Excerpt from a YouTube talk by Mark Simpson (uploaded Feb 6, 2025) describing tactical ways to monetize by leveraging personal networks and outsourcing operational tasks—e.g., tapping hosts for commissions, hiring casual workers to collect data/drive and hire callers as a consistent sales arm. The speaker emphasizes practical, low-friction delegation to scale revenue streams.
Even if we're full, it's really good to be doing this practice, because if we're full, I can tap into my network of hosts that I have, and I can try and get in position there at their places, and we just take a cut and we just ask, get a commission or a furious fee, a founder's fee. So it's ways of making money. Now, again, we've done this ourselves. We're going to do this ourselves. But over time, what we can do is we could outsource this. So we could just pay somebody, a college kid or whatever, just to drive around at night, earn a bit of extra beer money and do this for us. Fill in the sheet. And then we could also hire somebody to be doing these calls for us. And they are consistently being our sales arm for us in the business.
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