Feature on the Family at Renegade Professional

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Feature on the Family at Renegade Professional

What motivates a 24 year old programmer to leave his social circle to work and live with his coworker (and business partner)?

You’ll find out that and more in this 26 minute interview I conducted with Blaine Glynn and Candace Hogan.

Candace happens to be Blaine’s mom and is also the Customer Support Manager for 80/20 Marketing along with giving a hand in the Renegade Professional customer support department.

You’ll be surprised to learn that money — yes, while necessary and needed — actually ranks pretty low for what motivates Blaine.

I think he gets the formula for success.

He’s become very results focused and is willing to make sacrifices to make that happen.

While he does have a four year degree in computer science that’s got him trained as a kick-butt programmer he’s since learned the value of becoming self-educated.

It’s all about going out and finding the resources to make things happen.

You’ll also hear him talk about his primary source of inspiration and influence. (No, it wasn’t one of his college professors.)

In this interview you’ll find one thing we’re pretty big on at Marketing Merge Professional is inter-generational learning and business development.

Take my own company as an example. It basically started with me and my son and then bringing my husband into that partnership.

This inter-generational business building is a trend we’re going to see more and more of and we plan to be a big part of that.

Listen to our interview and let us know what you think!

What motivates a 24 year old programmer to leave his social circle to work and live with his coworker (and business partner)?

You’ll find out that and more in this 26 minute interview I conducted with Blaine Glynn and Candace Hogan.

Candace happens to be Blaine’s mom and is also the Customer Support Manager for 80/20 Marketing along with giving a hand in the Renegade Professional customer support department.

You’ll be surprised to learn that money — yes, while necessary and needed — actually ranks pretty low for what motivates Blaine.

I think he gets the formula for success.

He’s become very results focused and is willing to make sacrifices to make that happen.

While he does have a four year degree in computer science that’s got him trained as a kick-butt programmer he’s since learned the value of becoming self-educated.

It’s all about going out and finding the resources to make things happen.

You’ll also hear him talk about his primary source of inspiration and influence. (No, it wasn’t one of his college professors.)

In this interview you’ll find one thing we’re pretty big on at Marketing Merge Professional is inter-generational learning and business development.

Take my own company as an example. It basically started with me and my son and then bringing my husband into that partnership.

This inter-generational business building is a trend we’re going to see more and more of and we plan to be a big part of that.

Listen to our interview and let us know what you thin

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What really makes this community so great is the emphasis on family.

Who are we without a family? It is where we establish an identity and face what life throws at us with strength and encouragement.

It really is inspiring to see so many young entrepreneurs working closely with others in their own family to create something bigger than themselves such as what Ann and her two sons are doing right now.

And seeing that Ann is ready to have other family units join their energies to hers just shows how she practices what she preaches.

Comment by Marie Leonard — September 25, 2009 @ 7:24 am
Family is probably the number one reason the majority of people get into a home business. They are tired of missing their kids events, having to travel and being gone for days or weeks. Many times this is more important than the money.

Comment by David Enders, D.C. — September 25, 2009 @ 10:59 am
Making life comfortable and enjoyable is achieved by balancing work, family issues and having fun times. Having your own Homebased Business give you this and the ability to create the money for security and freedom.

Comment by Rallie Rallis — September 26, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
I love how this company is open to grow and innovate with people’s input. Ann Sieg’s leadership is so strong and still such a people person…we are so fortunate. I really enjoyed this interview with Candace and Blaine and heard how they are contributing essential talents to 80/20-Marketing Merge. Take a listen/view to this 26 minute video, it is well worth it.
Kathy

Comment by Kathy Beaman — September 26, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
Family is and has always been a major motivational factor for many parents to find a way to make their home businesses work.

It’s wonderful to see that Blaine has joined his mother at 80/20, Inc. You can certainly see that Candace is so proud of her son in this video!!

Thank you for sharing this with the community! It would be thrilling to have one of my boys join “mom” one day in my business.

Keep up the good work and congrats, Blaine, on your new living arrangements.

Lee Ann McVey

Comment by Lee Ann McVey — September 27, 2009 @ 10:00 am
Family is definitely very motivational for staying home and having a home based business.

You can tell that Candace is very proud of her son, Blaine!

Ann, thank you for sharing this video with the community. I hope to one day have one of my son’s involved in the family biz!

LeeAnn McVey

Comment by LeeAnn McVey — September 27, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
What a lovely video and so nice to see Candace in person and Blaine.

I was wondering what the ‘connection’ between the two were and the mind came up with all sorts of things:)

Welcome Blaine and it’s wonderful to see family members working together and what’s more having them ‘want to’. That says a lot about the family dynamics.

As others have mentioned previously, this company is unique in how it is so much family oriented and not just that, but the members are individuals and make contributions that are clearly their own.

It’s a great company to be part of.

Cheers,
Deb

Comment by Deborah Marsden — September 27, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
Isn’t great to see Blaine, so humble, humorous with big plans. Results focused – great phrase, great thought, great goal. Go, Blaine! Pretty young for such a great role model.

Comment by Donnalynn Polito — September 28, 2009 @ 8:44 am
Very happy to see Candace and Blaine tell their story. Family is important and it is critical to balance family priorities with career priorities.

Of course a good way to do that is to weave family and business together!

My daughters have worked with Melana (my wife) and I in our business. It is extremely satisfying and I would jump at the chance to do it again. So far, it has always been short-lived – home from college for the summer, etc.

I’m going to send a link to this video to all 3 of them … just to plant a seed. You never know.

One thing that jumps out at me from Candace’s story is that it was mutual – all the players wanted to be in business together. Also, it became a reality when Blaine made the decision to join. No pressure or expectation, just opportunity.

I admire how you all bring your family values to your business.

Michael Wilson

Comment by Michael Wilson — September 28, 2009 @ 9:08 am
I think as a parent, it is very fulfilling to be able to be a role model for our children to the point where they want to be our business partners. Although, at the age current age of 7, my son hasn’t made a life long commitment to being my partner, he does enjoy making videos with me and telling people that my “job” is working on the Internet. If I can instill him the true meaning of freedom- then I have succeeded. Good Luck to Candice and Blaine!

Comment by Adrian Schleis — September 29, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
Wow, it is my dream to enable my sons to be entrepeneurs. Not necessarily in business with me, but to realize the fulfillment of building our their dreams from home with their families.

This emphasis on family values is another reason of many that I solidly align myself to Renegade Professional and all things associated with this leadership.

Ann Sieg has done a fabulous job of modeling what she promotes among her family and associates. Thanks Ann for that.

Comment by Pat Campbell — October 1, 2009 @ 10:38 am
Thanks everyone for your great comments. It’s really great to be surrounded by people like you in such a great community!
Of course if anyone has questions for me I’m always reachable

~Blaine

Comment by Blaine Glynn — October 10, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
Candace and Blaine,

Great interview by Ann…did someone cue that bird at the end? I like this inter-generational thing going on…makes me think about my own x, y & Z

Comment by Cathy Fletcher — October 12, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
I Don’t Know You!

It’s extremely hard to sell something to someone you don’t know, remember those old school marketing tactics from years past it was pretty frustrating back then. But now it doesn’t have to be.

Building a business online is not that much different than building one offline people like to do business with someone they know and trust and building relationships is a huge part of that. Nice article Cindy.

Comment by kevin thomas — October 27, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
Hi,

Will someone please be able to give me a contact… either email or phone for the accounts branch at Betternetworker?

Thanks

Fay

Comment by Fay Clarke — November 13, 2009 @ 10:30 pm