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The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.

206: Side-Hustle to Full-Time Biz with Gavin Zuchlinski

The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.

Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

From Side-Hustle to full-time small business with Gavin Zuchlinski. Gavin is a small business owner and the founder of Acuity Scheduling - an online tool for businesses to automate and manage their appointments, allowing clients to schedule themselves. He shares how the idea for Acuity Scheduling began, and how he grew this from a solution for one person, to a full-time small business. Gavin's story is unique in that he truly enjoyed and felt fulfilled in his corporate position.

Henry Lopez is the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)

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0:00.0

Welcome to The How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now here are your hosts.

0:15.7

Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. This is Henry Lopez. And before we get started, I'd like to thank

0:21.5

Joshua in Coppell. Joshua is a longtime listener of the show. Joshua, thanks for listening.

0:28.1

Today, I have a great guest. His name is Gavin Zuclinski. Gavin, welcome to the show.

0:34.4

Thanks for having me on here. I'm excited to have you. He comes to us from

0:37.9

Pennsylvania. He used to be in New York City. We'll chat about that a little bit. But Gavin is the

0:42.9

founder of Acuity Scheduling, and that's an online tool for businesses to automate and manage their

0:49.8

appointments. Businesses and solarpreneurs, It allows clients to schedule themselves.

0:56.6

Gavin is a self-professed tech geek and expressomaniac.

1:00.6

That's something he uses not very lightly to describe himself.

1:05.3

And he wholeheartedly believes that business should be fun.

1:08.8

We're going to touch on that as well,

1:10.4

how he's managed to

1:11.3

keep the fun in this business that has grown to what it is today. Acuity scheduling supports

1:16.9

over 50,000 businesses of all sizes, from people working for themselves, like a massage therapist,

1:23.9

let's say, to major corporations with thousands of employees. As I mentioned, he

1:29.7

lives in Pennsylvania with his family. And in today's episode, we're going to chat about his

1:34.9

entrepreneurial journey and then dive into this business, which started as what we now,

1:41.0

nowadays call a side hustle. He had his full-time job while he first started this.

1:45.9

We'll talk about that story and then how that evolved to being his full-time business now.

1:52.2

So once again, Gavin Zuclinski, welcome to the show.

1:56.7

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for having me on here again.

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