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The Side Hustle King: "Make $20K+/month without money, luck, or experience"

55 min episode · 2 min read
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Chris Corner

Episode

55 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Personal Finance, Investing, Design & UX

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Key Takeaways

  • Liquidation Reselling via B-Stock: Buy returned Costco appliances and furniture at 3–10% of retail value — refrigerators at $34 each, washers and dryers at $2.50 each — then resell on Facebook Marketplace for $750–$900. Validate demand first by posting fake listings before bidding. Avoid electronics due to testing complexity. Start with a $1,200 resale certificate.
  • AI Voice Agent Installation: The highest-demand AI service for small businesses right now is voice agents that answer phones and book appointments automatically. A barbershop model charges $2,500 upfront plus $250 monthly per client. The agent syncs with the owner's calendar, handles bookings, and requires only swapping the business name and hours between clients — making it highly repeatable.
  • Customer Acquisition Before Infrastructure: The single most common failure point in new businesses is spending time on operations before securing customers. Post on Facebook Marketplace before buying any equipment. List services, gauge response, then fulfill. For tree trimming, this approach led to mid-six-figure annual revenue with roughly 50% net margins in a single Dallas-Fort Worth market.
  • Snail Mail Subscription Economics: Hannah of The Tiny Post charges $10 monthly to send handwritten letters and physical artwork to 6,000–7,000 subscribers, generating $60,000 MRR within seven months with 70% gross margins and 2% churn. Growth came entirely from six organic TikTok videos, including one showing her husband's skeptical reaction that reached 2 million views.
  • RV Rental Supply-Demand Hack: To identify which RV class to buy in any local market, search a rental platform like RVshare for the same unit type on two dates — this weekend versus the same weekend one year out. A ratio of 47 results versus 470 indicates roughly 90% occupancy. This method confirmed Class C motorhomes as the optimal unit type in suburban Dallas markets.

What It Covers

Chris Koerner, who has launched over 80 businesses, presents five low-capital business models — liquidation reselling, AI consulting for small businesses, snail mail subscriptions, tote rentals, wall printing, and RV rentals — each designed to generate $5,000–$20,000 monthly with minimal upfront investment and no prior experience required.

Key Questions Answered

  • Liquidation Reselling via B-Stock: Buy returned Costco appliances and furniture at 3–10% of retail value — refrigerators at $34 each, washers and dryers at $2.50 each — then resell on Facebook Marketplace for $750–$900. Validate demand first by posting fake listings before bidding. Avoid electronics due to testing complexity. Start with a $1,200 resale certificate.
  • AI Voice Agent Installation: The highest-demand AI service for small businesses right now is voice agents that answer phones and book appointments automatically. A barbershop model charges $2,500 upfront plus $250 monthly per client. The agent syncs with the owner's calendar, handles bookings, and requires only swapping the business name and hours between clients — making it highly repeatable.
  • Customer Acquisition Before Infrastructure: The single most common failure point in new businesses is spending time on operations before securing customers. Post on Facebook Marketplace before buying any equipment. List services, gauge response, then fulfill. For tree trimming, this approach led to mid-six-figure annual revenue with roughly 50% net margins in a single Dallas-Fort Worth market.
  • Snail Mail Subscription Economics: Hannah of The Tiny Post charges $10 monthly to send handwritten letters and physical artwork to 6,000–7,000 subscribers, generating $60,000 MRR within seven months with 70% gross margins and 2% churn. Growth came entirely from six organic TikTok videos, including one showing her husband's skeptical reaction that reached 2 million views.
  • RV Rental Supply-Demand Hack: To identify which RV class to buy in any local market, search a rental platform like RVshare for the same unit type on two dates — this weekend versus the same weekend one year out. A ratio of 47 results versus 470 indicates roughly 90% occupancy. This method confirmed Class C motorhomes as the optimal unit type in suburban Dallas markets.

Notable Moment

While live on the episode, the host browsed B-Stock and found 58 used refrigerators available for $34 per unit — a price so low he nearly abandoned the conversation to place a bid. The moment illustrated how accessible liquidation inventory actually is for first-time resellers.

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Episode Transcript

Alright. I'm gonna say one sentence and then you can decide if this episode is for you. If you're the type of person who's got the entrepreneurial itch, you wanna do something, you wanna start a new business, you wanna get that extra $5.10, $15,000 of income coming in every month, but you don't know which idea to do, which idea to start with. Maybe you don't even have great ideas. This is the episode for that person. We brought on Chris. He's sort of the side hustle king. He loves to find simple, no money upfront, easy business that can pull in cash quickly and then can grow from there. And And so Chris came on. He's got about five ideas for us. I think you will love this episode with Chris. Alright. We got Chris Corner here. You are back because you have, an absolute pipeline, an absolute full stack of business ideas at all times. Like, you know, what's the, open carry he's open carry with business ideas. If people haven't seen it, you got a great, Instagram channel and YouTube channel podcast as well where you talk about, different business ideas. And so that's what I wanna do today. Dude, I I have so many it's not Friday, but I feel like we need to call this no filler Friday because there's no filler today. All stuff, no fluff. Alright. I have a friend who, I wanna ask you this question on his behalf. I have a friend who is a real estate agent, and he does well. He makes, I think, you know, let's call it 250, $300,000 a year. Been doing that for ten years, but he's bored. And he wants a little more scale. He wants a little more he doesn't feel a sense of progress. You know? People always want a sense of progress. And so he feels like, you know, it's pretty hard to scale what he's doing there. He's always poking around at, you know, should I buy this vending machine? Should I do this side hustle, pressure washing, whatever it is? Where does your head go as, like, look, if I was trying to help you get off the real estate path and maybe have have a more entrepreneurial path, what do you what do you sell what do you tell them? I would tell them to start reselling. Reselling, like, Costco liquidation items or government liquidation items. So you spend $1,200, you get what's called a resale certificate, which tells the government I don't need to pay sales taxes on this because I'm passing it on. A lot of these websites require that number from you in order to sell you liquidation items. There's a website called GovDeals. There's a website called B Stock. On B Stock, you buy anything that people return to Costco. I've done this myself, another business I've done. I bought $7,000 worth of washers and dryers, for $2.50 each on average, and I'm …

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  • Growth came entirely from six organic TikTok videos, including one showing her husband's skeptical reaction that reached 2 million views.
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  • B-StockRecommended
    Liquidation Reselling via B-Stock: Buy returned Costco appliances and furniture at 3–10% of retail value — refrigerators at $34 each, washers and dryers at $2.50 each — then resell on Facebook Marketplace for $750–$900.
  • RVshareRecommended
    To identify which RV class to buy in any local market, search a rental platform like RVshare for the same unit type on two dates — this weekend versus the same weekend one year out.
  • Buy returned Costco appliances and furniture at 3–10% of retail value — refrigerators at $34 each, washers and dryers at $2.50 each — then resell on Facebook Marketplace for $750–$900.

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  • Hannah of The Tiny Post charges $10 monthly to send handwritten letters and physical artwork to 6,000–7,000 subscribers, generating $60,000 MRR within seven months with 70% gross margins and 2% churn.

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