Meet Dan Bradley | Founder of Bullzerk

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dan Bradley and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dan, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I have been an entrepreneur my whole life. The age of 14 is when it all started. I was teaching tennis lessons and selling t shirts branded as the Bradley school of Tennis. From there I went on to college I mean colleges haha. I went to 3 colleges before I realized Universities were not for me. I could study and study and try to learn but I could not retain the information so I dropped out of the University of Iowa and got a 2 year degree at Kirkwood college. From there at the age of 20 I got into being a serial entrepreneur or what I call it the real education started. I always had a drive to know everything and learn new things. Over the next 10 years I sold real estate, created a private brand basketball hoop line and created a sports training and tournament facility for select sports teams. At the age of 27 I was sick of paying graphic designers to make flyers for the gym so I enrolled at Grandview University to learn design. This is where everything really started to click all my talents I learned started to come together and start to make sense where my future was going. I met a girl the next year that became my wife and we moved to Denver and started over. I got rid of all my projects I call them and pursued the girl such a movie story hahah. In Denver I sold real estate and bartended and started making really wild real estate videos to stir up market and go against the grain and it work really well. We then moved to Vail and I started selling real estate ontop of beaver creek mountain for Sothebys. After a while of skiing to much and not really being that busy while living in the Westin hotel in Beaver Creek I took my dog down into the lobby and decided it was time to start a new business that created security and put clients on retention. I was going to create a marketing company that did graphic design, seo, social media and blogging to help business owners take their business to the next level. During writing the business plan in the lobby I signed up a client from peoria il and within two week I was making over 6 figures with a marketing firm. This continued for the next couple of years as me and my wife moved to Austin then Dallas. In Dallas I decided to grow the business and add a t shirt company that would help business brand their company with funny cool swag. I thought I would create a store inside my marketing business to bring in the average person and that would help drive more marketing clients. I was wrong, instead it made me close my marketing company and sell t shirts for the rest of my life because it took off and I became addicted. This is the story of how Bullzerk became Bullzerk.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I have been down a long journey with many many turns. All of my crazy things and businesses I got involved with made no sense throughout my life. They were all about showing up being reliable and being able to grow and learn everyday. Now that I have Bullzerk all those turns make sense they were molding me into a person that I am today. All of my past jobs taught me all the life lessons to being the best business owner I can be. I learned to love to fail because I would always learn to bounce back from failure. You get to a point where you get addicted to problems because you become really good at fixing those problems and that is where you grow the most. A true entrepreneurial is addiction to the chase and innovation not the maintenance of the day too day.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Layout of day in Dallas: 1. Stay at the Adolphus Hotel because its amazing.
2. Head to go get breakfast tacos aka Rudy’s or velvet tacos.
3. Then start the tour of neighborhoods tearing up one each day (Greenville,grandscape,downtown dallas, deep ellum, bishop arts then always the last day in the stockyards.)
4. We would eat and drink like we didn’t care while meeting and visiting business owners and have them share they’re stories.
With us doing custom print t-shirts for businesses all over the city it’s hard to go somewhere with out wanting to meet or visit the owner and hear their story and ask questions about them and their business.
I am not the typical boogie only fancy things dallasite. I am the pick up tacos at fox gas station and have a beer on a picnic table at truck yard type of guy.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
This goes out to my father, the man that was the glue. He is instrumental to doing the books and the boring stuff to help me chase all my crazy ideas and create an amazing business with amazing employees to shake up the Dallas world.

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