📪 HH #104: Got Dang Junk Removal Gurus!

Justin Hubbard
Sep 23
2 min read

TL;DR

The internet is full of so-called “business gurus” who actually failed at running their own companies. Many sold their businesses not because they were wildly successful, but because they were drowning in debt, poor management, or shrinking profits.

Selling a business doesn’t automatically make someone qualified to give advice—it often means the opposite. Flashy Instagram videos and polished marketing don’t equal real experience.

Always ask: if they really had the answers, why didn’t their own business succeed?

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Incoming Rant:

These so-called gurus online are really starting to piss me off. Everywhere you look, there’s another one claiming to have the secret formula for success.

Before you take advice from anyone, please for the love of God, first look into who is giving the advice. If they have "all the answers", how come they didn’t apply it to their own business? If it was so easy, how come their business isn’t—or wasn’t—more successful?

Why couldn't they just take their own advice? 🤷‍♂️🤣

Did they sell their company and now they’re selling advice? Be aware of that. Many business sales come by way of failure. I know that might be confusing to read or may go against what you thought was factual, but it’s true.

Business owners drowning in poor management, negative cash flow, and disintegrating profits often sell for pennies on the dollar as a way to get out before losing their shirts.

Trust me when I tell you, no one sells a business that hums along and produces profits on schedule, every quarter making that company, for all intents and purposes, an ATM.

(See Justin Hubbard, owner of Grizzly Junk Pros, living hands-off in Florida while his business does seven figures and is managed by a small team in Connecticut… oh wait—that’s me!)

Just because someone sold their business doesn’t give them a qualifying position to start dishing out advice. These are things you have to be aware of.

Also, a fancy Instagram video with flashy editing that could make an epileptic start seizing doesn’t qualify an individual either.

Yet many still fall victim to this marketing strategy from failed or otherwise unsuccessful business people who couldn’t make it as entrepreneurs and now sell advice to unsuspecting victims.

The term “guru” now runs rampant throughout most industries, and for good reason—the many self-proclaimed gurus couldn’t manage their business out of a wet paper bag.

Give me a freaking break...