Fresh Idea #13

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Manual brush clearing is pricey, slow, and labor constrained for owners with large acreages of brush. Fire departments and landowners need vegetation knocked down before fire season, but crews cost tens of thousands per acre and schedules slip. The result is risk, fines, and insurance pain.

The Scrappy Solution: Offer turnkey targeted grazing. You do not buy goats. You broker them. Build a bench of local herd owners, insure and supervise the work, and deliver a fixed price per acre with a simple scope: fence, graze, and verify.

Goats clear brush fast, reach slopes and tight terrain, fertilize as they go, and leave fewer sparks than metal blades. Upsell add-ons like pre and post drone photos. Build seasonal contracts so routes stack by neighborhood.

Charge per acre. Typical jobs are five to twenty acres for homeowners associations, municipalities, utilities, and developers. You pay herd owners a day rate per head and a transport fee, keep the spread for coordination, fencing, monitoring, and reporting.

The Ramen-Level First Step: Stand up a one page site with a single promise and a quote form. This week, call three goat owners within fifty miles and confirm their available head counts, transport capacity, and day rates. Test some Facebook ads to drive traffic to your website or go drop off some flyers and shake hands. You never know who is waiting for your service to solve their problem today.

Pickleball stopped being a niche pastime and turned into a social calendar. New players show up after work, on weekends, and with coworkers who have never set foot in a tennis shop. They want outfits that feel legit on the court but still look good at the café afterward.

504% Google search increase, now passing 4,000 monthly web searches.

Athleisure evolved into “active social” wear, and TikTok did the rest. Outfit-of-the-match reels, league photos, and charity tourneys normalized the idea that what you wear is part of the fun. Practical needs push it along too: sun protection, breathable fabrics, and shorts or skirts with real ball pockets. When fashion meets function and the sport is growing across ages, search curves spike exactly like this one.

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