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Hello Everyone!
My name is Tobars, that's me to your left. I answer my own calls, return my own emails, and make my own coffee. I joined the forum over a month ago, but just now doing an intro. I guess you can say, I've been lurking a bit. After spending a little time on the forum, it struck me as a place where the members are genuine, and give of their time and expertise generously.
After being introduced to the book by a very good friend @bensonj, I must admit, I was a little hesitant to read it. The last thing I wanted to read was another book with "millionaire" in the title. After beginning the book I realized that MF was not your average business/entrepreneurship book. And after finishing the book, my assessment was correct. Shout out to @MJ DeMarco for writing what will go into the history books as a classic. And I give my vote for a Nobel Peace Prize in Economics. Lastly, I'd like to shout out @AllenCrawley. After spending just a few minutes on the phone with Allen, he caused me to think about my business in a way that I hadn't in the past, and I've actually implemented one small thing that he mentioned to me which will have a major impact on our marketing efforts going forward.
Ok, so here's my story....I'll give you the Reader's Digest version. I'm a life-long entrepreneur. After finishing Morehouse College, in Atlanta GA, with a degree in business and real estate, I set out to make my fortune in the real estate business. Things went very well for a number of years. Things were going so well that back when day-trading online became possible, I jumped in with both feet. I even began opening locations of a local quick service restaurant here in the metro Atlanta market with plans of buying the brand from the creator, and sell franchises. In hindsight, I took my focus off of what had allowed me those opportunities, which was real estate. As MJ coined it, I was a business polygamist. Having diverted my attention in other business endeavors, combined with having never lived through a market downturn, when the real estate market crashed I was left standing flat-footed.
After suffering a little heartache, pain, loss, and indigestion, like most entrepreneurs, I saw another opportunity. Of all things, automotive recycling. So for the better part of the last 4 years I've been involved in the business of recycling cars. Business has been good, not great. So I went from buying cars out of peoples yards, to having a facility where we fully process cars, selling core auto parts, and ferrous and non-ferrous metals. In realizing that there are many more cars outside of the metro Atlanta area, and realizing that we don't have to process a car at all to make a decent profit, I launched a lead generation side of my business the first of the year where we simply act as the marketing company finding sellers, negotiate the sale, and sell the lead to someone locally to process the vehicle.
As an entrepreneur, it's hard to not take notice of the many opportunities which the internet affords. But having learned my lesson regarding focus, my primary attention is on scaling my current business and using the internet to do so. I look to gain enormous insight from the forum on things I can do that will assist me in the growth, and development of may current business, but keep a very cautious eye on other web opportunities that I may be able to take advantage of without jeopardizing the growth of my current business. The stories which I continue to read about that's coming out of the forum are absolutely amazing, and to have one of the those stories come from my best friend...it does something for the psyche. Thanks @bensonj!
If you've read thus far..... Thanks! I look forward to developing relationships, and participating in this awesome community of like-minded entrepreneurs!
Tobars
PS. Hey @MJ, you've been able to get a guy that has been shy to social media to write his life story, post his picture, and his real name.......this forum has to be something special. Kudos!
My name is Tobars, that's me to your left. I answer my own calls, return my own emails, and make my own coffee. I joined the forum over a month ago, but just now doing an intro. I guess you can say, I've been lurking a bit. After spending a little time on the forum, it struck me as a place where the members are genuine, and give of their time and expertise generously.
After being introduced to the book by a very good friend @bensonj, I must admit, I was a little hesitant to read it. The last thing I wanted to read was another book with "millionaire" in the title. After beginning the book I realized that MF was not your average business/entrepreneurship book. And after finishing the book, my assessment was correct. Shout out to @MJ DeMarco for writing what will go into the history books as a classic. And I give my vote for a Nobel Peace Prize in Economics. Lastly, I'd like to shout out @AllenCrawley. After spending just a few minutes on the phone with Allen, he caused me to think about my business in a way that I hadn't in the past, and I've actually implemented one small thing that he mentioned to me which will have a major impact on our marketing efforts going forward.
Ok, so here's my story....I'll give you the Reader's Digest version. I'm a life-long entrepreneur. After finishing Morehouse College, in Atlanta GA, with a degree in business and real estate, I set out to make my fortune in the real estate business. Things went very well for a number of years. Things were going so well that back when day-trading online became possible, I jumped in with both feet. I even began opening locations of a local quick service restaurant here in the metro Atlanta market with plans of buying the brand from the creator, and sell franchises. In hindsight, I took my focus off of what had allowed me those opportunities, which was real estate. As MJ coined it, I was a business polygamist. Having diverted my attention in other business endeavors, combined with having never lived through a market downturn, when the real estate market crashed I was left standing flat-footed.
After suffering a little heartache, pain, loss, and indigestion, like most entrepreneurs, I saw another opportunity. Of all things, automotive recycling. So for the better part of the last 4 years I've been involved in the business of recycling cars. Business has been good, not great. So I went from buying cars out of peoples yards, to having a facility where we fully process cars, selling core auto parts, and ferrous and non-ferrous metals. In realizing that there are many more cars outside of the metro Atlanta area, and realizing that we don't have to process a car at all to make a decent profit, I launched a lead generation side of my business the first of the year where we simply act as the marketing company finding sellers, negotiate the sale, and sell the lead to someone locally to process the vehicle.
As an entrepreneur, it's hard to not take notice of the many opportunities which the internet affords. But having learned my lesson regarding focus, my primary attention is on scaling my current business and using the internet to do so. I look to gain enormous insight from the forum on things I can do that will assist me in the growth, and development of may current business, but keep a very cautious eye on other web opportunities that I may be able to take advantage of without jeopardizing the growth of my current business. The stories which I continue to read about that's coming out of the forum are absolutely amazing, and to have one of the those stories come from my best friend...it does something for the psyche. Thanks @bensonj!
If you've read thus far..... Thanks! I look forward to developing relationships, and participating in this awesome community of like-minded entrepreneurs!
Tobars
PS. Hey @MJ, you've been able to get a guy that has been shy to social media to write his life story, post his picture, and his real name.......this forum has to be something special. Kudos!
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