
ideas of making $1,000,000 in 10months.
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We got really excited. The energy was high and you're
going to love it. And my eighth favorite episode
of all time was episode 230, howto copy businesses and white
label them with Go High Level. So Go High. le-vel.com is a
website where you can sell software without having to know
how to build software or build awebsite even.
And So what I do in this episodeis I just go reverse engineer
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companies that are already whitelabeling everything they do on
high level because it's listed online.
And then I go to the web archiveand I look at how they got to
where they are, how did they grow?
How did they find customers? What are they selling?
What are they doing differently,if anything at all?
And my 7th favorite episode is episode 205 Overlooked business,
The most overlooked business idea you've ever heard of.
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My friend Kyler, he lives in Utah.
He rents out washers and dryers on Facebook Marketplace.
He makes $10,000 a month in net profit.
It's actually more. That was like 6 months ago when
he told me that, and he's been growing ever since.
So he makes over $10,000 a monthof net profit just renting out
washers and dryers for 60 to 80 bucks a pop on Facebook
Marketplace. You can start this with $200 and
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a trailer. You can rent a trailer from Home
Depot if you don't have one. This is probably my most viral
episode ever, but it's not #1 because it's not my number one,
but it's very approachable. And of all the ideas that I've
talked about that people have reached out to me and said, hey,
I started that, this is by far the most popular because it is
so approachable. And Kyler, props to him.
He basically invented this industry, right?
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Washer dryer rentals have been athing from like Rent-A-Center
and big companies, but it has not been a thing for individuals
or for being done on Facebook Marketplace.
And my 6th favorite episode is again with my friend Nick,
Episode 248, eight ideas for youto start this weekend.
And we just talked about 8 awesome business ideas.
That's it. And they're awesome.
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My fifth favorite episode of alltime.
Episode one 6925 Tips, tools, tricks, hacks to use ChatGPT to
get the most out of ChatGPT. This is a solo episode.
I basically just share my screenand show everyone how I'm using
ChatGPT to get everything I want.
How to prompt it, how to massageit, how to upload references,
what model to use for what purpose.
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I had no idea this one would do so well, but it is a banger. 169
and my fourth favorite episode of all time.
I talk all about VO3, which is Google's video generation
software. This is episode 161.
How to start an ad agency with AI video generation, How to
generate videos with AI, How to use VO3.
Why VO3 will slash is changing the world.
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Why AI video is changing the world.
How can you make money from this?
Who cares if it's changing the world if we can't start a
business from it? So I share my screen and I show
exactly how I would do that and how to prompt VO3 to make
beautiful videos. And my third favorite episode of
all time is all about reselling liquidation items with my friend
Shannon. Shannon has been on this podcast
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about 12 times. I think this was our best
performing episode. But if you go on YouTube to my
playlist, you'll see all of my episodes with Shannon are on
YouTube. Unfortunately, Spotify nor Apple
has a playlist feature, so it's kind of harder to sort those all
out. But what Shannon does is he goes
to websiteslikebstock.com, whichsells overstock, Costco
supplies, Costco Returns, and govdeals.com, which sells stuff
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that the government is liquidating.
And he will buy pallets of itemsfor pennies on the dollar, like
or penny on the dollar, 90 to 99% off.
He'll get it shipped to his garage, his house.
He'll listen on Facebook Marketplace on eBay, he'll sell
it. He'll make a few phone calls and
he'll sell it. And this is such an approachable
business. Anyone with a few 100 bucks
could start it. Anyone with an iPhone with
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Facebook Marketplace access can start this business, so check
out episode 156 for that. And my second favorite episode
of all time is my Directories episode, Episode 164.
I had a guy named Frey Chu and he builds directories and I
talked about this on the Diary of a CEO podcast.
What is a directory? It's an ugly looking website
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that lists out a bunch of stuff,a bunch of locations.
All the dog parks in the area, all the fencing repair companies
in the area, all the Thai food restaurants in the area.
Thanks to AI, directories are needed more than ever.
People think that AI is competing with directories.
That is absolutely not true. AI is referencing these
directories because people have questions, they need answers and
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directories are a great way of getting that done.
So Frey makes 6 figures a year building directories and this is
incredibly passive. I don't say the P word a lot on
this podcast. Passive.
I don't do it because most things aren't.
This is like it takes activity to get it started to get it
launched, but then once it's launched, it's incredibly
passive. And my first, my number one, my
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favorite episode slash best ideaever covered on this podcast is
episode 2 O 4, which is called Istarted an online business in
50-6 minutes. OK, this was posted on August
4th. It's better to watch on YouTube
or on Spotify video because it is kind of visual, but this
episode got me so hyped up to film.
(27:28):
What did I do in this video? I couldn't sleep.
I was so excited about AI and starting businesses that I sat
down at my desk at like 4:30 in the morning on a Saturday and I
started a business from scratch from Absolute 0, sharing my
screen the whole time. And at the end of 56 minutes, I
had a customer. That's it.
A customer that didn't know me. I didn't use my audience, I
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didn't use any cheats. I used tools that anyone on the
planet can use and I had a customer.
Now what was I selling? I was selling an AI voice agent
to him as a service. I don't know how to build an AI
voice agent, but I know how to use Go High Level.
So with about 6 clicks within GoHigh Level, I had created an AI
voice agent for a garage door repair business.
And the guys like I meant sign me up.
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I was so excited when I got him as a customer because I honestly
didn't think that would happen. It wasn't like a fake video
filmed over days or weeks. It all happened over the course
of this video. And that's why my number one
favorite idea right now is implementing AI into small
businesses. Period, end of story, AI and or
automation. And a lot of my excitement for
this idea stemmed from this video, from when I took this
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video. And I fell in love with that
idea so much that I actually started a community called
Playmakers where there's about 150 people in there doing
exactly that. They're starting an AI
implementation and or automationbusiness, an AI consulting
business. You can learn more about it at
playmakersai.com. It's also linked below.
And people are finding customers.
We have three to seven live calls per week.
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There's tons of hours of content.
There's templates. You can go from a brand new
beginner to an expert, all within the confines of this
community. So check out playmakersai.com.
And if you don't really like that idea, but you want to do
something with one of these ideas or any of these ideas that
I talk about, you should check out my other community called TK
Owners, T kowners.com, where there's about 700 people in
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there starting their first or their second or their third
business or growing their business.
It's very broad. We're not going all in on one
idea. We're discussing all kinds of
ideas. We also have weekly calls with
me. I do ask me anythings in both
communities every single week. Other experts are in there.
We have a Slack group. We have tons of exclusive
content, so check out TK owners.com as well.
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If you've been with me for a while, thank you.
I appreciate you. If you're just now finding me
from the Diary of a CEO podcast,welcome.
I appreciate you as well. Please hit subscribe, share with
a friend if you found this helpful.
If you want to binge one or any of these episodes that I've
talked about today, they are allLinkedIn, the show notes.
We'll see you next time on the Kerner Office.
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