Hobnail Trekking Co.

Update: We Created A Mobile App And Grew Revenue To $60K/Year

Mark E. Johnson
$5K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
1
Employees
Hobnail Trekking Co.
from Nashville, Tennessee, USA
started January 2017
$5,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
1
Employees
market size
$540B
avg revenue (monthly)
$74.7K
starting costs
$18K
gross margin
90%
time to build
270 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
Subscriptions & Memberships
best tools
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
40 Pros & Cons
tips
18 Tips
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Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Mark Johnson, here, owner and founder of Hobnail Trekking Co. Following a chance meeting with an Everest Region Sherpa in Nashville, Tennessee, in the summer of 2016, my wife and I decided to act on a bucket-list dream of trekking to Everest Base Camp (EBC).

Over the next six months of planning, we realized that there were no companies based in the Southeast U.S. that provided treks to EBC. This realization coincided with me leaving my corporate job as a director of communications.

The stars have aligned, and we partnered with our Sherpa friend (who already owned a small Nepal-based trekking company) to form Hobnail Trekking.

Although COVID was a major bump in the road, we are back in business and grossing around $60K annually.

When you have a great work ethic, provide a quality product or service, and are nice to people, good things tend to happen.

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