Q – 1) Kindly give our readers an introduction to your business. Please include what your business is all about, in which city you are located and if you have offices in multiple locations/ cities.
A) Our Locksmith company is run and managed from home, we service customers all over St Louis, St Louis county and St Charles.
We provide car key replacement services on the spot and 99% of the time the same very day, at time as fast as 20 minutes.
We also help people who get stuck out of their car or house. Anything can be unlocked with us.
Q – 2) Kindly give us a brief description about yourself (it should include your brief educational or entrepreneurial background and list some of your major achievements).
A) I am a driven guy with the love to security and cars, locksmith industry
I started my own business as a locksmith 8 years ago and running strong
Before that I did the usual school. After school I took the courses I needed in order to provide the best locksmith service in town.
Q – 3) What inspired you to (start a new business venture) or (to make significant changes in an existing business)? How did the idea for your business come about?
A) I always loved working with my hands, this business just kind of happened ro me, the work itself using my hands and feeling great when getting a customer out of a tough citation and being called a hero was my drive.
Q – 4) What three pieces of advice would you give to budding entrepreneurs?
A) Learn to take advice, don’t give up, enjoy what you do
Q – 5) What would you say are the top three skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur?
A) Drive, attitude, Ability to adapt
Q – 6) How many hours do you work a day on average?
A) I am always on call.
Q – 7) To what do you most attribute your success?
A) hard work and continuing to work hard.
Q – 8) How do you go about marketing your business? What has been your most successful form of marketing?
A) Since Google is very problematic with locksmiths, paid ads by google products have always been an issue for me. For that reason most of my work is from word of mouth, I do however get some organic jobs which help out a lot.
Q – 9) Where did your organizations funding/capital come from and how did you go about getting it? How did you obtain investors for your venture?
A) Well i started with a cheap car and some basic tools, did what i could with those tools and just kept buying more tools and increasing my job capacity, today there is not many cars out there that i cant make a key for.
Q – 10) What is the best way to achieve long-term success?
A) As i said before do not give up, even when it feels down do not give up you do not know what could be around the corner and if you give up you definitely won’t achieve success.
Q – 11) Where you see yourself and your business in 5 – 10 years?
A) Not really sure, I’m loving the life i live for that reason i hope in the same place i guess but with a fatter bank account, maybe some more time off.
Q – 12) Excluding yours, what company or business do you admire the most?
A) I admire Elon from Tesla for running after his dream no matter how crazy they sound
Q – 13) How important have good employees been to your success?
A) Good employees are everything for your business, bad ones in our industry steal and run off leaving your duties unmanned.
Q – 14) What motivates you?
A) when a customer is stuck at the supermarket because he lost his key, or a trucker in the middle of no whare locked his key in the car. They are at a very bad moment and then i come in and fix it all up in under 1 hour, the looks on their face, the gratitude i receive for providing help to them at a hard place,
Q – 15) How do you generate new ideas?
A) They just come to me but i dont run after them i focus on what i know best.
Q – 16) How do you define success?
A) Being happy and not needing anything.
Q – 17) How do you build a successful customer base?
A) Hard work and make sure people remember you.
