A short YouTube monologue by Chris Koerner (Sept 21, 2024) pitching five “sweaty” (manual, labor-heavy) startup ideas for 2024: septic install & repair, concrete repair, moving, fencing, and tree trimming. Emphasizes operator-as-marketer roles (find customers and subcontract the physical work), high-ticket/high-margin opportunities, and local SEO benefits (Google Map pack).
It's 9am in late September and it's already 85 degrees in Texas. Do you think AI is about to disrupt this? Of course not. Here are my five favorite sweaty startup ideas. You can sub out all the work. Enjoy high ticket and high margin and you're able to make your Google map pack look like this instead of this. Septic install and repair. You find the customers sub out the work. Concrete repair. You find the customers sub out the work. Moving don't want to buy a moving truck? Rent a U haul until you're up and running. As long as the piano is 800 pounds, there's going to be a market for moving businesses. Fencing these are one to ten thousand dollar jobs and you can get commercial jobs which are ten times more. Last but not least, tree trimming. I own a tree trimming business. Come compete with me. It's pretty great out here.
