Who and Why We Are !

Hi there!
My name is Carl Dickens and I want to welcome you to Bizinfo101!

Bizinfo101 has been a dream of mine for some time. Since 2007, I have been asked many times about WHY and HOW I started my own business. Many of my friends, family members, and coworkers often stated that they wished they had the knowledge and strength to risk making the change.

To be honest, my dream of running my own business started much earlier in life. My dad was a big believer in hard work and taught me a strong work ethic from an early age. My first 'real' job was at 14 when I became a dishwasher in a hotel restaurant. Not the most glamorous job, that's for sure! But, being a hard worker, and motivated to get away from dirty dishes, I moved from dishwasher, to bus boy, to waiter, to short order cook. That last move was when the manager found out that my mother taught me to cook as well.

As i had different jobs in my life, eventual military life followed by civilian life 4 years later, i built upon my knowledge of what i wanted, and did not want, to do as a career. This is really good information to learn as a young man. But through out my years of work, I always had a side hustle in place. Either a weekend job to learn new skills, or a work from home business repairing PCs, DVD players, and VCR's.

Eventually, i walked away from corporate America to start my own company. Knowing that a high percentage of new businesses fail, people called me crazy for stepping away from reliable money and stable employment to risk it all. Actually, I have started a couple. I have a core business that I grew from a single customer to many customers on a global scale. I have a couple of side hustles that I find challenging and profitable, and occasionally help my wife with her business.

What I told them, and now tell you, is that starting your own business is both a wonderfully fulfilling, and sometimes frustrating experience. While I believe that nothing can take away the growing pains of creating and growing your own business, it is my hope that I can share what I did right, and wrong, in running my own business.

So why do I feel that I am qualified to share this information with you and why should you keep coming back? Because I have been there, in the excitement of the start-up phase; been there at the nervousness of getting customers, at the fear stage of the economic downturn. I have done a LOT of things wrong and a few things right. However, I have definitely learned how to help YOU start and grow your own business or side hustle.

See you on the inside.