Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

If I get this question pop up in my DMs 1 more time I'm going to log off the internet forever:

"I'm having trouble finding good mentors."

YOU DON'T NEED A MENTOR!!! Go act. Go fail. Go make stuff happen.

That's the best mentor you'll ever find. I PROMISE YOU.

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Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

Costco sells $200 million dollars of gold every MONTH.

The buyers are not who you’d think.

It’s NOT casual investors or soccer moms, it’s flippers.

Anyone with the right credit cards can clear thousands per week.

I just learned exactly how it’s done and posted the tutorial to YT.

And man, the reaction has been brutal.

I’ve never posted a more controversial video. Everyone profiting from this hack is afraid that the secret is out.

People are threatening my friend that tipped me off about this in the comments.

What’s the hack? Well, if you’ve got 12 minutes you can watch at the link in the top comment below.

23 hours ago | [YT] | 99

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

My favorite college side hustle passively netted me $300 - $500/day for a while:

- Scraped all of craigslist for newly listed iPhones that were locked to carrier

- Mass emailed this to the sellers:

"Did you know your iPhone is worth $50 more if unlocked? Unlock for $20 at 20dollarunlock . com"

- I pushed half of the traffic to 10dollarunlock . com and half to the $20 one to A/B test.

It was a dead simple Shopify site that I cloned. This was 2012.

When an order was placed an automation would pay a guy from eBay $5 and send him the IMEI# to get the phone unlocked.

It was a no brainer offer, and almost fully automated.

I can still see the remnants of those sites on Web Archive...those were simpler days...

2 days ago | [YT] | 57

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I got scammed by a vendor for $288,000, so I turned the outcome into a business.

Anyone with a couple hundred bucks could copy this. Here's what happened & how to copy in 205 words:

- $288k worth of products got held in China customs and the vendor said "too bad"

- I found & retained a lawyer in China to apply pressure

- It worked, he was really good, and we got our money back.

- I asked him "How much will you give me if I send more business your way? "$77/hour of everything I bill." DEAL.

- Bought a $10 domain and threw up a site on Wix in an hour.

- Pushed Google Ads around the world to people searching for a lawyer in China.

- Generated 50 LEGIT leads at $23 each

- The lawyer was loving it. I was loving it. Then the lawyer moved to Toronto and I moved on to something else.

As long as there are business owners in ANY country looking for lawyers in ANY OTHER country, you have a business here.

Use YT to learn Google Ads for free.

Put the ads on a credit card.

Find a legit lawyer that will work with you.

Go to town.

3 days ago | [YT] | 227

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

We went looking for breakfast & saw a donut place with 1,200 5 star reviews, so we pulled in.

Line out the door, good sign.

At the register there was a sign to get a free donut in exchange for a 5 star review.

Ethical? Ehh. Brilliant? Yes.

And yes my review is worth $4. TBD.

4 days ago | [YT] | 258

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How is this not a conflict of interest?

I pay Tesla $400/month for insurance. This cost is determined by my “safety score.”

I also pay Tesla $100/month for FSD (full self driving).

My safety score often DROPS while using FSD, thus increasing my premium.

“Sorry Chris, our software made some errors, so pay us more in insurance. OOPS! Totally our bad. But pay up please. And keep using FSD!!”

I don’t think it’s always been this way.

1 week ago | [YT] | 89

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Dreamers aren’t rare, but this is.

Most people would quickly dismiss Kansei’s dream because that’s not how NFL kickers are made.

They don’t start kicking field goals in their 20s simply by watching YouTube.

He didn’t care. There are no rules.

You can literally just do things.

1 week ago | [YT] | 106

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America would be nothing without dudes like Greg.

In 1986 he drove to Texas to chase riches. He taught himself how to work on diesel engines & bought an old truck. Just him & his dog.

Then he started working on oil rigs

Today his company charges $65k - $110k per repair! In '19 they got acquired for 8 figures and he (literally) sailed off into the sunset with his wife.

At the beginning he worked 112 hour weeks, every week.

Direct quote: "My intent all along was to work as hard as I could and make as much money as I could make."

Amen, Greg. Amen.

1 week ago | [YT] | 101

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My EMBA classmate makes ~$350k/year from people he met in our class. Crazy story.

The program had 28 students and cost $100k. There were 23 "execs" and 5 biz owners, myself included.

My classmate Jeff was a wealth manager, and he paid this $100k solely to network.

Traditional networking with 280 people is fine, but developing deep relationships and trust with 28 potential customers is even better. You can't even call it networking, really.

The executive MBA was 18 months long and was a lockstep cohort, which means we took every class together and got to know each other super well.

We were paired in different groups every 6 months a well.

One of the other business owners in the class was worth tens of millions from inventing a product he patented.

This product is a household name in certain circles. He took the program to hone in on his business skills, which is the same reason I did.

This guy grew to know and trust Jeff (name changed) and ultimately let him manage his wealth for a 1% annual fee.

At least 6 other classmates did the same, although with net worths much less than the biz owner's.

All 7 of these people are still letting him manage their wealth, years later, and will likely continue to do so for many more years.

That one $100k + 18 month investment made him a better business owner and provides an amazing income as well. It will be millions over several decades, not including referrals.

$350k/year is a minority of his total revenue, and he has overhead to pay, but I always thought this was an awesome story.

What's crazy is that Jeff NEVER ONCE soft or hard sold any of us. He didn't have to. He simply told us what we did for a living and then we naturally reached out to him for advice.

He's an amazing guy and friend.

The lesson? Networking is only good as:

- The company you keep
- Your reputation
- How well you nurture the leads
- The industry you're in

More people should take this asymmetric bet this across a variety of industries.

1 week ago | [YT] | 67

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Take 10% of your kids' college fund and use it to teach them entrepreneurship.

It will teach skills and plant seeds that will pay out even more than the other 90%.

We put money in savings accounts for a rainy day, but why don't we learn or teach skills for a rainy day, too?

1 week ago | [YT] | 97