Optimized Entrepreneur / Jeremy Hanson

Optimized Entrepreneur / Jeremy Hanson

74 - Fiber Gold: Custom Fiber Installation for High-Profit Business & Side Hustle

Season 1, Episode 74July 15, 202529 min

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About this episode

A lot of homes and buildings still do not have fiber to the door. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson, custom fiber installation is treated as a service business: houses, commercial buildings, remote properties, and smart homes — plus subcontract work for the carriers trying to hit build deadlines. Jeremy covers demand, startup costs, and what jobs can pay: basic home drops, business installs, and longer conduit runs. He also walks through how providers like Brightspeed, AT&T, Frontier, and Google Fiber use independent crews, and what it takes to get on that work instead of waiting for random one-off calls. You’ll learn • Why custom fiber install is still underserved • Typical job types and price ranges from the episode • Why startup costs can stay relatively low • How subcontracting for telcos creates steadier work • The myths about saturation and how long the skills take to learn FAQ Is fiber installation a real business or just a side hustle? It can be either. The money shows up when you treat it like a service company: insurance, reliability, and a way to get repeat work. How do you get consistent fiber jobs? Direct residential and commercial work is one path. Getting approved as a subcontractor for a carrier is the other. More at optimized1.com. Sign up for the Built Different newsletter.

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