In this episode you will hear about

• Hiring legal students to fight law firms
• Timed candles
• Lubricant in Hot Sauce packets
• An alternative to classic realtor signs
• Toaster art that will excite your children
• The importance of being in relationship with people who are taking action

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We read business ideas submitted to us by viewers, and play a game where we think of the best business idea within the confines of a Disney theme park.

• Paid Movers
• A tree removing service
• Portable baby rocking machine
• Paying an expert to conduct job interviews 
• Cheap fish medicine
• Hiring recruiters to find recruiters

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We play a game called What is your problem? If you know the solution, then you can learn the problem. 

• Handyman monthly subscription
• Luggage Storage
• Prototyping Business
• Accounting Speak
• Alcoholic Keurig  

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 Jake Hamilton (famous singer/songwriter within Christian music) brings his knack for creativity to the table. 
 

•  A solution for all those pesky beard hairs that cover the sink. 
•  A unique take on bringing  specific emotions to Yoga class. 
•  Whiskey mixology kits by mail. 
• Tasting experiences for private groups over Zoom. 
• Business in a Box for Gen Z. 
• Members-only Creators & Artists "Gym"
• Shared storage units
  
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Dustin’s problem with dopamine fasts. 

• Dustin makes the case that dopamine fasts are a fad but really we need to face the fact that all future generations will face tons of noise, and we need to work on our critical thinking and judgement to be fit for the new normal. 

 NoCode is going to explode over the next 7 years. 

• Kendall is building a NoCode department in his business - which is full of people who write code for a living. Marketing use cases for developers (web devs) will more and more need to adapt to drag and drop NoCode tools to keep up. 
• Developers in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) are currently making $500k salaries and beyond. A friend from construction re-skilled himself after 15 years and now makes $105k after a developer/designer bootcamp - a 100% pay jump from construction.

 Kendall’s failed marketing agency and what he'd do differently. 

• Kendall's marketing agency was closed down when he struggled to pay himself enough to run it, meanwhile competitors were charging double. If he could do anything different, it would only be charging double - allowing him to pay higher wages to talented employees, have a marketing, finance, and HR budget, and his own family enough to stay in the game. 

 An agency that only americanizes landing pages.

• An incredibly easy business right now would be to solely translate and Americanize landing pages for businesses overseas that are selling to US consumers. 
  • Researcher finds a landing page that is obviously off
  • An email is sent to the company with a flat rate to redo the copy
  • Rinse and repeat. 

 Itch-reducing boob pillows.

• Breastfeeding and pregnant women are extra sleep deprived because of itchy and sweaty chests. 
• A pillow (optional strap?) from soothing materials and the right shape to stay in-between breasts would easily sell to a very pain-ridden and easy to find market. 

Barrel aged cocktails are perfect for the pandemic.

• Dustin wants to take certain classic cocktails, and barrel age them as a blend, building a club of passionate people who are looking to perfect their COVID era home bar. 

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Chris Huffman was the founder and CEO of Black Gold Group, a $50m services business for big-oil clients in rural Alaska. In 2016 he lost everything when oil crashed, and had to figure out how to rebuild with a wife and three kids. 

Business concepts in this episode: 

• Buy a backpack sprayer and use paid ads to get some mosquito-spray service contracts.
• Flip books from thrift stores and craigslist using Amazon's FBA scanning app. 
• Buy trucks in Oregon and sell them in California. 
• Buy some land (owner finance) and plant Peonies. Sell them to wedding planners. 
• Chris started an email marketing business with Kendall in 2018 (grew to 15 retainer clients and went out of business. Pricing to customers was too low). 
• Airbnb's are great businesses in niche markets for a busy hustler. Consider renting, partnering, or owner financing if you don't have enough cash to go for it. Here's Chris's first airbnb, and here's his latest. 
• Rent a bulldozer and go work as a firefighting contractor for thousands per day.
• Dustin provided broadcasting services (live) for fire updates by the government. It also makes huge day rates. (Find a niche, and charge for it!)
• Breeding French Bull Dogs and selling them as puppies for thousands each. 
• Flipping NFTs.
• And more...

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Scannable Ink. A high tech startup has completly changed the need for barcodes that can be scanned. Instead, any logo, color, or printing at all can have a subtle pattern in it that a scanner can read (and fetch product info. This means you could take a single picture and scan 100 items at the checkout stand without needing a person to scan each one. 
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The IRS can just take your tax money Kendall has his checking account garnished for not filing 2018 taxes yet. He is delighted by the best customer support call ever... by none other than the IRS, and regrets not calling them 3 years ago.

3D QR codes Could be manufactured to be shuffled around like a rubix cube or sliding puzzle, and then publish a custom link with the click of a botton. Think use cashes at the front of house in restaurants, or sales in retail stores, etc. No technical chops needed.

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The S.E.C. took $120m in assets (first position performing owner financed real estate notes) from the founders, shut down the private equity fund I used to work at, and handed them over to a specialty law firm to divest... giving the fund's investors pennies on the dollar. Here's the formal S.E.C. complaint for you legal nerds out there 

Butter Knights hold butter knives upright over the butter tray (with flair!) so that your messy knife doesn't have to be awkwardly balnaced on the butter tray edge, or unnessesarily washed a million times.

Silicon Suction Stir-Spoon Suspenders is a rip off of a common way to hold a tooth brush. Instead, someone should make tens of thousands of these in China and sell them as spoon-holders that would suction to the side of the fridge or coffee pot, etc. I liken it to these fancy toothbrush holders on Bespoke.

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