750 - We Bought a “Boring” Business … Then Revenue Tanked

The Side Hustle Show by Nick Loper

Jul 23, 202652:18Business

Buy a boring business, they said. It’ll be easy. It’ll be fun. That’s the dream Andrea Palacio and her husband chased when they bought a landscaping company. The road got bumpy fast, but they still added around $300,000...

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