Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

If you want to be a billionaire you have to innovate.

But to be a millionaire you simply need to copy/paste.

Don't even try to copy something that works and put your own twist on it. No twists. Stop twisting.

Just copy what's working.

Over time you'll organically discover tweaks that make it your own, but don't lead with the tweaks or you'll screw it all up.

The design, the marketing channel, the pricing, the copywriting, etc. Copy as much as you can without being unethical.

The hardest stuff to copy can't be seen from the outside anyway, so know that it's going to get harder.

But you only make it harder on yourself when you try to make it your own from the outset.

A tidal wave market is always big enough for a ton of clones. The best at executing will win the most.

Follow me ‪@thekoerneroffice‬ if you found this interesting!

8 hours ago | [YT] | 56

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

This guy vibecoded an app that landed him a $15,000 customer almost Instantly.

A year later, he's made $2.5M
This year? He's projected to make $7M

Guys, please listen carefully to me with this:
- He is not a software developer
- He started this with $400

If you are watching this, you are the minority.

Stop assuming other people know what you know about AI. You are a first mover.

This is 100% possible for anyone else to do.

You've gotta check this one out!

10 hours ago | [YT] | 20

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

I don’t file LLCs until a couple things are true.

Every week someone asks me about this. Here's my answer, after starting 75 businesses:

1. I’m sure that this business will be a real thing. Am I going to be doing this 6 months from now, a year from now, 6 years from now?

2. It has repeatable revenue. It’s not just friends and family revenue.

If I’m slinging pizzas at a farmers market for funzies, I’m not going to get an LLC for that unless I have to for regulation reasons.

But if I start with that and then I realize I can hire someone for $20/hr and they do this for me and I still make $500 every farmer’s market, ya, then I’ll get an LLC.

There’s certain triggers here:

- Hiring more people (absolutely)
- Generating repeatable revenue (absolutely)

Ask yourself these questions:

Is this going to stick around?
Have I proven the model?
Is there a product market fit?
Is there demand?

Then yes. I’ll get an LLC

2 days ago | [YT] | 127

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

I recently walked into Cabela’s for the first time in 5 years.

I notice the sign also says Bass Pro. Huh. Whatever.

I walk in and they say “welcome to outdoor world!” Uh, ok. Three names? Wasn’t the merger a decade ago?

There are more employees than customers. Total crickets. 77,000 empty square feet. You could fit an entire Honda dealership in here.

The dude at the entry gives me the hard sell to join their rewards program, while the outside air is still on my neck.

I’m just here for a knife dude. I won’t be back for another 5 years. I look at my iPhone and wrangle from his grasp.

As we go to leave they push me to join their rewards program yet again. Or sign up for a credit card. I can't remember.

What a trainwreck. This is what poor management looks like.

3 days ago | [YT] | 388

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

I'm going to show you Facebook marketplace in ways that you’ve never seen before.

I can’t even begin to tell you how many business ideas I’ve found and/or validated just from FB marketplace.

It’s the perfect environment to start small and test.

Today I'll cover:

- How to make money on FB Marketplace

- How to scrape FB Marketplace listings in ways that you haven’t even thought of.

This will give you an edge over the other BILLION people on FB marketplace who can’t do this.

Check this one out

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Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

This is how you can reframe everything "bad" that happens to you.

When something bad happens, write about it on a Google doc.

At the bottom of the doc write how you'll be better for it.

In the moment that bad thing is your life's book.

But months later, just a chapter.

Years later, a mere sentence.

And a decade later, a footnote.

I have a long list of my failures and trials. It's fun reading back on them and seeing how many books are now just tiny footnotes.

Follow me ‪@thekoerneroffice‬ for more screaming insecurities.

4 days ago | [YT] | 82

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

TEST YOUR PRICE POINTS
TEST YOUR PRICE POINTS
TEST YOUR PRICE POINTS

I’m selling a business plan and tested the 6 prices/discounts below.

My conversion rate was higher at $58 + 50% off than it was for merely $9.

It’s almost 4x the revenue from the exact same amount of traffic.

5 days ago | [YT] | 80

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

Facebook deleted my $35K/month page overnight.

No warning. No appeal. Just gone.

Six figures of income disappeared while I still had a team to pay and bills due.

I was on a morning run when the idea hit me.

Came home, opened my laptop, and hit record.

Within two hours I had my first sale.

By the end of the day = $12,125.

I filmed the whole thing so you can see exactly how my brain works when everything goes wrong.

Full video is up 👇

6 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 34

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

If I were starting a home service biz today, the only 3 I would NOT start are:

Pressure washing
Window cleaning
Lawncare

Why?

Pressure washing & window cleaning:

1. Thanks to a handful of smart Tik Tokkers, you'll be competing against internet savvy 24 year old hustlers that are unafraid to knock doors and know every tip and trick in the book, or at least they think they do.

2. They aren't complacent! I'd rather have 100 complacent competitors than 3 hungry and savvy competitors.

3. They are low ticket services. Why drive 30 minutes to give a $300 quote when so many other services are $3,000 quotes?

4. The supply/demand ratio on platforms like Angi and Thumbtack are skewed against you.

10 bidders for every bid.

You'd work too hard for too little money.

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But why not lawncare?

1. Your competitor is either Jimmy, the resident 17 year old that Karens can't say no to, or Jose, the hard-working hispanic that charges almost nothing.

2. You can outsource the work to a crew, but there's no margin for that, or do it yourself, and have to maintain all kinds of equipment.

Try calling a small engine repair place. Booked for weeks.

Does this mean people can't be successful with these 3 services? Of course not!

There will always be an opportunity to stand out in any industry, especially if you aren't having to reinvent the wheel.

But with hundreds of ways to profit in home services, pick the ones with the least amount of brain damage.

Follow me ‪@thekoerneroffice‬ if you found this interesting!

1 week ago | [YT] | 205

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

This guy made $8,400 in 13 days from a business that was built entirely by AI.

He is not a coder.

He doesn't have any special technical skills.

He just had an idea and let AI do the rest.

2 weeks in, he's projected to make $100k/year from this "side hustle"

If you are even the slightest bit curious about what you can build with AI, watch this!

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