Forget AI. Make $10K+ With These Offline Side Hustles - Ep. #311

Chris Koerner (0:00)

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, 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.

Brandon Doyle (0:26)

Yeah. So I have a friend that started a temporary, a temporary fence rental business in a suburb of Sacramento, not a big town where he focused.

He had no domain expertise at all before starting this, and but he's a smart guy and he's a good salesman. So he decided to do it. So the first thing that you do is you have to buy the panels, you have to buy the temporary fence things.

Chris Koerner (0:56)

Like chain link fence?

Brandon Doyle (0:57)

No, I think mostly he did like plastic. So they'd be like plastic barriers and then the panel between.

Chris Koerner (1:06)

Okay.

Brandon Doyle (1:07)

They're like 12 feet apart. So you just put those.

Chris Koerner (1:11)

To protect the job site.

Brandon Doyle (1:12)

Yeah. Then you put the plastic panels. Yeah.

Chris Koerner (1:15)

Okay.

Brandon Doyle (1:16)

So he bought those. I don't know how many feet he bought, but he bought enough.

So there's obviously costs. 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.

Chris Koerner (1:30)

You probably won't make money on your first job.

Brandon Doyle (1:32)

Yeah. 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. He would just say, do you want a temporary fence? I'll rent you mine for cheap.

Then he would start making bank and he did this.

Chris Koerner (1:52)

They're about to buy it from someone.

Brandon Doyle (1:54)

Yeah, because they need it. Yeah. It's like a liability thing.

Chris Koerner (1:57)

It's a legal thing too. They probably like zoning laws. Yeah.

Brandon Doyle (2:02)

You have a hot buyer.

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, 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.

Chris Koerner (2:20)

Well, if you wanted, you could, like anyone in the world can see building permits when they're filed.

Brandon Doyle (2:25)

Yeah, you can do that way.

Chris Koerner (2:25)

Those are filed days, weeks, or months before they ever show up on the job site.

Brandon Doyle (2:29)

Yeah.

Chris Koerner (2:29)

So you could get way ahead of it.

Brandon Doyle (2:30)

Yeah. Yeah, you totally could. So yeah, he didn't even do 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, 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 length of time. So the longer you have it, it'd be less per square foot, and he would charge like four bucks a foot. Or linear foot. He would charge like four bucks a foot, and then maybe eventually he'd get down to two bucks a foot if they had it for a longer amount of time, which he said was super like they everybody knows in construction, things always take longer than you think.

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 and then whatever, eight months later, taking down the fence.

Chris Koerner (3:25)

Yeah, it's active on the front end, active months or years later, right? If you build a commercial building, it could take two to four years even.

Brandon Doyle (3:33)

Yeah.

So for max two days at the very start and two days at the very end, you're working 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 accidentally hit it with a tractor, they just move it back anyway. It's their job too.