Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

My buddy (male) gets 100% of his leads through LinkedIn DMs.

He doesn't send them as himself.

He uses 7 different fake female accounts to do it. They get a 70%+ higher response rate than men.

The DMs aren't selling anything. They're just asking if the person wants to hop on a demo call. Once they say yes, he takes it from there.

A message from "Sarah" asking to schedule time gets answered. The exact same message from "Mike" gets ignored.

I do not condone this BTW. Pretty unethical.

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I am once again reminding you:

Just list things on FB Marketplace. Just do it.

No, not to sell your old iPhone, but to learn.

Is there demand?
Will there be clicks?
What do people say when they message me?
How should I price this?

Every time you have an idea, go to FBM FIRST.

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I am DESPERATE to hear the story behind this barndominium in East Texas:

- 11,000 square feet
- 333 acres (!!!)
- Countless luxury amenities
- 20 acre bass pond
- 11,000 MORE sqft of covered entertaining area

$10 million!

It almost looks like a spec. Someone fill me in below!

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I book Airbnbs for 10 to 40% off normal price and It's not as complicated as you think.

Here's the playbook.

1) Start about a week out. Find 5 places you actually like.

Prioritize company-managed listings first. If a property manager is running several units, an empty night is money on the floor. They have room to deal.

2) For the company-run ones: Google the management company name. Find their direct number. Call them.

Ask if they have a last-minute rate for your dates.

If they say no? Call back the day before. Different person, different mood, different answer.

3) Individual hosts are the trickier ones now.

Airbnb enforces off-platform bookings pretty hard now. Hosts get suspended and lose payouts if they take you off the app. Just book on the platform and be the easy guest instead.

4) This move will still work with individuals: message them through Airbnb before you book.

say something like:

"Hey, I'm flexible on dates, staying 4 nights, we are a quiet couple. Any chance of a better rate for a last minute gap in your calendar?"

Hosts hate empty nights. Plenty of them will drop the price right there through Airbnb's Special Offer button.

5) Want to know if there is real room to negotiate? Do your homework first.

Pull up the county GIS site. Google "[county name] GIS" and click around until you find the property record.

Public records tell you if the owner has the place paid off or if they are over leveraged. From experience, one of those will say yes faster.

6) Reverse image search the listing photos too.

The same property is most liekly also on VRBO, Booking (dot) com, or the host's own direct site at a different price. Now all you have to do is ask for what you want.

7) The whole thing takes about 10 minutes once you have done it a couple times.

I have saved hundreds of dollars per hour of "work" doing this.

8) Just don't be a jerk or demanding. As an AirBnB owner myself, there are a ton of those guys. What you're asking them to do is not without risk to them (or you).

Ask enough good hosts nicely and someone always says yes.

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I seriously want to buy this business.

Island Park, ID has a population of 236, but they get 15,000 visitors/day in the summer.

It’s 30min from Yellowstone and in a gorgeous mountain town. We went there last summer and we're near by again. I can't get this idea out of my head.

One popular activity is a 3 hour float down the Henry’s Fork. There’s only one place in town that rents watercraft for this:

Mack’s Inn.

Look at their pricing. Their location? Right on the river where you pull out.

A legal monopoly with beautiful, insanely high prices. I also want to buy land and host glamping in this town.

$450/night Airbnbs.

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This place is a legal money printing machine - and it wasn’t much to look at.

60 mins from SLC and 30 from Provo.

It’s open 106 days per year and 7 hours per day.

It was full yesterday when I was there and there were 42 people playing and paying.

So how much do they make?

Well at full occupancy, all day, they make about $7,000 per day, or $742,000 per year - gross.

But that’s not realistic.

Let’s say at 60% occupancy it’s $445,000 in revenue. This doesn’t include their paddle board rentals.

There were 3 young employees on the clock, each probably making about $18/hour after payroll taxes. Thats $40k/year in wages.

Insurance is likely high.

Maintenance is next to nothing. It’s a freaking bounce house. Patch it and keep it full of air.

They likely pay a lease to the state park.

It had pokey burrs all over the beach. Huge chunks of cement floating hazardously just below the water. Big rocks and trash.

It was an unpleasant experience, to say the least. But the demographic looked $$$.

$22 per hour per person!

If they brought in $20k of white sand and kept the beach clean they could prob raise prices 20% AND have higher occupancy.

And then rent out chairs and sell some drinks or shave ice.

I bet they net $300k/year. Not bad for a seasonal business ran by teenagers.

“BUT WHAT ABOUT LIABILITY!?” You may think? Pay for freaking insurance. Problem solved.

Stop talking yourself out of starting something for once.

0.00% of this post was written with AI.

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4 weeks ago | [YT] | 544

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I just talked to a 19 year old who's made $225,000 in 9 months building apps with zero coding experience.

This is George. Like I said, he's 19!

No technical background. Used an AI app builder to vibecode everything.

He launched his first app in July 2025 called Fight AI.

You bascially upload a video of yourself shadow boxing or sparring and it gives you a breakdown on form and technique.

It made $1,800 the first month...What??

Still does over $1,000 a month today without him touching it.

Then through cold outreach he lands a partnership with one of the biggest wrestling creators in the space. They go 50/50 on WrestleAI. Same concept, just for wrestling.

They launched late September.

$8,000 the first week.
$30,000 in December.
$40,000 a month by January.

The whole growth was organic influencer posts.

He pays $2 CPM.

After wrestling season slowed down, revenue settled around $10,000 a month.

So he launched two more apps.
Boxing app does $23,000 lifetime.
An app that analyzes your abs does $15,000.

Now he's leaving his full time job to go all in.

In this episode George:

- Breaks down the exact influencer outreach strategy he uses

- Shows me why fake followers and verification matter

- Walks through his meta ads strategy

- Explains how Apple pulled his app for two weeks over his co-founder's tweet

And I tell him why I think this could be a publicly traded company.

George was awesome.

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I spent $1,650 to rent this boat for 4 hours today in Park City.

Plus gas, a tip and a tube.

Yes, it's a $100k boat, but only 2 months' worth of rentals & the boat is fully paid off. 1/2 a season.

You can't convince me that boat rentals aren't a great business. I'm tempted...

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I'm doing an in-person event in Provo, UT in 8 days.

It's like Shark Tank, but no idea or business is too small. Blue collar, white collar, just an idea or a full fledged business. Real $$ at play!

Come pitch me + 2 friends on stage in Provo UT on 7/21!

Details below.

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I met an Armenian girl in Central Park. Pure hustler. This side hustle should be everywhere.

She immigrated here 5 years ago and got a job working this booth that says “newspaper in 5 seconds.”

She does it for tips only and grosses about $130/hour. The owner has 55 of these! Around Central Park and Times Square.

It’s simply a DSLR camera attached wirelessly to a printer

I assume her boss takes a lion’s share of her tips but we tipped generously regardless.

There’s no place like NYC.

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