Small Business Answer Man

The time has come again to do a recap. With the second quarter of 2021 just wrapping up we are going to do a season recap on the fourteenth season. It's hard to believe that we have done 3 years of podcasting!

Each guest that we have had on the podcast has taught us something different. Below are just a few of the highlights from our fourteenth season of podcasts.

Bryan Clayton and is the 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 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day and doing 20m a year in sales.

Before starting GreenPal, Bryan 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 interests and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

Robert Clinkenbeard was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to Arizona in 1999 to find a better lifestyle. Robert is now the CEO of The Radix Group, LLC which has offices in Greenville, Phoenix, and the UK. He is a serial entrepreneur, an author, and a four time Ironman. Having sold his $20M company, he now has several franchises, multiple real estate investments and the largest Peer Group facilitation company in the US. He is also a senior leader in EO and therefore understands the challenges of CEO's within growing companies.

Robert has been married for eight years and is kept busy with five children. Robert also played competitive rugby and soccer for 20 years.

Mark Mansingh is a senior HR, Compliance, PEO and Benefits Consultant. Mark understands the challenges that come with running a small business. While getting a master's degree in leadership development he started and ran a successful financial advisory firm for more than 10 years. Today, he works as an HCM Business Consultant for Paychex where he has helped over 500 business businesses navigate HR, Compliance, and benefits as well as streamlining and integrating their systems to save significant admin time, minimize risk, and scale quickly. Mark has been with Paychex for 7 years and his passion is problem solving, and strategic planning to help business owners accomplish their goals.

Mark is married with 4 children (not for the faint of heart).

John Vuong is a seasoned sales professional and Internet marketer with an exceptional track record helping companies grow their clientele and profits. Through 15 years of experience working with CEOs, business owners, and marketing leaders at some of Canada's most successful corporations, John developed a deep understanding of local marketing dynamics and consumer behavior. John's entrepreneurial spirit and experience working with more than 5,000 local business owners inspired him to start his own company, Local SEO Search, in 2013. Local SEO Search is a boutique SEO agency from Toronto. John helps small and medium-sized businesses rank on Google and dominate their local market for the right search terms.

Jon Schram is an IT support expert and the founder & CEO of The Purple Guys, a tech company that has grown since 2001 to become the Midwest's premier provider of IT support services. The Purple Guys is a fast-growing, 7-digit business that has helped hundreds of companies grow by solving their IT problems and providing them with stress-free, bulletproof tech support. Jon and his wife, Jill, have three children and have founded two businesses together.

Aaron Walker has founded more than a dozen companies over the past 42 years and has appeared on more than 2000 podcast interviews. He attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with his mastermind counterparts. Aaron spent a decade meeting weekly with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham, and 5 other amazing entrepreneurs. Aaron is the founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind that now hosts 20 groups with National and International members. Aaron is the author of View From The Top, a must-read to fully understand how to live a life of success and significance. Also, the founder of The Mastermind Playbook an incredible resource for starting, running and scaling masterminds. Aaron lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Robin of 40 years and he has 2 incredible daughters and 5 beautiful grandchildren.

Dr. Allen Hunt

Bio:

Dr. Allen Hunt is a nationally known speaker and bestselling author. His books include Confessions of a Mega-Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church, Everybody Needs to Forgive Somebody, and Nine Words: A Bible Study to Help You Become the Best-Version-of-Yourself.

Dr. Hunt stepped aside July 1, 2007, as Senior Pastor at Mount Pisgah, a congregation serving more than 15,000 people each week through all of its ministries in Alpharetta, Georgia, outside Atlanta. While at there, Dr. Hunt helped to develop comprehensive ministries with children and students as well as a Christian School with more than 1200 students, a Beacon of Hope pregnancy resource center, and the Summit Counseling Center.

On January 6, 2008, the Feast of the Epiphany, Dr. Hunt converted to Catholicism. This transition represented the culmination of a 15-year journey in which God began leading Dr. Hunt home to the Church. In many ways, this transition was effected by the prayers of a group of Dominican sisters at the Monastery of Our Lady of Grace in North Guilford, Connecticut, who have been praying for Dr. Hunt since he shared lectures with them during Lent in 1992.

Prior to full-time ministry, Dr. Hunt worked in management consulting with Kurt Salmon Associates, an international leader in the textile, apparel, and retail industries. Allen was educated at Mercer (bachelor of business administration) and Emory (master of divinity) Universities, before earning a doctorate in New Testament and Ancient Christian Origins from Yale University.

Dr. Hunt and his wife, Anita, live in Atlanta. They have two grown daughters.

Brad Connors, President, has been advising individuals, corporations, and institutional investors since 1994. Brad has built his practice, iWealth, in Waseca & Bloomington Minnesota. Brad affiliated with Investment Centers of America, Inc. in 1998 and was consistently in the top 5% of his peers, including 2010 ICA Representative of the Year. In 2014, Brad was honored with the distinguished Community Service Award at ICA's Regional Conference. The award was presented to Brad based on his support and commitment to his local community through a variety of initiatives including charitable giving, youth outreach, community education and involvement. He has been on the forefront of helping other advisors grow their practice and teaching them what they should be working toward to have a profitable and enjoyable business.

Brad authored his first book, Fish Don't Clap: Planning For A Purposeful Retirement in 2014. His reasoning behind writing the book, was to "give away the information for everyone to have more purpose going into retirement."

His book, which has attained many 5 Star reviews on Amazon, shines a light on the 20 plus years of experience Brad has working with clients to define what they genuinely want their retirement to look like. For Brad, creating a fulfilling retirement for his clients is about more than figures – it involves taking a family's whole life into account, from values to goals and everything in between.

Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. He is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine. He's guided clients like FanDuel and InfusionSoft from startup to hundreds of millions of dollars.

He founded the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize, with judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT. Launched at the Royal Society in London, it's the world's largest science research award.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs uses his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool and his reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review.

Perry's Google book laid the foundations for the $100 billion Pay Per Click industry, and Ultimate Guide to Google Ads is the world's best selling book on internet advertising.

Marketing maverick Dan Kennedy says, "If you don't know who Perry Marshall is — unforgivable. Perry's an honest man in a field rife with charlatans."

Perry has consulted in over 300 industries, has a degree in Electrical Engineering and lives in Chicago.