Slides for presentation by Mary Ellen Sheets, founder of Two Men and a Truck, at Detroit Regional Chamber's "Business InSight" conference. October 27, 2009 at Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI.

5. 1980 – 1983 Okemos High School graduates Brig Melanie Jon

6. 1981 – The first truck

8. 1985 – 1986 $350 truck Brand new truck

9. 1987 – The first Lansing office

10. 1988 – Pee Wee

11. 1990 – The Kalamazoo street office

12. 1991 – The first “real” fleet

13. 1992 – The first “real” franchise office on Michigan Avenue

14. 1993 – The Michigan Avenue basement

15. 1993 – The broken leg

16. 1996 – 1998 The box outlet

17. 1998 – The new home office in Okemos

18. 1999 – The National Enquirer

19. 2001 – The 100th franchise in Mesa, AZ

20. 2001 – The new building groundbreaking

21. 2002 – The new home office

22. 2002 – Truckie is born!

23. 2003 – Bill Edwards our International Coordinator

24. 2004 – The groundbreaking for new home office wings

25. 2004 – The building addition

26. The training house and truck

27. Technology lab

28. The PROSHOP

29. 2005 - Cover of Franchising World

30. The first in Canada 2005

31. 2006

32. Dublin, Ireland 2007

33. Moving Forward

34. Going green

35. 2008 Board of Directors

36. Lessons Learned Lesson #1 - Even if you are shy, you can do public speaking if you do it enough. Lesson #2 - Always give back to your community. Lesson # 3 - The Customer ALWAYS comes first! Lesson #4 - Love what you do - Life is not a dress rehearsal. Lesson # 5 - Don’t listen to negative comments.

37. Lesson # 6 - Even if you are broke, let people know you WILL pay them back. Keep in contact with them. Send as much as you can afford every month. Lesson #7 - Always say YES! to any opportunity, as you don’t know where it will lead you. Lesson #8 - Don’t lose your focus. Lesson #9 - Take lots of pictures! You will be so glad some day you did. Lesson #10 - If you want to do something bad enough, you can make it happen. Even if you can only do a little each day - do something and when you look back, you will see you have accomplished a lot! Lessons Learned…