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The Side Hustle Show

332: The Junk Hauling Business: From $0 to $300 Million and Beyond

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

WTF man!? Are you willing to fail! Let that be your new mantra. That's the rule Brian Scudamore -- the founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK -- lives by. What started with a $1000 investment (Brian's life's savings at the time) has turned into a home services empire that does $1 million in sales on any given day. Brian's come a long way since that beat-up pickup truck going door-to-door that first summer. His portfolio now includes house painting, moving services, and home detailing--all under the umbrella of Ordinary 2 Exceptional Brands. He’s formulated some unique and effective ways to build teams of passionate employees that share his goals and has leveraged the franchise model to grow his businesses and revenue from $0 to $444 million and beyond. Tune in to hear how Brian started the junk hauling business as a soon-to-be college student, his thoughts on marketing and hiring, and how you can apply nearly 30 years of his own successes and failures to your business. Full Show Notes: The Junk Hauling Business: From $0 to $300 Million and Beyond

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0:00.0

Sideos will show 332, Trash into Treasure. This is taking a part-time junk hauling business

0:08.5

from zero to $300 million and beyond.

0:17.0

What's up, what's up, Nick? Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle show because being willing to fail

0:21.0

is the only way to ever get up the courage to get started.

0:25.0

WTF man willing to fail let that be your new mantra.

0:29.6

In this episode you'll hear from the guy whose $1,000 investment in a beat-up pickup truck has turned into an empire that's now doing over a million dollars in revenue a day.

0:41.0

This is a rare break on the show where we get to see how the CEO of an organization

0:46.4

that size thinks and operates, how we got there and what we as side hustlers and probably smaller scale entrepreneurs I don't want to

0:54.9

discount that can take away from that I really enjoy this conversation with Brian

1:00.3

Scutamore the founder and CEO of 1-800 Got Junk, whose portfolio of brands now includes not

1:09.1

just junk removal, but also house painting, moving services, and home detailing.

1:14.8

You'll find information on all of those at O2E Brands.com,

1:19.6

which stands for ordinary to exceptional.

1:21.8

So O, the number 2 E-Brands.com.

1:25.0

And that's the broader story I want to tell here, that there is an opportunity to

1:30.4

consolidate and brand fragmented industries.

1:34.0

Brian's new book gave me the inspiration for the intro.

1:36.7

It's called WTF, willing to fail,

1:39.3

how failure can be your key to success.

1:42.1

Stick around in this one to hear how Brian started the junk hauling business as a soon-to-be college student,

1:48.0

his thoughts on marketing and hiring, and how you can apply nearly 30 years of his successes and failures to your own business.

1:56.0

Notes and links for this one are at Side Hustle Nation.com slash junk.

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