#1723 - Utah Dad Makes a Splash with Paddleboard Rentals
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2021
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Summary
Pandemic demand for outdoor activities helped this seasonal side hustle—but what really allowed it to thrive was the owner’s use of Google Maps.
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| 0:35.2 | People are always looking for ideas, ideas of side hustles like it's start some kind of business |
| 0:40.4 | that anyone could do. Well listen, somebody out there could totally do the business. I'm going |
| 0:44.4 | to tell you about today. It has low startup costs. It's going to bring in something like an extra |
| 0:48.5 | $10,000 for the guy who runs it just this season. It is in fact a seasonal side hustle built on the |
| 0:54.7 | demand for outdoor activities. What's really allowed it to thrive was the owner's use of Google Maps. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm going to tell you about that today because for everybody out there who is tired of Instagram and |
| 1:04.7 | Facebook, I hear you, listen to what this guy told us. He said Instagram and Facebook added |
| 1:10.9 | approximately zero value to our business. 99% of our customers find us on Google search or Google Maps |
| 1:17.6 | by searching paddleboard rentals near me. As you might have guessed at this point, this is a local |
| 1:23.6 | business that is running out paddleboards from this guy's garage doing very well. And so not every |
| 1:29.3 | business needs social media. If you are a local business like this one, getting those hyper local |
| 1:34.3 | search results can bring in an entire customer base on its own. That's what this guy's been able |
| 1:39.3 | to do. Utah dad makes a splash with paddleboard rentals. The story's coming up after this quick |
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