360: From $12/hr at Walmart to a $70k a Year Part-Time Business

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

He knew his $12 an hour gig at Walmart was a dead-end job. His escape route was a business idea you probably walk past at least a couple times a year without even thinking about it. What's he do? Today, Larry McGee's the guy who takes care of the aquarium at the dentist office and other commercial waiting rooms. And it earns him around $70,000 a year, doing something he enjoys and working just 15-hours a week. Larry’s aquarium maintenance business started as a lunch break side hustle with a friend while working at Walmart. More than a decade into the operation, he's got dozens of predictable retainer clients that pay him every month. In this episode, Larry shares some interesting tactics he’s used over the years to find new clients and keep them around for years. I'm confident he'll give you some food for thought as to what type of local service business could be right under your nose. Full Show Notes: From $12/hr at Walmart to a $70k a Year Part-Time Business

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0:00.0	From working at Walmart to a $70,000 a year part-time business, my guess is you walk past this side hustle at least twice a year without even knowing it. What's up, what's up Nick Loper here?
0:16.6	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show
0:17.6	because business ideas are everywhere.
0:20.4	Like I mentioned a second ago,
0:21.5	you probably walk past this business at least twice a year without even thinking about it.
0:26.0	That was definitely the case for me until side hustle show listener Larry McGee reached out with a story about his aquarium maintenance business
0:34.3	which started as a lunch break side hustle with a friend while they were both
0:38.6	working at Walmart. Now it helped that Larry was interested in aquariums as a hobby, but over the years he's built this thing to dozens of predictable retainer accounts, many of them in dental offices, that's where the two times a year thing comes in, and all told he's been able to earn
0:55.0	70 grand a year working an average of 15 hours a week.
0:59.5	Use this episode as some food for thought, or maybe some fish food for thought as to what type of
1:05.0	local service business could be right under your nose and how you might begin to
1:09.2	reach those customers. Notes and links for this one along with the full text summary with all of Larry's top tips from the call are at side hustle nation.com slash Larry.
1:19.0	Now whether you're helping people take care of their aquariums or providing some other type of service, you're going to need a reliable
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1:52.8	and enter the Side Hustle Show
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1:55.9	to Get Started Today.
1:57.5	I'll be back with my top takeaways
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