Earl Blanks is a former owner of a Party City franchise. Prior to his involvement with Party City, Blanks had started a small consulting business, the Small Business Marketing Planning Center, which provided marketing consulting services to smaller companies that generated $3-5 M per year in sales. Prior to that experience, Blanks worked at Procter & Gamble for over 7 years. Earl Blanks received his undergraduate degree from University of Arkansas and his MBA from Cornell University.
I think that for a long time in addressing the inner city issues, we have dealt with social programs as the means of trying to eliminate some of the crime and the unemployment. But I believe that business development is really the key to doing that. Because as many of these people get involved wi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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