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Bryan Clayton On Growing And Scaling Ideas And Skills From Scratch Into A Multimillion Dollar Concern

Business Mastermind Podcast
Business Mastermind Podcast
Episode • Oct 26, 2020 • 41m

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.


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KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Ideas 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.com

brian@yourgreenpal.com

Brian Clayton At IdeaMensch - https://ideamensch.com/bryan-clayton/

ABOUT THE HOST

 

Gavin Preston

 

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-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 frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

 

CONTACT METHOD

 

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