Starting a Business with Bryan Clayton

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 200,000 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. KEY TAKEAWAYS If we have a business idea without any money, we should accept that without failure, we cannot gain anything. There are levels that we should get through but the most important thing is that we should get through these levels one by one. The first step always should be “hustle” without thinking about nights and weekends. Courage, hustle, and patience should be our key values while starting a business. BEST MOMENTS “If you watch a movie and the main character just wins all the time and never goes too low points, it is not a great interesting story”. “It is very much almost like a video game where you look at it and it is like ten levels of challenges every level has its own final boss. And you just really have to focus on every level at a time and so level one might be “I don’ have any money, I don’t have any customers, I don’t have a product, I don’t have anything”, so level one might be “I just have to hustle, nights and weekends”. Develop a prototype of some kind of product and hustle up twelve customers.” Nothing matters until you get through that level and the thing is a lot of people worry about level ten when they are on level one”. “When it comes building a new business from scratch, it is not like learn and start. You start, then learn”. “The good thing about building a technology-based business is that you can many times not have to solve the same problem over and over and over again. If you have ever technology-based business, you can get to the root cause of most issues and develop software to solve the problem”. “You are doing three things at once all the time. You are working in the business, just running it, making sure customers are happy, making sure things are happening. You are working on the business, which is developing the systems, marketing systems, the R&D systems, the accounting systems, all the things that go into making the business run. And then you are working on yourself. You are learning skills”. ABOUT THE HOST Levent Yildizgoren, the author of 'Good Business in any Language', is an award-winning entrepreneur, localisation professional, and a PRINCE2 qualified project manager. CONTACT METHOD Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leventyildizgoren/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/yildizgoren IG: https://www.instagram.com/levent.yildizgoren/ ABOUT THE GUEST 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 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. CONTACT METHOD https://podcastconnection.org/bryanclayton/ https://www.facebook.com/greenpallawncare/ https://www.instagram.com/yourgreenpal/ https://twitter.com/YourGreenPal VALUABLE RESOURCES Do you have any questions about translation, localization, or international growth? Visit TTC website: https://ttcwetranslate.com/ Take your business global with the 5-step LINGO modal! Purchase 'Good Business in any Language' on Amazon now: https://cutt.ly/2ORR