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

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 in equity value in just a couple of years.Andrea Palacio runs AndreaPalacio.ai, where she helps other business owners put AI to work.But before that, she and her husband lived on a sailboat for 4 years while running an e-commerce business selling pet supplies on Amazon and Shopify.When that business stalled, they sold it and went looking for something new. They landed on a South Florida landscaping company, thinking it would be steady and mostly hands-off. Instead, almost everything went wrong at once.Tune in to Episode 750 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how Andrea rebuilt after losing most of her team and clients how simple AI tools gave her back 20+ hours a month what buying a business taught her about leadershipFull Show Notes: We Bought a “Boring” Business … The...