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Great job Nick and Jerry at their Meating yesterday!

Off to meet up with Jim in St. Louis for the "Show Me St. Louis" spot in a few days!

Move over Mary Kay, ManCave is here.

Minnesota College Student Nick Beste created ManCave Worldwide as a way to provide men with tools necessary to be all that is man. Beste says it's the perfect excuse to hang out with the guys, eat lots of meat and drink beer.

ManCave "meatings" teach different grilling techniques to showcase all of ManCave products.

"We got barbeque stuff, we got meats, we got poker stuff, home bar stuff, anything that a man would want, that's what we have," said Beste.

Everything from a bottle opener to beer mugs is for sale; all have the ManCave logo on them. All of the products are delivered to the purchaser's front door and have a lifetime guarantee.

Guys who go to meatings say they're glad men have something to call their own.

"The ladies have their little parties that we can't really talk about. So its really fun to have a time where you can get together with the guys, have a beer and do what guys do without having interruptions," said Brian Cox.

Beske says he hopes ManCave will rise to the top of things to do for men.

"I believe we will be more popular than Mary Kay one day," said Beste.

He says no matter the occasion, be it a bachelor party or just an excuse to pig out, ManCave is what's good about being a man.

Half way through our first summer, Man Cave has EIGHT Advisors working to spread the good word about our exclusive line of Man Cave products. The Fargo-Moorhead Forum chimes in on the concept and early growth...

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/245514/

Love of grilling leads to ManCave business

Direct sales company focuses on men’s creature habits
Nick Beste wants to sell products to men in the same manner that companies like Pampered Chef and Mary Kay have catered primarily to women.

By: Craig McEwen, INFORUM

Nick Beste started ManCave to cater to men’s interests, including grilling. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

Nick Beste wants to sell products to men in the same manner that companies like Pampered Chef and Mary Kay have catered primarily to women.

The 23-year-old East Grand Forks, Minn., native has launched ManCave, a direct sales company that sells select meats, grilling accessories, in-home bar and poker supplies at gatherings called “MEATings.”

“It’s an enterprise dedicated to letting men be men, no questions asked,” states the company Web site www.mancaveworldwide.com.

Here’s how it works:

ManCave advisers are independent male or female business owners, said Beste.

“They go into somebody’s home and teach different grilling techniques to showcase our products,” he said, cooking beer-can chicken, brats, steaks and other munchies for participants to consume.

ManCave also has a small line of gifts for women: rose petals, body butter and soy candles.

“We figured, you know, if you’re going to spend the night with the guys drinking beer and eating meat, you might as well bring the wife home something nice to get yourself back in the house,” Beste said.

Beste and business partner, Kevin Carlow, both University of Minnesota students, started discussing the idea in October. They launched ManCave in April.

The company has eight advisers selling products in Minnesota, North Dakota and Illinois.

Beste graduated from East Grand Forks High School in 2005, always wanting to pursue a career in business.

In third grade he drew a stick figure. “Below it I wrote, ‘I want to buy and sell companies,’ ” he recalled.

During high school he worked for Grand Forks, N.D., commercial real estate developer Kevin Ritterman, who owns Dakota Commercial and Development.

“That really got me pumped up. Kevin taught me a lot about everything. I owe a lot to him,” said Beste.

“For as young as he is, he’s a pretty driven kid. You could see that when he started working for us at 16-17,” said Ritterman.

“He is aggressive. He will learn and make some mistakes just like everybody else, along the way,” Ritterman said.

Beste and Carlow also operate U-Guide, a community guidebook for students at seven Midwestern universities, including North Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota.

Beste is also Midwest distributer of Village Hot Sauce, which was started 28 years ago by Tom Zimmer in Grand Forks.