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Creating the Difference Acquires Movement Bowling

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PRESS RELEASE June 1, 2016 Former bowling ball designer for Ebonite International Inc, Ronald Hickland Jr, is Creating the Difference in the Chicagoland bowling market.  He founded Creating the Difference in May 2015 primarily as a coaching company with a vision of helping bowlers and growing the sport of bowling.  With 15 years on the manufacturing side, Ronald decided to focus on listening and helping consumers with his new company.   In September 2015, Creating the Difference launched its first bowling ball cleaner, That Purple Stuff.  The cleaner is approved for use anytime by the USBC and has taken off...

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One Year of Creating the Difference

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May 8th, 2015 was a special day. It was the day my partner and I decided to start Creating The Difference. Our Mission is to inspire people to identify and reach their passion through coaching, education, mentoring, and motivating so they can unlock their potential and create a difference. We are an innovative company who is able to see when change is needed and come up with creative solutions to help. Since bowling had played such an important role in my career, I wanted a way to give back to the sport. My partner and I designed some services to...

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What in the world is "That Purple Stuff"???

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One of the best parts of being an engineer is knowing how to develop products.  Being able to assemble a team with the right kind of talent accelerates bringing products to market.  Our goal at Creating The Difference is to improve bowler education.   We had an idea for a book called The Tournament Mindset.  That led us to develop a backpack with supplies to help bowlers perform better.  One of the products we included was a bowling ball cleaner.  So we decided to build our own.   We had 3 main goals when developing the cleaner Build a cleaner that...

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