NZ Marketing

WHEN THE SPARK GOES OUT

When I was a kid, I used to go to my dad’s during the school holidays. He’s been an entrepreneur and owned businesses all his life, so from a very young age I saw what he was up to and would sometimes help out at his companies.

This exposure is what planted the seed of entrepreneurship in me. The seed grew into money-making ventures, like selling Game Boys at primary school and buying and selling dinghies so I could earn more money to buy the things I wanted, namely trading cards and toys.

During high school, I set up a scrap metal pick-up service, organising a truck to pick up excess scrap metal from car yards. But I quickly moved on from that. I dabbled in multi-level marketing when I was 17, before getting into sales

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