Burke Franklin:
CLASS OF 1974
Woodberry Forest High SchoolClass of 1974
Woodberry forest, VA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1979
Santa barbara, CA
Santa Barbara High SchoolClass of 1974
Santa barbara, CA
Malibu Park Junior High SchoolClass of 1971
Malibu, CA
Carlthorp SchoolClass of 1968
Santa monica, CA
Burke's Story
Life
Carl-Thorpe School in Santa Monica for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd gradeÂ
(Nikki Branham kissed me.) Mom gets remarried, we move out to Malibu. Now I have an older sister, older brother and younger brother (they have red hair!) Juan Cabrillo Elementary in 3rd grade (Mrs. Waterman) I had a crush on a few girls. 6th grade -- dad has a Navy gig in Honolulu, so we moved there for 3 months and I went to school at Lanikai Elementary (no need to wear shoes!) Came backÂ
On to Malibu Park JHS. Dances were cool, but I was hating life because my dad was cutting my hair with poodle clippers(!) Grandma offers to send me to private school in Virginia. Woodberry Forest (see the movie, 'Dead Poet's Society) I was one of 2 boys from CA. Education was excellent. Returned home after 2 years, moved to Santa Barbara/Santa Barbara HS. Didn't feel like moving again to some far off place so I went to UC Santa Barbara. Majored in Mech.Engrng--wanted to make better motorcycles! Friend turned me on to electronic music, so I changed majors to Elect. EngrngÂ
but the math drove me crazy, so I switched to business!
Started a do-it-yourself used car lot (The Auto Exchange) in downtown Santa Barbara... My radio ads ran weekly and I did it for a y...Expand for more
ear (ultimately more trouble than it was worth). Anyway, I got an 'A' every quarter in an elective busines class. BA degree from UCSB.
Worked for Texas Instruments in So. Calif. selling electronics.
Took seminars at Summit Workshops (milder form of est). Then, wnet to work for Summit.
Eventually, I was hired by a Summit grad as Director of Marketing: Accounting Software. Looking for a craeer change, became the Electronics Buyer for the Sharper Image Catalog in San Francisco. Later moved over to the art dept to write ad copy for the catalog. Later, I became manager of business dev for a marketing firm in Silicon Valley. I learned a lot about marketing, but left being owed a few paychecks. 1984. Working for CPT, selling word-processors. July 1986, founded Tools For Sales to make sales materials (what if I applied what I learned at Summit + The Sharper Image and made better selling brochures?) Somehow, people also asked me for help with their business plans... like a brochure for selling their ideas to investors and banks for financing... I worked on variety of business plans. New idea: BizPlanBuilder® software (A Word & Excel based template for $100). This is what I'm doing now: Visit JIAN.com. Give a call or write!
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