The Best Side Hustle for Beginners (Any Age) - Ep. #302

Chris Koerner (0:00)

What does your business look like today with regards to monthly revenue and profit?

Jon (0:03)

10, 20-ish K, maybe. It actually crossed six figures, which was pretty cool.

Chris Koerner (0:08)

Okay, so then after 15 hours of combined work, you make 3,000 to 5,000 in net profit, which is like 400, 500 bucks an hour from your first deal.

Jon (0:18)

Yeah, so many opportunities like this out there.

Chris Koerner (0:19)

You didn't even take delivery of them.

Jon (0:21)

No, we literally did nothing.

Chris Koerner (0:23)

That's incredible. This is like your big inflection point, right? You're like, okay, now we're in the big leagues, let's do more of that.

Jon (0:29)

And after that, I was hooked. I mean, it's just crazy that like you go and buy an item and then the next day it's sold. I put up a listing on Marketplace. I get messages, like 20 messages a day.

Chris Koerner (0:37)

And you're in the middle of nowhere.

Jon (0:38)

Yeah.

Chris Koerner (0:39)

Make them come to you.

Jon (0:40)

Exactly.

Chris Koerner (0:40)

Anyone in the world could do that for profit and should. Yeah. Right.

Lucas (0:43)

I started my reselling journey when I was 15 years old.

Jon (0:46)

I'm guaranteeing you have 500 to 5,000 worth of stuff just laying around your house.

Chris Koerner (0:51)

Are you selling VCRs?

Jon (0:53)

Yes.

Chris Koerner (0:53)

$100 for a VCR and you're paying two bucks for them? Yeah, because people think they're worthless, just like you I think I just read an article a year or two ago that like the last VCR manufacturer went out of business.

Jon (1:04)

Yeah, nobody makes it anymore. So there's so much demand.

Chris Koerner (1:06)

What is this world? It's supply and demand. There's no more supply. So the demand goes up.

Jon (1:11)

Exactly. Same with camcorders. Nobody makes them anymore. Same with digital cameras. I literally sold six of them today for $300. Another brand called Jabra. Those sell really good. Dell docking stations. A lot of times like thrift stores just think they're cords and I'll throw them in the cord bucket for a dollar. And they sell for like 60 bucks on eBay. I found so many of those.

Also cameras, like digital cameras, DSLRs, film cameras. A lot of people sell those at eartails for like a dollar because they think they're worthless.

Lucas (1:34)

I think the biggest takeaway just on this, even outside of recently, there's so much money in the world. No matter where you are, who you are, you don't have an excuse. If you want to get out there, you want to make money outside of the nine to five, outside of the boss, you just got to put in the work and you can do it.

Chris Koerner (1:46)

I hopped in my truck and started door dashing. Dude, I was making 30 bucks an hour, 30 bucks an hour. And I was having a blast. There are no excuses. There are none. I'm sorry.

Lucas (1:56)

The American dream is not dead yet.

Chris Koerner (1:58)

It is more alive than it's ever been.

Lucas (2:00)

Yeah.

Chris Koerner (2:00)

What's the playbook? Someone watching this, whether they're 15 years old or 95 years old, how can they go from $0 to $5,000 a month, $10,000 a month?

Jon (2:09)

Yeah, I would say it's the easiest playbook ever.

Chris Koerner (2:16)

Okay. So by the end of this episode, what is one tactical thing that people can take away from you guys?

Jon (2:21)

Yeah, I would say one tactical thing is anybody, no matter what generation you are, what age, what situation of life you are in, you can resell. So whether that's like a big scale like us, or whether it's small scale, like going to yard sales, flea markets, thrift stores every weekend, and just being a weekend warrior, I think anyone can make an extra $1,000 to $5,000 a month, no matter what stage of your life you're in, and only putting in maybe two to five hours a week. So I would say the biggest tactical takeaway that you can take away from this podcast is that reselling is by far the easiest side hustle, to me at least. And also it's like provides so much value compared to other side hustles where it's just like so much hype around them. Whereas reselling is like you're like providing value to a customer, like you're giving them pretty much a product 50% off that works just as well as a new product off Amazon does. I found a lot of fulfillment in that and I think you will as well.