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Good Morning!
☕ I've officially been doing Halloween wrong.
For years, I've been driving to the grocery store, buying three pumpkins, and putting them on my front porch.
Total investment: $25.
Total effort: seven minutes.
Apparently, I could've been charging my neighbors $2,000 to do the same thing. 😂
Meet Brandi Hazelett.
She's a stay-at-home mom from Lockhart, Texas, who started a business called Porch In Season.
Her specialty?
Putting pumpkins on people's porches.
I'm not kidding.
Her packages start around $200, with popular arrangements costing $570.
And her most expensive installation?
$2,000.
For 124 pumpkins and five hay bales.
I did the math.
That's more than $15 per pumpkin, even before accounting for the hay.
At those prices, I'm surprised the pumpkins don't come with dental insurance.
But here's what makes this story brilliant.
Brandi isn't really selling pumpkins.
She's selling convenience.
Customers don't have to shop for them, haul them home, arrange them, or clean everything up afterward.
She handles the work.
And that work is substantial. Some installations take up to six hours.
She's even sourcing thousands of pumpkins from Texas farms.
Meanwhile, another Texas entrepreneur, Heather Torres, turned a similar idea into Porch Pumpkins, a business that now serves more than a thousand homes in a season.
Think about that.
Neither woman invented pumpkins.
Neither needed a revolutionary technology.
They simply recognized something people wanted and built a service around it.
That's entrepreneurship.
Find a problem people will pay you to solve. Then solve it better than they can themselves.
Of course, $2,000 in sales isn't $2,000 in profit. There are pumpkins to buy, trucks to fuel, and plenty of labor.
Still, it's a remarkable business idea.
I told my wife I was considering launching my own pumpkin decorating service.
She said, "You haven't even taken down last year's Christmas lights."
Perfect. My first customer can pay me to take those down, too. 🤷
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PEOPLE LOOK TO THE STARS TO HELP THEIR LOVE LIFE. SO WHY NOT THEIR BANK ACCOUNT?
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And yes, real researchers have studied this.
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So the researchers even tested a hypothetical trading strategy based on the lunar cycle.
Imagine calling your financial adviser:
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“Hold on. I need to step outside.”
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Now, before you fire your accountant and hire an astronomer, there’s a catch.
The study found a historical pattern. It did not prove the moon caused it, or that a lunar trading strategy will work in the future.
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