Growing a Worldwide Concrete Games Business w/ Lem James | Shop & Story Pt 2
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Lem James started making concrete ping pong tables out of his carport and now ships them all over the world! We sat down to hear his story, the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, how he stays creative, productive, and fulfilled as a tradesman & entrepreneur. I hope you enjoy this conversation.
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Check out the full Shop Tour Here! ruclips.net/video/6nv6ifIWsBw/видео.html
Very good to hear a creative business can still be successful!
Please approach VA hospitals with this. I work at one in Tampa Fl. I know for sure this would benefit those who we serve.
We have a big VA retirement facility in northern Ohio that might need one or a corn hole game. Good idea.
We would lo e to. We have done several for the VA nationwide.
Also nursing homes and senior centers would be a great place for that product
Great interview and looking forward to the future interviews.
Lem, thank you for sharing your story. I am in late 40s, launching a new venture (I’ve been w2 my whole career), and your insights were helpful and frankly motivating
Great interview, with an awesome insight about risk and reward at 13:00.
Now I want to find and play on one of their tables.
Looking forward to all the episodes in this series!
Limitation is the father of creativity
Creative comment❤ true too.
@Concretetabletennis ive been building concrete bench legs for a year with increasing popularity ! Just today I'm planning on adding to the mold collection. Playing with 3d and 2d pour methods.
Thanks for all the amazing videos and great content!!
This will be a great series!
GREAT video, so much of an entrepreneurial lesson . . . . The book Len referenced, 'A whack On The Side Of The Head,' is a great read, and sits in my book shelf !
I have it and I've read it several times. Love it.
The park game we played as kids at the park was Box Hockey! Hockey sticks and wooden boxes. Now this was mostly supervised by summertime volunteer activity planners. Those were the days. Box Hockey! I wonder if it's a washington state game?
❤ Same here at Camp Gilead in Carnation, WA! We've sold several but I don't think in Washington yet.
A goban would be amazing (board for Go, thousands of year old game)! Very roughly, monochrome 19x19 chess board, but some are very elaborate
Thank you 🎉
Dubai is the destination for the highend products we are talking about
Pretty disappointed this didn’t include a shop tour, and seeing the process of making the tables. I do appreciate bringing light to this topic and promoting outdoor table tennis. Hope to see them in more parks.
EC did a tour highlighting the corn hole boards.
ruclips.net/video/_AzywzR6Is8/видео.htmlsi=9c7wOSPEpkab4AF1
There's a separate shop tour. We did one with Nate before as well so Essential Craftsman has 2 posted. 😊
@@plattevilleclarks Thanks
@@Concretetabletennis Thanks
@@mattggonzz You are welcome.
I’d like to see the facility that makes these products and to see them being made. As a forty year mason I have an interest. Lol
Watch part one of this series.
That’s the whole idea! Link in the description :)
Yea, I saw that after I watched part two. I’ve watched both of them now, thanks!
Saw a concrete ping pong table at a small park in Franklin, Tn. I wonder if Lem made it?!
Yes Lem did make that one. 😊
That's been there a while too 😊 Yes that's a Stone Age table.
Shipping a concrete product worldwide seems like a massive waste of natural resources. Always consider when a product/creation can exist long-term, it doesn't mean man will not destroy it for something different...no matter how minor the difference. Man-made creation is always temporary, even though that's a painful consideration for the artist/builder.
Of course it's temporary but it is not fleeting and the joy of play is worth building intentionally into our communities.
Although we have done some far flung projects most of our work is in the USA and some in Canada.
In the shop tour video they have linked as part 1 he says they are mostly US and Canada (makes sense for being in the PNW). Hence why a rush order request from Dubai for what's likely tens of thousands of dollars before adding shipping cost of air freight for several tons of concrete. It is clearly not his normal clientele to get foreign oil tycoons instead of the normal parks and rec types.
Not as expensive as you might think. National parks and like buy entire concrete restroom facilities to have them shipped in.
Just wait til you find out how much stone is imported to the US. It’s cheaper labor overseas so it negates the shipping cost. New Hampshire (the granite state) has a hard time producing granite products cheap enough to compete with imported granite from china. Think about that. Cheaper to ship across the ocean than to make it in our backyard…
Please don't cough into your remote mic. You almost blew out my eardrums through my earbuds. Great content though.