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These Teens Make $2800/Day with a Service No One Talks About!

I'm proud to have Bizee sponsor this video. #ad Their platform makes launching and managing an LLC straightforward, and it’s a service I genuinely believe in and recommend to anyone ready to start their business. https://bizee.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=content_sponsorship&utm_campaign=upflip Seaweed removal wasn’t something Joseph Weinberger and Declan Pivnicka ever imagined turning into a real mobile business. They were just teenagers trying to make some summer money around their local lake. One neighbor asked them to install a pier. Another asked if they could clear out thick seaweed near the shore. With a garden rake, laundry bags, and a lot of trial and error, they got the job done. Their work slowly expanded into residential lakefront property services, shoreline cleanup, and HOA lake maintenance around their area. What started as a simple favor slowly became something bigger. They kept posting their lake weed removal jobs on social media, and people started reaching out from all over. Before they knew it, they had booked over $100,000 in work from their college dorm room. It turned into one of those overlooked local service businesses most people never even think about. Today, their lake business brings in more than $215,000 in just four months each year. Their work now includes lake weed removal, waterfront landscaping, and aquatic shoreline maintenance for residential properties and HOAs. In this episode, Joe and Declan share how they started with almost no money, learned by doing, and built a business that gives them freedom while they’re still in their early twenties. Their story is a reminder that sometimes the best opportunities are hiding in plain sight. 💥 Most New Businesses Fail From Guessing 💥 UpFlip Accelerator gives you the system to launch faster and get clients sooner. 👉 https://www.upflip.com/accelerator Or start FREE with our quick-start trainings ↓ 🧽 How to start a $140k/month cleaning business - https://learn.upflip.com/cleaning-business-masterclass 🥤 How to start a $50K/month vending business - https://learn.upflip.com/the-vending-bootcamp-masterclass 🖌️ How to start a million-dollar painting business for under $1K - https://learn.upflip.com/how-to-start-a-painting-business-masterclass 🚛 How to start a $10k/month moving and junk removal business - https://learn.upflip.com/moving-and-junk-removal-masterclass 🔑 How to start a $8K/month mid-term rental business - https://learn.upflip.com/the-mid-term-rental-blueprint-masterclass 🏠 How to make $248K in tax-free profit from building and selling homes - https://learn.upflip.com/the-builders-blueprint-masterclass 🗺️ How to make $25K in one deal buying and selling land - https://learn.upflip.com/land-flipping-blueprint-masterclass OR… 🎓 Join UpFlip Academy to “copy-paste” the top million-dollar service businesses you can start in weeks and profit from in months - https://links.upflip.com/academy-yt More UpFlip Official Resources: 📕 FREE access to 137 Most Profitable Businesses - https://next.upflip.com/137-biz-ideas-277 🎙️ Follow the UpFlip Podcast - https://links.upflip.com/podcast-yt 📩 Join the UpFlip Newsletter - https://links.upflip.com/newsletter-yt 👉 Check out Joseph and Declan’s business - https://www.jdlakeservice.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 00:41 - Come meet the seaweed guys! 02:06 - From installing docks to pulling weeds 02:36 - People are paying for that?! 03:51 - $100 is all you really need 05:01 - Operating out of their parents’ driveway 05:35 - Operating costs 06:22 - The machine that started it all 07:10 - Types of clients 07:45 - Today’s showdown: Paul vs. the Pros 08:31 - Pro-level in 2 weeks! 10:09 - $0 advertising 11:51 - The dream team 13:28 - One neighbor’s call after… 14:20 - 30,000 types of weeds 15:22 - Thriving only 4 months a YEAR? 16:17 - Potential risks to watch for 16:48 - Helping, not harming 17:18 - Tools of the trade 18:23 - No machine? No problem! 18:55 - Hand removal demo 19:38 - Occasional “surprises” 20:25 - The Harvester 100 21:24 - Sourcing harvesters 21:47 - Work smart to save your back (literally!) 22:27 - The simpler, the better 23:08 - The 5-year vision 23:45 - The last thing people want to see 24:25 - More than just kids pulling weeds 25:00 - Let’s talk numbers 27:31 - Crazy and unreal 29:09 - Where did all the seaweeds go?! 30:11 - Dumping responsibly 31:07 - 3-person A-team 31:46 - Paying the team 32:47 - A look at the actual dump site 33:19 - 20 clients and counting 33:57 - Realistic scaling 34:53 - It takes $50 to get to $250K 36:11 - The secret to getting a FREE trip 37:46 - Outro #seaweed #lake #lakeweedremoval