In short
Episode topic: Side-hustle and business-model breakdowns, focusing on revenue-selling “physical/digital” tactics, premium pet services, AI media monetization, wholesale/marketplace distribution, recurring consumables, high-ticket dating, and extreme analog vs extreme AI business ideas.
Guests
Chandler (selfpublishing.com; built an eight-figure business helping thousands publish books; discusses outbound via books and branded swag). William Lindholm (founder of Daymaker.com; cake drop-shipping/middleman service for sales teams; previously ran similar HR birthday cake subscription/matchmaking model).
Key claims and notable examples
- Daymaker.com: ~$4,000/day revenue, ~30–35% margins; $80 custom cake; ~35% conversion to booked meetings vs ~1% from cold outreach; “cake delivery to meetings” reciprocity; uses bakery partners via middleman; includes an AI agentic scraper to find local bakeries.
- Dog gyms: mobile, air-conditioned Sprinter van with custom treadmills; $70 for 30 minutes; ~90% of clients book weekly recurring sessions.
- “Chloe versus history” time-travel shorts: ~17M views in 3 months; estimated ~$8k/month; monetization via ad CPMs; concept criticized as “cheap attention.”
- Cardboard cat condos: started from Amazon-box cat play; pivot to wool cat toys; sells DTC and via wholesale (FAIRE).
- Vita Select: virtual dating service for $1,200–$3,000/month; claims 82% success rate and 11,000 relationships; positions as saving time/money.
- Business idea donation: analog pressure-washing (knock doors; ~$300–$400 machine; break even after first job) and AI implementation for inefficient high-ticket services (e.g., AI call answering/lead follow-up).
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOExploring Cake Dropshipping as a Side Hustle
0:45 to 4:49
Discover how a dropshipping cake business thrives by appealing to sales teams.
“I mean, this is what we've been teaching with book stuff for over a decade now is send a physical copy to people in the mail and watch your lead sales and referrals go up.”
Creative Marketing Strategies in Side Hustles
4:49 to 8:48
Learn innovative ways to market and reach decision-makers through unique gifts.
“Like I'm not doing the baking, but if, you know, every year when it comes around, we want to say thank you to this employee or recognize them on their birthday.”
The Dog Gym Side Hustle
8:48 to 10:34
A look at a mobile gym for dogs and the potential for repeating revenue.
“So can you help their kids get into their dream school and charge them five grand?”
The Unique Time Travel YouTube Channel
10:34 to 13:48
Analyzing a creative YouTube channel's concept and potential monetization strategies.
“Maybe the dog really has grown accustomed to a few things.”
The Unique Time Travel YouTube Channel
14:57 to 15:51
Analyzing a creative YouTube channel's concept and potential monetization strategies.
“Gusto is the online and payroll benefits software built for small businesses.”
Dynamic Content Creation with AI
15:54 to 17:44
Explore how AI can enhance content creation and iteration for online courses.
“It's not quite there yet, but it's pretty good.”
The Cat Condo Business Case
17:45 to 19:24
Discuss the unique business model of cat condos and its sustainability challenges.
“maybe there's a spinoff there somewhere.”
Wholesale Strategies in Pet Products
19:25 to 21:55
Learn effective sales strategies for pet products through wholesale distribution.
“were, what we were talking about earlier is it's about a thing that people love and have an endless budget for, which is their pets.”
Recurring Consumables for Business Success
21:56 to 23:36
Understand the importance of subscription models in creating recurring revenue.
“in a lot of cases if it's an evergreen topic.”
High-End Virtual Dating Services
23:37 to 28:01
Analyze the business potential of high-end virtual dating services targeting affluent clients.
“It could be the fancy organic cat food or some kind of health supplement that makes the coat all soft and shiny.”
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Selling Time and Money in Online Dating
28:01 to 31:04
Explore the strategy of selling time and money in dating services.
“But I mean, maybe this is a good close second.”
Selling Time and Money in Online Dating
31:21 to 32:17
Explore the strategy of selling time and money in dating services.
“It's about the decision fatigue surrounding the work, like how to reply to this message or is this person going to make a good guest?”
Business Ideas: Extreme Analog vs. AI Implementation
33:30 to 42:00
Discover contrasting business ideas focused on analog and AI methods.
“For round two, this is the business idea donation round.”
Understanding AI Solutions for Business Problems
42:00 to 44:10
Learn how to identify and solve specific problems for businesses using AI.
“I don't know, it's like, there's pros and cons to both.”
Leveraging Partnerships for Revenue Growth
44:10 to 46:30
Discover effective marketing strategies through partnerships and speaking engagements.
“this is going to be a marketing tactic that's working for you right now.”
The Power of Webinars and Workshops
46:30 to 48:50
Explore how webinars can serve as a win-win for creators and audiences, driving engagement and sales.
“You've got a bunch of duds, and you've got several kind of major outliers.”
Building Custom Tools with AI Technology
48:50 to 52:15
Learn how to create and implement custom tools in your business using AI technologies.
“So I will make one amendment on what you just...”
Innovative Approaches to Business Management
52:15 to 56:05
Gain insights on innovative management techniques and the importance of unique business strategies.
“Yeah, operate leaner while at the same time driving more results.”
Embracing Uniqueness in Business
56:05 to 56:56
Learn about the importance of individuality in running a business.
“because I think I've become too homogenous and vanilla, and I've lost some of my boldness and uniqueness.”
Advice and Resources for Aspiring Authors
56:56 to 57:20
Discover actionable advice for authors and where to find resources.
“And I think these books are a great example of this.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00All right, Chandler, I got to show you this because this is a wild business that's actually being run kind of as a side project to the guy's main thing. This is basically a cake dropshipping service. It's called daymaker.com, which is apparently doing around$4 ,000 a day in revenue. It says like 30 % margins somewhere in here. So call it even just$1 ,000 a day in profit, sending cakes to prospects. So his main customer base is sales teams, sales organizations that want to cut through the clutter of cold email, cold DMs, and get something that's going to stand out. And this is a really, really interesting business where I initially thought the guy ran a bakery, but no, he just builds relationships with bakeries and has the bakeries send him out and just plays middleman.
0:48I love this for two reasons. One is zig when everybody else zags. I mean, this is what we've been teaching with book stuff for over a decade now is send a physical copy to people in the mail and watch your lead sales and referrals go up. This is just obviously probably a more clever way to do it. And because it's branded specifically to them or there's a message specific to them or their company. But then I think the other reason I like this is because I think when it comes to a side hustle or your business, the most profitable ones are the ones that sell revenue, sell money, or sell people. And so if you think about it, this is selling revenue.
1:25This is not a bakery. He's selling revenue. And so if you can skim some off the top of the revenue that he's driving, well then yeah, you just now turn that into the highest leverage cake that exists versus just a race to the bottom and a commodity of selling baked goods. Yeah, it says he's got a 35 % conversion rate from cake delivery to booked meetings compared with, I don't know, 1 % from cold email or cold calling, right? It's almost this law of reciprocity at work. Like, well, if you went through the trouble to send me this custom cake, I guess I owe it to myself to at least hear you out.
1:57Yeah. I mean, obviously it's got to be a high average order value enough to justify this. Oh, totally. It's 80 bucks a cake. Yeah. But you think what's your cost per meeting or what's your cost per customer? So, I mean, 80 bucks a cake, that ain't bad because if you got a 33 % conversion rate, well, then that means that, you know, back in the napkin math, that's roughly 240 bucks a meeting. Yeah, yeah. So you better be selling something with a high ticket. 240 a meeting. And then if you're converting, let's say one out of four of those, that's$1 ,000 a customer. So, I mean, as long as your customers are worth more than five grand, let's call it, the math probably pencils.
2:35Yeah, totally. And so it seems like we can even go after really enterprise sales, right? Like how are we going to reach the decision makers in a really unique way? We should note Chandler's here. Chandler, it's been 12 years since your first appearance on the Side Hustle show, back when we were both just babies in this business. Since then, self-publishing school has evolved into selfpublishing.com, where you've helped thousands of people realize their dream of writing and publishing a book and built an eight-figure business in the process. you know did you ever do any of this kind of outbound for self-publishing oh we've done some crazy outbound i was thinking about it and it's kind of interesting we've launched thousands of side hustles over the last decade yeah they were just in the form of books and i mean a lot of our customers they start with a book around the thing that they do and then that book goes on to create a business or all this stuff i think the best side hustles are ones that support your main hustle so how do you be an on-ramp for the business?
3:32And so we've done it with books. We've shipped those. I mean, you've probably been on the receiving end of multiple things of this, of probably shipped you koozies. We probably shipped you selfpublishing.com bottle opener at one point. Yeah. Yeah. I probably got some self-publishing swag around here somewhere. This is just unique swag. There was a year where I sent a thank you note every single day for a year. And that's a different version of this. It's just how do you zig when other people are zagging and get in front of decision makers or people that can move the needle in your business. Yeah, I think there's probably a note in this article about, well, could we send pizza with a custom message written out on the pepperoni?
4:09Or some people have mentioned, oh, maybe we could do this for like a sing-a-gram type of thing. But yeah, something that is high touch, that's memorable. And the interesting thing, again, you don't need to be the singer. In this case, it's just playing matchmaker and taking a margin in between trying to marry the physical with the digital, trying to have these kind of boutique bakeries on the ground and build some kind of AI agentic scraper to find bakeries that were willing to do bulk deals and negotiate on price and can do this kind of custom cake design stuff to be able to deliver. Because it's got to be somewhat local to do this kind of thing.
4:46Mm-hmm. So this is William Lindholm. He's the founder of Daymaker. And it sounds like one of his original businesses was just a similar cake drop shipping business where it was just HR departments on kind of recurring billing, where it's like every time somebody in their department has a birthday, we're going to send you a cake. And similar like matchmaker service. Like I'm not doing the baking, but if, you know, every year when it comes around, we want to say thank you to this employee or recognize them on their birthday. and just you're kind of in charge of, you're gonna have to go out and get the customers.
5:17And it sounds like it was kind of a viral stunt to some VC firm that really got Daymaker on the map. But that's kind of the ticket to entry is trying to figure out, well, who's my target customer and what are the creative ways I can get in front of them here? Yeah, that's a way to maybe level up this idea, right? Is how do you, instead of selling one cake at a time, how do you take the Dave Ramsey model where Dave Ramsey doesn't just sell one-on-one financial education. He sells into schools, into churches, into nonprofits, into businesses. So he makes, it's the B2B2C sale, right? So he makes one B2B sale that leads to 100 B2C sales on the back end of that.
5:54And so to your point, you might sell cakes into companies that have hundreds of employees and then they're on auto subscribe where they send the cake to those employees on their birthday. And I mean, we did something similar like this, not quite at scale. So this is maybe a little better and a little more at scale. But I mean, we've done stuff where we've had custom coffee mugs created on our employee's birthday. And we say, all right, hey, we're willing to spend 200 bucks per employee on their birthday. You know, that's just a small thing that makes this massive impact with your employees. And so if you were able to do that in this type of way, well then, And, okay, now you're basically selling leveled up relationships either to a business or maybe it's with employees, maybe it's with partners, with shareholders, whatever else.
6:45But I think that would be a smarter way to do this model. I want to show you this because this was a fascinating business that I found. It is a mobile gym for dogs where this guy will show up outside of your house or your apartment. And in this air conditioned sprinter van has these custom dog treadmills where it is$70 for a 30 minute dog run session. And it says we are fully booked. We are trying to franchise. We are expanding. And this is just wild to me. Yeah. So this takes advantage of what I think is kind of a formula for a really good side hustle, which is sell to rich people about a thing that they love with where their price elastic.
7:37Yeah. And so what do people love more than anything else? It's their kids and their dogs. Right. I don't love how low priced it is because that means you just have to do a massive volume and you have to, it's a lot of coordination, but I do like that it's recurring. $70 is low price for a dog workout? Not for a dog workout, but in general, right? If I'm doing a side hustle and I can sell something for$70 or$1 ,000. Yeah, it becomes a volume type of operation. Oh, it's totally a volume, which means you got to be good at operations, which most people aren't. Yeah. What's interesting is there's some notes that say 90 % of clients are booking a recurring weekly workout for their pup.
8:15So there is an element of kind of predictable recurring revenue that you can start to stack up. A little bit of a, well, a lot of a higher startup cost model if you're going to go out and retrofit this custom Sprinter van and get the dog treadmills. Yeah, you kind of touched on what else could this be applied to? This was just a kind of wild, fascinating thing as I'm picturing RIP, the side hustle shih tzu, like going out for a little run on a treadmill. Yeah, I mean, I think the takeaway for folks who maybe are inspired by this idea, but are thinking, hey, I couldn't do this or I don't want to clone this, is how do you sell something to people about the thing that they care about most, which is kids and their dogs?
8:58So can you help their kids get into their dream school and charge them five grand? Yeah, yeah. You know, that's where like career coaching or Harvard coaching or whatever, you know, that's a very viable business that has no cost of goods sold and no complexity. Especially with side hustles, I just want to strip out the complexity towards say, hey, how do we make this as simple as possible, as high margin as possible, and as preferably as high ticket as possible so that it only takes a couple sales to make some really good money? Yeah, I think it's an example of niching down as well, where like dog walking services have been around forever.
9:33But it's like, have you ever had a kind of a luxury gym experience in the back of a Mercedes dog running service? It's like, you know, a fraction of those people who are buying dog walking would pay, you know, 10 times as much for this like super premium service. Yeah. I mean, my mind goes to B2B sales. I just think when it comes to side hustles or any business, I mean, B2C is good, but it's crowded and it's competitive and it's low margin and it's low ticket oftentimes. And so, but it's what everybody thinks about, right? If I'm thinking like, oh, I just think, I just look at stuff around me that I buy and I think about that.
10:09But there's these hidden industries and hidden massive hairy problems that are worth a lot of money that if you could crack into that and solve it, even in a small way, I think the margin of the upside is way bigger. Yeah. I fear as always, well, how recession resistant is this? I got to imagine if you lose your job, the dog treadmill workout is probably the first thing to get cut off of the list, but I don't know. Maybe the dog really has grown accustomed to a few things. That's the good thing about selling to rich people, right? Is they're largely recession resistant. They have way bigger budgets to waste or to spend or whatever else.
10:49Now, if they deem it as a luxury purchase, that's the funny thing, right? Your dog, your kid, I would say that's, well, especially dog. I would say a dog's a luxury purchase, but most people that have dogs would not agree with that. They would say that that is a necessity and it has to happen one way or the other. Totally. All right. Next one on my list is this relatively new YouTube channel. This is called Chloe versus history. It is a three month old YouTube channel, time travel YouTube channel, which features Chloe, this kind of cute AI persona who's taking these like modern vlog selfie style videos.
11:26But this is her on the Titanic and they're shot in a modern vlog style. We're like, look, here are my goals for this. I'm going to try to sneak into first class. I'm going to try and talk to the captain to warn him about the iceberg because she's like coming at it from a 2026 perspective so in three months this channel has racked up 17 million views most of those are on shorts they don't pay a ton but still even the long-term stuff couple million views on this earning an estimated 8 000 bucks a month and i don't know what the production cost is for something like uh like this because it's really well done but i got to imagine it could probably be done for less than uh less than eight grand a month yeah i mean i think the production costs really low.
12:09I love this concept. I hate this business model. So I love the concept of cheap attention, the business model of pay-per-click or CPMs or whatever else. I mean, it's just kind of a horrendous business model. It's media companies, right? And so how do you monetize a media company? Ads. It's a really tough business. But I think when you flip this, And this is what's really got my brain buzzing is how can we create something like this for selfpublishing.com where, okay, we just basically use the CPM money to feed into the media company. But then that whole thing feeds into the back end business. So it's basically a break even customer acquisition channel, kind of like Mr.
12:55Beast's son with Feastables and all these other brands. That's what really broke my brain is when he said, hey, you think this is a high revenue YouTube channel? It's really just break-even free customers for all of these brands that I'm launching over here. I mean, that's just a crazy concept to think about. Yeah, that's really weird. Yeah, most people who go into it think of it as YouTube is the business, but other people are playing a three-dimensional chess or a different game. Now, have you created the AI Chandler avatar to, like, scale your content production? Chandler's response, including his unique AI avatar use case, plus more unique and creative side hustle ideas coming up right after this.
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15:30It's no wonder why over 400 ,000 small businesses already trust Gusto for their payroll and HR needs. Try Gusto today at gusto.com slash side hustle and get three months free when you run your first payroll. That's three months of free payroll at gusto.com slash side hustle. One more time, it's Gusto, G-U-S-T-O, So gusto.com slash side hustle. Yeah, I have. It's not quite there yet, but it's pretty good. We've used Hey Jen and we've used some other tools. And what I really like about it is it allows us to be dynamic with our content, especially on the back end. So some of our high value course material is that avatar.
16:11And why that's helpful is because we can update the scripts on a regular basis as stuff changes on the Amazon algorithm or whatever else, whereas previously you'd have to, you know, go rerecord it, re-edit it, re-ship it to your customers, all that stuff. It allows us to iterate on a bunch of that. So that's really cool. I mean, I think this is a really good use case for ads. There you can, I mean, this is going to change UGC content forever. As you just have UGC avatars, then you take real customer testimonials and then you match that up with the UGC avatars. And then you've now all of a sudden got all this creative and you cut a lot of your production costs out of it.
16:49Yeah, that's an interesting use case I didn't really think about on the back end. It's like, well, instead of reshooting this course that is mostly evergreen, but then there's some stuff that changes with some interface or something, like, okay, we can quickly iterate on that to really deliver the best up-to-date stuff for our students. Yeah, we've been having a lot of success with that. Gosh, we use it for a bunch of, the wildest example I've seen of this is Onyx Singhal. if you've seen his YouTube channel, you cannot tell hardly. It's all AI. It's crazy. And the videos are pretty good, but he's almost using it as what I was saying is that I feel like the superior business model, which is media company to drive customers for a business.
17:37That's kind of how he's using it, driving customers for his business. Okay. You got my gears turning a little bit on what the next chapter would be because I have yet to create AI video Nick, but maybe there's maybe there's a spinoff there somewhere. Some side hustle persona. All right. Next on my list is cardboard cat condos. The founding story was this woman found that her cat was playing in all the leftover Amazon boxes she had lying around the living room. And it's like, no, no, no, we, we can upgrade you. Why don't we put you in this cute little gingerbread one or this cheese wedge or this haunted house type of thing?
18:16And so she started manufacturing these and has turned this into a six-figure business. Although the pivot lately has been more towards these sustainably sourced wool cat toys, just because the big cardboard things were kind of bulky to store and more expensive to ship, but definitely a creative one. And I'm going to be starting from a personal pain point of like, look, if I'm into this as a cat owner, I have to imagine that other cat owners would be as well. I'm not going to lie. I hate this business. Cats are, first off, cats suck. We can all agree. Cats are the devil. And I think second off, this is a total luxury business.
18:51Are you trying to alienate my audience here? I'm going to get roasted on this one. cats are the devil i mean we just we gotta agree on that but i mean talk about a business a that doesn't have to exist it would be this because boxes already exist and you get a bajillion of them from amazon already but then i think b that is just a totally gonna get wiped out in a recession because this is the first thing that people cut i don't know i think for those reasons. I don't love this business. But I will say the counterpoint to that is kind of what you were, what we were talking about earlier is it's about a thing that people love and have an endless budget for, which is their pets.
19:35So maybe there is something there. Yeah. It sounds like she does a decent amount of sales through her own shop, through Amazon, and then quite a bit comes through wholesale relationships with independent pet store outlets. That's super smart. And so there's there's a site called FAIRE, F-A-I-R-E, which is kind of the kind of a proving ground or distribution for wholesale type of products. And it's not something where you just, you know, list it once, set it and forget it. You're still going to have to, you know, do some proactive outreach and marketing and sales, but it's kind of like a little bit of social proof and it's almost a sell sheet for your stuff where you can have it up for sale there for discoverability.
20:17Yeah, that's smart. I mean, it's kind of like an Etsy business, right? Which is the two things I love about that is either one, you're going wholesale. So it's the B2B2C kind of sale. And so your cost of acquisition is way lower once you've established those wholesale distributors. Or secondly, you're going marketplace, which I mean, it's kind of like what we teach with people with books is, hey, there's already a marketplace of Amazon with hundreds of millions of customers. if you can just figure out how to get your book on that platform and then work the algorithm in your favor and you have a good product well then they're going to bring all the customers it's like the ultimate holy grail is retail for most consumer brands which i always thought that was so stupid and and you think oh d2c is gonna just an e-commerce is gonna totally wreck retail but you just see every good direct-to-consumer brand ultimately wants to be in retail because your cost of acquisition goes to maybe not nothing, but very, very low.
21:16And then your scale goes way up. Yeah, exactly. We just talked to a coffee maker who had kind of this is anti-inflammatory coffee blend. And it was like, dude, it's so expensive to acquire customers on Meta. And it's like, we will gladly accept a lower margin on retail sales because once it's sitting on the shelf, somebody buys it, it costs us nothing from there. Yeah, exactly. Agree with that. And it's not, to your point about comparing the physical product here and the book sales, it's not recurring revenue per se, but it can be somewhat predictable as the number of people searching for wool cat toys on Amazon is likely to be the same this month as it is next month as it is the month after.
21:55And similar, if you have a keyword-focused book topic, pretty steady demand in a lot of cases if it's an evergreen topic. Well, that's where one of my favorite businesses is recurring consumables. And so a buddy of mine started a business called Dr. Squatch. And so these businesses are especially potent if they're subscription-based. And so he did a basically soap-scription. So it was high quality men's soap. So kind of filling a void in the narrow part of the market and then soap-scription. So it was a recurring consumable. Now, if you think about some of the most lucrative businesses in the world, their recurring consumable businesses, it's oil, it's gas, it's drugs.
22:38I mean, like there's not much of a difference between a cocaine cartel and the oil industry. I mean, it's, it's, you're selling an addictive recurring consumable that's extremely high margin and you have a monopoly on it. I mean, a cartel and an oil company is basically the same thing. I was going to go different, different examples, but like an AG1 or a HelloFresh or even like Microsoft where it's like you gotta sign up for 365 and so yeah it's recurring subscriptions yeah that's a great point you've got recurring digital consumable right and you've got recurring physical consumable and I think that's why you see so many massive companies in like AG1 or like Biotrust or BioOptimizers or whatever else in that protein powder or powder-based consumable the coffee is an example of that right the coffee business that you mentioned and so So recurring consumables, especially if you can get a subscription, I mean, those are just massive, high-margin businesses.
23:36Yeah, so maybe the pivot in the case of this pet products, one could be the monthly box or the monthly we'll send you a new cat toy every month. Maybe your cat got bored with this one. It could be the fancy organic cat food or some kind of health supplement that makes the coat all soft and shiny. I don't know, there's different, I mean, lots of people playing in that space too, but thinking of, well, what's the recurring play? Yeah. When I think the only thing that you got to be super careful of is limiting your SKUs, right? And that's the only thing that I don't like about kind of the monthly box model is, I mean, any e-commerce or physical product business owner knows that SKUs and inventory absolutely wreck your profitability and your cashflow.
24:24And so that's the only thing that I would kind of caveat with that is if you can keep the SKUs as simple as possible, where that's what I love about the coffee business, or that's what I love about AG1 or whatever else is like, oh no, I'm buying the same product every month. Right. We got one product. Maybe we have a couple of flavors. Not me as the business owner having to be like, oh, I got to come up with something new this month and next month. And then now I got all these SKUs and all that stuff. I think like, if you can find a way to make it a single SKU or the least amount of SKUs as possible, Gosh, that's a great business.
24:54Yeah, we talked to a guy who had a barbecue seasoning rub. And he was like, we got one flavor and you can get it in a two-pack or you can get it in a four-pack. And I was like, that was it. Versus we had a guy who was selling golf gloves. And on the surface, pretty simple business. Hey, we got three designs. But then he was like, well, they're gloves. People have different sized hands. And so we're looking at the bell curve of like, well, how many should we order in large? How many should we order in medium? And it's like, oh, you know, now all of a sudden we got idle inventory and it becomes a whole thing.
25:21It's the difference between a hat business and a shirt business, right? Is one of them has sizes and the other doesn't. And if you got sizes, you got unsold inventory. And as Henry Ford said with the Model T back in the day, you know, hey, they can get it in any color they want as long as it's black. Very good. All right. Last one up for you is this virtual dating service. This is called Vita Select. It's been around for, I want to say, 15, almost 20 years, priced between, call it$1 ,200 and$3 ,000 a month, where it's targeting the people who are paying for these dating apps, but would have the budget and the desire to actually find some results here and make it work.
26:10because this business says, okay, we've got 82 % success rate, we've got 11 ,000 relationships. So these kind of numbers, like in this kind of longevity says, like, there's clearly demand for this and they've been in business for a long time and they can see results. So it is something that people are proven to be willing to pay for. And so I think there's probably an opportunity to do this either locally or, you know, pivot to a very specific demographic and offer this type of service. I think there's a big opportunity in this space. There's lots of different dating apps that are all kind of commodity priced, you know, 20 to maybe a hundred dollars a month and say, no, no, no, we're going to go much higher tier if you want some real results.
26:53This is my favorite business that you've showed me, Nick. I might've even been a customer of this business. I'm trying to remember if I, if I work with these guys when I, back when I was single. I think this is a great business. There's no cost of goods sold. You're selling humans, right? Which is like staffing or recruiting or whatever else. So it's super high margin and it's just a great business. I love that it's recurring. They're going up market. And I think you could even go further up market. And that's the lesson I would say for people watching this or listening to this is where is there a commoditized bottom of market thing that you can just go way up to the top to the highest net worth people in the industry.
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27:32And maybe that's executive dating or that's someone where they're willing to spend a lot of money to solve a very painful problem, which is they can't find a spouse. And I think that's a huge win-win. I think there's a lot of people that should be spending money on stuff like this instead of being really dumb with their time and money. You know, I've always thought just saying, hey, 25 grand finders fee, if you find me a wife, like that would make a lot more sense for most people who are rich and single. But I mean, maybe this is a good close second. Yeah. I mean, here's the reframe is like, dude, you're going to waste 520 hours here.
28:08What's your time? What's your time worth here? We're going to spruce up your profile. Maybe we're going to take some great looking pictures to make you stand out. And maybe we're going to kind of do the initial screening so that you don't waste your time on that. Yeah. I think that's a super smart way to sell something like this, right? Because if you say, what is it people pay to save time or save money or to make money? And so if you can sell them time or if you can sell them money, their budget is unlimited. So I was just kind of doing some back of the napkin math here. You look at that 500 hours annually.
28:40And so you say, all right, it's going to take you 500 hours over the next year and you might not even find someone. Did you find someone last year? Probably not. That's why you're looking at this page. You make$100 an hour, that's$50 ,000 worth of your time. Okay. So we'll stack that. Now, what are you paying monthly on dating apps? Now, what are you paying and all the people you're taking out to dinner and all that stuff that are total duds? Oh, that's thousands and thousands of dollars. Okay. Yeah. An extra wasted time. Yeah. Extra wasted money. Sure. You pay us 10 grand, you know, we're going to save you$50 ,000 and we're going to go help you find your person, right?
29:15So I just, I love that kind of juxtaposition of selling people time or selling people money. Yeah. Estimated market size here,$3 billion spent on online dating with 30 million people being actively looking at any one time. So big, big addressable markets. So carve out a little niche. What's going to be your specialty there so you can stand out? Yeah, this is a great business that anyone can start. And especially any woman can start. I always tell my single guy friends, hey, you know who knows your wife? Other women. And it's not men. It's other women that go to church with them, that are in the Pilates class with them, that are whatever else.
29:57They know your wife and you just aren't asking them. And they would love nothing more than to hook you up with your wife. Women love that, playing matchmaker. And so this is, I really love this business, especially as a woman, because you already have these people probably in your network. And to your point, Nick, if you go very niche with it, where, hey, I help high net worth individuals find a spouse or find their wife. I help executives find their wife or whatever. And you kind of create a little bit of a proprietary process around it. It's a great business. Very good. Well, this is one of the kind of business frameworks that we've talked about on the show is look at what the really affluent class or wealth class is spending their money on and think, well, how could I democratize that in some way?
30:41And so one of the examples we had was kind of a house manager type of service, but instead of being on site and almost being a member of that person's staff, it's like, well, what if we could fractionalize that and we could serve five different clients reasonably well and bring it to a slightly broader audience so it's got more appeal. Yeah, I like that. All right. Well, make sure to stop by selfpublishing.com slash side hustle to grab a free strategy session about turning your book idea into reality. We've got more with Chandler in just a moment, including his business idea donation for Side Hustle Nation coming up right after this.
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33:44They should go extreme AI or they should go extreme analog. And so I'll start with the analog because I think everything in the middle is going to get disrupted or already is getting disrupted. And so analog, I would personally start a pressure washing business locally. I would knock on doors and you can do 10 grand in a month very easily in your nights and weekends time. I know this because I did this as a kid. It's high margin. You've got a one-time expense. People will pay you hundreds of dollars per house that you pressure wash. That's a really great side hustle business. Yeah, you basically break even after your first job.
34:19Yeah, it's crazy. It's so high margin. I think everybody, when they think side hustle, they think like some kind of online AI thing. I think analog businesses are awesome. Yes, you've got to have some kind of basic skill, but the barrier to having that skill is so low, especially with something like pressure washing. So I was working with my hairdresser the other day on helping her son start this side hustle business because he wants to get an e-bike. And so he needs to get a few thousand bucks. And I said, hey, he could literally get this in a couple of weeks if he started a pressure washing business.
34:49Now let's talk about the other one, which this is a pretty common one. I think it's maybe overused right now or over recommended, but it's an AI implementation business. So that's the extreme AI edition of this. Now, I think you need to go into the oldest, most antiquated businesses and industries that are not cutting edge at all. So think service-based businesses. Think somebody that sells a high ticket thing that is just wildly inefficient. Come in and sell them time, revenue, and cost savings by implementing AI in their business. You can get a couple on retainer for a few grand a month. and then now all of a sudden you've replaced your full-time income.
35:29Yeah, this is interesting. The divergence, the barbell strategy, full analog, full digital. And I'm almost tempted to go the full analog route. I've always joked, if I were starting over, pressure washing would probably be close to the top of the list because we share a background in painting houses. And it was the easiest, it's the most satisfying work. You know, it's just fun to do the driveway and watch kind of the before and after of all that. startup costs,$300,$400 for a machine. You break even after the first job, and then it's all gravy. Yeah. I mean, unlike all the digital stuff, the analog stuff is low competition.
36:05Most people in those businesses, they don't know how to run a business. They're not good at marketing or they might show up, they might not show up. It's just such a defensible moat. In a world where everyone's been trained to go get a bachelor's degree or an MBA and get hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and with some worthless degree that's not even going to get you a great job or teach you real life skills. I just think people should be going the total opposite direction and saying, I'm going to get an associate's degree or I'm going to go to trade school or whatever, learn a very specific physical real world skill.
36:34And then I'm just going to print money being a six figure electrician or plumber or whatever. Yeah. Something that's not going to be outsourced or AI in a couple of years. Maybe we have a little robot vacuum. Maybe the robot pressure washer is like the next thing. It's like going up and down the driveway. I could see that maybe. The benefit is you can go knock on doors. You can reach the customer directly. And I think there's a viral effect to, oh, my neighbor just got their driveway pressure washed. I guess I better do it. Otherwise I'm going to look bad. And then on the AI implementation, a few different guests have mentioned this lately, but I'm curious what that might look like in practice.
37:09It's easy to say, but it's maybe harder to get on the phone or have a conversation with a customer and then kind of do maybe first step would be like an audit of their processes or what would you how would you get your foot in the door here yeah i would i would come in and i would say hey i'm i'm an ai expert and ai implementer i help businesses grow their margin and their profit and their revenue using ai i want to ask you a couple questions and we'll build a custom solution right and so then i would go in there and i'd figure out what's the hairiest problem that they have that's costing them money that's costing them time or that's super you know preferably this close to revenue as possible.
37:45And so maybe they say, oh man, I just can't get people to pick up the phone and get back to customers in my business. And I'd say, okay, cool. I'm going to build you or better yet, there's all these solutions that already exist. You don't have to build any of this stuff. You can just implement it. And so I'm going to say, oh, cool. I'm going to implement an AI answering service. So you will never have a missed call again. And that's going to take every inbound call for your business. And it's going to put them on your calendar if they're fit to work with you. And so now all of a sudden your revenue is going to go way up because I just solved this hairy problem.
38:17I'm using that as a very specific niche example, but just basically saying what is their pain point or the thing that's costing them time or money, and then fix that with some AI tool or solution. I think it's wildly lucrative. We're seeing massive returns in our business on this right now as we speak. So it's less about building a custom solution. It's more like plugging them into a tool that probably already exists and maybe customizing it a little bit to meet their needs. And you almost become a reseller of that software or like a white labeler of that software. Yeah, kind of. I mean, I think a reseller or white labeler is like a lowest margin way to do that.
38:55So I wouldn't necessarily present myself as that. No, yeah. You want to be the consultant, the expert for sure. You're the consultant, except now nobody needs consulting advice because you could just get that from AI. They need implementation. And so that's where I think Bain, Boston Consult, BCG, Accenture, all that, I mean, they're going to just get wiped out. Now, I think they're pretty smart, though. So they're just going to probably rebrand their businesses to AI implementation because they realize that that's what their customers actually want and need. Yeah. Any niche that you like here you think is low-hanging fruit for people starting out?
39:29Yeah. I mean, I think it's the most unsophisticated businesses technically that are selling the highest margin thing. And so that's, that's kind of where I would start is I'm trying to think of what are very specific examples of that. It wouldn't be online businesses, because if you, if you're running an online business, you're, you've already got a propensity for this. What do you think? Yeah. Like an emergency plumbing service or totally like a roofer, like a high ticket home service type of thing. Exactly. They're AI aware, They're problem aware, but maybe not implemented. It's like, I'm too busy chopping down trees to sharpen the saw.
40:05I know this exists. I know I could probably save some time and money, but I just got to call this customer back. I just got to go out to this job site. I got to get it done. Yeah, that's a great point. And so, yeah, it's maybe like an HVAC company or a riffing company because they're selling an expensive thing and they're selling their time, really. So how do you get them a better margin on their time? where you automate all the stuff that's taking up them or their staff's time, and then you get them more shots on goal for revenue. Yeah. I wonder if there would be an AI-powered estimator tool.
40:36I remember spending a lot of time with prospects, walking around their houses, pointing up under the eaves, and maybe that's part of the rapport building. Maybe there's a higher perceived value. It took them 45 minutes to write up this estimate. It must be really accurate. It must be really detailed. It's like, oh, I can just take a picture of every side of the house and then spits it back out a number. Yeah. I mean, that's happening right now. I'm sure you're getting the same text that I am. I mean, you get like five texts a day that are saying, hey, we're in your neighborhood and we're offering tree trimming services or we're offering this service and we can give you a quick quote.
41:06I mean, there's no way they're in my neighborhood. They're just using AI to send outbound text to people. They're probably scraping it by high net worth zip code and pulling homeowner database. So it's like they're just doing a not really that complicated data scraping service followed by an outbound texting service, probably followed by an AI estimator. And then they're probably honestly just selling those jobs to local service providers. That would be my guess on what they're doing. It goes back to what's your cost of goods sold, what's your average order value, and what's your cost of acquisition.
41:38And so if you can answer those core problems for someone and help accelerate that with AI, well then your customers are going to be beating down your door. Yeah, my gut is, So being the AI implementation expert is a little bit broad. I think there's probably a lot of people playing in that space. So my gut would be to kind of piggyback on the popularity of some tool, which could be risky if that tool goes away, but saying like, I'm the expert in the quo AI call answering virtual receptionist service or the open claw, you know, operator, I'm going to build you an open claw implementation or something and kind of hitching your cart to that wagon versus just trying to be everything to everyone?
42:18I don't know, it's like, there's pros and cons to both. Yeah, when I think I would obsess over the problem, not over the tool. And so what's the problem that those business owners are having? So I'll just give a very practical example of this. We had someone do this with us, where they said, hey, you're getting a ton of leads and a bunch of them aren't turning into appointments. And so what if I just built you an AI texting solution that automatically outbound texted every new lead and then just had a conversation with them. And then if they're a fit, they book them on your sales calendar. So they built that for us custom.
42:47I said, I'll be your first customer, build it, and then you can go sell it to a bunch of other people too, but build it for us. We did that, started bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a month in sales. And then he went out and got a bunch of other customers, created a whole business around it. Now, eventually, we're probably a more sophisticated customer than most people. We just built it all internally. Last month, they did over$100 ,000 in sales for our business. And now we have that tool internally, right? But we were a customer of his probably for 24 months. Yeah, okay. I think he charges two grand a month for that because you're selling revenue.
43:19So we're a$50 ,000 customer for that person. He built it one time. He had some maintenance, obviously, but that's a very specific problem that he solved for the business. And so I think that comes back to, we always teach these four P's of a high converting offer is person paying promise price. So how do you find the person that you can help? And that's probably a specific industry or type of business or whatever? What's the problem that they have that they know that they have? What's the compelling promise that you can make with AI for them and their business? And then obviously a price point that makes sense for them.
43:54Yeah, everything old is new again. I feel like we're going all the way back to a Dane Maxwell foundation style, outbound marketing. What would you call it? Idea extraction or pain? Idea extraction, yeah, yeah. This is great. Person, pain, promise, price. Let's move to round three. this is going to be a marketing tactic that's working for you right now. Partnerships. We will do probably six to$8 million this year on partnerships and business development. We do webinars. We speak at events. This is crazy, but just events and person events. It's very complicated. So a lot of people don't do it or can't do it or won't do it.
44:33We're doing it and it's just printing money for us. And we did a video on my YouTube channel, with the channel and the YouTube channel, basically a$30 million partnership playbook, kind of breaking down the whole process. But I would say partnerships, big marketing thing that's working for us. We're building a media team that's starting to pop off. We're starting to get some traction with ads. So there's kind of a lot of things that are free plus shipping funnels or ripping for us. So there's a bunch of things, but I would say out of all of them, the most revenue is partnerships and speaking at events.
45:04So this is asking the question, well, who are my target customers already doing business with? Who are they already paying attention to? What events are they attending? And then trying to cut the line, trying to shortcut your way to get in front of that audience by submitting a speaking proposal, by offering to do some kind of joint venture webinar workshop. And this is kind of like affiliate on steroids. Yeah, exactly. And zigging when other people are zagging, like going in person to the event. and now we've created a whole speaking team. And it used to be you on stage, like having to give the talk as the face of the company.
45:41Exactly. And now it largely isn't. I mean, I would say at least 50 to 75 % of our talks are done by someone on my team. That's not me. That is working really well. But I think it works really well because it's a defensible moat that other people can't and don't want to and won't do. What's an example of like a winning event for you and the talk that you gave and something like that? Yeah, so a winning event for us would be at least 500 people there, typically. Our team is speaking on the main stage about using a book to grow your business. And then at that event, you know, maybe we paid 10 grand to be there, and we'll do$50 ,000 to$100 ,000 on the spot of customers signing up to work with us.
46:24That would be kind of our stereotypical winning event. Now, obviously, it's kind of like an investment portfolio. You've got a bunch of duds, and you've got several kind of major outliers. where we say, oh my gosh, we paid$3 ,000 to go to that event. That event did 150 grand. Yeah, yeah. Okay, let's do more of those. But it kind of is this portfolio that meshes together. And the way to do it as a side hustler on a budget without travel is kind of the joint venture webinar workshop strategy. Exactly, yeah. You invite your customer list or you invite your email list and I'll come on and do the workshop.
47:00And we've done a handful of these over the years. You know, how to use a book to grow your business or how to write a book in a weekend and, you know, build a thousand dollar a month side hustle. And so I think that playbook can still work, although maybe people are a little hesitant or maybe webinar out in a way, but trying to make it something unique and value compelling, even if they don't buy the thing at the end. Yeah, I agree. I think that's a great model. And that's a really good win-win because it helps those creators monetize their audience, especially if they've benefited. That's what we find.
47:31One of the highest correlations of, is this partnership going to be successful is did the person do the thing that we're talking about? So when I come into your audience or when I come into Hal Elrod's audience and it's, oh yeah, this person published a book. It was a really great move for them. You should as well. Here's Chandler. He's going to talk to you about how to do this and how they can help you do it successfully. I mean, that just works way better. And it's a win-win, right? It's that person's audience gets served. It brings in customers for us. And then we're able to cut a big check to the person who's bringing us in to speak to their audience.
48:05Yeah, I'm a fan and proponent of self-publishing. Just no barrier to entry and a chance to put your ideas and your work up for sale in the world's largest store and get found and discovered and earn author royalties. Like it's a really cool place to play. Maybe one way to get started is to create your kind of dream 100 or maybe even a dream 10 list of who might make an ideal partner for you to start to do some initial outreach. And the first time you do a webinar or workshop, it's not going to be great. So, you know, maybe start toward the bottom end of that list and get some reps in under your belt and scale from there.
48:41But I like this call for partnerships and even showing up in person because it's like nothing really replaces that face-to-face. Let's go to a new or new-to-you tool that you're loving right now. So I will make one amendment on what you just... or in addition to what you just said, which is create your dream 100, send them a cake. There you go, there you go. A little callback. New to me tool that I'm loving right now is Lovable and Claude. Now, Claude is as of the, okay, everybody's talking about this. I'm sure nobody will shut up about Claude. It's just, it is game-changing. Now, Claude though, connected with Lovable and using that to create real tools in your business, that's even better.
49:25And so we just did a video on Andrew Warner's YouTube channel about how we built a sales manager with Lovable. It is nuts. Absolutely crazy. The month after we built it, we added$500 ,000 in sales that month over the previous month. I mean, it's really doing some crazy stuff for us. So we're using that to build a whole hub that basically is a talent development and training hub for the whole company. Wow. So building your own in-house tools. well, it sounded like, well, somebody built us this text message, auto message thing. And it's like, well, we could just build that in-house at this point.
50:00It's like, is off the shelf software slowly dying? If you're like, well, I can just build it custom now. Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of off the shelf software is either dying or it's just going to get way cheaper. I mean, let's just be honest. These software companies, they hold you hostage yearly and you go into something like HubSpot, you go into some yearly negotiation with HubSpot where they just know they got you and they are just, I mean, you take you out to the woodshed. Same thing with Asana. I mean, we've been getting, I love Asana. Asana is one of my favorite software companies. The product is incredible.
50:33And yet Asana keeps scamming us yearly. They upgrade our account, then they auto bill us on a yearly. And then we say, hold up, we didn't do this. And they're like, oh no, but we can't do refunds. We don't do refunds. We do credits. And then, so I just People are tired of that. I'm tired of it. I'm like, hey, I just want a reasonably priced software that solves a real problem in my business. I'm tired of fighting these battles with these software companies. Let's just build it ourself. Or I think what's going to end up happening is those companies are going to be forced to lower their prices and to be more competitive, to be more nimble.
51:07So, yeah, 100%. I think those companies are toast. We're building a lot of fun stuff with Lovable, and it's really moving the needle in the business. You prefer lovable over clod code, like just keeping it all in the anthropic ecosystem. Yeah. Well, really lovable is just a wrapper, you know, so, so a lot of what we did is we just are prompting lovable to tell us what to put into clod to then create the connectors and MCP stuff so that it's automatically feeding data in. right and so that's where it's pulling from hubspot is pulling from call recordings it's sending them through call reviews it's getting feedback and so we created this whole call review tool i mean this is helping our coaches get better this is helping our sales team get better this is helping everybody get better because it's live reviewing every single call that happens in the business and it is grading and scoring and getting feedback on those calls and so it's just going to help our customers be more i mean it's going to help in every every facet in every way and ultimately is going to eliminate managers from the company, which is going to save the company a lot of money and is going to make everything better for our customers.
52:16Yeah, operate leaner while at the same time driving more results. It's like, what would be, imagine the best possible sales manager, you know, what are they doing on a daily basis to support their team, support their customers? And well, we could build a lot of that and automate it. That's super interesting. Exactly. And it's even better than what they were doing because it can work around the clock. Yeah. And it doesn't get sick. It doesn't take time off. And so whereas a sales manager could review five calls a week, this thing reviews every single one. And so you just have statistically significant data.
52:52Anyway, I could go on that for a long time because it is absolutely bonkers what that's creating the business. And we're just getting started. And to be clear, I don't want to build any of this stuff. I don't want my team building any of this stuff. I would rather just buy it. So that's where I think there's going to be some off-the-shelf tools that are going to start to get really competitive where, you know, people won't have to be the actual builders. Or, throwing back to the business idea donated earlier, if you are a builder, gosh, can you print money just coming in and setting this stuff up for people?
53:24Yeah, if the off-the-shelf was reasonable, and again, going back to selling time, then I don't feel the driving pain to build it myself. But if you're going to double my rate every year and put me on auto-renewal, it's like, that's not what I signed up for. Now I'm motivated and angry to switch off of your tool. Yes. How about your favorite book, other than your own, from the last 12 months? There's two that come to mind. One, I would say, is an off-the-beaten-path recommendation for me. You've known me for a while, Nick. I'm kind of like the operations, like very practical business guy. So previously I'd probably recommend a bunch of practical business books.
54:04But I read one recently called The Surrender Experiment. I don't know if you've read this. What a fascinating book. Have you heard this? I've heard of it. I haven't read it. So basically it's the story of this guy who became a yogi and just basically kind of surrendered to what was happening in life and stop trying to muscle it. And all of these crazy opportunities started opening up. And so he went on to have this massive construction company who went on to start a software company. That software company became valued at over a billion dollars. I mean, the guy became super rich in the process.
54:41And I think he also wrote a book called The Untethered Soul, which I think is maybe more the practical guide for this. And then the Surrender Experience is the story behind it. The whole premise of that book is just so counter to my nature. Yeah, I was going to say, that feels very anti-Chandler. You're like, wait, wait, I'm just going to let life happen to me? No, no, that's the antithesis of what I stand for. Yeah. So I think that's probably why it was so impactful because I don't know, Nick, I think you're probably a similar way to I am in this. It's like, I love exposing myself to just totally counterculture.
55:14Basically, what do I think? Let me go into an area where they think totally the opposite because they probably have some valid points and I'm going to end up somewhere in the middle. So it's like when I moved to San Francisco, you know, I'm the bootstrap business guy. And I went into the world of the VC unicorns because I just said, hey, I don't know anything about this and I want to learn from these people. And, you know, they're probably going to change my thinking because I read basically a book a week and have for a decade. It's just a lot. Some of those wrote business books are getting kind of boring.
55:44And so I've been really loving biographies. Okay. All right. Well, the surrender experiment will definitely mark that one down. Second person now to recommend it. So I'll check that one out. What was the other one? Yeah. So the other one is called, Am I Being Too Subtle? It's just another biography. It's just really funny and wild and contrarian about, I don't know, I've been really loving business biographies from people who just do things totally different from how everybody else does it, because I think I've become too homogenous and vanilla, and I've lost some of my boldness and uniqueness.
56:18And so I'm just kind of trying to tap back into that. And, you know, a buddy of my DMR tell said, Chandler, it's your business. You're allowed to run it however you want. You don't have to follow someone else's rule book. Look at that cover, man. That cover is atrocious, but the book is really good. All right. Am I being too subtle? straight talk from a business rebel. Yeah, this is a good one. Really fun. All right. Well, we'll link both of those up in the show notes. Any parting advice before we bail on this? Don't let other people tell you how to live your life and how to run your business.
56:54You can do whatever you want. And I think these books are a great example of this. And this is really fun. Thanks for having me on, man. This is a great time. We should do it again. As always, great to see you. Selfpublishing.com slash side hustle. If you head over there, you'll be able to book a free strategy session about the next steps for your book. How are we going to take this thing from idea in your head to reality on paper and up for sale on the different marketplaces? Big thanks to Chandler for sharing his insight. Thanks to our sponsors for helping make this content free for everyone.
57:25Sidehustlenation.com slash deals is where to go for all the latest offers from our sponsors in one place. Thank you for supporting the advertisers that support the show. That is it for me. Thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, let's go out there and make something happen. Unless, of course, you're surrendering to whatever happens. And I'll catch you in the next edition of the Side Hustle Show. Hustle on.
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Here are five completely wild businesses, and somehow, each one had something worth stealing.
Chandler Bolt, founder of SelfPublishing.com, is back on the Side Hustle Show for the first time in 12 years.
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