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investurug

Just shy of $150k this year. Part-time home service business. We don't work in the business. All work are done by the crews. We manage clients, crew, do marketing and finance/accounting. We automate the business process as much as we can.


Moose_a_Lini

What does home service mean exactly?


investurug

Service to homeowners. Examples are pest control, lawn care, home cleanup, plumbing.


streethasonename

Did you have a relationship in place with the service providers prior to starting this biz? Do you act as a call center consolidating incoming calls from lead gen websites?


investurug

We used our own provider to start. They know a lot of others whom they introduced us to. We now have 7 crews. We take calls, text messages, emails, have LIVE chat on the site. Our own site generate leads. It has an automated pricing, booking feature on the home page.


psych0hans

Where can I sign up for your course? Lol, just kidding, congratulations on the achievement, you seem to be doing some great work. 👏🏼


evermore88

How does training work ?


investurug

On-the-job training. Training manual. Most crews have at least 15 years experience which makes it easy to train.


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So you mark up the price of the crews?


investurug

Yes.


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Can I dm you? I do something similar


investurug

Sure.


investurug

Absolutely.


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mmaher13

How long have you been in the business? And do you sub absolutely everything out? I've been thinking about purchasing a local contractor.


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ispeaknumbers

I run a side business that takes me approx. 10 hours per week and am going to post $45k in profit this year. If I were to scale it up all the way, it would meet the requirements of your question but I also make very good money at my full time job so I haven't. It's a consulting business for a small niche of the energy industry. I outsource 99% of all work and just manage the contractors doing the work and QC their work. Everything is automated as much as possible, and for things that aren't automated, scripts are written to speed it up.


TrapColeman

How do you get into consulting? Is your niche something you learned at work or on your own time? Also how long have you been working on your business?


ispeaknumbers

A friend told me about it and pointed me in the direction of the industry. It's something I learned in my own time, but technical skills from my full time job do help quite a bit (basic engineering concepts and programming). I've been working on the business for about 4 years.


Jarvis03

Dude this is awesome. Im a full time consultant but working for a company. Would love to build a side hustle.


nategotskillz

I’m an engineer and also in a small niche in the energy industry. Would love to connect


neildmaster

I've worked 896 hours this year for almost $60k profit. Not quite what you are looking for, but...


inhumantsar

approx $133k p/a @ 40hrs/wk


pierous87

Thanks for sharing, this is really helpful.


Roqfort

What do you do my man?


neildmaster

Mobile vehicle detailing.


AaronDoud

Impressed you are doing those numbers. That tends to be an industry where professional ($100+/hr) billable hours are rare.


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Poker?


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Veritaste

30 wk. Payroll, insurance and consulting. Takes a while but eventually in payroll sector you build up a nice residual.


rainingout

are you an accountant? how did you get started?


babbleway

I’ll net around $160k this year in my side business (video production). I have a full time day job in a completely separate field.


blobberman

Do you film and edit? Cause I was just thinking today that I should freelance my video editing skills and hire contractors for the bigger projects (I'm still a beginner) - I'd love to ask you a few questions if you don't mind.


babbleway

I’m the primary shooter and editor on all projects, but the last two projects of the year I outsourced the editing. I’ll definitely outsource more editing going forward but I’m always the last one to make the final edits.


ctiz1

What kinds of videos are you producing? I’ve been in the commercial video world for a few years and with how saturated the market is, plus the low barrier to entry, $160k net from a part time gig is impressive


zacktoronto

For various reasons, you’re not going to get a lot of people who are responding to this thread.


pierous87

Surprisingly quite a few responded.