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Ballard went door to door offering residential maintenance services through Ballard Mowing. Though a moped might not seem like the ideal vehicle to transport equipment, Ballard pulled a mower behind his moped, while a friend he employed carried the weed eaters and blowers on his. What started with 10 to 15 mowing accounts grew to 35 to 40 lawns per week by the time Ballard was 16. He even put an ad in the local paper offering to mow an average-sized lawn for $12. "We didn’t have any overhead then, so our services were less expensive," Ballard pointed out. By the time Ballard reached his senior year in high school in 1993, he employed a full-time crew that mowed mainly residential properties during the day while he was in class. At one point, Ballard said, the company was making $1,700 to $2,000 weekly. "Seeing my friends only make $7 to $8 an hour in other jobs made me aware that I liked what I was doing better," Ballard pointed out. "I felt challenged and wanted to keep going." Click here to read the full story at Lawn & Landscape Magazine... |
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Fourteen-year-old
Kory Ballard wanted a new moped more than anything. So, when his father,
Bob, told him he better get a job so he could afford it, he immediately got
to work.