The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner
Chris Koerner
Hey, I'm Chris Koerner - serial entrepreneur, business ideas addict, and your new ADHD business ideas best friend. I've started 75 businesses, with 10 of them being worth 7-8+ figures. I love startup ideas!Want to make money, grow a business, or just start a side hustle? You're in the right spot.This show covers:- Real-world growth hacking tips- Deep dives into cool business ideas and AI tools.- Simple business advice for small business & startups- Ways to make money with side hustles and home services- How to invest in RV parks or mobile home parksSometimes I'll chat with another entrepreneur buddy, sometimes I'll go solo.I've built lots of companies, run multiple businesses, and made tons of mistakes (so you don't have to).If you love entrepreneurship, marketing, business ideas or agency life, this show is for you.Let's make you some money with cool business ideas! Find me at TKOPOD.COMChris Koerner of The Koerner Office
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Mar 27, 2026 • 49min
How a Non-Coder Made $2.5M in One Year Using AI⏐Ep. #286
Jon Cheney, founder of the General AI Proficiency Institute and self-taught AI entrepreneur who built a multimillion-dollar business from a $400 weekend prototype. He shares how vibe coding on Replit and low-cost tooling unlocked rapid product launches. Topics include finding first clients, a simple 3-part STE sales framework, pricing and packaging for recurring AI services, and practical paths to scale without heavy engineering.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 36min
They Banned My $35K/Month Page So I Started a Business⏐Ep. #285
A creator loses a $35K/month Facebook page and launches a new business live with zero setup. He races to build a product, run A/B pricing tests via email, and spin up checkout flows with Stripe. The show covers rapid naming, presale tactics, conversion experiments, platform tradeoffs, and a surprise surge of high-velocity sales.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 29min
He Gave an AI $200. It Built Him a $100K Business in 13 Days⏐Ep. #284
Robby Houston, an operator who ran an agentic-AI experiment and founded HeyRon.ai, tells how he gave an AI a budget and turned it into a paid AI-agent community. He covers the viral TikTok launch, validating demand by scraping comments, building safe hosted agents, and launching a membership with hosted agents, templates, and community.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 49min
The Simplest $7M Business You've Never Heard Of ⏐Ep. #283
Michael Clark, co-founder and CEO of The Flower Letters, built a multimillion-dollar snail-mail serialized story subscription. He discusses launching via Instagram, rapid growth to $36k/month, scaling to 120k letters shipped monthly, and using Meta ads plus email to drive revenue. They cover prepaid gifting, low churn from tactile storytelling, operations for hand-stuffed mail, and creative uses of AI for business ops.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 43min
How to Make $1.6K/Day on Facebook Marketplace⏐Ep. #282
Matt Howe, a former high school math teacher turned equipment dealer who scaled a mower-flipping side hustle into a multi-million-dollar seasonal dealership. He talks about finding underpriced inventory at estate and dealer trade-ins. He explains buying low and turning inventory fast. He covers tactics for closing deals, hiring drivers and mechanics, and scaling from barn flips to a full dealership.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 37min
Stop Buying Things. Start Buying Assets that Pay for Themselves⏐Ep. #281
David Stillson, an entrepreneur running multiple small rental businesses, shares how he built tote, RV, and studio rentals from the ground up. He talks validation by buying a test pallet, building realtor partnerships and gifting programs, listing RVs on rental platforms, and practical operations like training, delivery, and scaling constraints.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 48min
The Easiest $3K/Day Business Nobody Is Talking About⏐Ep. #280
Sariah Howell, founder of Memory Magnets Co, turned a $700 machine into a $1.63M magnet business. She describes starting at markets, scaling with live wedding printing, building reliable machines and QR upload software. She explains marketing via short-form video, selling supplies and machines, and rapid revenue milestones like $100K months.
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Mar 3, 2026 • 41min
The Most Overlooked Way to Get Rich (Proven Blueprint)⏐Ep. #279
Alex Smereczniak, serial entrepreneur and franchise expert who co-founded and scaled multiple service franchises, talks franchising as an overlooked path to wealth. He covers risk tiers and brand maturity. He highlights accessible concepts like private insurance adjusting, home sale prep and light renovation, a surprising window-box subscription model, plus turf and Airbnb cleaning opportunities.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 49min
The Easiest Way to Profit From AI Right Now⏐Ep. #278
Nikolas Hulewsky, founder and AI practitioner who builds agents and practical AI workflows. He explains why most people are still early to AI, demos his local OpenClaw bot Gary, and shares practical workflows like scraping filings, recording meetings, and cleaning messy data. He also outlines concrete ways to monetize AI skills with bootcamps, fractional roles, and simple internal tools.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 32min
From Homeless to $50K/Month With This Simple Service⏐Ep. #277
Meet Joni, co-operator who runs operations and local marketing, and Matt Vic, founder who rebuilt his life from prison to a $50K/month hauling business. They share a comeback story and talk candy-dish guerrilla marketing, hands-on YouTube and Facebook promotion, mapping neighborhoods for door-to-door outreach, pricing and margins, and turning a beat-up pickup into a scalable hauling company.
