Simple $30K/Month Online Business You Can Start for $200 - Ep. #313

Alex Kirby (0:00)

We launched March 1st, and we have done 100K in 100 days. We live in a time where any idea that you've had for years is now possible, even if you don't have anything. My whole tech stack to start was Loveable, QuickBooks, Wi-Fi, and a computer.

Chris Koerner (0:14)

Okay.

Alex Kirby (0:15)

That's it. That's all you have to do to start this.

Chris Koerner (0:17)

There are 330 million Americans, and there are 33 million business owners. Therefore, 10 percent of all Americans are a business owner.

Alex Kirby (0:22)

Right.

Chris Koerner (0:22)

Therefore, 10 percent of everyone we know is a business owner, aka in this case, a potential customer to this business.

Alex Kirby (0:27)

One of my biggest customers I got, I faked a meeting because I couldn't give him a respond and email. It's a true story. I went in there and said to his assistant, hey, I'm here to see Jeremy. She goes, is he expecting you? I said, yes.

He came out and we got a $30,000 a year contract.

Chris Koerner (0:42)

Oh my God. That's the literal epitome of fake until you make it.

Alex Kirby (0:46)

Proactive over reactive. We placed a single mom from Venezuela the other day, and they just had a bad earthquake yesterday. When we got her a job, she cried on the call.

Chris Koerner (0:57)

She's probably making multiples of what she could make locally.

Alex Kirby (1:00)

Yeah, it's like 5X is the dollar. I didn't know that was a thing.

Chris Koerner (1:03)

I could make 30 grand for each one of these.

Alex Kirby (1:04)

I had no idea. I think global talent plus AI is the absolute sauce, the game changer.

Chris Koerner (1:10)

Yeah.

Alex Kirby (1:11)

The things I've been able to do in the last 24 months, I didn't even think was really possible. I'm not a sharp guy. It brings up the people that never thought they could do anything.

So you take the people who were like, I'm stuck at $20 an hour for my entire life, age of abundance. No, you're not. The reason why your business should be a focal point is for your family.

Chris Koerner (1:30)

Yeah.

Alex Kirby (1:30)

If you're working and building and doing all these things for money, it will never be enough. It should be to buy back time and buy back memories that you can go and do stuff with your family.

Chris Koerner (1:39)

Okay. So if someone watching this has no experience hiring global talent, no experience in business, money, anything, what's step one for them at starting this business?

So Alex has a very interesting story. Living in Columbia, South Carolina, he was a pastor, newly married, making about $30,000 a year until he realized, I am never going to reach my goal on this salary. To make matters worse, he was living in an attic apartment with two other couples.

All three couples were newlyweds, and he's just like, what am I doing? Until another pastor said, you should start mowing lawns. So he said, let's give it a shot. His wife told him, Alex, if you can make $10,000 in 45 days, I'll let you quit the pastor thing and start mowing lawns. He did. He did it.

How did he get that $10,000 in 45 days? He just texted friends and family, three sentences. That's it. And he did a quarter million dollars his first year. And he turned it into a $2 million business until he got to the point where he said, I don't know if landscaping is for me. This is really hard business to grow. So then he started a marketing agency in 2023, right when Chet GPT launched, could not have been worse timing. He got the business to 20,000 a month, just doing like social media, posting, blog writing for small business owners. And then Chet GPT started to decimate his business until he went on a cruise and he met a bunch of awesome people from around the world working on this cruise, from Latin America and the Philippines, Indonesia, Eastern Europe. And he realized, I need to hire some of these guys for this marketing business, because they're really hard workers and they probably don't cost as much as the people I'm hiring in South Carolina. So he did. He hired his first overseas employee, paid them $1,600 a month full time, and they did an amazing job. And his brain exploded and he thought, I need to monetize this. This should be my next business. I need to find these people and place them with blue collar, small business owners for a fee. Because he was the type of guy in his church that would, as a favor, connect people with jobs. And he helped like 20 people find jobs until one of his friends who worked in recruiting said, dude, you know, you can make like 30% of the first year salary if you place people in jobs. And he's like, what? I was just doing this as a favor. So he took that data point. And then the data point from his cruise, where he met all these awesome people and he hired his first person overseas and he thought, I need to start an agency where I find awesome people working overseas, place them with blue collar small business owners so they can save more money. And the long and short of it is he did $100,000 of sales his first 100 days. Most of that was profit and he started this with about $200.