Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

The $81K/Month Business Where Every Job Is Outsourced

11 Sept 2026 · 2 min

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In this video, the speaker recounts how he built a service business that generated $81,000 in revenue within just 85 days (the third month of operation) after launching with only about $500 in initial setup costs. He emphasizes that the model relies on outsourcing the installation work to independent contractors, each handling roughly 16 jobs per month at $500 per job, which yields about $8,000 monthly earnings for the installers. The speaker highlights the broader market context of a shrinking skilled‑labor pool and inflated service pricing, positioning his approach as a low‑touch, scalable operation where he personally visits sites only twice a month. He also shares his personal background—no degree, no prior experience, previously delivering for DoorDash—and his motivation to escape that situation by creating a high‑margin, outsourced business.

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So in August, we did $81,000 in revenue. Holy crap. Your third month. And how long have you been at it? 85 days. And the crazier part is, as we're sitting here, September has just begun. We have $54,000 on the calendar for September. That's wild. I never had an internship. I never got my degree. I had no work experience. I had really nothing. I was driving DoorDash, and I don't want to be in that situation. Yeah, $500 of setup and we were ready to go. That was a one-man show. The thing I get personally most excited about. We are in a time period right now where there is an ever-diminishing amount of skilled laborers. Way more people are retiring than there are people that are starting. You have so many service types that have a market rate that is just completely made up by whoever the 5 people that offer the service are. There's no reason that that costs $10,000, and no one's thinking about it. No, and it will always be overlooked because people, they don't understand it. They think that it harder or more complicated than it really is. Yeah, the way I wanted to run this— I'm not a licensed— just have them handle the install part of it, right? And when you do the math on what they're going to make, then they do 16 jobs each and they make an average of $500 a job. I mean, that's a really good setup for them as well. They're going to make an extra $8,000 a month. So you don't need to ever go there or touch it, or do you? I go there twice a month.