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.
The desire to be an entrepreneur, really started sort of early in my career growing up as a teenager. I grew up in a special community situation. We had in my community a predominately African American college. And at that college, there were quite a few educated blacks and many of them ran their...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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