Stephen Noble

• Start-up providing web design, social media, and print marketing services.
• Kachina Marketing and Designs LLC was started by fate as a Boutique provider of internet website design and implementation, branding, and marketing and we have remained that way. Four people with different skill sets with a common purpose, three people, in the beginning, had other full-time jobs, I was "retired", which remains the same today. The top line is not our primary focus, rather providing the very best product to customers at a price that is fair to both parties. We can be very selective about the jobs we take and only take jobs that we feel we can devote the time to and also have the correct skills to meet our client's needs. Quality is job one.

• Salesperson for a small local wine distributor.
• While traveling, I need a point of visiting local wine growers and vintners if possible and convenient. It is a very creative process both in the growing and vinting. Certain procedures must be followed very closely, but there are also so many things that both the grower and the vinter can do to create their own personal interpretation of how they want the grape or wine to taste. I found the process fascinating and I enjoyed teaching people about the complete story of the process to create a particular wine.
  
  Enjoyment with that and also enjoying interacting with people with an interest and wine fostered success. Because of that success, I was selected to go along on a yearly trip to visit current vendors and to interview possible new vendors. In addition, I received many awards on a monthly basis for adding the most new customers or gross sales for the month.

Since the late '70s I had been in the transportation business in many different capacities always working for someone else. By the early 90s I knew that it was time to make a change. Starting Advantage Transport Inc. in June 1994 was the result of that change.
Again it started small myself and one other person. Our gross revenues for the remainder of 1994 was around $250,000. By the end of my tenure as CEO we were approaching 30 million dollars in sales.