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I'm Brandon Knowles, owner of Faster Solutions. I've been working with this business since
2002. I am a graduate of UMD in 2001 with an emphasis on marketing. Marketing was a
great fit for me just because I was able to do an internship program that was really the
start of my professional career. I did a Kaufman internship that helped me learn how to start
a business in Minnesota and also I've learned how to write a business plan. From there I
was able to start my initial career after graduation, with UMD, with the Ikonics Corporation
and get into their marketing department where I really learned a lot about how to apply
the marketing I learned at college. Of course while I was at school I really learned all
the fundamentals that it took to be able to work with other businesses to be able to communicate
what I was doing and to understand the operations and what a business was doing and also learn
how to really grow a business, manage a business, work with personnel on all different levels,
both on the HR side of things and within marketing specific tasks. So as we grew I was able to
get into this business and really grow to the point where everything I learned at UMD
I really applied directly into this business. Each and every day what Faster Solutions does
is work with other businesses in a be to be scenario where we help other businesses provide
their marketing services. It's a great and fun environment where we get to learn more
about those businesses, how they operate, who their target markets are, what they're
trying to accomplish, how they're trying to grow their business, and we each and every
day get to help them fulfill those goals. I can also really take that experience and
apply it directly as I grow my own business. We are a small business of 14 employees at
the moment and as we continue to grow we continue to have more needs for marketing our own business
and also staying with the latest technology to learn the new things we apply to the businesses
and clients we are working for.