About 1015 Brands
Two owners who’ve sat in your chair.
1015 Brands is Nathan and Greg. Greg has run restaurants and retail districts and opened businesses of his own. Nathan builds and runs three software products. Now we fix the outside and the inside of yours.
- Greg ran restaurants, and pet retail across two states
- District manager
- Nathan ran merchandising and trained store teams across several states
- Retail ops
- a business Nathan and Greg built together before 1015
- Started & sold
From a plumber's first website to an e-learning platform with its own marketplace.
- A website built to make the phone ring
- A brand drawn from a blank page
- A client portal, so nobody texts “any update?”
- An online school with its own marketplace
- Memberships and sponsorships for a whole profession
- Apps for the phone in your pocket
- An email client for your desktop
- Automations that do the boring parts
- Tools that finally talk to each other
- Three software products Nathan runs himself
If you can describe it, we can probably build it.
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Why there are two of us
Corporate-trained. Small-business focused.
We’ve both done it the big-company way. Now we bring that discipline to owners who can’t afford a big-company team.
One of us fixes how customers find and choose you. The other fixes how the work gets done once they do.
- Big-company process, without the overhead.Real systems and real standards, sized for a small team.
- Your marketing fits how you actually run.We don't send you leads your business can't handle.
- Your systems actually get built.Most consultants hand you a plan. We build the tools that run it.
- One team sees the whole picture.No vendors pointing fingers at each other.
The people
Two partners you work with directly.
No hand-offs, no juniors. The people you talk to are the people doing the work.
- Your website, brand, and design
- Your Google profile and reviews
- Apps, portals, and automations
- Your offer and the message behind it
- Ads, email, and text campaigns
- SOPs, roles, and growth planning
Nathan
The builderA builder who has run the floor.
Nathan's dad taught him to build websites when he was a kid. He kept experimenting, found out he was good at it, and fell for the parts most people skip: design, and getting systems to talk to each other. Meanwhile he spent years in retail with a large regional chain, running merchandising, operations, and training store teams across multiple states. Merchandising is marketing you can walk through. Training is operations. Today he builds everything from mobile and desktop apps to client sites, and he runs three software products of his own.
What that means for you- He knows how your customers shop. Years of merchandising taught him what makes people stop, look, and buy. Your site and marketing have to do the same job.
- He knows how small teams work. He trained store teams of 10 to 12 people, so the tools he builds fit the people who'll use them.
- Your brand gets designed, not templated. He can build a visual identity from nothing: the look, the logo, the site.
- He builds systems that run real businesses, including three software products of his own. He lives with what he ships.
- The person you talk to is the person writing the code. No handoffs, no offshore team.
Greg
The operatorAn operator who studied people.
Greg has always watched how people work together. He studied anthropology at Kennesaw State, then took it into restaurants as a general manager and a district manager, and into pet retail as a district manager over two states. His biggest team was around 100 people. In one restaurant he ran, everyone from the dishwasher to the host stand knew the company's statement of excellence, and it had some of the lowest turnover and best results in the company. He has also sold real estate, worked as a fractional COO, and opened businesses of his own, including one he and Nathan started together and sold. Culture is operations. Today he fixes how your business runs, with the people who run it.
What that means for you- He knows how a business actually runs. He has run restaurants and retail districts, so his advice comes from the floor, not a textbook.
- He knows how teams work. His biggest was around 100 people, so the systems he designs fit the people who'll use them.
- He spots the people problem hiding inside the process problem.
- He tells you when there's no quick fix. It's rarely one small thing, and he'll say so before you spend the money.
- The person on your call is the person who builds the plan. No handoffs, no junior staff.
The one rule we work by
See it. Own it. Solve it. Do it.
It's The Oz Principle, a model for accountability. It isn't a poster on a wall. It's how every conversation with a client goes.
- See it.We tell you what's actually broken, even when it's awkward. It starts on the first call, or with the free audit: three fixes, ranked.
- Own it.If we get something wrong, we say so and fix it. No blaming the last vendor, your team, or the algorithm.
- Solve it.We find the better path with you, sized to your team, your budget, and how you actually run.
- Do it.Then we build it and keep it running. Not a plan in a PDF. A check-in on the 15th shows you it's working.
How we work
Five things you can count on.
- 01Two partners. No juniors.The people you talk to are the people doing the work.
- 02Outside first, then inside.We get customers coming in, then build the systems that handle them.
- 03You own everything.Domain, accounts, content, and code stay in your name.
- 04We earn the next month.Marketing runs month to month. Bigger projects have a set length, agreed up front.
- 05We keep an eye on it.A check-in on the 15th of every month, in plain English.
What we won’t do.
- Build software that stores protected health information (PHI)
- Lock you into a long contract
- Hold your accounts or website hostage
- Sell you something your audit doesn't point to
In our own words
Three questions each.
Nathan- What do you actually do?
- I design and build. Brands, websites, and the software behind them. Most owners come to me with a logo they made themselves and a site they don't love. I make the business look as good as it actually is.
- Why does design matter that much?
- People judge a business by how it looks before they ever talk to it. A clean, professional site gets the call. A dated one gets skipped.
- What do you like about the work?
- Building something from nothing. And doing all of it myself, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.
Greg- What do owners get wrong about operations?
- That there's one quick fix they haven't tried yet. It's never just one small thing, despite what you've seen on TikTok or Instagram.
- Have you ever talked a client out of something?
- Yes. We'd never recommend something a client doesn't need. We've turned work away, and sold people less than they came in for, when spending the money wasn't in their interest.
- When do owners usually call?
- When they realize they can't do everything on their own anymore. They know something is broken, but they can't always say what.
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