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When I was in college, I got a part-time job cold-calling businesses to sell them natural gas. It was hard. Interrupting their day and trying to pitch a product that was highly commoditized. Not easy. That part-time job turned into a successful 15 year career at that company. I went from Sales Rep, to Sales Manager, to VP of Sales & Marketing. Over that span, we grew the company to 125,000 customers and $600 million in annual revenue. In 2014, I hit a wall. I burned out. I wasn’t having fun anymore, and didn’t even realize it. I left the company in 2014. I left behind a high-paying job. I had a two-year old daughter at the time. Thankfully, my family lived below our means so we had some financial runway to buy time for me to launch my own company. I spent 2 years working with startup companies in Gainesville, FL. I consulted, did some fractional sales, but more than anything….I networked like crazy. In 2016, we had a lightbulb moment. What if we launched a company that supported the sales growth of startups by employing college students as an outsourced sales support team? We launched The Selling Factory in October 2016. The Selling Factory is a Sales Apprenticeship program for college students. Giving them real world experience, working with real companies that have real-life sales expectations. 7 years later, we’ve employed nearly 1,000 college students, helped over 150 companies, and are about to hit $5 million in revenue. We did $317.56 in revenue in 2016! (HAHA) We’ve since launched two more companies on the back of The Selling Factory. *TSF PLACEMENT, where we match college graduates with companies that need experienced, talented, and motivated top performers. We take the guesswork out of hiring entry-level sales representatives at scale. How? Because we know them. They worked for us. *ACTIONABLE NETWORKING, where we develop courses and workshops for college students that set them apart from their peers, build confidence, and help them uncover hidden opportunities. There are 4 million college graduates in the U.S. each year. Every one of them deserves access to Actionable Networking. Building a profitable business is really hard. But having two business partners to share the wins, losses, successes, and failures with is everything to me. Check out www.thesellingfactory.com and www.actionablenetworking.com. You can follow my companies on LI, IG, and FB.