Brother makes 4k/mo. waiting in lines.

[woodchuck]

Nice come up for dude!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-man-earns-1-000-175901073.html

How one man earns up to $1,000 a week by standing in line

Good news: You may never have to wait in line for Shake Shake, Cronuts, or iPhones, ever again.

Robert Samuel, New York-based founder of Same Ole Line Dudes (SOLD Inc.), will wait for you.

Samuel is a "professional line sitter." He waits for anything, from sample sales to Saturday Night Live tickets. Samuel charges $25 for the first hour and $10 for each additional half hour. In one week, he can make up to $1,000.

Samuel got into this business two years ago, when he lost his job as an AT&T sales representative and needed a new way to make extra cash. When the iPhone 5 came out, he put an advertisement on Craigslist offering to wait in line for it for $100.

Hours before he purchased the iPhone, Samuel’s original customer cancelled on him, but decided to pay him anyway. Samuel was ready to leave the line, but decided to resell his spot.

By 8 a.m. the next day, after 19 hours of waiting, Samuel had earned $325 from selling his spot, inviting his friends to come down and sell their spots, and selling milk crates for $5 a piece to people who were tired of standing.

Samuel found this venture so profitable that he put a name to it and started SOLD Inc. in December 2012. It’s not his full time job — he also works as a concierge for a luxury building in Brooklyn — but it’s been a venture that he’s hoping to grow.

Samuel’s friends have even chipped in to help. "[They] have turned into my employees, and they pretty much do a great job," says Samuel. When he gains a new customer, he now sends a mass text out to about a dozen friends to see who wants the job.

One dedicated friend-turned-employee waited in line for a whopping 43 hours for a Shark Tank audition in Denver, earning the company $800.

More high-paying gigs like that began to roll in when the Cronut craze started last summer in New York City. For $60, Samuel and his line waiters offer to pick up two of the delicious pastries and deliver them straight to their clients. From this service alone, SOLD Inc. can make upwards of $240 per week.

 

[sumofyallniggasisbitches2]

Wow..... There's a hustle in everything, just need the vision

 

[Mentor B]

Smart.

 

[Spectrum]

that's a mobile app idea (if not already created)

 

[4 Dimensional]

Nice!

 

[MrBee]

You can bet that "They" will put an end to THAT shit...

 

[woodchuck]

Wow..... There's a hustle in everything, just need the vision

Someone once said that everyone is born with a great idea. Follow up is the only thing that separates the successful people from everyone else.

EEwwll: You're right about that mobile app idea.

 

[curryshotta]

man props on that hustle

 

[Word]

good idea

 

[BigATLslim]

You can bet that "They" will put an end to THAT shit...

Yep...yep, but MAD love and respect for this ninja seeing the opening and hopping into it IMMEDIATELY.

Truthfully, he could plug this nationwide in every major/tourist city.

The start up capital is oxygen...how many businesses can you do that with?

 

[Louis Koo]

 

[Rossini]

 

[big pimp]

Props.

 

[woodchuck]

I'm pretty sure the money y'all make off of those "Gucci" handbags y'all sell on Mulberry gets reported too, huh? Besides, what makes you think that he isn't doing things right? His color?

 

[TheKingofVa]

He's on his hustle

 

[kenbgco68]

Brother filed as a corporation, so that gives you mad benefits if you file correctly. Rest, he's dotting the i's and crossing the t's.

Hope he hops on that app idea soon before somebody else does. Sounds like he's got the brand and infrastructure already.

 

[Louis Koo]

Brother filed as a corporation, so that gives you mad benefits if you file correctly. Rest, he's dotting the i's and crossing the t's.

Hope he hops on that app idea soon before somebody else does. Sounds like he's got the brand and infrastructure already.

he's a single member LLC, not a corporation. There is no SAME OLE LINE DUDES Inc nor SOLD Inc

Current Entity Name: SAME OLE LINE DUDES, LLC
DOS ID #: 4602602
Initial DOS Filing Date: JULY 07, 2014
County: NEW YORK
Jurisdiction: NEW YORK
Entity Type: DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Current Entity Status: ACTIVE

 

[Daddy43205]

i had this idea years ago never put any effort into it tho.

 

[Flawless]

Not any more dumbass now let everyone know his hustle

 

[Flawless]

You are way over simplifying things but I guess you want to sound smart

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

thats what you call on your grind..

so many ways to make loot out here...


Thats right applaus this brother, he aitn only

helpin himself eat, he is helping those around him..

thats how you do it!!

 

[kinglickk]

now the IRS knows.
People need to learn to keep their damn business to themselves.

 

[godofwine]

man props on that hustle

yup. Can't knock the hustle. It's legal.I don't have the patience for that, though.

 

[3rd__Optic]

^^^

From My Samsung Gee S4

 

[Mentor B]

he's a single member LLC, not a corporation. There is no SAME OLE LINE DUDES Inc nor SOLD Inc

Current Entity Name: SAME OLE LINE DUDES, LLC
DOS ID #: 4602602
Initial DOS Filing Date: JULY 07, 2014
County: NEW YORK
Jurisdiction: NEW YORK
Entity Type: DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Current Entity Status: ACTIVE

In some ways, that's actually better than a corporation. With an LLC, he is only subject to self-employment taxes, but still has the personal liability protection of a corporation (both have to be registered with the state).

To this day, a lot of people don't know the baseball team Dodgers is an LLC.

 

[An RnB Thug]

Why does he have a Rainbow Umbrella...?
#JustSaying

 

[RoomService]

/thread loose lips sink ships

 

[Artist Monk]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!


That works in NYC!

 

[Mello Mello]

that's a mobile app idea (if not already created)

First thing I thought of while reading it.

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

Developing the mobile app now!

 

[london]

Nice thing ...this is actually a regular job in third world countries

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

Nice thing ...this is actually a regular job in third world countries

No its not.

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[Joe Money]

 

[kwazdog]

that's a mobile app idea (if not already created)

The motherfucking LYFT for line standing!

 

[Art Vandelay]

Rest of the article:

Surprisingly, not all of Samuel’s clients are rich. "It’s all everyday people," he says. "Sometimes I get a customer who can’t get out of work on time to wait for a movie premiere, or somebody on the Upper East Side who really wants a new Xbox but doesn’t want to stand in the cold for seven hours before it goes on sale. It’s a whole medley."

Even if Samuel isn’t hired to wait in line for a big event, he will still go, just to hand out business cards. "I’m very grassroots," he explains. "When there’s a line that goes around the block, I go and work the line." When he approaches people, he asks them, "Are you hot, tired? Don’t want to do this again? I’ll do it for you."

Samuel believes there’s no such thing as overpromotion. "You have to consider everybody as a potential customer," he says. "Even if they don’t take the card, I’ll tell them our name. They can’t unhear it, so I’ll be as vocal as possible. That’s business for us in the long run."

Social media works wonders for him as well. "I always tell whoever is working an assignment to send us pictures of where you are," says Samuel. "We post them to reinforce people’s trust in our company and brand, and we also send the photo to the customer to show what they avoided by hiring us." In addition, he writes the name of his company in chalk on New York sidewalks, especially in SoHo near the Cronut bakery, sample sale locations, the Apple store, and subway entrances.

In the past, most line waiters were hired off Craigslist or Task Rabbit. Samuel’s company is different because he put a name to it. "It’s not like Joe Smith, some random person you found on Craigslist, is standing in line for you," says Samuel. "We are the Same Ol Line Dudes — people hear and talk about us, and I’m grateful for that."