Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

This could change everything for you

4 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Chris Koerner (speaker) pitches installing decorative "fabric ceilings" on pergolas in the U.S., arguing they are popular in Europe and should be adopted more widely. He presents a brief business plan called the "piggyback method": partner with existing pergola-installation businesses, offer the fabric ceiling as a $1,000 upcharge, pay referral fees, and deliver installation at low material cost for high hourly earnings. The clip includes concrete example numbers for costs, upcharge, referral split, and labor earnings.

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Look at this freaking thing right here. These are called fabric ceilings, and they're super popular in Greece and elsewhere in Europe, and I think they need to be here in the US and here's how you should do it. I call it the piggyback method. I've already done content about people that install pergolas. It costs like, 8 to $12,000 to install a pergola. But look how they look. They're ugly. Who wants that? If I were you, I'd go find a dozen or two of these pergola installation businesses and piggyback on them. Say, hey, I install fabric ceilings on pergolas. You need to offer this as an upcharge. I know how to do it. You upcharge a thousand bucks. I have 200 of that for you just for referring me. And I'll do all the. Let's say Your costs are 200 bucks, your labor takes a couple hours, and you're making two to three hundred dollars an hour to install something that objectively looks awesome and that people would pay for. So I made a business plan for it right here.