11 Business Ideas I’d Start If I Were a Beginner⏐Ep. #272

Chris Koerner (0:00)

Today is Idea Overload. I have 11 business ideas for you, and I don't think you've heard me talk about any of them, unless you've really been stalking me, which is a little weird. All of these ideas will be approachable, affordable to start, and all of them, yes, can scale. Some of these I've touched on very briefly on Twitter or on Instagram, and they're all proven to be popular based on the engagement that I saw on them, but I haven't really gone deep on any of them until now. So let's count down from 11, my least favorite, to number one, my most favorite. But I whittled these down from like 150, so even number 11 is a banger. And don't worry, my audio listeners, this episode is for you. I will be showing short form videos on my screen, but you will hear them and I will describe exactly what's happening in them, so you're not going to miss a thing. This episode was made with my audio listeners in mind. I just ask one easy favor of you, whether you're watching on video or listening on audio. If you hear an idea that kind of remind you of a friend or a family member, share this episode with them and say, hey, listen to number four or number eight. I think you would love this because X, Y, and Z. That's all I ask. I'm telling you right now, it's not once a month where someone's in my inbox like this saying, hey, I started printing artwork on walls and I'm making tons of money. You can do residential, you can do commercial. You charge by the square foot and you just show up, you load the design, you load the paint and you make money. Okay, so for my audio listeners, what you missed here is just a time lapse video of this wall printer that sits on tracks like train tracks alongside a wall. And it just goes up and down and prints graphics designs on a wall. Huge walls, big walls, doesn't matter. Now, I love this because this is relatively new technology. The company that makes these wall printers only came out, I think, three to five years ago. And these printers were mostly used by businesses to print on their own walls. It wasn't used as a service, right? And so anytime new technology is developed, new service businesses are developed around that technology. I literally have had six to ten people in my inbox, in my DMs, saying, Hey, I started a wall printing business. How would you help me find customers? Or, Hey, I started wall printing business. Like I'm doing restaurants. Like people are doing this and they're finding success. You charge by the square foot or maybe even the square inch. And you know what your paint costs are. That doesn't really vary much. You know what your hard upfront costs are. That's the wall printer. And so it's just a matter of marking up your paint costs and accounting for your time. And the number one reason I love this idea is because of the time lapse effect. I'm going to revisit this a few ideas from now. Ideas that are easily spreadable on vertical short-form video with time lapses just naturally do better because it sells itself. It's visually appealing. And so if you lived in a city of 50,000, 100,000, and you were the wall printer in the area, you could build a sizable business just within that city. There are about 1.8 million retail businesses in the United States alone. And this isn't limited to just retail businesses. It could go in warehouses, in industrial settings, in office settings. I mean, I can imagine an Amazon warehouse with a break room that has like training guides printed on the walls. You can finance these machines. They come with a warranty. They don't cost all that much. I don't remember the name of the company that prints them, but just Google it wall printing machines and you'll see about three or four companies there. OK, so for idea number 10, this happened about two months ago. It was right around Thanksgiving. And I had this John D. Roddy mower that I bought 18 months ago and I wanted to upgrade. It worked great, but I just wanted something bigger. So I put it on Facebook Marketplace, listed for 2500

I agreed to sell it for 2200 The guy says, I'll come pick it up. So he pulls up in like a Ford F-250 with a trailer. And the interesting thing is on the back of this trailer, there are two nearly identical green and yellow John Deere writing mowers already on it. And so my light bulbs just start going off. I'm like, well, this guy's flipping. This guy's not buying a mower to mow his lawn. He already has two, like he's running a route. He's probably buying up all the John Deere's he can find on Facebook Marketplace. So he pulls up, he doesn't speak very good English. And honestly, I can't place the accent. I can't really tell where he's from. He looks American, does not sound American. His wife gets out. They've got a toddler running around and then she's holding like a brand new baby. She speaks heavily accented English. So I get to talk in and I'm asking him questions like, what is this for? And he's kind of being ho hum about it. Doesn't really want to tell me. I'm like, dude, come on, like, come on. And so finally, they're like, well, we're shipping these to Bolivia. That's where we're from. Hence the reason I couldn't place the accent. And if you're geographically challenged, that's in South America.