Want to Make $1M Fast? Start One of These Businesses

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Okay, so the kids are back in school by now and you might have more time on your hands to start a new hustle. I figured this was the perfect time to hit you with five money making opportunities you could start today.

I pulled these ideas from a podcast my buddy Nik and I recorded about a month ago.

The discussion was about some businesses we could start immediately to make some real money. We asked ourselves one simple question: If we had to make a million dollars in six months, what businesses would we start?

Here's what we came up with:

1. The RV Rental Gold Mine

You already know I love this one.

You can finance an RV for 20 to 30 years because it also counts as a home. Your monthly payment on a $35,000 to $40,000 Class C RV? About $700 to $900.

But here's where it gets stupid good. You can rent that same RV for $200 to $500 per night depending on your market. Your monthly payment gets covered in a few nights of rental.

I learned this the hard way eight years ago. I was sitting in the back of my MBA class at TCU, not paying attention at all. I had Google Sheets open in one window and RV Share and Outdoorsy in another. I spent hours researching what types of RVs in Greater DFW were in highest demand.

I'd run searches for this weekend versus a year out for Class C RVs. Put it all in a spreadsheet. The data screamed at me: Class C RVs were the winner.

So I took action. Bought a Class C RV, traveled with my family, and rented it out when we weren't using it.

The unit economics are beautiful. Keep your RV rented 50% of the time and you're looking at about $7,000 monthly revenue. Subtract your payment and repairs, you're netting roughly $5,000 per month with no employees.

Five RVs would get you to $25,000 monthly profit. That's $300,000 annually. Scale to 10 RVs and you hit $600,000. The only real cost beyond payments? Storage at about $150 per month per RV since most HOAs won't let you park them at home.

Can you finance 10 RVs? Yes. You'll need to spread across different banks and credit unions work best. But if you're making payments, it's absolutely feasible.

Do I recommend financing 10 RVs? Not quite…

BTW, if what’s holding you back from starting something is a lack of a clear roadmap and support, I want to stop here for a sec to tell you about my friend Jake’s company, Organized Garage.

They help people start garage upgrade businesses - cabinets, epoxy floors, storage systems. It’s a market with real demand and strong margins, and Organized Garage hands you the exact playbook and coaches you through it, step by step.

Instead of spending $150K+ on a franchise, you get: proven systems for sales, marketing and pricing, as well as vendor relationships, 6 months of coaching & community to keep you on track. No fees, contracts or restrictions.

You own it. You keep the profits. You control the direction.

This bridges the gap between “cool idea” and “real business.” If you’ve been looking for something that can start as a side hustle and scale into a six-figure business, click here to begin! OG is giving you subscribers $1,000 off!

Jake isn’t just some dude. He’s been in my home! He’s a friend. I endorse him.

2. The AI Automation for Service Businesses

I came upon this idea after I decided to test something for a YouTube video. I logged into my HighLevel account, clicked on their new AI employee feature, and created an AI voice agent in literally six clicks.

Three minutes later, I had a 24/7 answering service for garage door repair companies. Why garage doors? It's high ticket ($500 to $3,000 per job) and gets after-hours calls when people's garages won't open at 10 PM.

I scraped every garage door repair company in DFW and started texting them at 9:41 AM. By 10:38, exactly 57 minutes later, I had a business owner saying "Yes, I want to pay for your service."

No prep. No audience plants. Just a randomized spreadsheet and real outreach.

Small businesses miss so much revenue because they don't answer their phones after hours. They can't afford a full-time employee for evening calls, but they can definitely pay $100 monthly for AI that never sleeps.

What you do: structure your offer as pay-per-lead-that-closes, making it a no-brainer.

The key is finding hero workflows: high-impact, low-complexity automations that feel like magic. They save time, capture missed revenue, are easy to explain, fast to install, and show clear before-and-after results.

I'd focus on three niches, build one hero workflow per niche, charge $2,000 for setup plus monthly retainer. That business could absolutely hit seven figures.

3. The Offshore Staffing Arbitrage

Nik and I collectively know about 13 friends who own offshore staffing agencies. There are two models in this space.

-First model: Hold their hand, provide someone, manage them over time, and mark up their rate 100%. Pay a VA in the Philippines $1,200 monthly, charge your client $2,500, manage payroll. It's recurring but requires ongoing work.

-Second model: Find someone awesome, place them, collect 20% to 35% of their first year salary. No ongoing management. Get paid upfront and move on.

For the six-month sprint, I'd focus on model two. Go to Upwork, find qualified people, hop on Zoom calls to vet them, ensure they're AI-trained (non-negotiable), then place them with companies needing 10 to 100 overseas hires.

The average placement fee? About $4,000 at 30% of first-year salary. Place enough people and you hit that million-dollar number quickly.

I'd start by sliding into hiring managers' DMs at big companies. I'd also find someone with a good network of hiring managers and offer them $400 to $800 per referral that closes.

4. The Corporate AI Audit Goldmine

Okay, large corporations are bleeding money through inefficiencies they don't even know exist.

I talked to two nine-figure companies recently…

-Company one was spending $20,000 monthly creating new employee profiles in their CRM because they had no automation. They just figured out how to save $17,000 monthly with a simple automation connecting their HR system to their CRM. That's $204,000 annually from one workflow fix.

-Company two discovered they'd been paying benefits for an employee who was terminated 12 months ago. My accountant friend found someone fired a year ago who still had access to the company credit card.

There's massive money in helping large corporations audit and automate their inefficiencies. I'd target specific industries where I understand the pain points. Create clean, clear calculators showing potential savings. Then implement the fixes.

I met an 18-year-old Swiss kid named Ben who slides into Fortune 100 executives' DMs saying "I can use AI to save your company money. If I can't, I'll donate $1,000 to charity. When can we meet?" He only pitches in person and has something like a 30% to 60% close rate at six figures per customer. Insane.

5. The Newsletter Aggregation Play

If you’re reading this right now, you now I am a huge fan of newsletters.

Most newsletter operators burn out. They launch with enthusiasm, then life happens. What occurs when someone emails them wanting to buy their dormant newsletter? They'll take almost any offer because those emails are worthless in their mind.

Here's the strategy: Buy small newsletters with 3,000 to 30,000 subscribers each in the same niche. AI, finance, business, sports, whatever. Find them through beehiiv, Kit, and Substack's public directories.

How you do it:
Use a ChatGPT agent to create a spreadsheet of every newsletter that hasn't sent an email in at least a month. Then start reaching out offering 10 cents per subscriber upfront, with potential for more based on future performance.

Aggregate them all together. At scale, you can sell ads on CPM basis. Conservative CPM is $30 per thousand opens. A 10,000 subscriber newsletter with 50% open rate generates $150 per send. If it's weekly, that's $600 monthly just from ads.

But here's the bigger opportunity: Turn weekly newsletters into daily ones and your revenue goes from X per week to 5X per week.

6. The Event Experience

My wife went to Bingo Loco and had so much fun that we're going again in Dallas. These guys make $20,000 to $30,000 per night running bingo in cramped halls. They sell food, alcohol, and bingo cards while people have an absolute blast and post about it everywhere.

It's liquid death for bingo. Same game, completely different packaging and marketing. It makes bingo cool again.

Here's the best part: you can validate this before spending a dollar. Run targeted Facebook ads to your demographic in a geographical area. For Bingo Loco, that's millennials who want funky experiences. Sell tickets to your event and see if you hit your numbers.

If you sell enough tickets, rent the venue and run the event. If you don't hit your targets, refund everyone and move on with your life. No inventory risk.

But why stop at bingo? I think someone needs to validate this concept with portable pickleball courts. Run Facebook ads to 35 to 50-year-olds who enjoy pickleball. Promote a "pickleball party in the Walmart parking lot" and see if you can sell enough tickets.

The formula works for anything: Take a boring activity, add music, neon lights, good prizes, charge premium prices, and market it like it's the event of the year. You could win a trip, a life-size cardboard cutout of Ryan Gosling, whatever creates buzz.

We're talking 1,000 people paying $40 each just for entry. That's $40,000 before you sell a single drink or snack. The profit margins are insane because you're not selling a product, you're selling an experience.

You could literally attend a Bingo Loco event, take notes, and replicate it in a random town in Nebraska or Iowa or some place where they'll never expand. Call it "Bingo Crazy" and execute the exact same model in untapped markets.

The Bottom Line

These aren't get-rich-quick schemes. They're legitimate business models that require work, capital, and execution. But they're also proven paths that real people are using right now to build serious wealth.

The RV rental model works because I've done it. The AI automation agency works because I built one in 57 minutes last month. The offshore staffing model works because our friends are crushing it.

Pick the one that matches your skills, risk tolerance, and available capital. Then stop planning and start executing.

Everything is figureoutable. You just need to start.

Again, we go into more depth and a few more ideas in the actual pod. If you want to actually want to watch this experiment, or listen to this as a podcast, you can check it out here: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts.

I'm building a private community called TKOwners for people who want to turn these insights into real businesses. We have a slack channel where we drop insane AI tools and possibilities everyday. If you're serious about staying ahead of this AI revolution, check it out at tkowners.com. It's where the 400+ action-takers hang out.

Let's get after it!

Chris

P.S. I share deep dives on business ideas and complete playbooks three times a week on YouTube and every podcast platform.