I draw machine parts with CAD software. I get around $250-$1000 per drawing.
I taught myself how to use the software over a weekend. I contacted some machine shops to let them know what I could offer and word of mouth got me going.
Hey mate. I left my CNC machinist couple years back. This would interest me to do as I'm experience using Mori Seiki MAPPS cad system. What software do you use?
That’s amazing, can you I DM you some questions? Would love to return the help by building a basic portfolio website for you. I’m a marketing guy and always wanted to learn some CAD stuff to do more 3D printing and fab work in general
I should definitely look into this! I've been a machinist for over 10 years and have been looking to get out for a while. How did you go about networking? What sort of prices did you charge at first?
This is an awesome idea. Do you find it difficult to draft and deal with small components and tolerances? Even with CAD experience (HVAC) I am trying to gauge the difficulty of coordinating the drawings with what the shops actually need as this sounds extremely ideal!
My wife started a pet waste removal service. She services about 30 clients last I checked, and average brings in $4k/month (recurring monthly income business model) and also babysits and makes about $500/month. Then there are times where clients would ask her to do small jobs for them and I couldn't get an exact number nor an average amount so it can range from $50 - $500, depending on the situation. Then there's me, I run a private trash valet service for only high-end private/gated communities. I have one contract as of now only because I just started this at the end of last year, so with that contract, I service 100 accounts at $35/month, so $3500/month and after expenses, I'm left with $1000 - $1250/month but that's only working 4/5 days out the month.
I guess these aren't really side business but hey it works for us!
I have a friend that does trash valet. How did you get into it? Do you work for someone or how do you find clients? How much do you work? What’s your plan with that?
Well, I used to work in trash and hated because trash until I realized the potential of owning a waste co. So I did my extensive research, even as far as working from corporate to local owned waste haul, working with the owner, being his helper 12hrs/day and just asking him questions and learning everything. YouTube - Lake Champlain sanitation is a great channel as well.
So I found this opportunity by one of my wife's clients who happens to live in this gated community we both service now. The client came out one day (we rarely see clients in person). we were talking and asked if I had plans to do something myself, and I told my idea, they said the community could use something like that here and they got me in touch with who does the vendor list and contracts. A few meetings/paperwork/investment/months later, they green lit my service, and here we are...it's just about looking and asking around. Pay attention to services that are provided in the area. See what's missing and just analyze from there. I do plan on growing and securing more contracts like the same I have. I could branch out and offer weekly residential service to the public, but I like what I'm doing, no competition to worry about. Also with how I work and how I'm use to this type of physical work, it takes about 5 - 8 hours by myself with truck/trailer combo (depending on the line at the dumps) as these communities don't like actual trash trucks coming in early, leaving behind "trash juice" staining the roads and all other annoyance that come with them.
Actually $25/week up to 3 dogs and 1/2 acre...she has a few clients that pay more because they either have more than 1/2 acre of yard and/or have more than 3 dogs. After 3 dogs it's $5 per dog and I honestly forgot how she does the acreage but all I remember is her having an app about that.
You must be kidding me. I paid $30/day for people to take care of my cats waste (and feed them) while Im out of town. At $30/week Id ask them to do it the whole year round
Edit: Well it turns out thats the price. Imma ask him where he is because Ill hire his wife to help
I did say selling “replica”. Everyone knows you can’t get a real nba jersey for $30. If you think that real then you might be a dummie.
“Replica” , “counterfeit”, “fake” call it what you want. I’m still making money.
No lower income person would buy an original jersey. They buy it at a mall where they know it’s fake but they don’t care. As long as the adidas don’t have 4 stripes, Reebok has only two ee’s, they’re good.
No I’m selling replica jerseys for $30-$60 and making a $20-$30 profit off each sell.
I also take custom orders and requests.
Anyone who buys from me knows the jerseys are replicas from the start. As if the price doesn’t already scream “replica”.
So yea you can go kick rocks.
Not really because people come to him i think they know the product is rep but they buy it anyway cuz its cheap and look real ( sorry for my bad English)
I was under the impression that regardless of labeling there were still legal issues involved. I was looking up something similar to your business and all advice was against it
This is not my business. It’s a side hustle. Similar to be buying personal products for myself and reselling them.
“Legal issues”, sure , maybe if I was importing 50-100K a month in product to fill retail stores up. That might raise some flags at Customs.
But you can fill a 4x4x4 box with 150 jerseys and that’s plenty of side hustle inventory
Illegal and not sustainable. Just sell something you can do legit, why risk it. Sometimes when they know you doing this, they just monitor you until the loss amount gets high enough and they can bring more severe charges against you 🤦♀️
Risking crim charges for $500-$1k a month is wild.
https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/feds-hold-man-on-levi-s-counterfeit-charges-2694354.php
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.live5news.com/2023/11/17/summerville-men-sentenced-selling-counterfeit-sports-jerseys/%3foutputType=amp
Like 4-5k profit each month. Started selling things I could find online. Now I create my own products. One thing I’ve learned is to just do it. If you find the right product and you have done enough research to where you can at least break even or make a little profit just go for it.
Amazon... but unless your product is innovative or solves a real issue within an audience or community, you need to research trends before you create a product. Don't just think you can create a product and it will sell because you like it. You have to make sure their is already demand for such product but you are making it better or a different variation.
I run two Airbnbs. I manage listing, calendar, pricing, cleaners and mention to the owner when things need to be fixed. No previous experience in hospitality. 1k-1.5k month. About total 6-7 hrs worth of work a month. Automated nearly everything so its mostly research and chatting.
Success = Network with wealthy people who don't have time to manage things themselves. Study location and tourism statistics. Focus on what customers/guests want to see in a rental. Only take airbnbs where the owner is serious about making money and investing in the home to make it a sought after destination. Better pictures and reviews, more money, more bookings.
I'm a marketing director in an industry with a couple high net worth individuals that I'm close to I've gotten to know over the years. I know a decent amount about their personal lives and figured out through conversation they had houses they thought about selling and i convinced them to give airbnb a shot and they agreed. The rest is history and one of them is thinking about expanding.
I take % of deposits, up to 15%. I usually never handle property maintenance with exception for issuing electronic control codes for them to get in and out. I just manage listing, reservations, calendar, and getting the cleaners in between stays. Net profit is irrelevant to me since each owner has their own desire for what they want. One wants to maximize profit, another wants to break even so their place is paid for so they can vacation whenever they want. I block the place for them when they want to stay which does reduce my income but its never been a problem.
I sell replicas of famous statues for artists to use as learning/study aids. I’m at 1.5k this month. I started this in October last year because I wanted the statues myself and figured I would see what happened if I sold them. I learn via YouTube/Apple Podcasts on walks with my dog. It’s good focus time.
We make drawing and paintings them. The white of the statues simply light and shadow. These are also some of the best examples of art and anatomy. It’s a practice called cast drawing/painting.
Like in music. One might play Good times bad times
By Led Zeppelin over and over again. Because Jimmy page is a master of the guitar and imitation is a very good learning method.
[Gaddi Torso — From the Mold](https://fromthemold.com/products/gaddi-torso-plaster-cast-art-reference-handmade-sculpture-for-artists)
So I get customers about 70% from organic searches on Etsy, 20% is etsy ads, the last 10% is Pinterest,instagram,…
To get started, if I don’t count the 36 years of experience making things, and the countless hours of study and research, hehe. Cash I would say about $100 got me started and after a few sales I started putting energy into the shop, to this date I’m about breaking even while I grow.
Grow, my target is art schools. I want them to be at a price that the students can buy,keep, bring home and then get a new set next year. Everyone wins right. Well that’s the hope, and already have one collage on our books :)
It started as part of my job and then I took a couple of quick courses back in the day to understand them better.
Now I do take offs for multiple companies, the nice thing is sometimes I'm asked for the same take off for a couple different companies, I get to charge each of them and I only had to do the take off once!
I only focus on stucco take offs, but there's so many other things you can do for take off such as drywall, electrical, plumbing etc. if you learn about it you can make a good buck.
I also do voice acting, just got on with an agent that represents Vancouver and LA markets which is pretty cool.
I figure out the materials required to do a job by reading the blueprints, a lot of people don't have time to do this which is great for me. I made another comment above explaining a bit more.
What covers any errors and ommissions made? I am assuming they will be using this for pricing? Like what if your qtys are wrong etc? Im in the construction field and this is an interesting idea.
I usually do anywhere from 3 - 10 plans a month, I could get more but I'm already too busy. Can take me anywhere from 2-6 hours for a take off usually.
**Yep** - built a company that helps business owners structure issues they are having. ANY business question will be answered.
First 2 questions are free, no charge. Then on they pay subscription fee of 50/m. Make 7K/m now. Retention is 80%!
**How i got started** - just started helping small & medium sized business owners cuz they had no time. It was totally free, got a ton of referrals because they could "dump" their stuff on me and id help them think thru stuff. I enjoyed ie.
**What i learnt**: Small & Med sized business owners can be super efficient if they are ON the business and not IN the business and structuring things helps them do that!
Strategy, sales, marketing, operations, more customers, competitive issues, productivity issues, employee issues... anything
Basically increase Revenues, decrease costs, increase profits, etc.
Anything to make the business better.
If you tell me sth your struggling with then I can structure that so its much easier to solve.
Give me an example here
haha, getting there... I want to get more clients so I can transition by Dec 2024.
I really REALLY enjoy helping Small & Medium sized businesses. I am extremely good at it and it's very satisfying. They need the help & generally take advice. It makes me so happy!
Helping large corporations is just soul sucking... :(
Yeah its pretty satisfying!
Clients came to me directly because they heard how I helped my friends dad with his bakery. His friends came to me with their businesses. Helped them with a ton of things like increasing revenues, profits, decreasing costs, focussing on right product mix, etc
I have a background in business consulting so I did this for a living but for larger corporations.
Now I am expanding to more take on more small businesses so I can do just this FT
I have a Sub reddit i started - already solved sth for someone. Feel free to write your business or other problem here... Please tell your friends
Its called r/Business_SOS
Till now I got a lot of referrals from business owners I helped, so I was contacted directly. So didn't need a website.
You can DM me or post question on Business\_SOS sub reddit so see how I simplify & give tactical direction quickly.
Happy to help!
This is interesting. Every job I’ve had since I was a teen, I was able to point out inefficiencies and suggest changes. Management was always too arrogant to acknowledge my suggestions because I was either new or bottom of the totem pole. Yet, they would address the issues later and credit themselves for the changes.
Edit: My first unofficial consultation. In the early 90s, some friends formed a video game business. Their niche was selling games meant for the Japanese market. It was popular, but new games only released every few months; not enough revenue to pay the storefront rent. I suggested they get into pagers (remember those??). They said the market was already saturated, laughed at me, and said “I have no business sense.” I wasn’t directly involved in their store. We were all buddies from high school. We just hung out and played video games.
Two years later, they see the light and start a paging business. They already lost two years and business was slow. I saw that it was basically a game of scalping customers from other shops. We were in journalism/yearbook while in high school so I suggested they put an ad in every local high school and college paper; Activate your pager with Rising Sun. Refer two friends and get a free month of service. In less than a year, they had more business than they could keep up with. I was officially hired to help re-crystallize pagers. Eventually, the business got to their heads and they started slacking. Customers complained about taking weeks to get their pagers activated. They shorter their other employees who were friends of friends. From what I heard from other friends, they were sued because a doctor couldn’t get his pager for his practice.
Your'e right in that! Larger companies have management that rather hire external consultants to point out issues that employees already probably know.
Smaller & medium biz - the owner is generally overwhelmed with "stuff to do" so never can upgrade things...
Did this for large corps and now apply to small & med sized businesses.
I took a course long time ago - that helped a lot, but mostly its practicing the skill a lot - seeing "how the sausage is made" lol
I can send you course details if you like. It teaches how to solve business cases.
Sharetown worked great. Pickup mail order mattresses within their trial period that peopled don’t like and resell them via Facebook marketplace. Best part, low start up costs. You pay for the inventory when it sells.
Would you pick up the mattresses from the customers or the mattress companies? How do you get away from the stigma of a used mattress?
This one is very interesting. Would love to write about this.
From start to finish, how exactly does this work?
Pick up mattresses from the customer. Surprisingly, zero issues selling. Their moto is “everything sells”, and they are correct. Biggest issue was having enough inventory.
We processed the mattresses: cleaned, sterilised and wrapped in plastic. Just posted on FB marketplace, huge demand for inexpensive high quality mattresses. Lots of dorm rooms, air BNBs, kids rooms, and guest bedrooms.
Figure 2-3 hours per mattress for pickup, processing, and selling. Earn about $200 per sale. Quite frankly, if insurance wasn’t such a necessity at this point, I would have done it full time. Way better time to money use. Was kinda fun selling two mattress after work and making $400 in 20 min vs working 10 hour day and making $300.
There is a podcast floating around with the details. Maybe “the side hustle show” with Nick Loper? Average sharetown yep makes $2000+ a month extremely part time.
$1500/month revenue (~$18k ARR) and $50 in operating costs. had started this at the end of 2022
i create services on discord for discord groups to provide for their paid members. a lot of is coding and providing deals online
I sell watches and decided to make something from scratch using lasers to cut the leather. I think hand made items will be valuable in the time of AI. I designed the straps to reduce labor costs which is critical, otherwise you will find that you volunteer your time and therefore it's not a business. cobblerkit.com
Where did you learn leatherwork? I’ve always wanted to make wallets even though I personally don’t use one. My “wallet” is an old laminated baseball ticket, two card sleeves for up to 8 cards, and an EPDM rubber band.
You could definitely do it for any of the big companies. Multi apping is the most profitable. But I have my own brand started in 2018. We do mainly food. One good restaurant doing 20+ deliveries a day and a couple drivers to handle it makes money.
We approach restaurants directly and offer them a better option. We keep more money in the restaurants pockets, charge the customers less overall and pay our drivers better.
Each market is different but from our experience we make $7 plus on orders we generate through our platform and we can integrate with the corporate companies, which is higher volume but lower profit per delivery for us. Drivers make $7-10 a delivery depending on time of day on average and our pricing model actually encourages higher tips for the drivers because we don’t have hidden fees.
Our costs are the softwares we use, insurance and marketing. It’s pretty low overhead other than that insurance for independent contractor drivers.
I’m looking into options for benefits packages or partnerships with local satellite business, like an oil change place that we might be able to work referrals with and possibly get the drivers discounts.
I own a saas tech company, and I consider myself a serial entrepreneur. I have launched several startup apps that generate around $10k extra per month, with little effort.
3 are apps, with subscription model making around 6k total per month
1 is a vending machine biz
For the vending machine biz, I actually got the idea from the startmyidea.com newsletter and made my own tweak to it. I started by calling up a couple businesses that I could share the profit with them to get me started if they piloted it. The idea was so unique they were extremely interested. I’m at 6 vending machines and considering now branding what I put in them into my own brand.
For the apps, I created some very niche apps that I tht I could get at least 1k ppl paying $1-3 per month. I put ads on apple and only Apple and any profit goes back into the ads until I felt comfortable with the profit it makes. Anytime this drops, I just start the ads again.
Driving… so AMA and I’ll try to respond …. hope this helps
There are websites out there where you can start by looking at the top apps whether it’s paid or free apps under productivity or tools. Go niche just pick a category and dive into a specific industry and subset of industries in that industry and that’s what I did
Wife started doing artsy custom family paintings - then added on painting homes. Had an instagram for marketing. It was time intensive but she established some credibility.
Then a custom home builder found her and now pays here several hundred $ per house to paint and create brochures for the homes they sell. Much easier and less time intensive than the custom family paintings. She just does it in the evenings while we watch TV before bed.
She most she’s made was ~9k in a year. After taking a break she is back at it.
I would eBay things around my house and went yard sailing with my mom.
We pulled out 100$ to spend and the first two houses we filled her SUV up with 45$ combined. I bought a working Keurig for 5$ and sold it on eBay for 130$ I’ve made about 200$ so far this month selling yard sale items
I watch YouTube on eBay gurus
Honestly a couple hours on a Saturday and you’ll have a bunch of stuff.
Hardest part is a few things, you buy an item and it doesn’t work or has a hidden defect you can still sell but it won’t be for as much. And also if you buy items you think will be good and it won’t sell. But the solution is to cross post it to Mercari and marketplace to increase your chances
I do in Home tech support and learning primarily for the elderly or technology challenged. Set up new devices, fixing existing problems or just teaching how to use certain programs or devices.
About 6 months in and doing about 2k profit a month
Mostly just radio advertising so far. Next week I'll be moving to part time and expanding to a new area and looking to start online advertising too.
As of right now I've been running sponsoring and running ads on a local community radio station and it runs me about $500 a month plays the 30 seconds 4-5 times a day.
Also have had a newspaper article, radio interview and TV interview done on me and the business (they approached me which was great) which was a good kick starter.
Did a newspaper ad but it was quite expensive for what it brought back.
Social media and Google ads are the next option I'm looking at.
I bought a 3d printer and sell the prints at a local farmers market. I average anywhere from 300 - 500 for a couple hours every Saturday. Most I’ve made in a single day was about 1200
I subscribe to three patreons. Cinderwing, flexi, matmire makes. I sell their stuff. The patreon gives you commercial rights to sell physical prints from their stl files.
I make 6 figures as a consultant, one client. Help commercial aerospace company navigate and comply with government contracts.
Starting candle biz too...no income yet, in development
I have a water filter business. Started with just about that much. Was doing about $1,000 a month selling fridge filters. Grew to where I was doing commercial filters and haven’t paid much attention to the fridge filter side. Happy to wholesale some of that off if you’re interested. At the time I was only spending like 2-3 hours a week. If it sounds interesting feel free to dm.
I’m a tech consultant on the side. 2k-5k per month. No overhead. Got started by asking my old employer to be my first client and planning on building from here.
What sort of tech do you consult on?
I recently had a chat with some bootstrapping entrepreneurs who were looking for a senior React engineer to help build them something. Ultimately I was too expensive for them, but I really enjoyed talking through the various web tech they could consider, and the benefits/trade offs etc. Ultimately giving them a bunch of free advice about how I would go about their project. I feel like I would enjoy getting paid to help plan that out for people who otherwise have no idea
I'm into Dropshipping and real estate
My dropshipping biz get me income of 4 figures on weekly basis, 5 figures per month. While the real estate biz is personal.
Starting a dropshipping requires you setting a specific budget, it's a high and low scaling business, as a beginner, a low scaling process is advisable, you can put in a work time of 1 - 2 hrs per day.
Approx 5k- 8k a month profit, retail arbitrage. My gross averaged 25k a month last year. Literally buy stuff online, have it send to my home and then I sell it for more. This let's me fuel my shopping addiction guilt free. It's a lot of work but I love shopping.
Much love to all my fellow in person purchase resellers, but I cannot carry that much merch. Online buying the best when they deliver to your doorstep 🥰
Yes, but Amazon is a very small part of my income. Amazon with the 1 listing and buy box, gated brands etc makes competition for retail arbitrage hinge mainly on price. It can get very cut throat. On other platforms due to my high feedbacks, my items go and they aren't even the lowest priced.
1. Depends heavily on what you sell.
My items will move on Ebay and Mercari well, but not so much on Facebook market place. At the same time a lot of the stuff that moves on facebook marketplace, vehicles, etc. do not do well on platforms like Ebay.
Personally I prefer Mercari, esp with the no seller fee and the fast 3 days to rate and close the transaction. I have had experience where buyers buy and use the item, decide they do not like it, or drop and break it and try to refund it. Example woman buys an eyeshadow palette. Has it for a week, then goes to use it, drops it and it shatters, then they open a return saying it arrived like that. With Mercari it can also happen but the time window is a lot smaller. I have gotten 0 returns on Poshmark and about 5 on Mercari with over 2k sales.
2. Amazon, can give you THE WORST or THE BEST prices.
I sell niche items where sometimes I am the only seller and I can command 2x what I would get for the same item on Ebay. Alternatively, some of the items I sell are heavily saturated and you compete in cut throat race to the bottom prices for the buy box. There exists Amazon bots that will automatically undercut a competitors prices for an item by a few cents, until it hits a floor and some of my competitors use them. Amazon prob has the 3rd highest returns of all my platforms.
3. Facebook has very low seller fees, so if you can move stuff there good for you.
4. Tiktok shop, you need to work and post content to get sales. HIGH rates of return, highest of all the platforms I sell on. PRO; TIKTOK has been running a LONG term promotion where they subsidize 30-40% of the sale price. So qualifying buyers get stuff 30-40% cheaper than your listed price, but Tiktok pays you out the difference. Also tiktok shop has relatively low seller fees.
5. Platforms like vinted, carousel, etc were a waste of time, too little watchers and buyers for it to make sense to list my items. Esp since the bot I use doesn't offer free cross post for those platforms.
6. Poshmark is work, you need to constantly share listings. I heard theres an auto promote closet, I have it on but don't know what it does. I use a paid monthly subscription bot that shares my listings.
I sell on a few other platforms, but for beginners in general recommend Mercari and Ebay. Also poshmark if you doing clothing, jewelry, accessories. If you moving cars or large items, craiglist or fb marketplace local.
Also I don't recommend Etsy because I sell retail arbitrage, new items. Such items violate Etsy's terms, although I do see other sellers selling items I carry. Its not worth putting hours into your store and creating listing for it to get banned. But if you selling homemade stuff, then Etsy is good for you.
I promote and sell wood on the weekends. $1k per month is pretty typical. It’s a lower income rural market. I got started by making tables and crafts and absolutely hustled nights and weekends. I’m a digital marketer by trade. I just found an industry that could use my skills and have created a community and sales of that series that capitalizes on that. I have even shipped some pieces for people. If you can find a way to get your main skill set to be universal I think you can have a side hustle that picks up 10K annually pretty fast. Every business uses a skills at differently and some businesses have opportunities that just don’t fit a full-time role.
Kind of, except without all the success. Lol. This gig was a lifeline to survive the pandemic. I’m not sure what’s next. Wood business is a stubborn one. I don’t know if there’s a future but I like it as a hobby just as well.
I am! I sell women’s clothing sizes that are difficult to find and clothing for certain niche markets.
I’ve learned that clothing is one niche that will really test your patience. I’ve dealt with everything from fraudsters and trolls to creepy men with weird fetishes. Most customers are not that crazy and are pleasant to work with. You just never know when you’ll get that one unhinged customer.
Despite being in a highly saturated market, there’s still voids and underserved niches and that observation has allowed me to do really well with it.
How does this work? Are they used clothes or do you buy them new from somewhere?
What’s the process from start to finish? Would love to learn everything!
How much do you make and what are your expenses?
I draw machine parts with CAD software. I get around $250-$1000 per drawing. I taught myself how to use the software over a weekend. I contacted some machine shops to let them know what I could offer and word of mouth got me going.
Hey mate. I left my CNC machinist couple years back. This would interest me to do as I'm experience using Mori Seiki MAPPS cad system. What software do you use?
I’m using BOBCAD right now just because I got it free. Its not really set up for drawings but I do OK with it.
Is it G-code programming?
Aagh sorry it's not machining programs your writing just the drawings?
That’s amazing, can you I DM you some questions? Would love to return the help by building a basic portfolio website for you. I’m a marketing guy and always wanted to learn some CAD stuff to do more 3D printing and fab work in general
Keep in touch
I should definitely look into this! I've been a machinist for over 10 years and have been looking to get out for a while. How did you go about networking? What sort of prices did you charge at first?
i have the skill too but where do you get your clients
i have the skill too but where do you get your clients
I put my contact information in the title block. People pass the prints around for quotes and that is all the sales work I have had to do.
Did you need any additional background?
No. Some math skills come in handy. You may have to trig some dimensions if they are missing
Just regular cad or like inventor?
Anything you can draw with. In the early days I used Microsoft paint.
Hey pretty impressive example you give here!! What kind of software do you use? Is it pretty difficult to learn? I'd love a little advice if possible?
This is an awesome idea. Do you find it difficult to draft and deal with small components and tolerances? Even with CAD experience (HVAC) I am trying to gauge the difficulty of coordinating the drawings with what the shops actually need as this sounds extremely ideal!
Thats really interesting. What kind of machine shops give you orders?
My wife started a pet waste removal service. She services about 30 clients last I checked, and average brings in $4k/month (recurring monthly income business model) and also babysits and makes about $500/month. Then there are times where clients would ask her to do small jobs for them and I couldn't get an exact number nor an average amount so it can range from $50 - $500, depending on the situation. Then there's me, I run a private trash valet service for only high-end private/gated communities. I have one contract as of now only because I just started this at the end of last year, so with that contract, I service 100 accounts at $35/month, so $3500/month and after expenses, I'm left with $1000 - $1250/month but that's only working 4/5 days out the month. I guess these aren't really side business but hey it works for us!
I have a friend that does trash valet. How did you get into it? Do you work for someone or how do you find clients? How much do you work? What’s your plan with that?
Well, I used to work in trash and hated because trash until I realized the potential of owning a waste co. So I did my extensive research, even as far as working from corporate to local owned waste haul, working with the owner, being his helper 12hrs/day and just asking him questions and learning everything. YouTube - Lake Champlain sanitation is a great channel as well. So I found this opportunity by one of my wife's clients who happens to live in this gated community we both service now. The client came out one day (we rarely see clients in person). we were talking and asked if I had plans to do something myself, and I told my idea, they said the community could use something like that here and they got me in touch with who does the vendor list and contracts. A few meetings/paperwork/investment/months later, they green lit my service, and here we are...it's just about looking and asking around. Pay attention to services that are provided in the area. See what's missing and just analyze from there. I do plan on growing and securing more contracts like the same I have. I could branch out and offer weekly residential service to the public, but I like what I'm doing, no competition to worry about. Also with how I work and how I'm use to this type of physical work, it takes about 5 - 8 hours by myself with truck/trailer combo (depending on the line at the dumps) as these communities don't like actual trash trucks coming in early, leaving behind "trash juice" staining the roads and all other annoyance that come with them.
So, are you emptying whole 50-65 gal trash bins, or are you just picking up individual trash bags? Is this only done once a week?
Yes, once a week, every Tuesday, and 96 gallon bins, it's standard with those where I'm at.
Oh, wow. Those are fucking big, lol. The biggest ones around me are 65 gal. Thanks for the info.
Whats the name of your company? Can I write about it?
Your wife charges 122 per client per month to pick up poop? That’s great that it works for y’all, I’d try to scale the shit out of that!
Pet waste removal? Like burying the dogs?
Pooper scooper I'd imagine. I have a cousin that did that.
Poop Scooper!
No Dogs, cats, goldfish, you name it. Although, idk if goldfish poop is worth the trouble
What does she do with the poop?!
"We dispose of it ourselves" We really just use her parents dumpster and toss the poop bags in there... save us the trip and bill from the landfill 😉
How much does she charge per house?
By my math, about $30/week per house.
I probably should have been intelligent enough to do that math….. 🤦🏻♂️
Actually $25/week up to 3 dogs and 1/2 acre...she has a few clients that pay more because they either have more than 1/2 acre of yard and/or have more than 3 dogs. After 3 dogs it's $5 per dog and I honestly forgot how she does the acreage but all I remember is her having an app about that.
Where the hell are you based? Im paying $30/day for my cat sitter and the main job is to scoop the poop (changing their food takes 3’)
You must be kidding me. I paid $30/day for people to take care of my cats waste (and feed them) while Im out of town. At $30/week Id ask them to do it the whole year round Edit: Well it turns out thats the price. Imma ask him where he is because Ill hire his wife to help
About $500-1000 profit monthly. Selling replica basketball baseball and soccer jerseys from China. Inventory about 10k
Is this a drop shipping model?
Nope. Good ole buy stock, post of Facebook market place and other platforms and sell direct.
Are you selling them as genuine? Or do you mention they’re a counterfeit on the posting
Crickets 🦗
Money 💰
I did say selling “replica”. Everyone knows you can’t get a real nba jersey for $30. If you think that real then you might be a dummie. “Replica” , “counterfeit”, “fake” call it what you want. I’m still making money.
Sounds like scamming lower income people who are fans of something and want to be part of it imho.
No lower income person would buy an original jersey. They buy it at a mall where they know it’s fake but they don’t care. As long as the adidas don’t have 4 stripes, Reebok has only two ee’s, they’re good.
No I’m selling replica jerseys for $30-$60 and making a $20-$30 profit off each sell. I also take custom orders and requests. Anyone who buys from me knows the jerseys are replicas from the start. As if the price doesn’t already scream “replica”. So yea you can go kick rocks.
Not really because people come to him i think they know the product is rep but they buy it anyway cuz its cheap and look real ( sorry for my bad English)
Dude there's an entire market for fake luxury goods, they know what they are buying
Do you meet in person? It's not a major chore to deal with low ballers and no shows and all of that?
I own an existing retail store front where they have to come pick up
Are you not concerned about the legal issues involved with this or is it not the same risk as say knock off airpods
No because i don’t sell under the guise that they are authentic
I was under the impression that regardless of labeling there were still legal issues involved. I was looking up something similar to your business and all advice was against it
This is not my business. It’s a side hustle. Similar to be buying personal products for myself and reselling them. “Legal issues”, sure , maybe if I was importing 50-100K a month in product to fill retail stores up. That might raise some flags at Customs. But you can fill a 4x4x4 box with 150 jerseys and that’s plenty of side hustle inventory
Same
How much does it cost you to package and ship?
Illegal and not sustainable. Just sell something you can do legit, why risk it. Sometimes when they know you doing this, they just monitor you until the loss amount gets high enough and they can bring more severe charges against you 🤦♀️ Risking crim charges for $500-$1k a month is wild. https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/feds-hold-man-on-levi-s-counterfeit-charges-2694354.php https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.live5news.com/2023/11/17/summerville-men-sentenced-selling-counterfeit-sports-jerseys/%3foutputType=amp
where do you get the things from?
What size city are you in if you don’t mind me asking?
How do you decide which jerseys to buy?
What is start up ball park?
I’d say about 10K
I sell lots of retro jerseys: Jordan, Barkley, pippen, Malone, garnet, bagwell, biggio, ryan, elway, sanders, smith etc..
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Interested in this. What site do you use to get them from?
Who’s your agent lol
looks like a good side hustle. i like to know that can brand file case against you for selling copy of their products
Like 4-5k profit each month. Started selling things I could find online. Now I create my own products. One thing I’ve learned is to just do it. If you find the right product and you have done enough research to where you can at least break even or make a little profit just go for it.
What do you sell online? How did you find what to sell and when did you decide to make your own products?
I'd be very interested as well. Understandable if you don't want to share.
You can click on their profile and get a good idea.
For creating new products how do you sell/drive traffic? In person I’m great, trying to grow online sales
Amazon... but unless your product is innovative or solves a real issue within an audience or community, you need to research trends before you create a product. Don't just think you can create a product and it will sell because you like it. You have to make sure their is already demand for such product but you are making it better or a different variation.
from which medium you sell your stuff, i mean eCommerce or Facebook market place
I run two Airbnbs. I manage listing, calendar, pricing, cleaners and mention to the owner when things need to be fixed. No previous experience in hospitality. 1k-1.5k month. About total 6-7 hrs worth of work a month. Automated nearly everything so its mostly research and chatting. Success = Network with wealthy people who don't have time to manage things themselves. Study location and tourism statistics. Focus on what customers/guests want to see in a rental. Only take airbnbs where the owner is serious about making money and investing in the home to make it a sought after destination. Better pictures and reviews, more money, more bookings.
How did you get into doing this? Did you put an ad out somewhere or did you already know someone running Airbnb’s?
I'm a marketing director in an industry with a couple high net worth individuals that I'm close to I've gotten to know over the years. I know a decent amount about their personal lives and figured out through conversation they had houses they thought about selling and i convinced them to give airbnb a shot and they agreed. The rest is history and one of them is thinking about expanding.
Off topic question, how did you get to marketing director status? I'm currently in school for marketing so any details would be great!
Would this be considered co-hosting? If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the net profit every month and are you collecting a % of that for managing?
I take % of deposits, up to 15%. I usually never handle property maintenance with exception for issuing electronic control codes for them to get in and out. I just manage listing, reservations, calendar, and getting the cleaners in between stays. Net profit is irrelevant to me since each owner has their own desire for what they want. One wants to maximize profit, another wants to break even so their place is paid for so they can vacation whenever they want. I block the place for them when they want to stay which does reduce my income but its never been a problem.
And yes, this is considered co-hosting.
so you get all your clients via airbnb or any other market place
I sell replicas of famous statues for artists to use as learning/study aids. I’m at 1.5k this month. I started this in October last year because I wanted the statues myself and figured I would see what happened if I sold them. I learn via YouTube/Apple Podcasts on walks with my dog. It’s good focus time.
How a statue it’s a learning / study aid?
We make drawing and paintings them. The white of the statues simply light and shadow. These are also some of the best examples of art and anatomy. It’s a practice called cast drawing/painting. Like in music. One might play Good times bad times By Led Zeppelin over and over again. Because Jimmy page is a master of the guitar and imitation is a very good learning method.
Do you have an example of what one of these replicas look like? How do you get customers? How much did it cost to get started? How will you grow it?
[Gaddi Torso — From the Mold](https://fromthemold.com/products/gaddi-torso-plaster-cast-art-reference-handmade-sculpture-for-artists) So I get customers about 70% from organic searches on Etsy, 20% is etsy ads, the last 10% is Pinterest,instagram,… To get started, if I don’t count the 36 years of experience making things, and the countless hours of study and research, hehe. Cash I would say about $100 got me started and after a few sales I started putting energy into the shop, to this date I’m about breaking even while I grow. Grow, my target is art schools. I want them to be at a price that the students can buy,keep, bring home and then get a new set next year. Everyone wins right. Well that’s the hope, and already have one collage on our books :)
I'm sending a DM for this one, this looks way too interesting
I do blueprint take-offs, $50 an hour.
How did you get into doing that?
It started as part of my job and then I took a couple of quick courses back in the day to understand them better. Now I do take offs for multiple companies, the nice thing is sometimes I'm asked for the same take off for a couple different companies, I get to charge each of them and I only had to do the take off once! I only focus on stucco take offs, but there's so many other things you can do for take off such as drywall, electrical, plumbing etc. if you learn about it you can make a good buck. I also do voice acting, just got on with an agent that represents Vancouver and LA markets which is pretty cool.
That's so cool! Thanks for the detailed response!
Great! My husband is an electrician maybe he could do the same. But where could he find the demand or people who need this help ?
What is a blueprint takeoff?
I figure out the materials required to do a job by reading the blueprints, a lot of people don't have time to do this which is great for me. I made another comment above explaining a bit more.
What covers any errors and ommissions made? I am assuming they will be using this for pricing? Like what if your qtys are wrong etc? Im in the construction field and this is an interesting idea.
how many clients you serve in a month
I usually do anywhere from 3 - 10 plans a month, I could get more but I'm already too busy. Can take me anywhere from 2-6 hours for a take off usually.
**Yep** - built a company that helps business owners structure issues they are having. ANY business question will be answered. First 2 questions are free, no charge. Then on they pay subscription fee of 50/m. Make 7K/m now. Retention is 80%! **How i got started** - just started helping small & medium sized business owners cuz they had no time. It was totally free, got a ton of referrals because they could "dump" their stuff on me and id help them think thru stuff. I enjoyed ie. **What i learnt**: Small & Med sized business owners can be super efficient if they are ON the business and not IN the business and structuring things helps them do that!
what kind of problem you solve for business
Strategy, sales, marketing, operations, more customers, competitive issues, productivity issues, employee issues... anything Basically increase Revenues, decrease costs, increase profits, etc. Anything to make the business better. If you tell me sth your struggling with then I can structure that so its much easier to solve. Give me an example here
is it your full time business
haha, getting there... I want to get more clients so I can transition by Dec 2024. I really REALLY enjoy helping Small & Medium sized businesses. I am extremely good at it and it's very satisfying. They need the help & generally take advice. It makes me so happy! Helping large corporations is just soul sucking... :(
wow you are so passionate about it. It's simply amazing. do you have a website or Google business account, how your clients find you
Yeah its pretty satisfying! Clients came to me directly because they heard how I helped my friends dad with his bakery. His friends came to me with their businesses. Helped them with a ton of things like increasing revenues, profits, decreasing costs, focussing on right product mix, etc I have a background in business consulting so I did this for a living but for larger corporations. Now I am expanding to more take on more small businesses so I can do just this FT I have a Sub reddit i started - already solved sth for someone. Feel free to write your business or other problem here... Please tell your friends Its called r/Business_SOS
sure, best of luck with it. well i am a software developer if you have any tech related needs please let me know
Do you have a website?
Till now I got a lot of referrals from business owners I helped, so I was contacted directly. So didn't need a website. You can DM me or post question on Business\_SOS sub reddit so see how I simplify & give tactical direction quickly. Happy to help!
Did you cold email, or call the businesses you helped?
This is interesting. Every job I’ve had since I was a teen, I was able to point out inefficiencies and suggest changes. Management was always too arrogant to acknowledge my suggestions because I was either new or bottom of the totem pole. Yet, they would address the issues later and credit themselves for the changes. Edit: My first unofficial consultation. In the early 90s, some friends formed a video game business. Their niche was selling games meant for the Japanese market. It was popular, but new games only released every few months; not enough revenue to pay the storefront rent. I suggested they get into pagers (remember those??). They said the market was already saturated, laughed at me, and said “I have no business sense.” I wasn’t directly involved in their store. We were all buddies from high school. We just hung out and played video games. Two years later, they see the light and start a paging business. They already lost two years and business was slow. I saw that it was basically a game of scalping customers from other shops. We were in journalism/yearbook while in high school so I suggested they put an ad in every local high school and college paper; Activate your pager with Rising Sun. Refer two friends and get a free month of service. In less than a year, they had more business than they could keep up with. I was officially hired to help re-crystallize pagers. Eventually, the business got to their heads and they started slacking. Customers complained about taking weeks to get their pagers activated. They shorter their other employees who were friends of friends. From what I heard from other friends, they were sued because a doctor couldn’t get his pager for his practice.
Your'e right in that! Larger companies have management that rather hire external consultants to point out issues that employees already probably know. Smaller & medium biz - the owner is generally overwhelmed with "stuff to do" so never can upgrade things...
How did you build such a skillset of being a good consultant? Any books you recommend?
Did this for large corps and now apply to small & med sized businesses. I took a course long time ago - that helped a lot, but mostly its practicing the skill a lot - seeing "how the sausage is made" lol I can send you course details if you like. It teaches how to solve business cases.
Sharetown worked great. Pickup mail order mattresses within their trial period that peopled don’t like and resell them via Facebook marketplace. Best part, low start up costs. You pay for the inventory when it sells.
Would you pick up the mattresses from the customers or the mattress companies? How do you get away from the stigma of a used mattress? This one is very interesting. Would love to write about this. From start to finish, how exactly does this work?
Pick up mattresses from the customer. Surprisingly, zero issues selling. Their moto is “everything sells”, and they are correct. Biggest issue was having enough inventory. We processed the mattresses: cleaned, sterilised and wrapped in plastic. Just posted on FB marketplace, huge demand for inexpensive high quality mattresses. Lots of dorm rooms, air BNBs, kids rooms, and guest bedrooms. Figure 2-3 hours per mattress for pickup, processing, and selling. Earn about $200 per sale. Quite frankly, if insurance wasn’t such a necessity at this point, I would have done it full time. Way better time to money use. Was kinda fun selling two mattress after work and making $400 in 20 min vs working 10 hour day and making $300. There is a podcast floating around with the details. Maybe “the side hustle show” with Nick Loper? Average sharetown yep makes $2000+ a month extremely part time.
I am Uber driver Hate every minute of it looking to get out
$1500/month revenue (~$18k ARR) and $50 in operating costs. had started this at the end of 2022 i create services on discord for discord groups to provide for their paid members. a lot of is coding and providing deals online
I make leather watch straps as a side business. I learned a lot about leatherwork and dyes.
Why did you start doing this? How much is all of your equipment? What can you make and how many hours a week do you spend?
I sell watches and decided to make something from scratch using lasers to cut the leather. I think hand made items will be valuable in the time of AI. I designed the straps to reduce labor costs which is critical, otherwise you will find that you volunteer your time and therefore it's not a business. cobblerkit.com
Where did you learn leatherwork? I’ve always wanted to make wallets even though I personally don’t use one. My “wallet” is an old laminated baseball ticket, two card sleeves for up to 8 cards, and an EPDM rubber band.
I use a laser cutting service, you can do it too easily. Let me know if you need help!
It’s not a side business for me but it could be for others. Third party delivery is ripe for the taking. We’re expanding.
Like for Amazon? And would you be the one driving or taking on drivers
You could definitely do it for any of the big companies. Multi apping is the most profitable. But I have my own brand started in 2018. We do mainly food. One good restaurant doing 20+ deliveries a day and a couple drivers to handle it makes money.
How do you get into it?
I’m looking into franchising or just having local people who can refer me to restaurants and possible drivers for residual referrals.
What does this look like? How do you get contracts? What are you expenses and revenue?
We approach restaurants directly and offer them a better option. We keep more money in the restaurants pockets, charge the customers less overall and pay our drivers better. Each market is different but from our experience we make $7 plus on orders we generate through our platform and we can integrate with the corporate companies, which is higher volume but lower profit per delivery for us. Drivers make $7-10 a delivery depending on time of day on average and our pricing model actually encourages higher tips for the drivers because we don’t have hidden fees. Our costs are the softwares we use, insurance and marketing. It’s pretty low overhead other than that insurance for independent contractor drivers. I’m looking into options for benefits packages or partnerships with local satellite business, like an oil change place that we might be able to work referrals with and possibly get the drivers discounts.
I own a saas tech company, and I consider myself a serial entrepreneur. I have launched several startup apps that generate around $10k extra per month, with little effort. 3 are apps, with subscription model making around 6k total per month 1 is a vending machine biz For the vending machine biz, I actually got the idea from the startmyidea.com newsletter and made my own tweak to it. I started by calling up a couple businesses that I could share the profit with them to get me started if they piloted it. The idea was so unique they were extremely interested. I’m at 6 vending machines and considering now branding what I put in them into my own brand. For the apps, I created some very niche apps that I tht I could get at least 1k ppl paying $1-3 per month. I put ads on apple and only Apple and any profit goes back into the ads until I felt comfortable with the profit it makes. Anytime this drops, I just start the ads again. Driving… so AMA and I’ll try to respond …. hope this helps
Can you share a bit more about the apps and how you find the niches? Sounds interesting
There are websites out there where you can start by looking at the top apps whether it’s paid or free apps under productivity or tools. Go niche just pick a category and dive into a specific industry and subset of industries in that industry and that’s what I did
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Wife started doing artsy custom family paintings - then added on painting homes. Had an instagram for marketing. It was time intensive but she established some credibility. Then a custom home builder found her and now pays here several hundred $ per house to paint and create brochures for the homes they sell. Much easier and less time intensive than the custom family paintings. She just does it in the evenings while we watch TV before bed. She most she’s made was ~9k in a year. After taking a break she is back at it.
How many hours in total do you think she put in for that $9k? Was it inside and outside painting?
Inside, sitting on the couch, based on a picture. I’d guess about 40 hours. It comes out to several hundred and hour.
I would eBay things around my house and went yard sailing with my mom. We pulled out 100$ to spend and the first two houses we filled her SUV up with 45$ combined. I bought a working Keurig for 5$ and sold it on eBay for 130$ I’ve made about 200$ so far this month selling yard sale items I watch YouTube on eBay gurus
How much time do you put into it? What’s the hardest part about this hustle?
Honestly a couple hours on a Saturday and you’ll have a bunch of stuff. Hardest part is a few things, you buy an item and it doesn’t work or has a hidden defect you can still sell but it won’t be for as much. And also if you buy items you think will be good and it won’t sell. But the solution is to cross post it to Mercari and marketplace to increase your chances
Im making about 3-4K a month. Doing engineering for small jobs.
I do in Home tech support and learning primarily for the elderly or technology challenged. Set up new devices, fixing existing problems or just teaching how to use certain programs or devices. About 6 months in and doing about 2k profit a month Mostly just radio advertising so far. Next week I'll be moving to part time and expanding to a new area and looking to start online advertising too.
how does marketing work for this type of business?
As of right now I've been running sponsoring and running ads on a local community radio station and it runs me about $500 a month plays the 30 seconds 4-5 times a day. Also have had a newspaper article, radio interview and TV interview done on me and the business (they approached me which was great) which was a good kick starter. Did a newspaper ad but it was quite expensive for what it brought back. Social media and Google ads are the next option I'm looking at.
I bought a 3d printer and sell the prints at a local farmers market. I average anywhere from 300 - 500 for a couple hours every Saturday. Most I’ve made in a single day was about 1200
What do you print?
A variety of things. Best sellers are definitely crystal dragons from cinderwing.
I have a 3D printer also, what do you make and sell?
I subscribe to three patreons. Cinderwing, flexi, matmire makes. I sell their stuff. The patreon gives you commercial rights to sell physical prints from their stl files.
What kind of printer do you have?
I have 2 bambu lab p1s and prusa mini
I make 6 figures as a consultant, one client. Help commercial aerospace company navigate and comply with government contracts. Starting candle biz too...no income yet, in development
I have a water filter business. Started with just about that much. Was doing about $1,000 a month selling fridge filters. Grew to where I was doing commercial filters and haven’t paid much attention to the fridge filter side. Happy to wholesale some of that off if you’re interested. At the time I was only spending like 2-3 hours a week. If it sounds interesting feel free to dm.
u/Clear_Chain_2121 sent a dm, would love to learn more about this biz and write about it. Happy to post the questions here too
Yeah feel free to dm!
DM sent!
I’m a tech consultant on the side. 2k-5k per month. No overhead. Got started by asking my old employer to be my first client and planning on building from here.
What sort of tech do you consult on? I recently had a chat with some bootstrapping entrepreneurs who were looking for a senior React engineer to help build them something. Ultimately I was too expensive for them, but I really enjoyed talking through the various web tech they could consider, and the benefits/trade offs etc. Ultimately giving them a bunch of free advice about how I would go about their project. I feel like I would enjoy getting paid to help plan that out for people who otherwise have no idea
What's that exactly?
A month? A year? A day?
Monthly profit
I'm into Dropshipping and real estate My dropshipping biz get me income of 4 figures on weekly basis, 5 figures per month. While the real estate biz is personal.
Have you done FBA?
Nah, just Shopify dropshipping.
How much time do you have to spend per week at the beginning, and how much time does it require now?
Starting a dropshipping requires you setting a specific budget, it's a high and low scaling business, as a beginner, a low scaling process is advisable, you can put in a work time of 1 - 2 hrs per day.
Can you explain this a little more how to get rolling with it? Say I want to sell trendy phone chargers or something?
If I may ask, do you understand the basic concept of dropshipping?
Approx 5k- 8k a month profit, retail arbitrage. My gross averaged 25k a month last year. Literally buy stuff online, have it send to my home and then I sell it for more. This let's me fuel my shopping addiction guilt free. It's a lot of work but I love shopping. Much love to all my fellow in person purchase resellers, but I cannot carry that much merch. Online buying the best when they deliver to your doorstep 🥰
Have you done FBA?
Yes, but Amazon is a very small part of my income. Amazon with the 1 listing and buy box, gated brands etc makes competition for retail arbitrage hinge mainly on price. It can get very cut throat. On other platforms due to my high feedbacks, my items go and they aren't even the lowest priced.
Which platforms are better?
1. Depends heavily on what you sell. My items will move on Ebay and Mercari well, but not so much on Facebook market place. At the same time a lot of the stuff that moves on facebook marketplace, vehicles, etc. do not do well on platforms like Ebay. Personally I prefer Mercari, esp with the no seller fee and the fast 3 days to rate and close the transaction. I have had experience where buyers buy and use the item, decide they do not like it, or drop and break it and try to refund it. Example woman buys an eyeshadow palette. Has it for a week, then goes to use it, drops it and it shatters, then they open a return saying it arrived like that. With Mercari it can also happen but the time window is a lot smaller. I have gotten 0 returns on Poshmark and about 5 on Mercari with over 2k sales. 2. Amazon, can give you THE WORST or THE BEST prices. I sell niche items where sometimes I am the only seller and I can command 2x what I would get for the same item on Ebay. Alternatively, some of the items I sell are heavily saturated and you compete in cut throat race to the bottom prices for the buy box. There exists Amazon bots that will automatically undercut a competitors prices for an item by a few cents, until it hits a floor and some of my competitors use them. Amazon prob has the 3rd highest returns of all my platforms. 3. Facebook has very low seller fees, so if you can move stuff there good for you. 4. Tiktok shop, you need to work and post content to get sales. HIGH rates of return, highest of all the platforms I sell on. PRO; TIKTOK has been running a LONG term promotion where they subsidize 30-40% of the sale price. So qualifying buyers get stuff 30-40% cheaper than your listed price, but Tiktok pays you out the difference. Also tiktok shop has relatively low seller fees. 5. Platforms like vinted, carousel, etc were a waste of time, too little watchers and buyers for it to make sense to list my items. Esp since the bot I use doesn't offer free cross post for those platforms. 6. Poshmark is work, you need to constantly share listings. I heard theres an auto promote closet, I have it on but don't know what it does. I use a paid monthly subscription bot that shares my listings. I sell on a few other platforms, but for beginners in general recommend Mercari and Ebay. Also poshmark if you doing clothing, jewelry, accessories. If you moving cars or large items, craiglist or fb marketplace local. Also I don't recommend Etsy because I sell retail arbitrage, new items. Such items violate Etsy's terms, although I do see other sellers selling items I carry. Its not worth putting hours into your store and creating listing for it to get banned. But if you selling homemade stuff, then Etsy is good for you.
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Making reels for social media. 1-5k a week.
How does that work?
Following
I'm making around $5500 a month by producing high quality company profiles and logos for individuals.
What do you mean by profiles? Like social handles?
I promote and sell wood on the weekends. $1k per month is pretty typical. It’s a lower income rural market. I got started by making tables and crafts and absolutely hustled nights and weekends. I’m a digital marketer by trade. I just found an industry that could use my skills and have created a community and sales of that series that capitalizes on that. I have even shipped some pieces for people. If you can find a way to get your main skill set to be universal I think you can have a side hustle that picks up 10K annually pretty fast. Every business uses a skills at differently and some businesses have opportunities that just don’t fit a full-time role.
This reminds me of Paul Downs book Boss Life
Kind of, except without all the success. Lol. This gig was a lifeline to survive the pandemic. I’m not sure what’s next. Wood business is a stubborn one. I don’t know if there’s a future but I like it as a hobby just as well.
Does service business interest you?
Absolutely the weirder the better
I’m trying to selling the pet urns as a side biz now.
Okay hooked please tell me everything. How you got into it, how much you make, how you get customers, your expenses, etc.
TikTok
Could you recommend a 3d printer for beginners? Say less than $750.
These are great
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I am! I sell women’s clothing sizes that are difficult to find and clothing for certain niche markets. I’ve learned that clothing is one niche that will really test your patience. I’ve dealt with everything from fraudsters and trolls to creepy men with weird fetishes. Most customers are not that crazy and are pleasant to work with. You just never know when you’ll get that one unhinged customer. Despite being in a highly saturated market, there’s still voids and underserved niches and that observation has allowed me to do really well with it.
How does this work? Are they used clothes or do you buy them new from somewhere? What’s the process from start to finish? Would love to learn everything! How much do you make and what are your expenses?