We recently connected with Seth Leitman and have shared our conversation below.
Seth, appreciate you joining us today. The first dollar your business earns is always special and we’d love to hear how your brand made its first dollar of revenue.
Back when I started in 2004 I contacted a company which was a low speed electric vehicle company. It was for $10,000 back then so it was a great feeling.
Seth, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
Meet Seth Leitman, known professionally as “The Green Living Guy®”, he is using his passion and efforts to push the narrative of the benefits of living green. As an Author, advocate and consultant to progressive initiatives in energy conservation, Seth Leitman is building a better tomorrow, by creating a better today.
Often known as The Green Living Guy®, Leitman is the founder of The Green Living Guy Productions. It’s as Forbes coined. “a green living concierge service that helps clients implement more sustainable, environmentally safe services into their businesses.” The company conducts energy audits to assist businesses in developing green marketing campaigns, which has led Leitman to speak on behalf of Panasonic and Tesla at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
I remember when I first started and wanted to meet with a Governor’s Office. They told me I was crazy for thinking electric cars would make it. This was in 2005. I knew I was right. I left Albany, drove home and knew it was going to be a war.
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
Wow. That was definitely a hard time. I was moving many electric bikes and electric scooters at certain prices that made the business very profitable. When those companies folded it destroyed the business. I partnered with an engineering firm for a while but that did not work out. I almost lost everything then and shut down the bike, scooter and golf cart business which I failed at miserably. At the same time I was writing a google blogger webpage. I wrote a great manifest that everyone should be converting their cars to electric. How cash for clunkers should have gotten people into plug in cars. From that came a request from McGraw-Hill to write the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle 2nd edition. It was a new lease on life and I started to blog blog blog. From that came The Green Living Guy website and changed my entire direction. Author and blogger
Contact Info:
- Website: https://greenlivingguy.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivingguy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seth.leitman
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethleitman/
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/seth_leitman
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SethLeitman
- Other: Also have podcast on iHeart, Amazon Radio, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Stitcher and off the Art19 platform
Image Credits
The Green Living Guy Productions