I can't believe he gave away these genius 7 profitable startup ideas
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This is a perfect first company for anybody to start. So it's Google Ads for XYZ. And then you create an agency that's around that specific thing. It's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. All of these companies or people are searching for Google Ads for XYZ. And if you go to the front page of Google, what's ranking for the majority of the pages at the top is a stack pack of three YouTube videos. So if you just name the video, Google ads for apartments, and you walk through literally, how do you set up Google ads for an apartment complex? And you're just going deep on like the strategy, the tactics, the philosophy of this for a lot of people, they're going to look at this and be like, Oh my God, like, I don't want to do this. Like this looks mind numbing. So I'm going to go and I'm going to buy this service from a person. And then basically, you know, get 30 clients and that's a million dollar a year business.
Like I'm obsessed with this right now. It's like YouTube is the top of funnel for service businesses. Some kid who's 24 can go do this tomorrow. And I guarantee you, if you did a video a day for the next 200 days, you could easily be at 30 grand a month doing this. What is this, a week later?
So I guess it went well. So we recorded most viewed pod, most downloaded pod since the beginning. And I've had everyone from Alexis Ohanian on here, Jason Kalkanis, David Friedberg, Morgan Housel, Sahil Bloom, you name it. But I don't know, there's something about you. You're an idea machine that people couldn't get enough of you.
I love it, man. I'm stoked to be back. We got a lot more. I've got eight in the chamber, but two are software, one's a creator business, and the other ones are all like service companies. But anyways, I totally juiced the numbers, by the way. I was like just running Twitter ads. I wanted the top spot on the Greg YouTube channel. Yeah.
And you did. And it worked. So thank you. Let's start with service businesses because they're easy to start. And I want you just to bang through all these service business ideas because some of them are really good.
Cool. Should I start with the creator one or go to the service one?
Whatever you want. You can start with whatever you want. But what's important to me is that for every idea that you talk about, just being, giving people the tactics around like, here's the idea. And this is how I'd actually go about starting. Yeah, exactly. Cool.
Yeah. No, I'm down. All right. Let's rip. All right, so idea one, I want to start with this, the local only marketing agency for XYZ rich person service category. So let's break that down. So I did some consulting, this was years ago, for a CrossFit gym. Their customer lifetime value was like $1,700, if I remember right. And we could get people in the door for like 50 bucks. And so for them, it was basically just like this money printer thing. All we were doing is it was Instagram ads to people that were like had a CrossFit interest that were in that area with like a certain income bracket. So on Facebook, you can actually target people that have like, you know, they're the top 1% of income earners within a geographical area.
And then you can combine that with an audience, audience interest targeting. So for CrossFit, but this same idea could be applied for like any type of business that's servicing these type of people. So think CrossFit, think like estheticians. You could do this with probably like tattoo removal. My whole strategy to go and build this list would be just like, You can scrape all of these people's email addresses from their websites by using a service like Hunter.io. So the whole strategy is you go and you scrape Google Maps. Go to Fiverr right now, search Google Maps scraping, and you'll find somebody that's built out like a whole proxy server network that you can pay them $100 and they'll go scrape like 100,000 listings for you on Google Maps.
You give them a target keyword phrase, they're going to find every one of these companies. So say you're doing it for like CrossFit gyms. And why we're talking about like a specific category is that for once you figure out the marketing strategy to grow that business, you can use that exact same stack, that same marketing stack to like get people in the door.
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