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Side Hustle School

#1471 - Natural Air Fresheners Are Big Business

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Small Business, Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Two friends and new fathers start a natural air freshener business that’s cleaning up to the tune of seven figures.


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0:00.0

Well, back in episode 975, we feature the story of this tool for public restrooms that

0:11.8

allows you to use your foot to open the door.

0:14.7

Therefore, allowing for greater hygiene, this tool is called the Steppenpool.

0:18.8

Well, guess what, their business is doing phenomenally well.

0:21.7

Over the past year, as more and more people have become conscious of hygiene and sanitation,

0:27.0

they have realized more companies have realized, hey, you know, we wanted to

0:29.9

do an overall audit of all of our experience.

0:32.1

All of our workplace experience, our customer-facing experience for people who are coming

0:36.1

into stores, perhaps using the restroom.

0:39.0

And this was a problem long before COVID-19, of course.

0:41.5

You know, issues of hygiene and sanitation, and maybe you've wondered, perhaps like when

0:45.5

you go to the use of public restroom and then you have to open the door with your hand,

0:49.0

you know, to go out, you're like, well, I just washed my hands.

0:51.2

Couldn't there be some better way?

0:53.4

We don't necessarily want automatic doors in the restroom either, so anyway, these guys

0:56.9

came along and saw the problem, you know, now just doing phenomenally well, as I said,

1:00.7

making lots of money, lots of contracts with corporations everywhere.

1:05.3

And so, you know, in some ways, you could say they were in the right place at the right

1:08.2

time, but of course, they had to do all the work to be able to be in that place.

1:12.5

They saw this problem before there was as much awareness, there was some, of course,

1:17.4

still, but before there was as much awareness of hygiene and sanitation in public settings.

1:22.0

So I always love when people end up getting rewarded by, you know, putting lots of hard work

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