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 corporate environment and the entrepreneurial environment is quite different. One of the things that I of course had to deal with is that I was one to do a lot of the things at Procter & Gamble. We had the great resources of the market research department. They were the best in the world,...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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