Age: 39 years old

Family: Wife, Michele (40), Three Children: Santo (10), Ashley (5), Gianna (2).

Highest education: B.S. in Marketing from SUNY Old Westbury, 1985

Year Started Business: November, 1985

Type of Business: Two Venues - Mailing and Mailing List Business and Money Making Opportunity Business.

Market: I feel my market is people who are actively involved with money making opportunities through the US Mail System.

Number of Employees: Six Regular Employees and 13 “Housewife” Independent Contractors.

Best month (gross revenues): $124,500

Hours worked per week during start-up: 60-70 hours

Hours worked per week now: 60 hours

Favorite business magazine: Money Makers Monthly

Favorite business authors: Tony Robbins, Jeff Keller

Relaxes by: Sleeping

Keeps in shape by: “I exercise regularly; I work out at the Gym for a minimum of one hour everyday, except Sundays. I still play Softball, Flag Football, and Basketball on competitive teams.”

Favorite part of job: “The flexibility. If my children want to play, I adjust my hours accordingly, and we play.”

Least favorite part of job: “Talking with people who have no sense of reality. The type of people who think they can make a ton of money with very little effort and very little capital - people who are desperate for a miracle. I hate to be the one to squash their dream, but I guess someone has to.”

Companies admired: “I admire all companies with a track record; analyzing every one of them helps me understand how to improve my business.”

The person who most influenced your life: “My father has been the most influential person and is the hero in my life. I do not know why; I just know for a guy who quit school in the eighth grade, he has got to be the most intelligent man I have ever had the great fortune to listen to. He is the hardest-working, most faithful person I know, and that is no coincidence. My sister, Ann, and my brother, Santo, are hard workers, are successful in other endeavors and are very faithful also. Let’s not forget my Mother either. She is a Saint!”

Favorite quotes:
“Early to Bed, Early To Rise”
“The early bird gets to eat the worm.”
“The luckiest people we know are always the hardest workers also.”
(These are all sayings Larry heard daily from his Dad growing up.)

Number of months in business before achieving a profit: 14 months

How Larry got into business for himself: “I listened to an Amway Presentation when I was 19 and for as long as I could remember, I never wanted to work for someone else.”

Best thing about being self-employed: “Being creative enough to achieve your own success and being flexible enough to do the things you want to do. It is still hard work though, and working hard is not a bad thing in my mind.”

Contact Larry at: 1-888-487-2777 or via email at lc@lcme.com

Articles that Larry writes monthly are available free at his Website at http://www.lcme.com