Dec 11th - Real Estate Drone Photography

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IN TODAY’S EPISODE

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THE FRESH IDEA

Real estate agents will pay you $150-$500 for a shoot that takes 20 minutes of flight time. Why? Because listings with aerial photos sell 68% faster, and they justify higher asking prices. When a $500K home sells one week faster because of your aerials, that agent just made an extra week's worth of mortgage payments disappear for their client. That's worth $300 to them without blinking.

Here's the play: Launch a real estate drone photography service. Your drone flies over properties and captures aerial shots with cinematic flythroughs. Agents pay premium because this directly impacts their commission checks—a faster sale at a higher price is literally money in their pocket.

The pricing structure that works: Basic residential package runs $150-$250 for 10-15 edited aerial photos. Premium luxury package hits $350-$500 for 20+ photos plus a 2-3 minute property tour video. Stack add-ons for twilight shots (+$100), same-day delivery (+$100), or virtual tours (+$150). Do the math: Two shoots per day at $300 average nets you $600. Three days a week is $1,800. Four weeks is $7,200 monthly. Subtract gear and insurance—you're clearing $5K+ in profit.

What you actually need: A DJI Mini 4 Pro ($759) or Air 3 ($1,099). FAA Part 107 license ($175 test fee). Liability insurance ($500-$1,000/year). Lightroom or free editing software like DaVinci Resolve. That's it.

Book your first clients by cold DMing real estate agents on Instagram with sample shots. Join local realtor Facebook groups and introduce yourself. Partner with staging companies who work with agents. Create a Google Business listing. Offer your first three shoots at 50% off to build a portfolio, then charge full price. Shoot during golden hour, bring backup batteries, and deliver fast—speed wins repeat business.

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WILD CARD

How Robinhood Erased Trading Fees

Robinhood killed the $7-$10 trading fee and turned every smartphone into a brokerage account.

Before Robinhood, there were intimidating interfaces, high fees, and minimum account balances that locked out regular people. After Robinhood: free trades, mobile-first design, and anyone with $5 could start investing. They didn't just lower the barrier to entry—they torched it.

Here's what they actually did. Zero commissions while traditional brokers charged per trade, meaning small investors got destroyed by fees before they even started. Robinhood made it free. They went mobile-first while competitors optimized for desktop—clean interface, swipe to trade, felt modern instead of corporate. They added gamification with confetti on trades and push notifications that made investing feel approachable instead of terrifying. Then fractional shares removed the final barrier: can't afford Amazon at $3,000? Buy $10 worth.

The impact was immediate and massive. They forced every major broker to drop commissions within months. Charles Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE all followed or died. Millions of young people entered investing for the first time. A 20-year-old with $50 can now trade stocks—that literally wasn't possible before 2015. The GameStop saga in 2021 made them controversial when they halted trading, but it cemented their cultural dominance.

The lessons: Find slow, regulated industries where incumbents are asleep. Remove friction ruthlessly. Mobile-first beats desktop-first every time. Design for first-timers, not power users. Monetize without paywalling core access. Robinhood proved you don't need to be the incumbent to win—you just need to make the experience 10x better for people who've been ignored.

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UNDERCOVER HUSTLE

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This isn't about client work or revisions or scope creep. It's about building beautiful website templates once and selling them infinitely. Top creators on Framer's marketplace are clearing $10K+ per month in passive income, and the platform is just heating up.

Here's the play: Create gorgeous website templates, sell them on Framer's marketplace and your own site, and collect revenue forever. Templates sell for $29-$199 each with Framer taking a 20% marketplace fee. Average sellers move 50-200 copies per template. Top templates hit 1,000+ sales, which means $29K-$199K per template over its lifetime. Build once, earn forever.

Framer is one of the hottest no-code builders in the market. Better animations than Webflow, easier to use than WordPress, and startups, agencies, and solopreneurs are flooding to it. The marketplace is newer than Webflow's, which translates to less competition and more opportunity for early movers to dominate entire categories.

Build 5-10 templates across popular categories like SaaS landing pages, portfolios, agency sites, e-commerce, and directories. List them on Framer's marketplace, promote on Twitter and LinkedIn, and create preview videos showing how they work. Each template becomes a mini revenue stream. Ten templates averaging 100 sales each at $49 equals $49,000 total—passive income that compounds as your library grows.

Getting started takes less time than you think. Learn Framer basics through free YouTube tutorials, then study top-selling templates to reverse-engineer what works. Build your first template: pick a simple landing page or portfolio site, make it clean and functional, price it at $49, and launch. Share a video walkthrough on social media, collect feedback, build your next template, repeat. A quality template takes 10-20 hours to build depending on complexity, but once it's live, it sells forever with zero maintenance.

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Here's why this works: Businesses need Facebook and Instagram ads to survive, but the platform is a minefield. Rules change constantly. One wrong audience target or prohibited word and your ad account gets banned. They'll happily pay you $1,400-$5,000 per month to be their secret weapon—someone who knows how to structure campaigns, write copy that converts, test creatives, and scale winners without blowing their budget.

Morning: check ad performance across all accounts, looking for anomalies like sudden cost spikes or disapproved ads. Most campaigns run on automated rules, so you're monitoring, not micromanaging. Tweak as needed—adjust budgets, pause underperformers, scale winners. This takes 1-2 hours max.

Afternoon: hop on 1-3 Zoom calls with clients to walk them through performance and discuss strategy. These calls are relationship maintenance, not hand-holding. Spend 1-3 hours per week creating new ad creatives and testing fresh angles. Launch at least one new campaign per week per client. Stay current by listening to podcasts and joining paid Facebook ad groups—the platform evolves fast.

The revenue model is pure retainer. You're not billing hourly; you're billing for results and expertise. Charge $1,500-$2,500 for businesses spending $5K-$15K monthly on ads, $2,500-$5,000 for those spending $15K-$50K, and $5,000+ for larger accounts.Scale to 5-10 clients with systems and automation.

Land your first client by starting local. Reach out to small businesses—gyms, restaurants, salons, e-commerce stores. Offer to run their ads at $500-$750 monthly to build case studies. Once you have 2-3 clients with results, raise your rates to $1,500-$2,000, then scale to $2,500-$3,000 as you prove consistent returns.

You don't need to be an expert to start—just competent enough to put in the effort and learn! The lifestyle: 15-20 hours per week once you're set up, working from anywhere with Wi-Fi.

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