The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
Everyone is chasing the next big AI product.
But there’s one tool quietly turning weekend builders into full-time founders.
(And it’s not what you think.)
Here’s how people are building real businesses with it:
You don’t need a SaaS idea.
You don’t need a big team.
You don’t even need to know how to code.
All you need is one repeatable workflow people already pay for.
Like this:
One guy built a tool that watches your competitors' ads.
Every Friday, it sends you a PDF breakdown of what they’re running, what’s working, and where they’re spending money.
He charges $300 a month for it.
Another person built a local lead scraper.
It checks every new Zillow listing in a market.
Flags the underpriced ones.
Writes a custom message.
Sends it straight to the buyer’s inbox.
Built in one afternoon. Now makes $1,500 a month.
None of this requires software engineers.
You just need to know what people hate doing, and automate it step-by-step.
Every time someone saves 10 hours, they’ll gladly pay you.
This isn’t just some agency idea either.
It works for people who want to run solo.
It works for people who want to build software.
It works for anyone who understands a real-world problem and can write a checklist.
So what’s the tool?
It’s like Zapier, but rebuilt for the AI world.
Drag and drop blocks. Add OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini. Click run. You’re live.
It’s called Gumloop and you can use it to:
- Enrich leads
- Scrape the web
- Build SEO pages
- Watch YouTube videos and summarize them
- Auto-respond to emails
- Trigger text alerts
- Build your own product from scratch
The smartest people I know are quietly building agencies and apps on top of this.
Some are getting paid to do it for others.
Some are selling one flow for thousands.
And most of them are doing it solo.
If you missed the Zapier wave
If you missed the Airtable wave
If you missed the no-code wave
This is your 2nd chance
Even better? I just interviewed the founder for a behind the scenes look.
What are people building, how are they building it and how are they making money?
Watch full video on the link in the top comment below! Enjoy!
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
Want to make more money? Let others make more money than you.
That’s how my friend sold $15 million in watches to just one buyer.
Here’s how he did it:
Most people get upset when someone resells their product for more money. They feel like they messed up.
But Shannon didn’t think that way. He thought, “If my buyer makes money, he’ll keep coming back.”
Shannon had the deal and the supplier.
But he didn’t want the stress of selling to end customers, so he sold in bulk to someone else, and let that guy do the work.
One man even flew across the country just to meet him.
Shannon laid out the whole inventory on a table and said:
“I can get more of these every week. You just have to sell them.”
That meeting turned into a $15 million partnership.
Shannon’s rule?
Don’t push.
Don’t beg.
Just make it easy for the buyer to win.
And when they win big, they’ll tell other people about you too.
The lesson?
You don’t always need to “win” the deal.
If the product moves and you’re making money, great.
Let the buyer feel like they got the better deal.
That’s how you stay in the game a long time.
So Shannon Jean is the friend I referenced and he shares his wisdom (and this watch story) on the podcast found on the links in the top comment below!
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
You don’t need to code. You need to sell.
My buddy built a custom app for an auto mechanic with AI. It took 30 minutes.
No coding. No templates. Just a prompt. Then he charged $50/month.
He’s doing this over and over. Here’s how:
You've heard of vibe coding. Well, this is it.
Talk to an AI tool like Replit, Cursor, or V0…
And it builds the app for you.
You don’t even need to know what a “stack” is. You just need to know what problem you’re solving, and who will pay for it.
His first client was a mechanic who needed a place for techs to log how many cars they saw per day.
The “solution” he thought he needed was Airtable + Softr = $250/month
Billy built him a custom AI-powered web app in a day, and charged $50/month.
Once you learn the tools (Replit, Bolt, Lovable, V0):
You don’t build software, you build businesses.
Every CRM you hate?
Every spreadsheet you duct-taped together?
Every Google Doc that breaks?
Those are products waiting to happen.
Want to do this yourself? Here’s the play: Pick a boring business & ask them what system frustrates them:
- Build an MVP in Replit or V0
- Show a demo
- Charge $30–$300/month
- Repeat with another client
This works.
Bonus move?
- Take that same app you built…
- Change the branding
- Tweak the copy
…and sell it to 10 more people in that niche.
Small businesses don’t want options. They want simple, fast, done-for-you.
If you can sell you don’t need to write code.
AI will build what you describe.
Your job is to describe it clearly and ask someone to pay for it. That’s it.
The guy in this story is Billy Howell. He came on my podcast to outline his exact process. Links in the top comment below! Enjoy!
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
How to get an influencer to promote your product… without asking.
1. Use their name.
2. Build the product.
3. Sell it.
4. Venmo them 10%.
No email. No contract. No permission. Playbook below:
1/ Let’s say you create a digital product, a $29 eBook. Build it with ChatGPT and a few Bromozi YouTube video transcripts
“How to Get Shredded in 30 Days”
You slap this on the cover: "Based on the methods of Alex Hormozi"
You never say he wrote it. You’re just giving credit.
2/ You run Facebook ads to a Shopify store. It sells.
Now here’s the fun part:
Every time you make a sale, you Venmo him 10% of it.
No message. Just: “Appreciate the inspiration.”
3/ Eventually… he notices.
And if the money is real, he’ll do one of three things:
1. Promote it
2. Ask to formalize it
3. Tell you to stop
2 of those 3 outcomes = win.
And even the third one gets you a conversation.
4/ You don’t need a Hormozi-level name for this to work.
6k IG influencers have 1m+ followers. Also:
Micro-influencers
Niche YouTubers
TikTok coaches
Pick someone with an audience but no product. You build the product for them and give them a cut they never asked for.
5/ Most people won’t try this because they’re scared of rejection.
But you’re not even asking. You’re just shipping.
That’s the difference between ideas that make money
and ideas that never launch.
6/ And yes, if they ask you to stop, you stop. Most won’t.
You’re doing something they didn’t have time for. You’re making them money.
And you’re giving them leverage they didn’t even ask for.
(BTW, 0% chance Bromozi ever promotes your eBook, but the principle is the same)
7/ This is the move:
Be bold
Be respectful
Be early
Ship fast
Split profits
Don't ask permission
That’s how you get attention. That’s how you win.
We talk about this exact strategy in 145 & permissionless marketing in 144. Link below!
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
I knew nothing about fixing iPhones when I opened an iPhone repair store in college.
($2,400/month 5 year lease with a personal guarantee.)
When a customer bought in a broken phone I'd use YouTube to learn how to fix it while they waited out front.
My tuition for such reckless behavior was 4 broken iPhones that I replaced for about $2,800 total, plus a few gray hairs.
After a couple months I was an expert.
A smart, rational person would spend months learning the ins and outs of phone repair before ever opening.
I saw that time as tens of thousands of dollars worth of lost profits. More importantly, the longer you take to start the higher the likelihood of you ever launching.
Time = friction and friction = inaction.
Impatience is a superpower.
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
People are flipping $5K into $50K by doing something you’ve never even considered.
They’re not building apps, trading stocks or selling courses.
They’re buying liquidated inventory for pennies and reselling it. Here’s the full, specific, 12-step playbook:
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
I'm hearing there's almost no hangar space for private planes in Texas right now.
Most waiting lists are 20-50+ people long.
Who's gonna go buy or build one? Seems like a cool biz.
What guy doesn't want a metal building to tinker around in?
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
This guy quietly built a $337k/year business by renting out a single product for $375. Over and over and over.
He now owns 15 of them.
No paid ads. No fancy software. Just grit, repeat customers, and word of mouth.
It all started with a bar fire. Here’s the full story:
1/ In 2013, two brothers launched a bar in Charleston. A few months in, wedding planners started asking if they could bring their bar setup to events.
They said yes. (say yes to everything)
Then caterers started venting about terrible rental equipment.
That gave them an idea.
2/ They dropped $10K on a few ovens, fryers, and ranges—rented them out on weekends.
It was slow at first, and then two things happened:
1. Their bar burned down.
2. The only local rental competitor shut down overnight.
Suddenly… they were the only game in town.
3/ They leaned in hard. One oven turned into 15. One fryer turned into 24.
Their most rented item? Convection ovens
They cost $5,000 new and command $375 per rental.
They last for years and are paid off in 10-12 uses.
4/ Customers are mostly caterers, some running 5 weddings per weekend.
They book full equipment setups:
Oven - Fryer - Range
It's delivering a full restaurant kitchen to a parking lot.
5/ He’s never run a single ad.
His top 8 clients are high-end caterers who send him a spreadsheet every spring with their event dates and equipment needs.
He just fulfills them.
6/ Bonus opportunity he’s too busy to pursue:
Margarita machines.
He gets flooded with calls every summer from people trying to rent them. Says someone could clean up offering them for weekend parties.
7/ And even better?
Watch the full interview in the top comment below!
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Here's a 70%+ margin business that no one thinks about.
Last summer I wrote about how someone should start a gem mining rig inside a popular, high traffic mall.
One guy went out and did it, and he's about to open.
So cool! With permission, I'm sharing his business plan:
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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice
2 golden cold outreach tips:
1. ALWAYS end your pitch with a question. Swapping the last 2 sentences below literally 4Xed our conversion rate
2. When cold calling, lead with "Hey, this is a cold call, so let's just get that out of the way." Totally disarming, works every time!
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