205:Brian Scudamore | Built a Fortune with Garbage
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine- Brian shifted the paradigm of "ordinary home services and turns them into exceptional experiences." This week Joe discusses some shady junk removal of his own, learns the Painted Picture Method of envisioning your vision & how a high school dropout stuck with his not so sexy business to disrupt a market and make it a multimillion-dollar franchise. One man's trash is another man's treasure !
LESSONS:
- Things take time !
- Be relentless
- Believe in a future vision
- Utilize free press
- Systematize, franchise & scale
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TIME STAMPS:
2:00 Do you take your dad's advice?
5:20 How to systematize, franchise & scale
6:25 The Painted Picture
7:30 The Age of Storytelling
LINKS:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianscudamore/#19e5588e70d3
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.
Synopsis – Matt Baatz & Sefra Alexandra
© 2018 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Athletic Greens. |
| 0:03.0 | Ensure your body gets the nutrition it needs. |
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| 0:11.0 | com slash Spartan, and then when you place your order they'll send you a |
| 0:14.9 | free travel pack with 20 individually wrapped packets. That's a free offer just |
| 0:19.4 | for our listeners. Welcome back to Spartan Up podcast. Today we are in Boston. We've got Joe, we've got |
| 0:25.6 | Sefra, we've got Tim, Johnny Marion, but we're going to take you to Vancouver |
| 0:29.7 | where Joe sat down with a few people a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:33.2 | And one of them was Brian Scutamore. |
| 0:35.9 | Brian Scutamore. |
| 0:37.4 | There's an expression, one man's trash, another man's treasure. |
| 0:40.5 | Brian Scutamore has created on its path to being certainly a billion dollar empire. |
| 0:45.4 | And he's an awesome guy. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, really, really neat guy. |
| 0:48.4 | This interview, I love this. |
| 0:49.9 | I love how simple and straightforward he is about how he turned a trash junk removal business |
| 0:56.6 | into a massive empire that is exploding without anything you could have imagined. |
| 1:01.6 | There's also another little secret I learned about Brian and his business, |
| 1:05.2 | but I'm gonna save that until you watch the interview. |
| 1:07.8 | Cool. We are here for Spartan up podcast Brian Skutamore |
| 1:25.2 | Scutamore one 800 got junk you got it which how long have you had this company |
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