Bio Bryan Beckstead 1952-present

I know what I’m good at and I know what I’m not good at. With me, its either really good, or really bad. What I’m bad at is, anything that has a plug or a motor in it. Especially my computer, have a torrid love hate relationship, mostly hate with the beast or as I like to refer to it as, “ the piece of shit “ ( I’ve taken out the real nasty bits ) My ability to co-exist with anything mechanical  is legendary among people who know me. As for my computer, well lets say there are a number of pieces of previous computers that I owned, still scattered around my office. Patience is not one of my more endearing qualities. Who’s perfect ?

I do however, have some things that I’m good to very good at. Lets see where some of those good skills came from.

My  first  foray into the business worlds was around 8 or 9 years old. My next door neighbor asked me to walk there two dogs. I got a 1.00 every time I walked them. I started to ask other people in the area if they wanted there dog walked. Soon I had more dogs than I could handle and I had to sub contract out the extra dogs. I got other kids to walk the extra dogs, I paid them 50 cents a walk, I made 50 cents profit on the extra dogs. I learned early the value of maximizing your self, see powerproductivitymaximizer.com

         My First Breakthrough

I started to get other little jobs from the people I walked dogs for. Little gardening jobs, picking up dry cleaning, getting groceries, cleaning , garbage removal, odd jobs. My break through came from the guy who lived just behind me. He was a professional football player, I was already walking his 3 poodles, he was a big customer of mine. He said to me one day, how would you like to cut my grass? I was still only aboutmaybe 10,11 then. Still wasn’t allowed to use our gas powered lawn mower yet. This was a big step up for me, I hesitated a bit, he said, use my lawn mower, my gas and I’ll pay you $ 5.00 a shot, help your self to the pop in the fridge, done I said. I made sure the first time I cut the grass, he wasn’t home, had to learn how to use a gas lawn mower, learned on his lawn. I started going to the people I walked dogs for and asked, do you want your lawn cut, picked up about 10 people in a couple of weeks. Had to sub-contract this wok off as well. I learned an important lesson early.On, the easiest person to sell to is an existing happy customer. See powerbussinesmanagement.com.

         The Humble Beginnings of The Power Time System

By the time I got into High School. I had a regular crew of about 10 fellow students who worked for me year round. We did landscaping and outside work in the summer, did cleaning, snow shoveling, painting, cleaning jobs in the winter. By now, I had to spend most of my time doing the quotes, organizing the work, setting up the schedules, collecting the money, getting new work. I was also going to school full time, in school parlance as well as training to hopefully make the Canadian Olympic Team in the marathon, more on that latter. I had to learn to organize my time, get the most important tasks done first, work on organizing the schedules of those who worked for me. It was a gradual progression from working for myself, doing odd jobs to running a business that employed 10 people as well as a bunch of part- timers. The Power Time System was in the works.

     Marathon Maintenance

I never graduated from High School. Got hurt in a race in the fall of grade 12, was in the hospital, laid up for all most 3 months and never went back. By the time I was around 23, 24, grossed my first 1,000,000 in sales with Marathon Maintenance, I named my business after my goal to make the Olympic team in the marathon. Two or three later, we reached 2,000,000 in sales.

  My First Franchise

This first franchise experience came from the franchisee side. I bought a lawn care Franchise because I thought it was a good investment with great potential. I invested a fair amount of money, moved to another city and started up. A long story short, bad investment, bad idea, wrong move. It happens.

Moved back to Mississauga Ontario and licked my wounds.

   Learned From My Mistakes

Saw an ad in the paper for a small lawn care company for sale, bought it, had one truck and 300 customers. In three years, had 4 trucks and 6,000 customers. I had just been burned as a franchisee but I knew that I could be a good franchisor, the guy who owned the name, had the system, build the organization and trained and supported the franchisee's. I was 28 when I first started to sell my first franchise.

My First Success

From 300 customers and one truck, I built my first Canada  wide franchise organization to 119 franchises over 400 trucks , with 380,000 yearly customers,under contract, in less than 10 years. During this time, I developed and trained the franchise organization how to be successful business people, utilizing the business model I had developed over the years. It was a business that I enjoyed and was successful at. I learned a lot during this time. It was learning on the fly, with real time models to work with. Unfortunately this franchise dealt with pesticides and herbicides, this was to become an issue with me personally.

Develop Wide, Build Deep

I believe that you develop a business along the widest horizon possible, you then build as deep as you can go into the industry you are in as possible. I did this with the franchise organization, adding additional services and franchises. I expanded into related service oriented businesses. Rug Shampooing, Maid Services, Landscaping , Driveway Sealing, Power Washing. These additional franchises were marketed under the name Hired Hands, the precursor of my current business opportunity, helpinghiredhands.com.

  My Interest in Health and Wellness

During my Junior High School years, I developed an interest in long distance running. From that interest, came a 10 year quest to be good enough to make the Canadian Olympic team in the Marathon and win a gold medal. Not even close. I did not do anywhere near as well in this endeavour as I had hoped for. I dedicated myself to this pursuit and was at least successful enough for a short period of time to belong to the premier track club in Canada, train and compete with Olympic class and bound long distance runners. I've become interested in the technical side of the sport as well as fitness in general, diet , training techniques, what made the other guys go so much faster than me! I coached a girls track team for a time and found that very rewarding.

Another chapter in my life lead me to be interested in and develop a clear understanding the role activity, fitness, diet, life style issues, health and ultimately weight control interact with each other Since the age of 12 or 13, I have battled an unhealthy addiction to food. In other words, I have battled being over weight almost my whole life. Even when I was running over 100 miles a week training with Olympic class athletes, I was still struggling with my weight. Athletes I trained with my height were 130 to 140 pounds, some even lighter, I was lumbering around at 155 to 160 sumo sized for a marathon runner. When I quit running competitively in my mid 20”s, my weight went to 180 to 190 to 200 and kept on going. I would diet and bring it down, went back to the old bad habits, it would go back up and then higher, back and forth. Once I went over 300 pounds, didn’t even weigh myself it was so bad. Over the last 10 years, I’ve learned a lot and put some of what I’ve learned into developing a healthily living regime. Come visit us at powerhealthregime.com

 Additional Successes

During this time frame I branched off and as an extension of the franchise businesses, started a business consulting and management company. We specialized in Time Management, Productivity Maximization, Stress Reduction , Franchise and Business Management. This was a very exciting time for myself as well as the several companies that I owned, this time frame was a boom time, things were good, the economy was roaring and I remember buy some properties and the interest rate on the mortgages was a staggering 22%. Times were good.

What Goes Up Sometimes Comes Down

You learn as much from failure as you do in victory, it was my time to learn from failure. At the end of the 80”s, I was flirting but not quite being classified a millionaire. In 1996, I was living in my in -laws basement. The 8,000 square foot house with the swimming pool, horse stables, trout stream beside the golf course was gone. Hard to get, easy to go. I made a business decision based on my personal convictions and what I thought the market and public would do in regards to the health and safety issues regarding herbicides and pesticides. In 1988-89 I sold off the franchises to those that wished to continue in the industry and left to perue other opportunities. I anticipated that the public backlash against pesticides and herbicides would result in these products being banned for cosmetic uses, primarily the lawn care industry, I was right this would happen, but not for another 15 years. Sometimes timing is everything. The 90's were not a good decade for me.

My Personal Banishment From The Good Life

As I said the 90's were not a good decade for me, from a business point of view. I started a number of businesses, all either were losers from the get go, or I stayed around much too long. Let me see, I opened a stain glass shop and an antique store, not so good if you actually want to make money. Bought not one, not two, but three restaurants. Always had a place to eat, but that was about it. Started and ran a direct sales organization, manufactured our own line of cleaning products, almost got it off the ground, but almost does not count. Couldn’t wait for the 90's to end.

  Stick With What You Know

2000 has been good. Got back to what I know, what I’m good at and things are rolling along nicely. Operate a few small ventures now, own a plastic Recycling company and like the industry and the fact , what we grind and put back into production does not go into a land fill. Worked in two more industries for a time, helped roll out a new Portable Sign concept that is going to be huge. Played a role in bringing the first portable storage company in Canada. I also started up my consulting and business management company, did some more seminars which gets the competitive juices flowing again.

  Which Brings Us To Here

I feel I have something to offer and it will be interesting to see if this the forum to offer it in. Previously, when we wanted to reach a group of people, we would put out ads in newspapers, do direct mail pieces, radio ads, spend a good chunk on advertising and fill a hotel room full of people at

$ 300.00 to $ 500.00 a person and give a seminar. It worked, but it was expensive to put on and hard to reach a broad audience.

The web has opened up the world and made the movement of electronic data, like the Power Time System, simple easy and cost effective for the price we do is the fact our costs of sales and distribution are comparatively low, compared to 10 years ago.

I’m confident you will find value in our material. All of the material we offer on this site, as well as our related sites has been put in front of thousands of people over a large span of time and found not to be wanting. I hope you enjoy your time on our site and come back often.

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