Halfway through 20 years of military service, I decided to skip the second half -- it changed my life forever.Here's what happened next:I started 9 companies and successfully exited 4 of them.My mission is to inspire and impact entrepreneurs.CURRENT VENTURES:➤ Soldiers of Sales® a military veteran-led sales powerhouse, helping creators, coaches, and experts scale their revenue.➤ Startup Veteran shares stories of veteran entrepreneurs and their battle-tested business strategies and tactics from the frontlines.➤ LSP Consulting provides fractional sales and marketing services for high-growth companies and online coaching businesses.EXITED VENTURES:➤ Partner/CRO at BAM University an online education program to help aspiring entrepreneurs start and build a digital marketing business. ➤ Founder/CEO at Cazle Realty, a high-breed real estate firm that combined traditional and wholesaling real estate. Acquired PCS Pay-It-Forward and shifted the model to expand nationally and work within the military community. ➤ Co-Founder/CMO at PrepChamps where we created a multi-media, high school sports-based Internet company that focused on helping high school athletes get scholarships. Raised $2.2M.➤ Founder/CEO of MilitaryStars, which became the nation's largest military career fair company. Sold company to Orion International, the nation’s largest military recruiting firm, and became a partner in that company. Later sold to a Private Equity firm.In addition to starting and building my own companies, I formed LSP Consulting, a sales and marketing consulting company where we drove growth strategies for companies in several different industries such as Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Hospitality, Oil & Gas, Technology, and SaaS.CONSULTING HIGHLIGHTS:➤ Led the development and launch of a comprehensive government sales program to $438K in sales within 5 months and expanded the team from 1 to 3 closers.➤ Hired, trained, and managed an outsourced sales organization of 12 people who implemented a proprietary sales strategy and process to sell over $28M of online training products for 2 companies in 4 years.➤ Developed and executed marketing strategies along with corporate branding, and CRM implementation to launch an Oil and Gas software company from zero to $3M in 18 months.➤ Created a lean sales process that streamlined marketing and sales efforts to grow a Clinical Research Organization by 115% in a year to $24M in revenue.Follow me here for actionable insights from startup to sales and scale.
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