Sparkling Bins Business Opportunity

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of mission matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today's guest is John Conway and he is the CEO over at sparkling bins business. John, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. I certainly appreciate it. Excited to talk about the industry and whatever questions come my way. All right, John. So we got a lot to talk about. I want, we're definitely going to get into Sparkling Bins, the opportunity, really the story behind it. Since we did kind of like our warm up and our pre session, I've been hearing more. It's kind of like one of those things. Once you hear about it once, now you start hearing about it all over the place. I got some stories for you too. But before we get started with that, we're going to start this episode the way that we start them all. With what we like to call our mission matters minute. So John at mission matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission, John, what mission matters to you? Helping entrepreneurs, right? So this is a very niche business being able to provide the most efficient. sanitizing trucks, the clean dumpsters and trash bins in the industry and help entrepreneurs get into the business and help them get started with our turnkey package. It's great. Love bringing mission based entrepreneurs on the line to share, you know, why they do what they do, how they're doing it, and really what we can all learn from that. So we all grow together. So great, great to have you on. And I guess just to get us kicked off here, John, like sparkling bins, like how'd you come up with this idea? Like what, what sucked you into the industry? So I was working for a fortune 100 company for 25 years. I got laid off during the housing market crash in 2009. I'd worked with them, same company worked my way up the corporate ladder, did very well, relocated many times. And after 25 years, I got laid off and I'm like, okay, I have always had this, this desire to own my own business. They might be my own boss. Having worked for corporate America, having to report numbers weekly and daily to corporate in terms of, I was done with that. So I didn't know what business I wanted to get into. And it happened by accident. You know, my wife was chasing after me two days before us hosting a fourth of July party saying we had three trash bins full of maggots and I had to clean them. My response to her was. bins are meant to be dirty. We just put them inside of the house, you know, and she's more of a clean freak than I am. So fast forward, I probably use 150 gallons of water from a, from a garden hose, bleach. And I was cleaning those trash bins and all that gunk was going down the storm drains, which we know is illegal. And fast forward, I go inside, take a shower because I was filthy and started Google searching online to find chemicals to prevent maggots. I find out that there was some sites popping up over in Europe. So this concept started 45 years ago in Europe. And I'm like, so I'm trying to Google search a company in Miami to come clean my bins. What? So I said, bingo. This is a niche business that people are paying back, you know, 14 years ago. Now you're paying 5 to have their bins cleaned. I would do it in a heartbeat. I didn't even tell my wife, you know, I traded my car in. I bought a pickup truck, found a welder. And a month later I was out there cleaning trash bins. Really? Wow. So, so first off your, so your wife got you into the business. It sounds like, and what'd she, what'd she say when you were like, all right, we're out here and we're going to clean bins. Like, what was she thinking? She's like, great. Was she at first like, okay, maybe I shouldn't ask them to do this. Or like, how did that go? You know, I mean, like. I am a lot more of a risk taker. She's very conservative. So to be honest with you, I didn't even tell her I was getting into the business. I went in, traded my car in, bought a truck. She came home from having her nails done and said to me, what's that truck doing in our driveway? So I just found a welder. We're going to look at the systems over in Europe where it started 45 years ago. I start cleaning trash bins. And at first she thought I was crazy. But, you know, soon after, after the first three or four weeks, she said, you know, I know that you've got a lot of passion for what you do and that you're going to give this a hundred percent. So it was, became very supportive. This is a local family owned business for 14 years and We've had a lot of people say to me, you know, what a great idea. Yeah. Concept, you know yes, it's in retrospect though. Right. In retrospect, right. In the beginning, it's like, ah, when you're first getting started, like, cause you said it was new to the area. So what was that like getting,

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