Creative Entrepreneurship™

A startup company has its challenges and today we go over some techniques on how you can start your business as well as some ways to minimize failure. Because many startup companies fail it is important to have the right business model.

Bryan Clayton started a company called GreenPal and took it to 20 million dollars in sales. It is considered the Uber for landscaping. His approach gives us some insight into learning from his successes and failures will give us some insight into how he has built this multimillion-dollar company.

Show Notes:
Finding the pain in the market
Leverage Your Own Money
Build Your Team
Keep Your Equity
Do Your Research
Use an Arrow Not a Shotgun
Don't Delegate Too Quickly

Words of Wisdom
Get started

Bryan Clayton
yourgreenpal.com
Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 100,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing, and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

Understanding the sales hierarchy for customer sales is important. You don't want to continually waste time and money. Leveraging your time on successful marketing and sales techniques are essential in today's business world.   

What are the steps you need to take in order to identify where your lead falls into the hierarchy of purchasing?
What are some of the best ways to get hot leads?
Having realistic expectations.
Using referrals, Facebook, and Youtube to get leads and directing them to funnels with the content necessary to close the deal.
Allow for leads to call for clarification.
Building a rapport before meeting your customer.
Avoid buyer's remorse.

FB Community "Selling with Science and Soul": https://www.facebook.com/groups/507469573376472

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perishawn/

Show Notes: 
Why trademark?
Who Should Trademark?
What Should You Trademark?
When Should You Trademark?
Followup on Your Registered Trademark.
Send Out Cease and Desist Letters. 
Starting Early Gives You Leverage When Registering or Fighting for Your Brand.

Contact Information: 
Daniel Lopez
[email protected]
2016794588

Dolores is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, TEDx organizer, strategist, and coach. She works with Speakers, Entrepreneurs, Authors, and Executives to CLARIFY their message.  Clients gain the CLARITY they need to communicate and engage their audience, teams, and stakeholders. Her clients shift from talking about what they do to talking about what they stand for.

Show Notes:
Taking an idea to market
Growing Your Business
Understanding Your Approach
Scaling Your Business
When to Scale
Building on Your Knowlege and Using Others Expertise

Contact Dolores Hirschmann
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhirschmann/
https://mastersinclarity.com/
https://twitter.com/DglarH
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbc8sZ8Qs-IdmgH1CbHmXWA/videos
https://www.instagram.com/mastersinclarity/

One of the biggest challenges people face is how to get started with their idea. Here are some excellent ideas on what to with your idea for an online business. 

• Know Your Market
  • Niche Down Your Idea 
• Know Your Competition
• Find Your Area of Marketing
  • Choose Your Attack
    • Facebook Groups
    • YouTube
    • etc.
  • Be Consistent
  • Grind

Don't wait until everything is perfect just get started

Case Lane
readyentrepreneur.com
https://www.facebook.com/readyentrepreneurHQ/
https://www.instagram.com/readyentrepreneur/
https://twitter.com/CaseLaneWorld
https://www.pinterest.com/caselaneworld/boards/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCovzFtOHutvmlD0_pqFZUUg/featured

thecreativeentrepreneur.net
greybugphotography.com

John Vuong is an expert in SEO and he gives us some interesting techniques on how you can take your business website to number one. We talk about understanding your market, hiring the right person, generating great content, taking care of your reviews, and backlinks. 

Contact Information for John Vuong

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Yelp
• FourSquare
• Instagram
• Bing

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1st generation immigrant from Ukraine. A self-taught digital marketer that learned as a result of the 2008 recession and fell in love with it. With 11 years of experience leading digital teams in senior leadership roles, on over 600 projects in pharma & life sciences, financial services, legal, fitness, and consumer goods. Founded Nova Zora Digital in 2012. The host of the Digital Savage Experience Podcast a Top 100 Podcast in Apple Podcasts for How To. Foster parent to all the babies that have been able to call my house their home. 

Key Take-Aways

• How to differentiate yourself from other marketing business
• Knowledge set
• Work on what you're known for or good at and then branch out from there

Take clients that align with your business

Roman’s Profile

linkedin.com/in/romanprokopchuk

Website
novazoradigital.com/  (Digital Marketing Agency)

Twitter
@noheartnoglory

The Makeover Master Mike Young

Mike Young is the founder of The Makeover Master, host of the top-rated “Made Over Podcast”, author of "Made Over How To Create A Powerful Brand That Will Transform Your Business & Save Your Life", and a seasoned entrepreneur.

Mike is the creator of the “Starter Pack Makeover Business Growth System”, as part of what he considers his life’s work and duty to help others avoid the hellish 8.5 years of debt, pain and growing pains (and $200,000+) he spent buying every book and course he could afford, traveling to every seminar and event imaginable trying to get his business to work.

He works with those who have a business but it’s “not really working” and they can’t seem to discover the real reasons why.

Mike’s system and methodologies fix a giant problem that many business owners face in today’s world of generic advice and information overload, a problem that’s keeping them from running a successful business, costing them money, time, energy, and focus.

Trying to figure it all out alone, spinning their wheels, and trying a lot of shit that simply isn’t working.

https://www.facebook.com/mikeyoungmakeovers.biz/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeyoungmakeovers/
https://www.instagram.com/mikeyoungmakeovers/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY5VUdEeO462pkkG6Dr1oqg

Maria Tan(Maria Kathlyn Tan) is a thought leader, international author, motivational speaker, and business coach who mentors “misfits” and “misunderstood geniuses”. Focusing on female entrepreneurs who may not “fit in”, Maria empowers women across the globe to create success tailored to their lifestyles.

Before coaching online, she was a cross-cultural communications consultant who worked with executives from all over the world and coached over 1000 professionals. Within two years of coaching,  she’s been featured in HuffPost, Elephant Journal, Pick the Brain, and Addicted2Success and was the only Asian woman featured in The Money Code and How to Crack It, a book that debuted at #14 on Amazon.

Maria’s 1000+ clients range from American Ivy-league graduates to diplomats.

We look at ways to approach business from a different perspective.

Figure out who you are, what you are going to do, and how you are going to get there. 

Look at the opportunity because its something you want to do and not just because it's an opportunity. 

Do you look for a solution first or do you search for a problem to solve?

You don't have to be the inventor.

Your network is essential to your business.
 
Building your team for scaling and growing.

Vision is just a small portion of where you want to go with your business. 

Maria is gifting listeners of this podcast her step-by-step guide on Integrating the CEO Mindset to help your life and business flourish. Download here: 

http://www.maria-tan.com/thecreativeentrepreneurwithabelgarza/ 

http://www.maria-tan.com/press/
https://www.facebook.com/successcoachmariatan/
https://www.instagram.com/maria_k_tan/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariakathlyntan/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0PqCWq9QnwQoX9KzBBhZyQ

After graduating college with a finance degree in hand, I set out to do what everyone always told me to do: Go to school, get good grades, get a good job and climb the corporate ladder for the next 40-50 years and then retire and enjoy life. So I did!

Three years into that journey, I realized the cubicle life wasn’t for me. Why do something I HATE for 40-50 years to then enjoy life when I’m 65-70 years old…that didn’t sound like a good time to me. Especially when I realized that the corner office wasn’t so sexy after all. So I quit…and started my first real business.

Two years in, I was having great success: I loved what I was doing, I was my own boss and we were growing like crazy! The downside? I was working 60-80 hours per week, doing everything, and realized that it wasn’t sustainable forever. The demand was there but I literally couldn’t do any more physically or mentally. After taking a few steps back, I realized that if something ever happens to me, my business would go to zero quickly.

Long story short, by leveraging the power of systems & process in order to empower staff and create the best customer experience in the industry, I was able to double my business while cutting the hours I worked in half. In four short years of owning my business, I was able to go from $0 to $500k. I had achieved the freedom that I was looking for.

One to never sit still, I sold the business for 3x net profit and I was ready for the next opportunity.

Which brings us here today. I am now a coach and advocate for YOU, the small business owner. You started your business to MAKE MORE, not less, WORK LESS, not more, and to have MORE FREEDOM, not less! Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way. But it’s no need to get discouraged. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

My Promise to You: To make sure you have all of the tools you need to make more, work less, and build a valuable business that no longer needs YOU to survive. After all, if your business needs you to survive, it’s actually not a business at all. It’s simply a very STRESSFUL J-O-B. I made every mistake along the way but came out on the other side with a proven process that works…for any business!

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