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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Thomas Barnes. A product of the APS(Atlanta Public Schools), attended Morehouse College, and has a degree in Management from GSU(Ga State) with an emphasis in CIS(Information Systems). Thomas owns Experimax, a complete retail computer store that specializes in sales, service, and support of all things Apple. Welcome to Money Making Conversations Master Class, Thomas Barnes.

We also offer the same services in the Windows and Samsung world, but Apple is our core business. In addition to the services offered to our walk-in customers daily, we can provide IT consulting and engagement for schools, churches, and businesses at large, particularly small businesses or organizations that do not have a dedicated IT resource or staff. We can also help to better utilize your IT budget or funding by working together to identify your your business and computer needs to see how we can assist in future procurement and hardware refresh efforts.

Talking Points/Questions *
1) Who is Thomas Barnes

2) Tell us a little bit about Experimax

3) How did you come to work in the IT industry ad now a business owner of Experimax?

4) How has my past life/work experience contributed to my becoming a business owner?

5) Why Experimax, why a franchise?

6) How can you and your team at Experimax serve the local community and the Atlanta/Sandy Springs community at large?

7) What has the journey been like on this road of entrepreneurship?

8) Who and/or what motivated you to start your own business?

9) Any suggestions to those considering pursuing their dreams and business ownership?

10) Plans for the future?

#AMI

#BEST

#STRAW

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. I am Rishon McDonnell, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
0:10.1	where we encourage people to stop reading other people's success stories and start planning their own.
0:15.4	Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country, talk to celebrities, and ask them how they're running their companies, and speak with nonprofits who are making a difference in their local communities.
0:27.7	Now sit back and listen as we unlock the secrets to their success on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
0:36.1	Hi, this is Rishon MacDonald. I host a weekly Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Hi, this is Rishon MacDonald.
0:38.9	I host the weekly Money Making Conversation Masterclass show.
0:42.7	The interviews and information that this show provides are for everyone.
0:46.3	It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and start living your own.
0:50.9	I'm here to help you reach your American dream.
0:55.6	If you want to be a guest on my show,
1:02.0	please visit Moneymakingconversations.com and click the Be a Guess button. And you can be a guest on my show. Just fill out the information, press submit, and I will reach out to you. Now,
1:06.4	let's get on to the show. My guest has maximized his love for math and science as a kid to become
1:13.1	Atlanta's technology guru. At his business, he brings people together by helping them achieve
1:18.9	their technology needs in a warm and welcoming environment. Please welcome to the money-main
1:24.1	conversation. One of my favorite guests, Mr. Thomas Barnes. How doing thomas mr macdalo i'm doing wonderful my friend and yourself thank you for having me on
1:33.8	this evening you know thomas i got to squeeze that one of my favorite people because i hadn't had you in a long
1:37.8	time a little backstory when i used this segment in my show called bragging segment
1:42.3	thomas was one of the first guests that called in.
1:45.5	He, um, it was just promoting your business, just letting everybody know what you feel good about your
1:50.5	business, what you bring to the table about your business, what assets you bring to your business.
1:54.9	The customers will value if they came to your place of business. He saw the opportunity to market
1:59.5	and his brand, which is what the segment was all about. And he took advantage of business. He saw the opportunity to market in his brand, which is what the
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