#123 - The Big Business of Buying Amazon Routes, and a COVID-proof Franchise

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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Alright, we live.
Shaan, what's up?

**Shaan Puri** (0:47)
We have absolutely zero topics on the document today. So I am very curious what's gonna happen.

**Sam Parr** (0:54)
I have one.

**Shaan Puri** (0:56)
But I am confident, I think we will freestyle well.

**Sam Parr** (1:00)
So we have this little Facebook group that I think you set up, Shaan, where it asks or where people of the podcast talk to one another. And I have a feeling there's a lot of just spam in there. But did you see, I asked people what they hate and what they love. Did you read it?

**Shaan Puri** (1:13)
I read a bunch of the comments. What did you take away from that?

**Sam Parr** (1:18)
Guests are not as favorited as I thought or as loved as I thought, which sucks because that requires zero work from us.

**Shaan Puri** (1:25)
No, there's work. You gotta schedule the guests and think about what to say. I find these to be less work than the guests.

**Sam Parr** (1:32)
And then other takeaways, I think, riffing, everyone says we have good dynamic. I already knew that.
Anything else though?

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
So here's one thing, and this happens anytime you ask your diehards, they're like, we just want more of you guys, the backstories and the real life stuff, which I don't think the casual listener, which the casual is always the masses, right? I don't think the casual listener cares about us in that same way. They want like the ideas, they want the information in and out.
And the people who are in this group, who like answer questions like that, they're more hardcore fans. So there's always this danger of asking hardcore fans what they want, because it'll take you into a more hardcore place.
I have two little ideas that I could steal from our friend Chris, that I think are worth talking about. So like I was saying, we didn't have too much written on our document today, but I think he surfaced two really interesting little stories about companies.
So this is Chris Backe, he was on the podcast maybe a month ago. Don't follow on Twitter, so if you want to go follow somebody, Chris J. Backe, B-A-K-K-E. So he tweeted two things that I thought both were really interesting back to back. So the first one is a side hustle that's booming during COVID called Card My Yard. And I remember this because my neighbor in front of me just did this for their daughter's 16th birthday. And basically, it's these little signs you put in your lawn. Like each letter is like, it's a letter like, let's say S with two metal rods as you shove it into your grass and you're trying to spell like, happy birthday, Sam, or like, you know, you did it, you graduated and you like get these things so that it's like this little pop up sign in your front lawn.

**Sam Parr** (3:07)
Card My Yard, so great.

**Shaan Puri** (3:10)
Great name, Card My Yard, founder, started in 2014, began franchising a couple years ago, they have 200 franchisees. And so the franchisees, they make like a modest like one to $2,000 a month part time doing this and they said the first six months, he says the first six months of 2020, they did eight million in gross sales, which is kind of amazing franchise and their franchise model, which is awesome. I love this little like micro franchise, which is great. So that was the first one.
Thoughts on that? And I have another one.

**Sam Parr** (3:37)
No, other than badass. Good job. That's that's fantastic.

**Shaan Puri** (3:42)
And I wonder what what other like sort of little micro franchises you could do here. The one that we had talked about way at the beginning of the podcast was the drone light shows one. I think that is still a amazing franchise if somebody can do it, which is basically drones instead of fireworks. Drones can do some pretty dope stuff. And if you basically found just local franchisees at all the different cities to to service the like, they'll be the go to vendor for their their provider. You basically give them a business in a box.