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Robin Bates

Robin Bates

Hayden Lakes ,ID

Summary

My 30+ years of buiness ownership and entrepreneurship started when I borrowed $2000 from my parents to buy a windshield repair franchise. I started as a one man show, and by luck or accident I turned it into the largest independently owned Windshield Repair Company in the world. Besides the 100 + locations on three continents, I bought two existing businesses, an engineering company and small chemical company. I did this to I insure we became completely self sufficient by manufacturing all the machinery and resins we needed to operate.

Overview

33
33
years of professional experience

Work History

Owner, CEO

Robin Bates & Associates
01.2010 - Current
  • Stock and options Trading - current
  • Strategic Planning & Consulting - current
  • Supplement Brand - final stages
  • fractional CMO business - final stages
  • Motivational Speaker - Early days
  • 2 x Book - both 1/2 way

10/99, Branch & District Manager, President

Waddell & Reed, Inc
07.2002 - 04.2010
  • Was in the top 2% of all financial Advisors and life insurance agents in the country for the last 4 years.
  • Exceeded ever managerial target, income, new hires and training.
  • Was in the top 10 Managers every year except the first one.

Founder & CEO

ROMIPA.com
02.1998 - 07.2001
  • An Internet startup company combined with brick and mortar locations.
    These locations were Internet cafe/coffee shops with our Internet portal and search engine as the launch point on every PC.
    When the Internet bubble burst we couldn’t raise the funds to keep going.
    Because we were self funded we were forced to close down.

Franchisee, Managing Director, CEO

Glass Medic/Super Glass
12.1990 - 06.1998
  • Merged with 11 other franchises and took on the role of Managing Director
  • Bought out certain competitor locations & franchises to speed up our presence and industry dominance
  • Destroyed the industry leader after having a monopoly for 23 years
  • When I started, our franchisor had less than 5% market share and with in 5 years I had bankrupted the market leader and wiped out most other competitors to control over 90% of our market.

Education

MBA - Marketing

Rushmore University
Ireland

Business Communications -

Midrand University
Midrand
07.1997

Mine Engineering - Executive Management Traning Program

CMT College
South Africa
11.1990

Skills

  • Customer Trend Analysis
  • Business Administration
  • Customer Portfolio Management
  • Projections Development
  • Project Planning
  • Rapport and relationship building
  • Business Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Market Research
  • Employee Retention
  • Business development and planning
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Sales Projections
  • Business Needs Assessment
  • Decision-Making

Accomplishments

Some of the businesses I built (I owned many at the same time).


Glass Medic - Became Super Glass

Piano Man Cafe, Restaurant and bar -Broke even

Super Glass Windshield Repair - Sold to 3 different buyers SA, UK, USA

Image Cigarettes - Sold my 45% on moral grounds

ROMIPA, Internet startup - Failed

Cellphones USA - Failed

Farmers Insurance - Broke even

Waddell and Reed - Became RB&A

Robin Bates and Associates - Current

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Languages

English
Afrikaans
Fanaklo
Dutch
Zulu

Timeline

Owner, CEO

Robin Bates & Associates
01.2010 - Current

10/99, Branch & District Manager, President

Waddell & Reed, Inc
07.2002 - 04.2010

Founder & CEO

ROMIPA.com
02.1998 - 07.2001

Franchisee, Managing Director, CEO

Glass Medic/Super Glass
12.1990 - 06.1998

MBA - Marketing

Rushmore University

Business Communications -

Midrand University

Mine Engineering - Executive Management Traning Program

CMT College

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