Is there gold in your backyard? Here's how one listener found a thousand dollars a week in hers.

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here? Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because where there's pain, there's opportunity.

Happy New Year to you. I'm excited to dive right into today's show an inspiring, an actionable story about a listener

Erica Croupin of Michigan who started a pet waste removal business in her

spare time and now has more than 80 recurring weekly customers. If we ballpark an average of

say $15 per that's over a thousand bucks a week picking up dog poop. Sometimes it's the simplest businesses that are the

fastest to get started and see some results. In fact Erica just left her day job to

pursue this full-time. You can find her over at poopin scoupin.com and when you stick

around in this episode you'll hear how she landed her first customers and markets

this business how she prices the service and how she delivers on her promises.

Notes and links for this one plus the full text summary with all of Erica's top

tips from the call or over at side hustle nation.

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