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How I Got Started

Gelcard and Water2 founder Charles Robinson is pictured with some of the products his companies make.
SuccessGen Z founder who landed contracts with Google and Marriott Hotels reveals the old-fashioned sales trick that helped him rake in 6 figures within the first 6 months
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Mary Ellen Sheets stands proudly in front of the Two Men and a Truck fleet in Lansing in 1991.
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