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Kerner: Facebook Marketplace APIs Allow Third-Party Apps to Be Built
“I've already looked into it. Don't tell me the API permissions don't allow for it because they do.”
Small RV and mobile home parks generate 30% to 60% cash-on-cash returns
“It's like 30 to 60% cash on cash returns.”
Kerner: 51% of Social Media Purchases Happen on Facebook Marketplace
“51% of all recent social media purchases, so like not Amazon, social media purposes, all happened on Facebook Marketplace, ok?”
Dallas front porch pumpkin decorator generates over $1M annually
“We've since become friends and she's making over a million dollars a year.”
Koerner's Buc-ee's resale venture did $200K month one, now makes millions
“We had a dozen news outlets write about us, and we went viral and did 200,000 dollars of sales in our first month, and we do millions of dollars a year now, five years later.”
Koerner's free crypto project with John McAfee reached $30M market cap
“We started a cryptocurrency that we gave out for free and it reached a thirty million dollar market cap, and we built a community with 70,000 people in it.”
Koerner: Generated $9.8M organically on Facebook Marketplace in three months
“That one ad, and I had it going on multiple accounts, we would refresh it, but no paid, did 9.8 million dollars all on Facebook Marketplace in three months. Profitably.”
Koerner: Buc-ee's locations generate $60M to $80M in annual revenue each
“There's 51 locations, and they do like 60 to eighty million in revenue per year each.”
Koerner: Automated AI agent arbitrage can build a 6- or 7-figure business
“I think you could build a six or a seven figure business around what I'm doing here. Not necessarily for pizza ovens, but for anything undervalued.”
Kerner: Germany Leads Health/Fitness Trends Which Later Move West
“Germany is the world leader when it comes to health and fitness trends, and those trends always come out west.”
Kerner: Buc-ee's omits dining seating because table square footage is unprofitable
“That's why one of their biggest complaints is no seating for food. Like, they sell, they have multiple restaurants in there, but you can't sit down and eat anywhere, and it's because it's not profitable for them to put in tables, right?”
Kerner: Kabuto King drove vintage card prices up 100x in 3 months
“And so now the price of a first edition Kabuto, ungraded, I think, last I checked, is like 10 to 20 dollars. So he has influenced the price to go up a hundred X plus over the course of about three months.”
Residential Sport Courts Will Become the Next Backyard Swimming Pool
“And I think sport courts are the next pools.”
Mobile Fuel Delivery Generates $5,000 in Annual Revenue per Customer
“His I think his lifetime value or his revenue per year per customer is 5000 dollars, and his lifetime value is super high.”
Moose Creek RV Park Generates $1.2 Million Annual Net Profit
“So the rents were under market. We raised rents. We added more pad sites. We expanded the season and now it's doing like 1.2 million a year of net profit.”
Koerner: Rural pop-up pizza stand earns $700 daily at 80% margins
“And they're making 700 dollars a day, 80% margins. Selling pizzas from an oven that they bought at Home Depot.”
Utah operator makes six figures renting out used washers and dryers
“He goes on Facebook marketplace and he buys washers and dryers, or he'll get them for free because people give them away all the time. They're moving their lease ends tomorrow. They got to get it out. Right. And then he goes back to Facebook marketplace and re…”
Koerner: The US has more puppies than children
“We have more puppies in the United States than children today. As of two years ago, like the line officially crossed more puppies than kids, right?”
Koerner: A 300-square-foot frozen banana stand generates $7M annually
“This one little shop that's like, 300 square feet is doing like, seven million a year in frozen bananas?”
Koerner: Pet cremation businesses operate with net profit margins exceeding 90%
“He learned about the industry and how pet cremation has like 90 plus percent net margins.”
Kerner: Lead gen businesses can easily reach multiple eight figures in revenue
“They can easily get to be eight figure, multiple eight figures in revenue, especially if they're in a profitable niche.”
Kerner: Shady Rays operates at 60% net margins
“Shady Rays was like, all right, here we've got 60% net margins.”
Kerner: Upwork freelancers can scrape 3M Shopify contacts for $20
“There are people that have Upwork accounts that have built with accounts and 20 bucks and you can have all three million Shopify stores contact info in your inbox.”
Kerner: Polished rock vending machines yield a 90% gross margin
“The rocks cost between five and 20 cents each. You sell them for two dollars each. That's a 90% profit margin.”
Porch Pumpkins Generates Seven Figures Annually in a Three-Month Season
“She's doing seven figures a year across three months.”
Porch Pumpkins Completes Up to 2,000 Orders at $1,000 Average
“She's doing between, 1302 thousand orders per year. Average order size is 800 to 1200 dollars.”
Trampolines.com Paused Paid Ads Due to Severe Excavation Installer Shortages
“And I reached out and they're like, yeah, we don't even have our paid ads turned on right now because we can't sell, like, we don't have enough people digging these things out for us.”
B-Stock Holds an Exclusive Contract to Sell Costco Customer Returns
“So the other website that does this is bstock, bstock.com. They have like a contract with Costco to sell all of their returns.”
Koerner: Front porch pumpkin decorators charge $600 to $1,300 per job
“She charges between 613 hundred dollars to decorate a porch with pumpkins.”
Pet cremation businesses can generate 92% gross margins
“I had a friend that worked in private equity and he had seen the inside of some deals, some pet cremation deals that looked really, really good. 92% gross margins.”
Koerner: Builder profits $180K/year selling garage shelving on Facebook Marketplace
“I interviewed this guy named Alex on my podcast, The Kerner Office. And he has a six-figure business just building, not shelving, but garage shelving on wheels with Costco totes. Like, that's it. Only with organic Facebook Marketplace posts. And he net profits…”
Koerner: Toasted Tours made over $1M with 60% margins in year one
“I think he did, like, over a million bucks his first year with, like, 60% margins.”
Koerner: SB Mowing creator has 45 million followers across combined social platforms
“So this guy has forty-five million followers across platforms combined.”
Koerner: Secret Pizza in Las Vegas generates $9M annually without a website
“That place does like nine million a year in pizza and they don't have a Google profile. They have no website.”
Koerner: Customer acquisition cost for private indoor pickleball leads is $12
“What I learned was I'm converting, like, I don't, the LTV is still to be determined, but I'm able to convert new customers at 12 dollars each.”
Kerner: Facebook Reels allows clickable comment links unlike Instagram
“In Instagram, key differentiator, you can, there are no clickable links in the comments. On Facebook, there are.”
Kerner: Shady Rays is a $130M brand built on lifetime warranties
“Shady Rays is a hundred and thirty million dollar sunglasses brand, and their entire business was built on their lifetime warranty.”
LCD Cycle Generated $2.1M in Revenue in 2013
“First we opened on January second, so 2013 was a full year. We did 2.1 million that year.”
LCD Cycle Grew Revenue to $4.8M in 2014, $8.8M in 2015
“So we did 2.1, and then 2014, that was 2013, 20 14, we did 4.8, and then last year in 2015, we did 8.8.”
LCD Cycle Posted 32% Gross Margins, $800K Profit on $8.8M Revenue
“So our gross margin is about 32 and net is about eight percent. So we did about, 800 grand on 8.8 million.”
LCD Cycle Surpassed One Million Total Parts Shipped
“So, it's been almost four years, and we have, we just eclipsed our millionth part.”
LCD Cycle Expects Around $6.5 Million in 2016 Revenue
“We're actually looking to do about six and a half this year.”
2015 Supply Shortage Spiked iPhone Screen Prices From $25 to $65
“The reason for our high top line number last year was because there was such an incredible shortage in the market. That the average price of screens went from like, 25 to 65 dollars, and so our top line just went through the roof, whereas the number of actual …”
Over 80% of LCD Cycle Customers Order at Least Twice
“That just means it's a customer that's not just ordering once, right? A customer that's ordering at least twice is over 80%.”
Koerner faced roughly 24,000 in-person rejections knocking doors in Hungary
“After knocking doors in Eastern Europe in a foreign language for two years, and I added up how many times I got rejected loosely because we would knock on doors all day. Every day. And so if you add that up, like x doors per day, it's like 24,000 times. Reject…”