The $60K/Month Side Hustle AI Will Never Replace - Ep. #306

Mike Stuart (0:00)

We started in March, so we did 60,000 in revenue in April. We'll do 69,000 this month.

Chris Koerner (0:07)

Holy cow.

Mike Stuart (0:07)

From the start of April till now, we've been booked every day.

Chris Koerner (0:09)

Every day.

Mike Stuart (0:10)

And we're booked out a month.

Chris Koerner (0:11)

Four days a week?

Mike Stuart (0:12)

Yes. Sometimes five.

Chris Koerner (0:13)

Three, four grand profit in a day?

Mike Stuart (0:15)

Yeah.

Chris Koerner (0:15)

For one job?

Mike Stuart (0:16)

We love doing garages, they're easy. You've got slightly different layouts, but for the most part, you're just doing the same thing.

Chris Koerner (0:22)

If you're charging more, then you're naturally serving a higher-end clientele.

Mike Stuart (0:25)

And the types of people that we sell to, they have money. Like this is such a luxurious thing.

Nobody needs their concrete coated. Nobody needs an epoxy flake garage floor. I told a guy in my gym, I'm like, hey, we do this referral program, $200. That $200 referral turned into a $30,000 job.

Chris Koerner (0:44)

This is the guy you went to the gym with.

Mike Stuart (0:46)

Yeah, it's not that complicated. You can just start a business.

Chris Koerner (0:49)

I think people take comfort, assuming that there's more secrets to it, because that kind of protects their ego from not actually launching.

Mike Stuart (0:55)

Just use AI to help you. All of our ads are copy and pasted from Claude.

Chris Koerner (1:01)

What do you think you'll do this year, your first year in revenue and profit?

Mike Stuart (1:04)

A million.

Chris Koerner (1:05)

Wow. You're not even to the thick of the season yet.

Mike Stuart (1:08)

Exactly. There's a huge market for this. There's a lot of exciting things going on with AI. AI freaks me out because it's changing so much, but blue-collar work is so steady. I want to emphasize, it's not that hard to stand out in the blue-collar world.

Chris Koerner (1:22)

If someone wants to go from to 100 grand a month in this business, what's the playbook?

I get this e-mail from a guy named Mike, middle of nowhere Iowa. He lays tile for a living and he says, Chris, I started a coding business three months ago and I'm already making over $60,000 a month, no experience. You can start this business for under a thousand bucks. I said, Mike, you're my guy. Let's fly you to Dallas, bring you to my new studio and have you tell us all about how and why you did exactly what you did, so everyone watching can copy you. Let's meet Mike. Mike, thanks for coming.

Mike Stuart (1:57)

Thanks for having me.

Chris Koerner (1:58)

Why don't you tell me who you are and what you do?

Mike Stuart (2:01)

Yeah, so I am from Iowa City, Iowa, and I own and run a concrete codings business.

Chris Koerner (2:09)

And how long have you been doing that?

Mike Stuart (2:11)

Not long. We fired it up. I started flying the plane like December 31st. I was like, I'm going to buy all these tools and stuff right before the end of the year, write it off in text. But we really started this spring, like two months ago. Wow.

Really recently. Yeah.

Chris Koerner (2:28)

What were you doing in December that gave you this idea?

Mike Stuart (2:30)

I'm a tile guy by trade. I've been doing that for about five years now. And really, tile was to the point where I was kind of on autopilot with it. And I had gotten down, getting the leads and selling the jobs and filling out the calendar and doing the work. So I was like, I think I'm at this point where I have this margin of my life to where I could do something else.

Well, one of my friends, Corey, he was thinking about starting one of these. He had a friend in Illinois who runs one of these businesses. And so Corey was going out and visiting this guy. And he FaceTimes me while he's on one of their job sites. And he's just like, look at this. You know, look what I'm doing. And I remember where I was. I was like, wait a second.

This is all that this is as simple as the process is. They're literally grinding the floor, put on the base coat, throwing the flake, put the top coat on and get out. This is the dead of winter, by the way, in Illinois. So it's like zero degrees and they're still working, which I was like, huh, I didn't expect that. So he kind of shows me this stuff. And I just say, Corey, take pictures of everything. Record everything.