The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Small Business Deep Dives with Entrepreneurs
Hey, I'm Chris Koerner - serial entrepreneur, business ideas addict, and your new ADHD business ideas best friend. I've started 75 businesses, with 10 of them being worth 7-8+ figures. I love startup ideas!Want to make money, grow a business, or just start a side hustle? You're in the right spot.This show covers:- Real-world growth hacking tips- Deep dives into cool business ideas and AI tools.- Simple business advice for small business & startups- Ways to make money with side hustles and home services- How to invest in RV parks or mobile home parksSometimes I'll chat with another entrepreneur...
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23 Beginner Friendly Businesses You Should Start In 2026⏐Ep. #255
<p>Join my AI Consulting Community (PlaymakersAI):https://playmakersai.com/</p><p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p><br></p><p>If you are new here from the Diary of a CEO episode, welcome. I am really glad you are here. And for everyone who has been with me from the beginning, I appreciate you more than you know.</p><p>In this episode I took all 254 past episodes and pulled out the very best ideas, lessons, guests and takeaways so you do not have to go back and binge everything unless you want to. I walk through my top 23 episodes and rank them from 23 to 1. You will hear why these ideas work, what I love about them, where people get stuck, and how you can use them no matter h...
Small Town Beginner Made $50K in His First 2 Months (No Experience)⏐Ep. #254
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>Quick update before you dive in. We’re shifting our upload schedule from three times a week to two. Instead of Mo-Wed-Fri, we’ll now be posting every Tuesday and Friday. With all the new formats we’re producing, three a week became tough to keep at the level we want. This new cadence will help us keep the quality high.</p><p>━</p><p>A year ago I interviewed Cinco about his line striping business. That episode is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6xd6KRw895dstoagycodp5?si=SE8Zssb_SvGNToYYHWazUQ</p><p>Hunter heard it, got inspired, and nine weeks later he had nearly fifty thousand dollars in revenue with zero experience.</p><p>I sat dow...
Cold Email Isn’t Dead. You’re Just Doing It Wrong⏐Ep. #253
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>Quick update before you dive in. We’re shifting our upload schedule from three times a week to two. Instead of Mo-Wed-Fri, we’ll now be posting every Tuesday and Friday. With all the new formats we’re producing, three a week became tough to keep at the level we want. This new cadence will help us keep the quality high.</p><p>━</p><p>I sat down with Will Cannon to break down how cold email really works today. Will has sent over one hundred million cold emails and grew one of his companies to a million dollars ARR almost entirely from it. We talk about how to write short emails that convert, how many follow ups you actu...
The "Form Factor" Hack That Built a $500M Empire⏐Ep. #252
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>Beehiiv is the newsletter platform I’ve used for over a year and a half because their data shows you exactly what’s working. Get 30% off three months at beehiiv.com/chris</p><p><br></p><p>And right now, for Black Friday, you can use Promo Code: 2025BFCM for 20% off any annual plan.</p><p>━</p><p><br></p><p>Quick update before you dive in. We’re shifting our upload schedule from three times a week to two. Instead of Mo-Wed-Fri, we’ll now be posting every Tuesday and Friday. With all the new formats we’re producing, three a week became tough to keep at the level we want. This new cadence will help us keep the quality high.</p><p><br></p><p>I sat do...
Marcus Lemonis: "Business Is Not Freedom" (Lessons Learned from The Profit)⏐Ep. #251
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>Beehiiv is the newsletter platform I’ve used for over a year and a half because their data shows you exactly what’s working. Get 30% off three months at beehiiv.com/chris</p><p><br /></p><p>And right now, for Black Friday, you can use Promo Code: 2025BFCM for 20% off any annual plan.</p><p>━</p><p><br /></p><p>Quick update before you dive in. We’re shifting our upload schedule from three times a week to two. Instead of Mo-Wed-Fri, we’ll now be posting every Tuesday and Friday. With all the new formats we’re producing, three a week became tough to keep at the level we want. This new cadence will help us keep the quality high.</p><p><br /><...
Making $15k/Month Selling Simple Garage Shelves⏐Ep. #250
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible to build a full-time business exclusively on Facebook Marketplace? In this episode, we sit down with Alex Hansen, aka "The Shelf Dude," to find out how he turned a simple DIY garage project into a business netting $15,000 a month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alex breaks down exactly how he achieved 70-80% profit margins , why he quit his day job to build shelves full-time, and his strategy for creating infinite free leads. We also discuss his major pivot: how he is now monetizing his competitors by building a nationwide installer network and selling digital plans.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are looking for a low-cost side hustle or want to learn how to sell anything on Facebook...
How to Start a Couch Flipping Business with $0⏐Ep. #249
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>Manage your business finances globally and save on fees with Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com</p><p>━</p><p>Want to make $10k/month on Facebook Marketplace? </p><p>In this episode, we sit down with the "Full Time Flipper," Tim MacLeod, who turned a side hustle into a six-figure business. He reveals the exact strategy he uses to flip couches for massive profit without doing any repairs.</p><p>🔗 CONNECT WITH TIM MACLEOD: </p><p>- Instagram: @thefulltimeflipper </p><p>- Tim's Couch Flipping Course: Link in his Instagram Bio</p><p>Enjoy! </p><p>---</p><p>Watch this on YouTube instead here: tkopod.co/p-yt</p><p>Ask me a questi...
8 Untapped Business Ideas You Can Start This Weekend ⏐Ep. #248
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>Manage your business finances globally and save on fees with Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com</p><p>━</p><p>This was honestly one of my favorite HoldCo Bros sessions ever. We broke down the math on 8 different business ideas that are completely wide open right now.</p><p>I’m talking about everything from simple local service arbitrage to high-level psychological pricing hacks. We even break down how one guy in a tiny town is generating a quarter-million dollars a year with zero employees.</p><p>The opportunities are hiding in plain sight—you just have to know where to look.</p><p>In this episode, we breakdown:</p><p>The "Virginity Rocks" Case Study: How a simple brand does $70M/year.</p><p>The I...
I Helped Them Stop Wasting Money on the Wrong Audience⏐Ep. #247
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p><br></p><p>HoldCo Bros are back! In this episode, Nik and I dig into a super interesting business idea — Porta Courts, a portable pickleball court company started by Nik’s brother-in-law. We break down how he can turn it into a real business, from testing demand with PickFu surveys to running Facebook ads the right way.</p><p>We go deep into how to identify the right target audience — from hardcore pickleball players and luxury homeowners to schools, hotels, and local entrepreneurs who could rent these courts out like bounce houses. I share a step-by-step framework for setting up ad campaigns, building high-trust landing pages, and using data to figure out what messaging actual...
We Tried Building a Money-Making App in Under an Hour (No-Code)⏐Ep. #246
<p>Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com</p><p>━</p><p>I sat down with Brandon Doyle (https://x.com/_BrandonDoyle_) again, and this time we tried to build a money-making app in under an hour using Emergent, a new vibe coding tool. We let a random word generator decide our idea, landed on a lawn care quote generator, and then raced to see who could build the better version faster. I focused on the backend logic and real-time pricing, while Brandon went all in on clean design and live deployment. We ended up building two working web apps for about $10 each, both ready to launch instantly. We compared prompts, strategies, and credits used, and talked about how simple these AI tools make it to build real...
