The Side Hustle King: 11 Easy Businesses Anyone Can Start

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
He's back, part two. We called him the Side Hustle King last time, which by the way, pretty sick nickname we gave you.

**Chris Koerner** (0:06)
Pretty good.

**Shaan Puri** (0:07)
You're welcome.

**Chris Koerner** (0:08)
I don't know anything about anything other than business ideas, so let's go.

**Shaan Puri** (0:20)
First episode did almost a million downloads across all the platforms. And when you get a million downloads across all the platforms, that's the best way to get back invited for part two. So we got to do part two. I want to cue like the Chicago Bulls, 96 Bulls intro music for you because you came on, you had a legendary first performance. Do you feel the pressure of following up right now?

**Chris Koerner** (0:42)
No pressure. You're kidding me.

**Shaan Puri** (0:44)
And the reason people love your business ideas is because you have that girl next door energy. You have that relatable, I could do that. That seems in my wheelhouse. I could get to 15,000 a month. I could get to 10,000 a month off that. That doesn't seem too hard. And I love that. Sam loves that. We all love that. So if you've been, if you're one of the listeners who is looking for that kind of relatable, achievable side hustle idea, not that these are all easy. I don't mean easy. I just mean like, it's not rocket science. Those are the types of ideas you got. Chris, welcome back to the pod.

**Chris Koerner** (1:23)
Thank you for having me.

**Sam Parr** (1:24)
Man, so I wasn't on that. I was off that day and I get messages from people trying to use me as the metal man to get you or Sean asking to do the driving range thing.

**Shaan Puri** (1:35)
Yeah, the golf thing. Okay, the golf thing got out of hand. We'll talk about that later. All right.

**Chris Koerner** (1:38)
It's a banger.

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
So Chris, let's start. You brought some ideas. We're going to bring in some, we're going to riff off these. We're going to react to these. So where do you want to start? Give me, let's start with the banger. Give me one of the best businesses that you've seen that you think, wow, somebody could do that. Somebody else could do that.

**Chris Koerner** (1:55)
Yeah. You want to go porch pumpkins?

**Shaan Puri** (1:58)
Okay. So explain the idea and then let's talk about it.

**Chris Koerner** (2:00)
All right. So I'm on Instagram. I see this woman decorating porches with pumpkins. I thought, that's genius. That's brilliant. It's just all visual. It sells really well on short form video. So I reached out to her. We spoke, I learned about her business. She's doing seven figures a year across three months. It could be seasonal. People want her to decorate her porch for Christmas, Thanksgiving, flowers in the spring. But she doesn't want to. She just wants to do pumpkins. And so over the last couple of years, I've learned of other people doing quarterly flower delivery, like front porch flower decorations, Christmas decorations, Christmas lights. This could be a year-round business that starts with porch pumpkins.

**Shaan Puri** (2:40)
Who is the lady? Can you say, let's give her a shout out.

**Chris Koerner** (2:42)
Heather Torres. Heather Torres.

**Sam Parr** (2:43)
Sean, is this the same person that we talked about?

**Shaan Puri** (2:45)
We did talk about this once before. But there's actually a little twist to it now. So originally, and we can pull up, if you're on YouTube, you'll see what this means. So what does porch pumpkins means? Basically, during fall Halloween season, people want their house to look festive. They hire this lady and she comes over with like, you know, like throw pillow overload of pumpkins and we'll just decorate the front of your house. Cool. You pay her, how much does it cost roughly for like a basic package?

**Chris Koerner** (3:15)
So 500 to 1500 and she's there for like an hour.

**Shaan Puri** (3:19)
You hired, you did this, you Porsche pumpkined your wife?

**Chris Koerner** (3:21)
Yeah, my wife saw it and she's like, I need that in my life.

**Shaan Puri** (3:24)
And okay, and was it her who came or was it like a minion?

**Chris Koerner** (3:27)
She hasn't come yet. Our week is like two weeks from now and it won't be her. It'll be someone from her team.

**Shaan Puri** (3:32)
Okay, amazing. So someone from her team comes out, they put Porsche pumpkins and give us a sense of how well she's doing. What do you know about the business, this one woman in Dallas who started this?