What's up, what's up Nick Loper here welcome to the side hustle show because it doesn't necessarily

take a never before seen business idea to have a never before seen impact on your life. I'm joined

today by a long time side hustle show listener and we actually recorded this on his last day of

college while he was a full time student Johnny Robinson who goes by at squeegee god on Twitter

build orange window cleaning into a multi six figure operation. We haven't quite closed the

books on 2021 yet but you have a sense of where you expect to end up revenue wise for the cleaning

business window cleaning business. Yeah so we'll do just under 700,000 it's mostly window cleaning

but we also do Christmas lights to keep the guys busy in the off season so November December.

Now window cleaning obviously isn't the world's most innovative business but I think Johnny's

example illustrates the opportunity that exists in businesses that are already out there and in

some cases just applying a little modern marketing to them stick around in this episode to learn

how Johnny got his first customers the marketing engine you can borrow for your own business how he

fulfills the work and the tools and tech that he uses to manage the whole operation notes and links

to all the resources mentioned in this episode are at side hustle nation.com slash window while you're

there make sure to download my free local marketing checklist. 10 quick things you can do to get

more profitable local leads for your business. Again that's at side hustle nation.com slash window

or through the show notes in the episode description of your podcast player app. This story starts

like a lot of side hustles do with a less than satisfying day job. Ready? Let's do it.

Growing up I didn't have any types of entrepreneurship maneuvers in my family I come from a pretty poor

family and I thought you needed a degree to start a business so like I thought you needed to go

do your four years get a business degree and then you can open up whatever type of business you want

that's how I thought business work and I found out after getting my first job and dealing with

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