Gained retail and O.E.M. Experience.
In 1971 he accepted the challenge to head up a new
retail chain in Canada to establish a network of stores selling Magnavox home
entertainment products in the greater Toronto area. Colorama TV became
that country's largest Magnavox dealer two years after launch.
After three years in the retail business, Gary was offered the position of
Magnavox Regional Manager covering an area from Toronto, east to Ottawa and
north to Sault St. Marie in the province of Ontario, Canada in 1974. Out
of a total of 8 divisions in Canada, Gary's division accounted for 25% of all
Magnavox sales in Canada during his last 6 months with the company.
Turning adversity into opportunity.
Gary might still have been with Magnavox to this day
if it had not merged with North American Phillips in the fall of 1975.
He and all Magnavox of Canada employees were let go in October of that
year. However, the
loss of his management position with Magnavox turned out to be fortuitous.
For some time he had been thinking about an idea for a new business
concept. Now that he was out of work it was the perfect time to
explore this concept. In 1976 he founded TIDY CAR, a mobile car
polishing and detailing business. Within just a few months Gary had
100 part- and full-time mobile operators on call in the Toronto area and
saw the opportunity to train other entrepreneurs to clone his concept.
Built a world-wide franchise network.
Gary began offering franchises for under $1,500 across
Canada in 1977 and expanded to the U.S. the following year. By 1980
his company had opened its own chemical manufacturing plant in Canada, had
a distribution center in Buffalo, New York and had grown to more than
2,000 franchisees in 38 countries around the world, including the USA,
Australia, Canada, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Guam, Kuwait, Egypt,
Nigeria, South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Holland, Panama, Curacao,
Aruba, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and 18 others.
Gary’s story was
depicted in the Harper and Rowe book “The Entrepreneurs” by Robert L.
Shook, along with numerous national periodicals such as Success,
Entrepreneur, Money, USA Today and many others.
Gary relocated the company’s headquarters to Boca Raton, Florida in 1984.
He sold the company in 1988 (now Ziebart Tidy Car).
Took on the residential cleaning
industry in 1991.
Following the sale of Tidy Car, Gary spent
the next three years in semi-retirement accepting
the occasional consulting assignment. In 1991 after being approached
by one of his former franchisees about the potential in the house cleaning
business, he founded WorkEnders, Inc. The company began offering
residential cleaning franchises in 1992 and expanded into several states.
Once again Gary was showing budding entrepreneurs how to start a business
with a modest investment and grow it into one doing several hundred
thousand dollars annually.
Gary can help you, too.
Gary’s decades of experience in teaching others how to build a successful
business, developing and implementing manuals and training programs —
including a 18 years in the residential cleaning business specifically,
qualifies him as an authority on the courses included in the House
Cleaning Biz 101©
program. This comprehensive course is now available to you at a mere
fraction of the cost of investing in a franchise. If you’re in the
house cleaning business and want to be the leader in your community, or
are considering starting a residential cleaning business, your small,
onetime investment could well make a gargantuan difference in your
success.“House
Cleaning Biz 101©"
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