In February 2009, I first began pursuing the idea of Stall Talk with nothing more than a criminal record, a piece of paper and have faith tattooed in Chinese on my back. At that time I was working on a different business venture. After that business failed, I fell to my knees and begged God to help me in my apartment with no electricity. I had made so many mistakes up until that moment that I made it my life’s mission to inspire, inform, educate and entertain humanity! I didnt know how I was going to do it, but I was determined to do it. https://vimeo/94613157 In March 2010, I revisited Stall Talk as a business venture. Stall Talk began as an 18” x 24” print publication, to be distributed inside stall doors and above urinals in highly trafficked restrooms. The publication published inspirational, information, educational and entertaining content coupled with advertisements that tested direct response rates on call-to-action campaigns. However, I knew that the business was not scalable enough to accomplish my mission statement, to inspire, inform, educate, and entertain humanity! https://vimeo/31194708 Everything changed in August 2011, when Rob Roy McGregor introduced me to my very first portable restroom partner. On September 1, 2011, two weeks of graduating from University of Tennessee, I found myself on Channel 8 (WATE), Channel 10 (WBIR) and the front page of the business section of The Knoxville News Sentinel. Around the same time, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced their “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge”. vimeo/71787116 From 2011 to 2014, I have been blessed with much local media attention and a handful of awards from Tech 20/20, East Tennessee Regional Accelerator Coalition (ETRAC), and Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) at the 2012 Tennessee Governor’s Innovation Conference. I was honored by Knoxville Chamber of Commerce with the Young Entrepreneur Award, the highest recognition given to any entrepreneur under the age of 40, at the 2013 Pinnacle Business Awards and was nominated for the US Chamber of Commerce’s “Dream BIG Small Business of the Year” award. Most recently, I was awarded 2014 Social Innovator of the Year by Casimiro Global Foundation. https://vimeo/114134317 The program was so successful that I could not handle it all on my own. I needed a scalable technology platform to automate all of the busy work. After burning through about 13 salespeople, I realized is that my success was a direct result of our marketing videos. I was introduced to an incredible web developer, previously Sr. Web Developer at LivingSocial. Our web-base software application integrates the latest Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for managing globally dispersed mobile assets (toilet trailers) and deploying service trucks to pump, clean and service the toilets. Our CRM intercepts web traffic related to portable toilet rentals while a cloud-based command center fulfills the orders. We are running SEO and CPC campaigns to convert toilet placements (GPS) into outdoor advertising inventory, which pays for the toilet service. We also automated marketing strategy, media planning and programmatic media buying; crowd-sourced video production and graphic design; and fully automated project management of advertising services. The time delay between the point of contact and fulfillment allows advertisers to search and reserve digital place-based media opportunities, and deliver their brand-specific content to that location once the delivery location has been confirmed. https://vimeo/90973724 I was very grateful for all of the help I received in Knoxville, and I wanted to give back to the community. Knoxville is the third largest producer of digital content on television, thanks to Scripps Networks Interactive being headquartered here. By the grace of God, on my 30th birthday, I secured $1MM investment to create jobs for our local filmmakers. knoxnews/business/stall-talk-secures-1m-for-video-billboards We hired 45 workers last year to create story-driven, product-focused advertisements. https://vimeo/117224397 https://vimeo/117224398 First, we tried engineering different contraptions above the plastic toilets with different audio and video technologies. The weight of the screens made the plastic toilets unstable. Therefore, we moved on to toilet trailers to increase stability and improve logistics. With only 1,000 toilet trailers in operation worldwide, I quickly realized that there are not enough toilet trailers to meet our current demand. I wanted to be able to be able to supply the demand we are about to create for a product currently in shortage. I also needed to source an LED manufacturer. https://vimeo/117223681 Current toilet trailer manufacturing options were very expensive with long lead times on production, so I began traveling the world looking for innovative ways to decrease cost and increase the speed of production. Since May 6, 2014, I have been Knoxville to DC to LA to Beijing to Shanghai to Dubai to Paris to NYC to Boston to DC to ATL to Torino (Italy) to Rome (Italy) to ATL to Seattle to New Orleans to Knoxville to Cincinnati to Columbus to Knoxville to Chicago to Detroit to Chicago to Nashville to LA to San Francisco to Knoxville to Columbus to Akron to Cleveland to Columbus to Knoxville to Miami to Charlotte to Winston Salem to Knoxville to Nashville to Memphis to Knoxville to Dallas to Los Angeles to San Diego to Los Angeles to San Francisco to Salt Lake City to Denver to Kansas City to Richmond to Knoxville to ATL to Knoxville. https://icloud/photostream/#A65yeZFhsDcPO Given that every man and women (humanity) has to use the restroom, we were able to accomplish our mission to inspire, inform, educate and entertain humanity - all from the comfort of your very own stall! For comfort in viewing, we invested into a new product called The Anywhere Chair. Our patent-pending fold turns an ordinary cardboard box into a brand- able chair, supporting up to 275 lbs. Each chair is made of recycled corrugated cardboard and 100% re-recyclable! The cardboard chair can also be converted into a disposable toilet. youtube/watch?v=QZfi8ri3bFU Today we are positioned to produce hundreds of thousands of toilet trailers with digital screens mounted on the roof, and we are positioned to manufacture millions of cardboard chairs. In addition, The Gates Foundation has finished developing their technology that converts human waste into clean energy and sustainable electricity. Our goal is to use our software program to collect the toilet trailers waste and deliver it to factories that can convert it into drinking clean water, renewable energy, and pathogen-free ash. I did all of this to inspire, inform, educate and entertain humanity, and to create jobs for our community. National news coverage would create the awareness needed to populate our event database. Any help would be very much appreciated. ## IMPORTANT NOTE: The initial investor filed a frivolous lawsuit against me on June 1, 2014. The lawsuit was settled on November 6, 2014. I won $500,000 AND all equity back was transferred back to the company.
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