Robert Lampkin is a Home Based Business Entrepreneur living in Toronto Ontario Canada, who discovered his entrepreneurial spirit early in life when, as a teenager, he would sell cleaning products - door to door - after school, for The Fuller Brush Company. He did very well and was proud to be able to get things that he really wanted (like his own bike) with his very own money. 

After High School he studied Business at Scarborough Centenary Collage and graduated with majors in Marketing, Economics and Accounting. He then added to his Business education by completing a Real Estate course at George Brown Collage, all while still selling home and personal care products and doing painting, renovating and decorating for a growing list of customers.

It was about this time that he had his very first experience with a Network Marketing Company when he started buying, using, and promoting their brand of Bio-degradable, Environmentally Friendly Cleaning and Personal Care Products.

Again, Robert did well, so well in fact that the part-time income that he had established with his Networking Business was enough to carry him through some very hard times.

Unfortunately the company itself, like so many others at that time, did not survive the rough years. 

Mr. Lampkin sold Real Estate in the Greater Toronto area for a few years. It was a time of recession and great financial hardship for many.  Due to a major economic downturn, large companies in major industries were either going out of business or down-sizing, putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work.  The Real Estate market was also very affected by this recession. Although he was the top listing salesman in his office at that time, there were not enough closings (completed sale and transfer of property ownership) going through his broker's office and eventually even his broker was forced to go out of business. 

Mr. Lampkin then fell back on his part-time renovation business as well as working with some MLM companies to survive. He always thought that Multi Level Marketing or Network Marketing was a great concept whose time will come when the average person realized its potential. But it was still a young industry`, unstable and going through many changes.  

A few years later, as the recession broke, Robert started noticing a trend in the housing market. People were now more inclined to hold onto their homes and re-invest in them. They were more inclined to spending money renovating and adding onto their homes as opposed to moving and re-locating. 

Robert soon realized that he was very much in demand by his ever growing list of customers, as well as the fact that he was experiencing much more reward and satisfaction from providing an honest service for people and helping them accomplish something. He knew he had to make a change.

He knew that he had to take complete control of his own destiny.

In 1981, Robert Lampkin took his knowledge of Construction and his love and passion for Home Maintenance, Renovation and Decoration, which he did in his spare time anyway, and turned it into a full time business when he started House-Keepers Associated.  

House-Keepers Associated did everything from Carpet Care, Sales Installation and Maintenance to Renovation, Decoration and Property Maintenance. 

Mr. Lampkin excelled at his craft because of the amount of personal attention, care and pride that he had put into each and every completed project. House-Keepers Associated began to experience great success, mostly due to 'word-of-mouth' advertising, as well as the sales generated by his Phone Room operation. 

Mr. Lampkin was probably the first person in the Home Maintenance & Improvement Industry to use Telemarketing on a regular basis as a tool for generating sales and new customers. His telephone sales people used a sales script that he himself wrote that was so successful and had such a high conversion rate that it garnished much attention from his competitors who soon began to copy his Telemarketing System and script.  To this day, some versions of his original Telemarketing Script is still being used by some companies in various Service related industries. 

Robert Lampkin was becoming more in demand as his popularity grew even in certain Networking circles. He was now being asked to either speak at, or do demonstrations for and at Home Shows, Flea Markets, Trade Shows,  Business Fairs Etc.        

In 1997, shortly after suffering the loss of his younger sister, who passed away at the young age of 40,  Mr. Lampkin himself suffered another medical setback, a side effect of an untreatable blood condition that both he and his sister were diagnosed with as children. 

All of his doctors, including his blood specialist at Toronto General Hospital highly recommended that he give up the hard work and especially the work that he does with heavy materials and chemicals like solvents, paints and cleaning products. Although he was already using primarily  organic, bio-degradable or natural based products, he was still urged to drop this line of work for the sake of his better health.   

Faced with the prospect of a complete change in his life, Robert was now forced to re-evaluate his business and face some tough decisions. It was hard, but necessary, so Mr. Lampkin decided to close his office and showroom, but keep the company name and work exclusively from his home. But he still had one major challenge; - How will he now service all those customers that are asking for his help?! - He had to somehow leverage his time. He had no choice but to hire other reputable contractors and sub-contractors to take over his workload. He could then turn his attention to finding other ways of creating an income from home that did NOT involve ANY physical or hard work. 

Mr. Lampkin  has since been involved with a number of business ventures including Network Marketing that did accomplish just that. 

Robert Lampkin has also found, since discovering The Internet,  that he can create multiple small but growing sources of income, that when added or put together, become significant. Although very much affected by his medical condition, Robert is now able to choose when he wants to work and for how many hours in a day he works. He often jokes that...."I've gone from working too hard to hardly working, and I love it!"  "The Internet now allows me to do the legwork without having to use my legs." "It is a fantastic tool that allows me to, very easily, leverage my time through the participation of others - almost like franchising myself, but without all the headaches!"      

Mr. Robert Lampkin has built a successful career over the years as a Self Employed, Home Based Business Entrepreneur who loves to share new Business Ideas and concepts with others. He also loves to teach people about the joys of owning and running their own successful businesses from their homes. 

For more information on some of Robert's projects please use the links on the right side of this page. 

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