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Gary Nealon took an existing cabinet business online, flipping an antiquated industry on its head by selling direct-to-consumer. Before exiting, RTA Cabinet Store went from $30k/month to $42M/year and became an Inc 500 company due to its 1,504% growth over 3 years. It also made the Inc 5000 list 7 years in a row. It's worth noting that Gary's first business failed miserably, he was swimming in debt, and was told that selling cabinets online wasn't possible. With no plan and no budget, he needed to convince people that there was a better way to buy cabinets. I sat down with Gary to find out how reinvented an entire industry. You'll learn his scrappy approach to building online traffic, his framework for developing a relationship with customers well before they're ready to buy, and the marketing strategy he used to cut customer acquisition costs and boost conversions. We also dig into the tech solutions he created that removed logistical problems for vendors, ultimately leading to a much bigger acquisition deal. Key Takeaways with Gary Nealon Using Craigslist to build awareness and drive sales for a direct-to-consumer cabinet company that nobody knew about. How Gary built tech to remove logistic inefficiencies for his vendors so he could ultimately maximize profits and get acquired for much more. How to reduce customer acquisition costs by selling products around data you own. Tools and tactics for creating SEO-driven content at scale. Landing a deal with HGTV and leveraging it to target new customers. How to use online forums and groups to quickly establish trust with prospects. How to fast-track your business success by knowing your strengths/weaknesses as a company. Why your ads are bombing on certain platforms but performing well on others. How to get in the minds of your consumers well before they're even thinking of buying. Gary's strategy for acquiring small companies that he can add value to and scale. Don't miss how he incentivizes brokers to bring him deals before anyone else. How to effectively use personality tests to make better hiring decisions, identify team strengths, and improve overall communication. Subscribe to the Podcast We hope you enjoy this episode and that you find some golden nuggets within this interview. Trust us, it's there! If you want episodes delivered straight to your inbox, consider subscribing to the show and we'll email you each time a new episode is released! Thanks for tuning it & keep being awesome. BAM!

Gary will talk about his journey of building and scaling a company, then eventually selling it and starting all over again. Awesome Topics discussed: Started from scratch at the age of 30 2:45 Started a Cabinet company immediately after filing bankruptcy 3:48 Biggest lesson 4:30 Did athletics make a big impact on your entrepreneur life? 5:15 How did you market your cabinet company? 6:20 If you want to dive on to something at least get a general knowledge 8:30 When did you get your company to its first 7 figures? 9:20 Who is your business coach? 13:15 Biggest challenge 31:05 What are the things that you wish you would have known when you sold the company 37:00 Understanding how wealth is carried through 42:50 What is the most important skill you think Entrepreneurship is all about 48:10 Learning to hire the right people 50:00 Just when you think you are about to hit the breaking point, You're about to hit something better 54:45 Connect and Follow Gary Nealon Website: https://www.garynealon.com/ I would love to hear your thoughts! Send me a message and follow me on Social media. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strattdaddyy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/strattbrown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stratt-brown-911a8620b/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7wT49pz2msqCCPwedSlt8Q TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@strattbrown Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stratton.brown.3

On the show today, we have Gary Nealon, an e-commerce expert and serial entrepreneur dedicated to helping you scale your e-commerce business, increase your revenues, and maximize your profits. Gary explains the 5-step system that can help you measure a new idea and the value it will bring to your business. He shares some of his marketing strategies and how he used them to effectively scale a business online. Listen in to learn how to leverage different marketing resources like content creation to create traffic for your business. You will also learn the importance of delegating as a business owner and doing it in a way that is of value to your business. Pivotal Questions Asked: [4:28] How did you have the courage to go and do business again after such a huge stumble? [6:59] How did you scale selling what many would consider one of the hardest things to sell online? [30:20] What are your success practices in either your business or personal?   [41:05] When was the day you had a pivot moment? [46:01] What are some of the ways that either you or the businesses that you've worked with have sabotaged, and what can people do about it? [48:49] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be? In This Episode You Will Learn: [7:20] How he learned to leverage different traffic sources without spending a lot of money. [11:48] The different content creation methods to build an audience, and in turn create traffic for your product or service. [13:50] Gary on how to define your avatar before creating a marketing strategy to get to your ideal audience.   [16:49] Defining an avatar and how to successfully approach creating one for your business. [25:20] How to quantify an idea using internal resources, external resources, time to complete, cost, and ROI system. [36:41] The importance of delegating and ensuring you're doing it in a beneficial way for your business. [41:30] How failing in business enabled Gary to take the emotion out of running a business. [46:07] The different ways you can sabotage your business and why taking the emotion out of it can help. Quotes: “One of the biggest mistakes businesses make is they assume they know who they're talking to when they don't.”- Gary [13:56] “Learn enough to be dangerous, but pass it on to somebody else that's an expert.”- Gary [37:13] What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now. Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity. Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

Gary Nealon is the President of Nealon Solutions, a Pennsylvania-based internet marketing company, and Managing Partner of Usawa.io, a digital currency designed to impact poverty in underdeveloped countries. Gary is also the President of Sidekicks.co, a full-service virtual assistant agency, and the Founder of RTACabinetStore.com, which Gary recently sold for 8 figures. Because of his success as an e-commerce expert and serial entrepreneur, Gary is an Official Member of the Forbes Agency Council and has been featured in Inc. 500, Philadelphia100®, Entrepreneur, and more. In this episode… Do you want to plan a successful and lucrative exit, but you're not sure where to start? Are you looking for the best advice and resources to guide you in the exit planning process? If you are, you're in the right place.  Successful entrepreneur and e-commerce expert Gary Nealon recently sold his business, RTA Cabinet Stores, for a staggering 8 figures. Today, Gary is on the Amazing Exits Podcast to discuss all of the secrets and strategies behind his exit planning process. In this episode of the Amazing Exits Podcast, co-hosts Kellianne Fedio and Paul Miller sit down with Gary Nealon to discuss Gary's amazing 8-figure exit story—and how to replicate his success by knowing your “why”, identifying your skillset, and realizing when to outsource! Keep listening to learn how and when Gary decided to sell his business, the best strategies for increasing web traffic, and how to effectively analyze customer data.

Gary Nealon started selling ready-to-assemble kitchen cabinets under the RTA Cabinet Store brand. It was around the time HGTV was taking off on a steady diet of home improvement shows. Nealon was contacted by one of the show's producers who had a last-minute request for a shoot where they needed kitchen cabinets. Nealon scrambled his team and delivered.

Gary Nealon runs his own high-level coaching and consulting business from his website with a remote team. He recently sold his e-commerce business that was doing $40 million per year in gross revenues. He went from running an eCommerce company that sold kitchen cabinets to a software development company that just happened to sell cabinets.  His strategic consulting services are designed to help business owners scale their e-commerce businesses, increase revenues, and maximize profits. In this episode… Creating new software isn’t easy no matter how tech-savvy you might be. It involves a lot of planning in order to determine what processes it will be used on, and it also takes a while to get started with its actual creation. Some developers choose to identify their target market first before creating this new software or they get the necessary funding to get it off the ground. But for Gary Nealon, creating new software is done to solve some problems for himself first. He automates it internally as much as possible and then perfects it for his own use before testing it in the marketplace. He believes that if there's a need to create software for his business, then there are probably other people in the marketplace who also need it. In today’s episode of The Big Break Software Podcast Geordie is joined by Gary Nealon, a software developer and business owner where they discuss his shift from selling cabinets to selling his own software, his learnings from selling his own company, the benefits of working with a remote team, and what you can do to bring ROI from the software that you’re developing. It’s a great episode of personal experiences and business wisdom so make sure to stay tuned.

In this podcast, I interview Gary Nealon about how he went from MASSIVE failure to a $40M/year Ecommerce business. Gary is an incredibly successful ecommerce seller and entrepreneur. He has built one of the biggest brands in the kitchen niche, a business known as RTA Cabinet Store. In 2017 alone, he scaled his company to $40 million per year in sales. Gary also runs his own consulting company which is dedicated to helping people scale their Ecommerce businesses and maximize their profits. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  Laura and Trivinia share a conversation about how it is when you feel like you don’t fit in someplace and what the implications and consequences of that feeling are. Laura shares a story of taking a job because she really wanted to work with a particulate HR Director and how she knew on the first day it was the wrong fit; she spent nine months feeling as if she was wearing someone else’s clothes every day, which were “the wrong size and wrong style.”    Trivinia relates and shares some of her own experiences of wanting to fit in, not feeling as if she did, and trying to not shine a spotlight on herself to stand out and feel even more inappropriate. Like most of us, she longed to feel “chosen, accepted, welcomed…” and instead often felt rejected.    Her solution, for much of her life, has been to “eat her feelings…” She says she’s been gaining and losing the same 70 pounds for many years! Elaborating on her personal experiences, it may be thinking one’s eyebrows are too thin (as she does), which extends to her concluding she is “not enough” in the ways that seems to matter to others in our society. The truth is: We all struggle with this kind of deficit-thinking, even men.    But this mindset is of our own creation, because nothing that grows naturally (except people) compares itself with any other living thing around it – not plants, not animals, not insects… They all grow to their fullest expression and expansion, boldly and without apology. But as humans, we obsess over perceived flaws and shortcomings and allow those thoughts to keep us small and sometimes in hiding.    The conversation shifts to rethinking traditional work practices, diving deep into self-awareness, understanding what each individual has to offer, and working to find complementary partnerships with others, so we can do more together.    Both Trivinia and Laura have a depth of knowledge into a variety of self-awareness assessments including Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, Enneagram, and Kolbe, and the two discuss how they are invaluable in their fields of expertise.    Trivinia has spent the last several years building Priority VA, identifying, training, and providing expert-level virtual assistants for a broad list of entrepreneurs around the US. Originally, thinking it would allow more time for family and to provide extra support to one of her daughters, she realized she had created just the opposite! Her business had become nearly all-consuming, and because she runs it out of her home, there’s no getting away from it!    Her wake-up call was when she asked one of her daughters if she’d like to earn some extra money working in the business, and her daughter’s response was “no” because she saw it taking too much from her mom’s time and energy already!    That’s when Trivinia and husband/business partner, Chris, decided to stop chasing significance and status and focus on “slow.” Admittedly, there’s an impact on the business and revenue, but they are able to enjoy their family and what they consider a higher quality of life as a result. She goes on to offer a couple of tips on how others might make a similar shift.    Her final message and recommendation is a powerful one. Listen in on Laura and Trivinia’s conversation and let us know how your perspective on work and life are affected.     The learn more about Trivinia and her work, look here:    Trivinia’s Web Site Priority VA – Virtual Assistants   Resources Discussed:  StrengthsFinder Laura’s Strengths Coaching - Individuals Laura’s Strengths Coaching – Teams/Organizations Enneagram Book Alter Ego Effect Book     Trivinia Barber Bio Trivinia Barber is a real-world business development pro who helps entrepreneurs scale their business, sharpen their leadership, and build great teams.    In 2012, she founded Priority VA, one of the world’s leading virtual staffing agencies, because most businesses operate at the expense of the owner’s sanity.    The answer? Build teams you can trust.   Trivinia and Priority VA have provided Executive Virtual Assistant Support to some of the most influential thought leaders and entrepreneurs including Amy Porterfield, Michael Hyatt, Ray Edwards, Mike Kim, Gary Nealon, Lauren Pawell, and Todd Herman. Her clients also include numerous small to mid-size businesses, as well as high growth corporations.   The key to Trivinia’s expertise is her proprietary framework The Momentum Method™, which helps businesses navigate the interplay between their products, people, and processes to achieve greater growth and more efficiency.   An in-demand speaker, Trivinia has shared her expertise at numerous events around the US and abroad, including Amy Porterfield’s B-School Experience, Puerto Rico Masterminds, Influence & Impact, 90 Day Year Live, and Mastermind Talks, an exclusive entrepreneurial community curated by Jayson Gaignard.   Trivinia has been a featured guest on over 40 top-ranked business podcasts including Screw the Nine to Five, Entrepreneur on Fire, and The Daily Grind with Colin Morgan. She also hosts her own top-ranked podcast, Diary of A Doer.   Trivinia lives with her husband, daughters, and two dogs on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, where traffic stops for snakes in the road and the occasional art parade. When she’s not working or traveling, you can find her 90ft underwater on her latest wreck scuba dive.      

Gary Nealon scaled an ecommerce business to $40+ million/year in one of the toughest niches possible, and successfully exited it over a year ago. In this episode, we talk about how he used strategic social media assets as a key traffic acquisition strategy, how to achieve low customer acquisition costs for expensive products, and how to convert customers online when selling large and complicated products like kitchen cabinets.

If you’re ready to scale your e-commerce business all the way up to eight figures, this conversation with Gary Nealon is perfect for you! Gary is a serial entrepreneur who founded two multi-million dollar businesses, one of which landed on the Inc. 5000 list five years in a row. Seeing inefficiencies in other companies convinced him that he could do it himself, so he liquidated everything he had and bought a business in the dollar store niche. In our conversation, you’ll learn about his journey from bankruptcy all the way to $40 million in revenue. Find Out More About Gary Here: Gary NealonGary Nealon on LinkedInGary Nealon on TwitterGary Nealon on Facebook In This Episode: [01:13] - Gary starts off the conversation by talking about how he got to where he is now, and how he ended up in a cabinet business. [03:41] - Is Gary still involved with the cabinet business? [04:18] - We hear about Gary’s experience with being on the Inc. 5000 list, what the list has brought him, and what inspired him to apply. [06:25] - Why did Gary use Craigslist as a primary marketing vehicle in the early days of his business? [08:02] - Gary talks about what inspired him to teach and coach others instead of just starting another business of his own. [10:49] - We hear Gary’s thoughts on content, and a way to get additional eyeballs on your content that you usually wouldn’t get. [14:22] - Gary discusses how he gets people who are going to offer lots of link equity to notice the content pieces he’s been talking about. [17:02] - How does Gary plan out content for the future? [18:09] - Gary talks about his VA team, how he built it up, how he trains his VAs, and more. [22:20] - Stephan talks about the 3 Lists to Freedom that Chris Ducker came up with. [25:30] - We hear about Gary’s Amazon presence, and how he feels about the site. [29:19] - Is Gary’s traffic from Facebook all from paid ads, or is some of it organic? [32:06] - Gary digs deeper into the Facebook communities he has been talking about. [34:33] - Stephan brings up the topic of chatbots, and Gary shares his experience with them. [37:09] - Gary doesn’t use 30-day challenges, but he does use contests successfully, he explains. [39:49] - Has Gary used a particular technology platform for doing contests, or is he creating them internally? [42:06] - We hear about what inspired Gary to write his book, Notes to a Young Entrepreneur. [45:12] - Gary speaks at both schools and conferences to get the message out. [47:21] - Does Gary have one last nugget of wisdom to share with listeners that they can implement right away? [49:09] - Gary talks about where listeners can find him to work with him or learn more about what he does. Links and Resources: Gary Nealon Gary Nealon on LinkedIn Gary Nealon on Twitter Gary Nealon on Facebook Notes to a Young Entrepreneur by Gary Nealon Inc. 5000 Craigslist Todd Herman 90 Day Year Marcus Sheridan on Marketing Speak They Ask You Answer by Marcus Sheridan OnlineJobs.ph 3 Lists to Freedom Chris Ducker Sidekicks Priority VA Trivinia Barber on the Optimized Geek Amazon Rafflecopter Streamline CRM Infusionsoft B1G1

Gary Nealon is founded a business selling kitchen cabinets online and was able to scale it up to over $30 million annually. Gary is now a marketing consultant and the author of Notes to a Young Enterpreneur: Everything a High School Student Needs to Know About Turning an Idea Into a Successful Business. In this episode, […] The post Gary Nealon | From Bankruptcy to $30M/Year Business Selling Cabinets Online appeared first on Smart Business Revolution.

On the Bright Ideas podcast, host Trent Dyrsmid from BrightIdeas.co shares the story of how he's building his eCommerce business (on Amazon as well as his own site), interviews other successful eCommerce entrepreneurs, and answers questions from his audience. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur looking to build a real business that can one day replace your job and give you the lifestyle of your dreams, eCommerce is an excellent choice and on this podcast, you will learn the exact formula to follow directly from Trent and his guests.

Gary Nealon went through bankruptcy at 30 years old after buying a business 1 year earlier. By many measures he’s your average guy who grew up in a lower-middle class family in America. By many other measures he’s quite far from average as he runs an 8 figure online cabinet sales business, a consulting business and more recently a social exploration and discovery wine app. I hope this episode gives you the confidence to take risks knowing that even if you hit rock bottom and file for bankruptcy at age 30, you can fight back and build a 10 million dollar plus business. The takeaway from this episode is that you should take risks because they often lead to success and failure isn’t permanent.   Quotes from the episode “I was literally starting from scratch at the age of 30” - Gary Nealon “You gotta jump back on the horse and do something” - Gary Nealon “By the age of 30 I ended up filing bankruptcy on that and literally lost everything that I had.” - Gary Nealon “I assume and I hope that filing bankruptcy is the lowest point in my life and I’m like if that was rock bottom and I’m on my way back up, I know I’m never going back there down there so I’m going to have to do whatever I have to do now.” - Gary Nealon “To be able to be your own boss is one of the most gratifying things” - Gary Nealon “I liquidated everything I had an put it into this company” - Gary Nealon “By the age of 30 I ended up filing bankruptcy on that and literally lost everything that I had.” - Gary Nealon   Business contact Info Gary’s Consulting Biz:www.garynealon.com RTA Cabinet Store: www.rtacabinetstore.com RTA Blog: www.rtacabinetstore.com/blog Sweet Cabinet & Kitchen Pics on Facebook: www.facebook.com/rtakitchencabinetstore Sweet Cabinet & Kitchen Pics on Twitter: twitter.com/RTACabinetStore Wine App: www.winetrailadventures.com

Gary Nealon is the founder of RTA Cabinet Store and has built an 8-figure eCommerce business. Gary is also the owner of the Rox Group, a collection of eCommerce sites in the home improvement niche. Rox Group includes one of the largest online distributors and importers of kitchen cabinets in the United States.  They have been featured one over 80 shows on popular networks like HGTV, A&E, and many others. Gary has been featured on the Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000 as well as being listed as one of Philly’s 100 fastest-growing companies in the past 3 years. Gary also runs WineTrailAdventures.com and Nealon Solutions, which is a marketing company. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:37] Jeremy’s introduction of Gary Nealon, founder of RTA Cabinet Store and The Rox Group. [1:44] What’s a must for sellers to boost sales? [3:39] When did you first consider direct marketing? [5:49] How do you get 78k people on a Facebook page about cooking? [7:43] How does the messaging differ when the customer is a contractor versus a homeowner. [10:25] How did you end up being featured on TV? [18:24] What’s the process like for the business? [21:02] The biggest mistakes people make on eCommerce. [23:41] How did you diversify? [28:39] What kind of follow up do you recommend? [35:08] Some of the tools Gary has created via his marketing company. [42:00] The trials and tribulations of a software company. [45:59] How to find the programs they’ve created. [46:47] The reality of hiring. [54:15] How do you know when to hire? [1:02:47] Adding personality to email campaigns and marketing. [1:04:44] The biggest challenge in the beginning compared to now. [1:07:35] How do you segment your day or your week? [1:09:07] What software is essential to your business? [1:12:06] Gary’s lead in story before he started RTA Cabinet Store. [1:15:05] What’s been the lowest and proudest eCommerce points? [1:17:22] The lesson you want to leave us with today? In this episode… After facing his share of struggles, Gary has built a hugely successful eCommerce business and is seen as a leader in the industry. From bankruptcy to 8-figure business, it’s clear Gary has been through many obstacles to grow his businesses to the level they are today. Throughout today’s chat, Gary shares the highs and lows, as well as the tactics that help him stand out from the competition. Gary talks about the number one strategy that helped him take his businesses to the next level: getting to know the customer. He discusses why it’s essential to market directly to the avatar of the ideal customer, and how it made a huge difference in his business. Gary shares why direct marketing helped him turn the corner and truly begin to reach the customer, and how the strategy differs from homeowners to contractors to house flippers. Gary goes on to discuss more about his marketing strategy and why it’s important to offer high quality free content in order to engage the community. He shares the mindset behind sharing free recipes on the Facebook page in order to target home owners and why he rarely posts an ad for the business. Gary also offers insight into the focus when dealing with contractors and house flippers, and how they connect with them. In closing, Gary talks about his marketing company and how they came to create automation tools, software and apps for the business. He discusses the biggest challenges he’s faced throughout the growth of the businesses, and why today it’s all about staying ahead of the competition. In closing, Gary shares his high and low point, and a final thought for eCommerce businesses. Resources Mentioned on this episode RTA Cabinet Store Wine Trail Adventures Data Feed Automation Viral Content System Olark Hootsuite MailChimp

Gary Nealon is the founder of RTA Cabinet Store and has built an 8-figure eCommerce business. Gary is also the owner of the Rox Group, a collection of eCommerce sites in the home improvement niche. Rox Group includes one of the largest online distributors and importers of kitchen cabinets in the United States.  They have been featured one over 80 shows on popular networks like HGTV, A&E, and many others. Gary has been featured on the Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000 as well as being listed as one of Philly’s 100 fastest-growing companies in the past 3 years. Gary also runs WineTrailAdventures.com and Nealon Solutions, which is a marketing company. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:37] Jeremy’s introduction of Gary Nealon, founder of RTA Cabinet Store and The Rox Group. [1:32] What’s been the lowest and proudest eCommerce points? [3:49] The lesson you want to leave us with today? In this episode… Like all business owners, Gary faced his fair share of struggles. He managed to go from bankruptcy to 8-figure eCommerce business by implementing marketing strategies that allowed him to truly connect with his market. In this chat, Gary shares the high point and the lowest point of his eCommerce business, as well as a final piece of advice for fellow business owners. The lowest point was quite easy for Gary to pinpoint: filing bankruptcy in his previous business. He talks about why it was so difficult and what it was like to tell the investors that the business just wasn’t going to work. Gary shares how it felt to realize it was time to accept defeat and move forward, in spite of how hard he’d worked to get the business to succeed. For Gary, the high point has come in the last few years, when he feels like all of the hard work is really starting to pay off. He talks about how it feels to finally get recognition for doing this right, especially after having faced a bankruptcy with the previous business. Gary talks with great pride about building the successful businesses he runs today and why it’s important to never lose sight of the low points. In closing, Gary offers a final thought to business owners: get to know your customer. He talks about the value of direct marketing and truly understanding who your customer is in order to make the connection you need. After facing bankruptcy and building flourishing businesses, it’s clear Gary understands how to truly connect with the market in order to stay ahead of the competition. Resources Mentioned on this episode RTA Cabinet Store Wine Trail Adventures