Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

Sometimes the best business ideas are hiding in plain sight…

2 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Chris Koerner presents a short YouTube pitch for a low-capital piano-removal business. He recounts a moving-company owner who finds "free" pianos on Facebook Marketplace, charges owners to haul them away, and scales the operation by batching pickups. Koerner gives local market estimates (listings within 40 miles, daily listing counts, claim rates), suggested pricing and costs (pickup fee ranges, U-Haul rental), and a worked example that claims doing 10 pickups a day could yield $2,500/day.

Questions this video answers

Within 40 miles (of Dallas, Texas).

About 50 to 60 listings per day (speaker says 'every single day, 50 to 60 frequency').

54 listings in the last 24 hours (speaker-reported).

10% to 20% claimed (speaker estimate).

80% to 90% will never be claimed (speaker estimate).

Chapters

This is a freaking genius business idea that you could start tomorrow and in 52 seconds I'll tell you how to scale it to 2,500 bucks a day for about a hundred dollars. So this guy just commented on my post. He owns a moving company and when business is slow, they go troll Facebook marketplace for free pianos and then offer to charge $250 to pick it up. Why would anyone pay that? I'll tell you exactly why. But before I do, here are some numbers. I live in Dallas, Texas, within 40 miles of me. Every single day, 50 to 60 frequency, three pianos are listed. Over the last 24 hours, there have been 54. 10 to 20% of those will be claimed. 80 to 90% of those will never be claimed because there are so many and they're freaking heavy. And who wants to go get them? And then they have to be tuned. Guess what? These people still need them gone. So here's what you do. Start messaging all these people, offer them 150 to 350 to pick up the piano, line them all up for the same day. Go rent a u haul for 39.99 plus 95 cents per mile. You and a friend, go pick them up, roll them up the ramp, deliver them to the dump. You do 10 of those a day, and that's 2,500 bucks a day.