The Most Passive Business You Can Start With $20
Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast · 8,967 words · 45 min read · EN

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That specific website I've made around like 150k from. As far as the time commitment, 30 minutes every 4 months. Sometimes I didn't touch it for 6 months. I still don't touch it really at all. And I was like, okay, well, I I don't know how to code, so I'm just going to do a website. I watched
a bunch of YouTube and I just started building. A Claude Code subscription is all you really need. The highest offer that I've gotten for the first directory was around 50k. It had lorem ipsum on the front page, yet I got a $20,000 lead, already getting 42,000 monthly organic visitors. It got to 10k a month in 6 months, which is really fast. Holy cow. Meet Frey. A few years ago,
he shut down a shoe business that he'd ran for 5 years, and he was pretty bummed out about it. So, he watched YouTube, learned how people find websites on Google, and built one simple website. It's just a list of thrift stores. The first month he put ads on it, it made 1,200 bucks,
and at its best, it was making $3,000 a month. He touches it maybe 30 minutes every few months. He says one $50 link from another website is a big reason that one site has made around $150,000. These are called directories. Your startup cost is basically one AI tool subscription, and by the end
of this episode, you'll know exactly how to find the idea, how to build it with AI, and how to get it found on Google. In a few minutes, we'll talk about the website with fake placeholder text on the home page that still landed a $20,000 order. Later on, we'll talk about the exact five-sentence
email that he sends to get other sites to link to his for only 50 bucks. And at the end, we're going to talk about a three-month-old website a list of links to government websites that gets 42,000 visitors a month. Please enjoy. What is your best like backlink return on investment? Like, how much did you spend for a backlink that you can attribute x amount of revenue to? It was
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