Earl Blanks is a former owner of a Party City franchise. Prior to his involvement with Party City, Blanks had started a small consulting business, the Small Business Marketing Planning Center, which provided marketing consulting services to smaller companies that generated $3-5 M per year in sales. Prior to that experience, Blanks worked at Procter & Gamble for over 7 years. Earl Blanks received his undergraduate degree from University of Arkansas and his MBA from Cornell University.
You look around at your family and you see other people who have done businesses. That's an important motivator. Let me just sort of tell you briefly my story. How I became interested in being an entrepreneur. I grew up in a small southern town in Arkansas called Pinebluff, Arkansas. Many of yo...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Earl Blanks Provides Background For Lecture on Economic Development From Employee to Entrepreneur
Earl Blanks States Importance of Understanding Mega Trends and Identifying Opportunities
