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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.”
Chris Kerner: Every Business Is Scalable; Question Is Degree of Difficulty
“I, in my opinion, everything is scalable, right? So the question, I just hate it when people say like, is that even scalable? Like, yes, it's scalable. The right question is how hard would it be to scale to that, to whatever number?”
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?”
Kerner: Content only goes viral when half of viewers think it's dumb
“Nothing goes viral without half of people thinking you're dumb.”
Kerner: People only steal ideas if they share your exact background
“And so when we share our ideas, the only chance of someone stealing it is if that other person has had like the exact same life as us. They had the same work history, the same personality. They're also an introvert. Their mom also divorced their dad at age 14.…”
Kerner: Startup ideas are more important today than ever
“Ideas are everything. They're more important than ever today.”
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.”
Koerner: OpenAI Operator's $200/month price is unjustified for 99% of users
“I think it's overpriced if you don't know what you're doing. Like if you don't, like, really like any software, right? You've got to invest time into it. And I think that's the hard part with 99% of people is they don't yet have ideas, which is why they're wat…”
Kerner: Direct phone calls are the best fix for abandoned checkouts
“The best converting fix for abandoned checkout or abandoned cart, they're two different things, is to get a person on the phone.”
Kerner: A founder's sole business idea is almost never their best bet
“The statistical probability that the only idea you have being like the best use of your time and money is almost zero. So keep that in mind, irrespective of my opinion of the idea. It's probably not the right idea for you because you don't have anything to com…”
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: Repackaging existing products for new uses reliably creates winning businesses
“It's just, it's an old product in a different way with a different package, which has shown time and time and again, like, there's nothing too stupid. Like, you just repackage something, reframe it, how it's used, and you went.”
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: Vending machines enable offline A/B testing for physical retail
“I love vending machines because it enables like offline AB testing. Right? Take one kind of generic vending machine, and you just, every month, you just swap out something else. Swap out the sign, swap out the product, and just see what crushes.”
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.”
Kerner has hoarded 1,000 ungraded first-edition 1999 Fossil Pokémon cards
“I have been buying two different cards. From 1999, fossil edition first first edition only, non-holographic, ungraded, any condition, near mint, heavily played, doesn't matter, and I have about a thousand of them so far, ok?”
Kerner: The vast majority of creators are ignoring Facebook Reels
“And I just think that a lot of creators, if not the vast majority of creators are ignoring Facebook reels and they're not taking advantage of that valuable real estate the top comment, the top pin comment.”
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: Target consolidated industries with centralized buyers for lead generation
“The hard part of the lead generation business is finding a centralized buyer for all the leads. Otherwise you're having to wrangle up 500 different house painters and begging them to say, hey, my leads are better than Thumbtack or Angie's List. And so I think …”
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.”
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: Built 5,500 programmatic SEO pages across US and Canadian cities
“So we went to the five most searched keywords in our niche that have low competition, and we built 1100 landing pages for each one of them. A hundred for the top 100 Canadian cities by population, and a thousand for the top American cities by population, becau…”