He Makes $1,000,000 in 30 Days Selling Christmas Trees

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 661: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the NY Christmas Tree mafia, 2 health startups with crazy traction, plus their predictions for big trends in 2025. — Show Notes: (0:00) Christmas Tree Mafia (6:45) Neko Health (11:57) Superpower (21:43) Shaan's 4x/wk training program (25:33) Prediction: Whole Foods is going down (27:40) Prediction: Natural fibers, local meat — Links: • Curbed article - https://tinyurl.com/3z6tzf3w • Neko Health - https://www.nekohealth.com/ • Superpower - https://superpower.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	So this Christmas Street thing is kind of crazy. The story is this article that I read
0:07.2	incurbed. Basically, it's talking about the brutal mafia-style business of Christmas tree sales
0:13.9	in New York.
0:19.1	And I'm just going to read you a paragraph here that just captures it. It goes, Christmas
0:27.0	trees are a big business in New York. A lot of people see the quaint little shacks that appear on the side
0:32.3	of the road just before Thanksgiving with a bunch of trees. And you think, oh, these are probably
0:36.3	independently owned, maybe by jolly families of lumberjacks looking to make a few holiday bucks.
0:41.1	That's what I thought anyways.
0:42.8	In reality, a few eccentric, obsessed, and sometimes ruthless tycoons control the sale of almost
0:48.7	every tree in the city.
0:50.4	They call themselves tree men.
0:52.6	They spend 11 months a year preparing for Christmas time, which to them is a 30-day sprint to grab as much cash as they can.
0:59.2	I'm in.
1:00.1	You're in, right?
1:01.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:01.7	This needs to be a Netflix show, right?
1:04.7	Yeah, and is this the one about this guy named Scott?
1:07.5	Well, there's a bunch of guys.
1:08.6	So it talks about, the different guys because they basically
1:11.0	carved up the territories. Like you got Harlem. This one guy gets Manhattan. This other guy's got the
1:16.0	east side. And they all have different territories. And they all have crazy names. So it's like George Nash and
1:22.2	Kevin Hammer. And it's like, oh yeah, Nash got Harlem. He's a smooth-talking hippie from Vermont.
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