The perfect side hustle is right under your nose...

Welcome to Side Hustle Central, I’m your host Car Wash Kriss…

Today I have what I believe is the “easy button” side hustle for 75% of you. This means is that your next opportunity is hiding in plain sight.

I heard someone (I think it was Shaan Puri) say on Twitter a few weeks ago: “If you want to know where to start a business: look at your businesses expenses.”

Which took a few days to register, and then I did just that.

Here’s an example: car washes need to have their pits pumped. All the water that comes off dirty cars goes into a pit and becomes a sludge of dirt, oil and water.

This pit has to be pumped/sucked out every few months, and the stuff that comes out needs to be dried and put in a landfill (there is some small heavy metal content).

Anyway, we struggle with finding good vendors for this. Many are too expensive and/or too busy to handle it. The equipment that people use to do it is very expensive because it was designed for 4 different applications - none of them car washes. The cheap option does a terrible job, the expensive option does great but is expensive!

You can probably see where this is going. We’re looking at buying a big “super sucker” rig specially designed for this application (on a trailer that can be pulled by a truck we already have) that is perfect for our application and solving OUR problem. Then we’ll turn everybody else who owns a car wash into a customer.

We’ll solve all our problems for cheaper and turn an expense into a profit center. Plus we’ll get in good graces with car wash owners and buy their properties too, hopefully.

“So what does this have to do with me?” you’re thinking…

Well friend, you have a W2 or a business of your own. Somewhere on the profit and loss statement of that company is an expense performed by a vendor.

And that vendor SUCKS (in our case they quite literally SUCK).

They are too expensive, too slow, too unresponsive, too BAD AT THEIR !#%$^ JOB. But, thanks to sheer inertia, laziness, and lack of available options, your company keeps paying them.

Month after month after month they keep paying them.

So, Side Hustler, what if YOU solve this problem? Many of these problems do not need full-time solutions. It might be every few days, weeks, or months. You might need some different knowledge, equipment, or capital. You might have to find the right person to hire to actually fulfill the work.

BUT, golly, everybody at the office sure would be happy to get this vendor out of here and work with someone they know and trust.

By gosh they’d might even be willing to pay MORE just so the darn thing was done right.

Or maybe it’s so darn expensive now that you could undercut the other bozos by 15% still give yourself a great profit margin!

And, golly, maybe there are other companies that need this work done too!

Get it?

So, now three questions:

• What is this one thing at your main gig that needs to be done better/faster/cheaper/more often?

• How can you turn this into YOUR side gig and make some nice cash on the side?

• What’s holding you back from doing it?

Answer by simply replying to this email, I’ll be fascinated to read your answers and will reprint some with your permission.

Kriss Berg

Side Gig Central

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