Serial entrepreneur with a passion for teaching.
Ruth King has been working with small businesses since 1981. She narrowed her focus in 1987 when she began working in the construction trades. She has been traveling throughout the country coaching, training, and helping contractors achieve the business goals they want to achieve.
She is especially proud of one contractor she helped climb out of a big hole. He started with a negative $400,000 net worth 15 years ago and is still in business today…profitably and with a positive net worth.
After twelve years on the road, doing 200 flights per year, she knew there had to be a better way to reach contractors and other small business people who wanted to build their businesses and train their employees. Her husband came up with the technology. As a result, ProNetworkTV, Inc. and its first channel, HVACChannel.tv, were born. This is television on the Internet and on cell phones. Information when you want it…where you want it…for less than the cost of lunch.
ProNetworkTV, Inc. is one of four companies that Ruth is an owner/partner in. She has been involved with many different businesses over the years with a wide range of interests including music, healthy house products, and t-shirts.
Ruth is passionate about helping adults learn to read, photography, and marathon races. She helped start an adult literacy organization in 1986 that currently serves over 1,000 adults per year and ran the Boston Marathon in April, 2004 and April 2005.
Ruth holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and University of Pennsylvania, respectively. She also holds an MBA in finance from Georgia State University.
She has written many manuals for Contractors including the popular Keeping Score Series: “Financial Management for Contractors”, “Improving Profitability and Productivity”, and “21 Way to Keep Your Honest Employees Honest”. Her first general small business book, The Ugly Truth About Small Business: 50 Things that Can Go Wrong and What to Do About It (www.the uglytruthaboutsmallbusiness.com) was published by Source Books in November, 2005.
Ruth has spoken for national and state associations meetings, national and local trade shows, manufacturers, distributors, and others in every state except North Dakota. And, she is looking for a reason to go to Fargo.
