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Side Hustle School

#909 - Revenge of Bat Houses: There’s More Than One Seller!

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A side hustling “Batman” earns $20,000 per year building a new kind of bat cave. 

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0:00.0

What's up friends, Sadassal School Community, so glad you're here in a previous recent

0:13.8

episode.

0:14.8

I believe it was number 877.

0:16.9

We talked about the Bat House Hustle that takes a bite out of pesticides.

0:21.0

I learned more about bats in the research for that episode than I think I ever have learned

0:24.8

in my entire adult life.

0:26.8

Now much to my surprise, our team's research for this week brought us to another guy in

0:31.3

Florida who is also making and selling bat houses with a similar motivation to the people

0:36.6

we featured in that previous episode, but an entirely different method.

0:40.6

He's also serving an entirely different market than the other guys.

0:43.8

They are selling budget-friendly bat houses for your average family who wants to welcome

0:47.8

some bats to their front porch.

0:49.2

I believe they were working on a model that could cost less than $100.

0:54.0

These bat houses, the ones in today's story, cost up to $4,000 and weigh up to 1,200

1:00.1

pounds.

1:01.1

They are enormous.

1:02.1

They also have a smaller model, but when I say smaller, it still clocks in at around 680

1:06.6

pounds.

1:07.6

I think that one is $2,500.

1:08.9

So, it turns out that there is room for more than one bat cave out there.

1:13.6

Stay tuned for this story.

1:14.6

We're calling it Revenge of Bat Houses.

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