🎯 The business: a niche inside handyman work with a single, repeatable job: mount the TV, hide the wires, pair the doorbell, the thermostat and the cameras. Forty-five minutes, $150, and the customer is delighted because the box said it was easy and it was not.
Anyone who just bought a TV, moved, or got a smart doorbell as a gift. A standard mount runs $120 to $200, in-wall wire concealment $100 to $200 more, a full smart-home setup (doorbell, two cameras, thermostat, lock) $300 to $600. Furniture and electronics retailers refer installs, and real estate agents buy them as closing gifts.
| Stud finder, drill, level, fish tape, low-voltage kit | $500 |
| LLC, insurance | $700 |
| Listing on the retailer and marketplace install networks | $0 to $200 |
| Magnets, cards, booking page | $300 |
| All-in | ≈ $1,500 to $2,000 |
Mount ten TVs for friends and photograph the clean wall. Sign up as an installer on the marketplace and retailer networks; they take a cut but they fill a calendar fast. Price a menu, not an hourly rate. Learn the three doorbell brands and two thermostat brands that cover most of the market, including their quirks with older wiring.
Four $180 jobs a day is $720 with almost no materials. Five days is about $3,500 a week, and most of it is drive time, so cluster bookings by area. Add-ons such as soundbars, cable management and a second camera lift the ticket. One van and a trained helper doubles it.
Low-voltage work is unlicensed in most states; a new outlet behind the TV is not, so partner with an electrician for that. Some states license alarm and camera installers, so check before you sell security cameras as a service. Lead-safe rules apply when you cut into pre-1978 walls.
A drill into a pipe or a wire. A mount on a wall that could not hold it. An hour lost to a customer’s Wi-Fi password. The marketplace networks can also cut your rates or your rank without warning, so build your own reviews and referral sources from the first month.