{"id":37558,"date":"2023-10-20T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/marcus-layton-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:50","slug":"marcus-layton-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/marcus-layton-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Layton &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/marcus-leyton.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus Layton\" title=\"Marcus Layton\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17762\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/marcus-leyton.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus Layton\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/marcus-leyton.jpg 90w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/marcus-leyton-61x75.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Marcus Layton <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bizzbuzz.com.au\/current-deals\/\" title=\"Bizz Buzz\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bizz Buzz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> Victoria<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4298\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Layton is the co-founder of Bizz Buzz, which describes itself as Australia\u2019s only group-buying site dedicated to small business.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BizzBuzz features deals from the big guys like Couriers Please, MYOB and Vistaprint, all the way down to your more local level service provider.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Bizz Buzz is not Layton\u2019s first venture \u2013 he\u2019s the founder and former owner of pickup and delivery dry cleaning business Pinstripe, catering for the corporate market.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first customer I picked up for Pinstripe was Fairfax, so I spent a large amount of time putting together a proposal,\u201d Layton says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While tying up the sale of Pinstripe, Layton spent about a year deciding what to do next, looking at everything from a mail-order health food business to a textbook rental service.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter deep research of the model, I was surprised to see that no group-buying contender had attempted to service small business owners,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBizz Buzz features deals from the big guys like Couriers Please, MYOB and Vistaprint, all the way down to your more local service provider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of what we\u2019re looking to achieve with Bizz Buzz, I believe we\u2019re going to reshape the advertising landscape within B2B.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Layton says his age has never held him back because he\u2019s not averse to learning \u2013 a necessary quality for any entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of putting myself out there and learning from what was successful or areas I made mistakes in,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Marcus Layton Business name: Bizz Buzz Age: 25 State: Victoria \u00a0 Marcus Layton is the co-founder of Bizz Buzz,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}