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Chapter 9
Graystone Industries
www.graystonecreations.com
Your name: John Olson
Company name: Graystone Industries
Website URL:
www.graystonecreations.com
Your company / website vision statement / goal:
To provide a premier buying resource for customers in the pond,
fountain, aquarium and water gardening industry.
What you sell / services you offer (brief description of your company):
Pond, fountain, aquarium, and water gardening supplies.
Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your
previous jobs / companies?
I have worked for 11+ years in the retail management business. Have
always wanted to merge the customer service standards of a retail
location into the untamed wilderness of the World Wide Web.
Have you got any qualifications? Please tell us about yourself
academically?
I have HS degree with a few courses in college.
How / when did the idea of your website / company come about?
When an associate at my last job introduced me to eBay. I spent two
months reviewing everything about internet sales at that time. I started
selling fountains that I made. I tried selling a few pumps to defray the
cost of buying a full case and the business went from there. We will due
well over a million dollars in pump sales this year.
If you could give readers of this book one piece of advice when starting
up a business, what would it be?
START NOW! You will continue to learn as you grow!
Who are your role models / mentors and why?
I really don’t spend much time on other people and what they do. I have
so many ideas I want to implement I just sort of learn as I go. 30 min
reading a day in any field will make you an expert in 2-3 years time.
Excluding yours, what company / website do you like / admire the most?
I don’t really get to many websites. I don’t like being on the computer,
I just know how to make money that way.
What do you look for in an employee?
Someone who wants to make hundreds of thousands of dollars and can put
aside all their stupid work habits and realize that I am the very best
chance they will ever have to become rich. Make me money and I will
share the wealth. I just recently put my assistant from a cut of total
sales to an hourly position. Why did she give up a possible $120,000 a
year job? Because her mother in law insisted that she leave work at
5pm.
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