I’ve always been entrepreneurial and I love business. It is a way of serving others while providing what is essentially an exchange of value that is mutually beneficial. I like that.
Some highlights:
- At 17 years of age I was repairing electronics for a local tv shop. I also talked a local pawn shop into giving me their broken items to repair for them on the side.
- At 19 years of age I ran a marketing department for what at the time was the largest home improvement company in the state. I started as a telemarketer making cold calls and soon ran the department with up to 20 employees. Our department was responsible for producing an average gross of $1,000,000 in leads that converted to sales monthly.
- I have always been around cleaning. Pressure washing, window cleaning, carpet cleaning, residential and commercial cleaning, auto detailing, it has just always been part of my life. I started my own successful residential cleaning service at 22 years old and it is still going today. Along the way I started a mobile auto detailing service that ran for about 8 years until the residential cleaning service just became too big and we let the detailing service go.
- While having steady businesses I’ve always dabbled in things. I’ve had an online watch store, booths at flea markets, I’ve bought and flipped cars for profit, painted, sealed concrete, flipped cell phones, completed site inspections for insurance companies and commercial mortgagors, and more.
I love marketing. I love the psychology of it. I love the creativity of coming up with new ideas or new target audiences. I love the interaction and the excitement when new leads come in.
I love business ideas. I love seeing people think outside the box and when those pieces of an idea come together to form something more tangible. I love seeing people work together to execute and make the idea come to life. That is when people start getting whatever it is that your company provides and they start benefiting from it and the idea starts paying forward in its own way.