Scott Kilmartin loves ice-cream. In fact, he’s on a mission to build Australia’s (maybe the world’s) most beautiful and impressive ice cream truck. Her name is Grace the Vintage Ice Cream Truck, and she’s Scott’s next big business idea.
Scott originally appeared on The Small Business Big Marketing Show way back in episode 14 when he was the owner and founder of Haul. Since then he’s sold Haul, travelled the world and dived deep into his passion – ice cream, visiting 173 ice cream shops in 8 countries, finishing with Gelato school in Rome. As you do!
Having done the hard yards in market research, Scott returned to Melbourne to start an ice cream cart business, but where it gets really interesting is when he buys a 50-year old delivery van with the dream of turning it into Australia’s best ice cream truck. $100k plus later, his dream (Grace the vintage Ice Cream Truck) is nearly realised. Nearly! In fact, for the first 20 minutes of the show we’re recording sitting inside the old girl!
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I think you’re going to love this chat, Scott’s enthusiasm for what he’s doing and sheer willingness to roll up his sleeves and get stuff done is infectious. Plus there’s some solid business and marketing learnings along the way.
We cover a tonne of marketing ground in this show including:
- End to end customer experience
- The power and importance of design … again!
- The psychology of crowd funding
- Why having fun in business is so important
- The power of storytelling and how to use it in business
Here’s Scott’s crowdfunding video:
Also in this episode of your favourite marketing podcast …
- I share a simple 3-step process for optimisong your customers’ ah-ha moment in our most popular segment lovingly called What Have You Got To Lose?
- And we go back into the Small Business Big Marketing vault, revisiting a past episode in which I caught up with The Cuddlist Adam Lippin who says ‘we’re sex obsessed but touch deprived’.
Yep, you guessed it, another big episode, so let’s get stuck, right in.
EPISODE TIMELINE
00:00 Two marketing insights
01:03 Teaser
01:47 Welcome & overview
03:30 How to optimise your customers’ ah-ha moment
06:33 Insights into Workplace Assured
07:54 Today’s guest introduction – Scott Kilmartin
10:10 Interview with Scott Kilmartin – Part 1
48:10 Insights into Key Person of Influence
49:38 Interview with Scott Kilmartin – Part 2
01:13:07 My Top 3 Attention Grabbers from my chat with Scott Kilmartin
01:14:47 Wrap-up and an insight in to both a past guest & next week’s guest
MY TOP 3 MARKETING ATTENTION GRABBERS
- If you’re passionate enough about something, then there will always be a way and someone to help you along.
- Ask yourself how you could use crowdfunding to raise money for your current business, or maybe even, next business idea? Check out sites like Indiegogo, Pozzible or Go Fund Me and see what businesses like yours are doing.
- Hustle. Scott’s ability to hustle is inspiring. He rolls his sleeves up and gets stuff done.
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How to optimise your customers’ ah-ha! moment.
Interview with the Cuddlist Adam Lippin
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16 thoughts on “346 – When a personal obsession becomes your next big business idea, with ice-cream aficionado Scott Kilmartin”
Cheers Timbo,
Great fun fella.
Here’s Grace in full flight https://www.instagram.com/p/BN6emtxlZNO/
Cheers
@ScottKilmartin
Great example of determination and passion for a business project! Loved it! I wonder how many ice creams Timbo had during the interview !
Thanks Dominic.
I can confirm that whilst there was much hot air….it wasan ice cream free interview!
I quickly went and smashed a Salted Caramel post chat ;0)
Isn’t she beautiful!
As a fellow van-converter I *loved* this episode. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5b101c68ef16f4dbad6c85710c4784ba2f49c57b75fb196e51d81aaadcaef203.jpg Amazing story, great job on Grace. I’ve got a spare Kombi, you’ve got me inspired to build it into something special!
Go for it, Jason. Looking forward to seeing what she ends up as.
Great interview Tim – but I would like to ask, are you two brothers? Fair dinkum, that photo above…
Good to hear about spreading the load across the year & his crowd funding ideas.
http://www.balancedimagestudio.com
Scott is a handsome rooster, isn’t he, Josh?!
Another great Interview Timbo. I definitely left feeling motivated. Nice work on bringing Grace to life @ScottKilmartin:disqus. Thanks to for the tips on crowdfunding too, I’m keen to try something similar.
My pleasure, Murray. Thanks for tuning in.
Do it Jason!
Have a read of this: https://medium.com/@VintageIceCreamTruck/the-state-of-grace-d788689c3144#.bdvu1lpyy
Josh, I hunched and squinted to give Tim the headliner status he is accustomed to!
Thanks Murray, it’s been a wild ride.
Have a sqiz at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEEaZOVMeU&feature=youtu.be&list=PL_1lGZ5EE8l8Lw3lp4kF6APFq2kFQbalM&t=115
The insta restoration feed (scroll down… past the happy-clapper stuff).
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/restoringgrace/
Hahaha. Class act.
Awesome Scotty.