Airbnb sounded like a horrible idea to me. Who the heck would rent out a single room? Sounded like a recipe for murder.

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    Franchise Consultant Here! Two franchise opportunities that I thought would be total dud are dryer vent cleaning and crime and trauma scene cleanup.

    I did a deep dive into the item 19 of the FDD (financial performance) and saw that both of these businesses have the possibility of generating a significant amount of revenue with very little overhead and very small start up costs.

    There was an established dryer vent cleaning business for sale on the east coast that was doing over $500K in sales a year with one man and a truck.

    For franchise education and tips check out r/franchiseentrepreneur

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      To be fair they aren’t too bad for what you get.

      I worked for a company where we needed an office space for our department separate from their main office. Regus had flexible contracts and provided everything we needed - internet / power / furniture / cleaners / parking / security etc and it was less than 2k a month for a 6 person office.

      We work has flexible meeting rooms my current company has used, and when we were a startup it let them have affordable office space in a nice building with other people.

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      I worked for a small but growing company last year. The ability to scale the office requirements on a per hire basis, without having to furnish or worry about any of the workings - just give your staff a laptop and a badge, was brilliant. Expensive? Yes. But they have their place.

      We also did work with a few 100% remote companies with employees across the UK, who would rent some space on an adhoc basis for small groups of employees who wanted to spend a few days working together on a specific project. The employees could choose which city the office was in, it worked fairly well.

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    Smash my trash. Why pay someone half of what it cost to empty your dumpster to come and compact the trash to give you a tiny bit of room? Well they target large corporations and sell it as being green. It’s bogus but hey they seem to be doing well.

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    I still don’t understand how Papa Murphys is successful. Their pizza isn’t anything special, and you have to bake it yourself… does not compute.

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    Onlyfans pages.

    Some people make a living on there but the average earnings is $150. I’d guess 95% earn less than a McDonald’s burger flipper based on the earnings distributions… the ones successful would mostly be people who already have a large following to monetize like celebrities

    Still makes it a horrible idea for a “career” for the average person considering the odds of success coupled with the potential consequences.

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      I know several OF girls, the worst performer still makes $100,000 a year, the best one over a million. I guess it pays better to be in a really specific niche.

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    Onlyfans pages.

    Some people make a living on there but the average earnings is $150. I’d guess 95% earn less than a McDonald’s burger flipper based on the earnings distributions… the ones successful would mostly be people who already have a large following to monetize like celebrities

    Still makes it a horrible idea for a “career” for the average person considering the odds of success coupled with the potential consequences.