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Trashy

Bin there… If you’ve ever had to hold your breath to open your garbage, and then toss your trash in before the smell reaches you (a la Indiana Jones) - this business is for you.

Garbage stinks. But it doesn’t have to.

How it works is simple:

1. Someone has stinky garbage bins

2. You schedule a regular cleaning

3. You clean it

4. You get paid

Turns out garbage really stinks in Canada. After a quick search on bin cleaning business, several pop up in Canada but not too many here in the US. This signals a strong opportunity for the right person willing to get their hands dirty. AMERICAN STYLE 🇺🇸 

I like this idea because garbage is a forever issue that EVERYONE has to deal with. The world is your market 🌍

The MVP (Getting your first customer)

Takin out the trash… Your MVP is some cleaning supplies and a rented pressure washer from Lowe’s which comes out to ~$40 a day.

This is helpful just to see if you like the process and if there’s enough demand in your area.

Break this down your MVP into easy steps:

1. Knock on your neighbors doors; you just need 3 “yes’s” to break even. Get 10 “yes’s” and you can buy your own pressure washer.

2. Companies like farming.cards will send out the flyers for you for a small fee; 200 cards for less than a $1 per flyer.

3. Your schedule is already set, you look for the garbage pickup days in the neighborhood and have them cleaned right after pickup.

4. Save your cash to buy your first truck then you’re REALLY off to the races

If you want to make $5,000/mo working 3 days a week, follow me!

If each house has 2 bins and the average fee is $10/bin/mo, you can easily break this down:

• $5,000 = 500 bins/mo

• 4 weeks (in a month) x 3 days a week = 12 working days

• 500 bins / 12 days = 60 bins per day

• If each house has 2 bins, you’re only doing 30 houses a day over a long weekend 🤯 

Getting Your Next 100 Customers

Smelly gold… Turns out Sparkling Bins is selling the shovels during this gold rush. Their line of products range from the tow attachment ~$60k to a full blown bin cleaning assault truck for ~$200k.

To get more customers:

• Start a Facebook and Google page

• Offer a free trash scent (that doesn’t smell like trash) for customers that leave a review

• Work your way into corporate gigs, cleaning REALLY smelly restaurant and commercial bins

Viability:

1 [building spaceships] 🚀 to 5 [easy peasy] 😊 

This stinks… but not really. This is an easy in demand side hustle but would require a lot of manual work to get this off the ground.

As we saw, we can easily make $5k/mo working 3 days a week but you’ll be knees deep in old thai food and diapers🤮 

(As usual each business will have it’s own setbacks, and it’s all about the execution and consistency rather than just having the idea 😉)

It’s a great day to be great!

Love, Mike 👋