Clear Lake Area Chamber Of Commerce: Clear Lake Connections Podcast Episode 35 | The Magic Of Business Through Word Of Mouth.

Press release from the Clear Lake Area Chamber Of Commerce:

September 20, 2021

This week on Clear Lake Connections Podcast presented by UTMB Health: Meet Bryan Lopez, Owner of Bryan’s Mobile RV Repairs. In this week’s episode, Bryan discusses how he turned a hobby into a business. Bryan also talks about how his medical background has helped him with his newfound career, how being mobile and going to his customers makes him a lot more accessible and how the confidence he received from his previous employer gave him the boost to start his own business.

Bryan got started in this business by accident. His background is in medicine, he has always liked working with his hands. He has been a handyman and remodeler as a hobby for years. He quit working at the hospital and him and his wife moved to Nicaragua for a bit and volunteered their teaching English. They moved back a few years ago and he was teaching English online and in private lessons through Houston. When Covid hit, he lost his business, and he was doing handyman work on the side and his friends encouraged him to start his own handyman business. Him and his wife purchase and RV and live in it themselves. He completely gutted it and renovated it himself and right before they moved in another RV Mobile company saw his work and hired him on the spot because he was impressed with his work. After a few weeks, the guy told him that he needed to be doing it himself. It took a few months for him to work it up and get the courage to do so. He took $250 dollars, got some marketing materials and that’s how he started on January 1st of this year.

Bryan feels that he truly turned his hobby into a business. He realized this when he made $15,000 in the first month. After the first month he started looking into how to separate himself and he found the NRVTA and signed up for a few classes to be professionally trained and certified. He also believes that it was the praise that his former employer gave him on his own work gave him the confidence he needed. Having that confirmation was a big boost. A big part of his business is the business coming to the consumer. Bryan thinks that what makes his business successful is that he is mobile.

Bryan does the fix it work, and his wife is the office manager. The teamwork that is involved is great. His relationship with his wife has grown and he says that they truly are best friends and they have always worked close with one another. When he first started this business, it was just him but then when he realized how big of a business this was going to be she got on board with him.

In the beginning he got most of his business through word of mouth and he says that he doesn’t really have to market anymore because everything is through word of mouth. Bryan says that his background in the medical field has helped him because he knows how to talk to people and how to interact with them. With the fast past growth of his business, Bryan says that the biggest lesson he has learned since starting his business is work life balance, his physical and spiritual health is more important and keeping it ahead of this business will keep him in line.

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This press release was produced by the Clear Lake Area Chamber Of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.