I make $10,000 a month on a side business I started in July, less than six months ago.
I partnered with the guy who helped me build a fence to start a landscaping company. He was making $23 / hour prior to working with me.
I provide all the capital equipment (diesel truck, 14' dump trailer, Kubota tractor), and I do the marketing, recruiting, accounring, legal, management. He handles all bids and actual jobs.
It currently takes me less than an hour a week to do my work as I have delegated a lot to employees in my other company. Starting up was full time for a month.
What I like most about my partner is his humble attitude, desire to learn more, reliability, and hunger for a better life for his family.
He had done lawn mowing and some landscaping for several years prior, but the primary work we are doing now he had not done before.
I strongly think the best opportunities for side gigs that make a lot of money are in the construction trades. Providing a service that people desperately need makes sales pretty darn easy.
> g to expand to other marketplaces (I have a lot of customer who are on Shopify, even if I don't offer a Shopify app) and build other APIs. Hopefully I'll have more time once my sons go to nursery / school.
> I use Stripe for direct sales on the website and RapidAPI (ex Mashape) as a m
How did you learn about "marketing, recruiting, accounting, legal, management" ? Do you have prior background? And what kind of market research did you do to find a hole in the market that you can fill?
My main business, coalitiontechnologies.com, taught me those areas of business.
I learned marketing working for another digital agency 15 years ago, recruiting I just carefully studied the market for years and tried and failed lots of time to learn how it worked, accounting I took two courses in, legal I learned dealing with several small claims and a couple of superior court suits plus a great class, management I learned from Manager Tools podcast and years of trial and error.
My market research was just observing how hard it is to find good construction trades help and then trying to put up some marketing to see if we got leads.
I partnered with the guy who helped me build a fence to start a landscaping company. He was making $23 / hour prior to working with me.
I provide all the capital equipment (diesel truck, 14' dump trailer, Kubota tractor), and I do the marketing, recruiting, accounring, legal, management. He handles all bids and actual jobs.
It currently takes me less than an hour a week to do my work as I have delegated a lot to employees in my other company. Starting up was full time for a month.
I split all profits 50-50 with my partner.