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Entrepreneurship
Do you have what it takes? I didn’t think I did, but here I am 25 years later and find it hard to imagine ever working for someone else.
It took me about four years and four different jobs, including working for myself as a typesetter. I worked for a real estate sales magazine, selling a travel franchise and even making jewelry and selling it at craft fairs and boutiques.
But when I took over an existing travel franchise, I began to develop actual business acumen. That involved showing up five to six days a week, putting in long hours, brainstorming various methods of finding new clients and developing relationships with others who might have contacts that would need my travel services.
Being in the Right Place
While I had the travel agency, one of the best marketing ploys I participated in was to attend various leads groups. I was asked to operate several groups through chambers of commerces and even a couple of private groups.\
Then in 1991 a group of people asked me to start up a group, or rather we all asked five people to attend our new group and they appointed me to operate the group. We decided to charge $10 a month. Just enough to cover the coffee and admin fees.
