Solutions require innovation. In this week's show, Gavin talks to entrepreneur, Bryan Clayton, the founder of GreenPal, an exciting solution-based operation being described as “The Uber Of Lawns”, and dedicated to connecting homeowners with local lawn care services.Bryan talks about growing, scaling, bootstrapping businesses, switching between marketplaces, and how best to prepare your business for a potential sale and exit.Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYSIdeas require ingenuity, but implementation sometimes requires skills outside of our remit. Teach yourself the skills you need to get moving, and then hire the best people to help you realise your dreams.There is no substitute for talking to your users face-to-face. You have to understand what their problems are, how to solve them, and where you're coming up short.There are always times of impasse and plateau. The best strategy is to push hard and look for incremental, small, progressive wins. Eventually you will drive through and forward.Sometimes solutions are already out there, but the elegance with which they are provided are not customer-centric. Ideas can flourish if we provide this elegance.BEST MOMENTS‘Going from zero revenue to 10m dollars in revenue over 15 years was a journey that taught me a lot about building businesses from scratch' ‘You have to get out of the building' ‘I burned the boats. There was no going back. The only way to go was forward' 'Our competition really is the status quo'  VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast GreenPal - https://www.yourgreenpal.combrian@yourgreenpal.comBrian Clayton At IdeaMensch - https://ideamensch.com/bryan-clayton/ABOUT THE HOST Gavin Preston Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer andhigh-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years. Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontlineManagers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak PerformanceMindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, LeadershipDevelopment, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, StakeholderManagement, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change. CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston WebsiteGavin Preston LinkedInGavin Preston YouTubeGavin Preston FacebookGavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.