614: Scaling a Local Service Business: Multi 6-Figures in Pet Waste Removal

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It's not every day you spot one of your podcast guests' yard signs while driving, but that's exactly what happened to me. As we cruised the neighborhood, a bright pink "Kroopin's Poopin Scoopin" sign caught my eye. We first heard from this guest in 2020. She was earning around a thousand bucks a week from her part-time pooper scooper/pet waste removal business. And since then, it has grown to serve almost 200 weekly residential customers at an average ticket price of $99/month. In this 'Where Are They Now?' episode, I have once again Erica Krupin from Kroopin's Poopin Scoopin to talk about what this former side hustle looks like at scale. Full Show Notes: Scaling a Local Service Business: Multi 6-Figures in Pet Waste Removal New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Ladder – Get instantly approved for term life insurance—no doctors, no needles, no paperwork! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! This is Small Business Podcast – Brought to you by Amazon, explore the stories of small business owners as they navigate their path to success! Tailor Brands — Get 35% off LLC formation plans w/ code SIDEHUSTLE.

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0:00.0	This is scaling up a local service side hustle to full-time multi six figures in the pet waste removal niche
0:07.6	What's up? What's up? Nick? Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show part of the entrepreneur podcast network because you're 9 to 5 may make you a living but your 5 to 9 makes you alive
0:16.6	Pump for this one we first heard from today's guests in early 2020. She was earning around a thousand bucks a week from her part-time pooper
0:24.7	business and since then has grown it a ton now serving almost 200 weekly
0:30.1	residential customers at an average ticket price of $99 a month from Poopinstoopin.com.
0:37.5	Erica croupin. Welcome back to the Side Hustle show.
0:40.4	Thanks for having me back again. I'm super excited. You bet I love building on these series and encourage everybody to check out the first appearances of Erica on the show. We'll link those up of course. Let's stick around in this one you learn what's working today from a marketing standpoint how Erica raised prices and started
0:55.3	landing bigger clients and how she's removed herself from the fulfillment side of things, the backyard,
1:00.3	physical labor poop and scoop inside of things to really step into that
1:03.4	CEO role now your listener only bonus for this week is my local business
1:08.4	marketing checklist some simple ideas that you can implement to get more customers for your service.
1:14.1	You can download that for free at the show notes for this episode.
1:16.8	Just follow the link in the episode description.
1:19.4	That's the easiest way and it'll get you right over there.
1:22.0	Now I want to share a really cool moment that was cool for me.
1:25.3	So we're visiting friends in Michigan for Thanksgiving, like long-standing friends giving tradition.
1:31.2	We're driving along in Detroit suburbs and I see this
1:33.9	bright pink, poop and scooping, yard sign in somebody's yard. And I'm like,
1:38.0	whoa, whoa, you know, my wife is riding shotgun. Like, hey, she was on the
1:41.1	podcast. That's so, and she's like looking around,
1:43.2	like she had no idea what I'm talking about, what,
1:45.3	what, looking for someone like actually standing there.
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