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Early Entrepreneurial Journey & Mentorship

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How to Go from lawn Care into other Companies

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Eric recounts his early entrepreneurial ambition, stemming from reading 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' before graduating high school. He initially went to college for a year but dropped out, opting for a mentorship in marketing and sales in California. This experience taught him crucial skills in sales, marketing, and understanding people's decisions (why they say yes or no).

Goal: Acquire foundational business knowledge and sales/marketing skills.

Tools and materials

  • Book 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' Robert Kiyosaki — Inspiring entrepreneurial mindset
  • Mentorship — Gaining practical sales and marketing experience

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read ever was Rich Dad Poor Dad you ever heard that Robert Kaki yeah yeah so that was the first book like ever even in in high school that I actually read from cover to cover and I decided that I wasn't going to go to college and I was going to be a very big huge successful uh entrepreneur and didn't really work out that way ended up going to college for a year uh dropping out I went to college cuz my girlfriend at the time didn't you go didn't you go to a mentor and actually move to California with him for well where does that work into it so then what ended up happening was I dropped out of college colge and I moved to California I got mentored from a marketing and sales uh quote unquote Guru and I worked there for 2 years and when the economy back in ' 07 took a tank took a dive now that's that's exactly when uh we moved back from California and started um working on on our lawn care business and so about how many years ago would you say it was the actually started in the lawn care business that was probably around 6 years ago um yeah it was about 6 years ago 6 years ago from today roughly yeah and then you built that business up in 3 4 years and you got it well established around the TN City didn't show yep what did you do to do that what did it take to get you from nothing to be becoming a force to be reckoned with in the lawn care industry in the Twin Cities uh the first

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