5 validated startup ideas to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
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What's the scale of a big lead gen business?
They can easily get to be multiple eight figures in revenue, especially if they're in a profitable niche.
So I think the thesis that Facebook is only for people over 65, which is basically in our world, we're kind of like, that's what Facebook is, isn't necessarily true.
The long and short of it is, if you have a Shopify store, there's a zillion Shopify apps, third-party tools that will help you increase your abandoned cart and abandoned checkout rate. Automated SMS, emails, you know, Shopify has their own native solution to this. But the best converting fix for abandoned checkout or abandoned cart, they're two different things, is to get a person on the phone.
This is a gift that you're giving people that this exists, that this is like an arbitrage opportunity. There's also an agency idea here where I think the tagline could be something like, And we are live. Chris Kerner, you're on the pod. Thank God. Thank God because you are an idea machine. You own eight RV parks. You own seven companies and you're constantly sharing ideas with the world. I needed to have you on the Startup Ideas podcast and you said yes.
Absolutely. I needed to be here. This is where I get my energy. This is like my caffeine.
This is your people. You're going to get a lot of comments on YouTube and stuff like that. People are going to be like, Chris guy. Yeah, he's one of us.
Yes, I hope so. I hope so.
Yeah. All right. So you have a list of ideas. Let's start from the top and let's give it to the people. Give them some actionable, tactical ideas. Each one of these ideas are better than the next. So let's get right into it.
Okay, so you might need to build on this first one because it's 40% baked. So I just started posting Instagram Reels for the first time in my life a few months ago. It's a whole new world to me. And in the Instagram settings, you can check the little toggle button that says cross-post to Facebook. I'm like, ah, what the heck? So I started a Facebook page, zero followers, cross-posted. And then one day I log in there and it's like, wow, some of these videos are really getting a lot of views. And so as an afterthought, I commented on my own thing, and I shilled all my links to all my things. And people started clicking. I used tracking links. So then I had a video start going viral, and it was getting like 100,000 views an hour or so. And I was like, oh, let me do that again.
Let me put my links in there. Because in Instagram, key differentiator, there are no clickable links in the comments. On Facebook, there are. And so I put in all my links. And then literally within seconds, I refreshed my tiny URL. And I was getting dozens of clicks, like a minute. And then like hundreds of clicks every couple minutes. And people were subscribing to my newsletter and subscribing to my YouTube and podcast. And it was a sight to behold. And it was just this unlock where it's like, wow. it's almost like we've moved on from Facebook, right? Like it's all about Instagram ads. We're all on Instagram and Instagram crushes and it's great. But Facebook's over here like, hey, we've got 2.5 billion monthly active users.
Like we're still here. We're still doing fine. And so that's the backdrop. 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 pinned comment. And so I think there's a world where you could build a tool to automate that, a simple tool, maybe it's a Chrome extension or something, five bucks a month, where any creator, as soon as they cross post, automatically pins a top comment on their Instagram. Or you could build an agency-like tool where you play middleman between creators that don't really care to pin anything in their top comment and creators that do. Like, hey, you're in the makeup niche. Hey, I sell a makeup product. We'll give you a 20% affiliate income. Just automatically pin these links in your top comment.
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