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Mark McClure

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Mark McClure began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 25 with drive, vision and only $2,500 to his name. With a goal of acquiring business and real estate entities for the purpose of restructure and profit recapture, he was able to turn his meager investment into assets that exceeded $1MM and a company with revenues of over $1.5MM and a staff of over 30, all within 24 months.

At the age of 28 in 1996 and not content to sit idle, Mark saw the need for a minor league professional basketball team to complement the already successful minor league hockey and baseball teams in the city of Portland, Maine. Undeterred by his young age and lack of funds relative to the size of the deal, Mark was able to form a syndicate with an array of investors and purchased the franchise, becoming the youngest owner in pro sports history as a majority owner of the Portland Mountain Cats of the USBL. In his inaugural season as CEO and General Manager, Mark was instrumental in closing marketing agreements with various regional and Fortune 500 Companies, planning out the season's promotions, handling contract negotiations with the league, player agents and coaches, and setting an opening night attendance record for the league. Due to his efforts and strong selling and management skills the team finished 3rd in win/loss (18-11), 2nd in overall attendance, produced the league's MVP, and sent five players to the NBA, surprising even the most cynical observers with his strong first year performance.

Upon selling the franchise, Mark moved onto large real estate development and investment banking projects internationally, negotiating and/or closing deals that ranged from $10K to over $100 million in over 30 industries on 4 continents with such individuals as CEO's, NBA agents, high powered attorney's, FORTUNE 500 executives and various other business owners on every level.

Due to his amazing grasp of sales, negotiation and international business topics Mark is consistently in demand to speak for companies and public groups worldwide. He has trained more then two hundred of the FORTUNE 500, conducted over 4,000 training workshops for companies of various sizes, and spoken to sold out audiences in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In addition he has written three best selling books and recorded numerous audio and visual programs of his incredible programs. Mark is now considered by many of the world's top promoters to be the "new way" of selling and one of the top 5 sales experts in the world.

Howard Berg

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Trained in Biology and Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and having taken several advanced courses on the psychology of reading at the graduate level, Howard has devoted his life to helping others benefit from scientific breakthroughs in accelerated learning. Using these techniques, Howard has become recognized as the world's fastest reading, and leaning educator for corporations, colleges, and associations serving clients like Sears, Cisco Systems, the young Presidents Organization, and learning centers around the world.

Programs on writing, memory, knowledge management, and math have earned Howard high praises from both the electronic and print media. Howard has appeared on over 1,000 radio and television programs to share his knowledge of accelerated learning skills for mastering everyday problems at home, school, and work. Stories about Howard have appeared in Selling Magazine, Forbes FYI, Men's Health Magazine, and in dozens of positive newspaper interviews. His Mega Speed Reading program is going to be released into seven languages in over 40 countries.

Chris Damsen

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

During his six-year tenure as Senior Director of Business Development at IAC/Ask.com, Chris was a key principal in establishing and building the Distribution & Syndication Division for Ask.com, growing annual revenues from $5 million to in excess of $200 million. He also established key relationships with more than 100 partners including Apple, Google, AOL, BellSouth, EarthLink, CNET, Lycos and InfoSpace."

About Netvibes

Netvibes pioneered the personalized startpage, an alternative to traditional Web portals. With millions of users in more than 150 countries, Netvibes lets individuals assemble all in one place their favorite websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, widgets, and everything else they enjoy on the Web. Founded in 2005 by Tariq Krim, Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.

Netvibes is about having web the way you want it. Exactly the way you want it. Did you ever wish you could get your all of your favorite websites, blogs, news, weather, maps, address books, to do lists, email accounts, social networks, radio stations, search engines, instant messengers, video and photo networks - all of your favorite things in one place and share them with your friends? We did too.

Netvibes:

Helps you manage your digital life and share it with your friends.
Brings all your favorite MySpace, Digg, YouTube, Gmail, Flickr, eBay, del.icio.us accounts – you name it (no, really, you can rename our entire site) – together on your own personal Netvibes page.
Share with your friends or colleague your favorite modules.
100% customizable – no ads, no logos, no corporate control.

Jason Preston

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A self-proclaimed jack of all trades, Jason Preston is a professional blogger, blog consultant, and internet handyman. He also spends his spare time blogging at his own blog, which should tell you something about his personal life. No, really, if you read his personal blog you'll find out more about him.
At Parnassus Group, Jason has worked on a variety of web-based community management and marketing initiatives, from learning the ins and outs of Facebook to growing blog readership and promoting the Blog Business Summit and Web Community Forum.
Jason graduated from Occidental College in May 2007 with a major in Diplomacy and World Affairs (DWA), which is a grab-bag of economics, business, politics, and international relations. He's worked on the Blog Business Summit team since 2005, and has kept a blog in some form or another since 2001.

About Parnassus Group

Since 2004, the Parnassus Group has been helping organizations and individuals understand and leverage social media. Parnassus helps people with social media.
Whether it's hosting conferences, building Facebook applications or getting to know the bloggers in your space, we are here to help you take advantage of powerful community-building platforms.

David Kamnitzer

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. David Kamnitzer is a Chiropractor, Nutritionist, and Stress Management Specialist. He specializes in gentle chiropractic care, combining various forms of soft tissue work with precise manipulative therapy. “Dr. David” is also a therapeutic nutritionist with over 15 years of clinical experience—assisting people with hormonal balancing, weight management, detoxification strategies, and individualized wellness plans. Dr. David also has a strong background in stress management, receiving his B.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University, where he studied with Dr. Eleanor Criswell, a leading pioneer in Biofeedback and the psychology of yoga.

Dr. Kamnitzer graduated Valedictorian and Magna cum Laude from Palmer West in 1987. Certified as a Diplomat in Bioenergetic Synchronization Technique in 1993, he combines his strong background in soft tissue work, biofeedback, therapeutic nutrition, breathwork, psychology, and Spirituality, with this highly specialized gentle Chiropractic technique to offer an individualized and integrated approach to patient care.

Dr. Kamnitzer's professional expertise is in the area of balancing and enhancing the human system at multiple levels: structural, neurological, biochemical, psychological, and spiritual in an integrated fashion. His goal is to help those who are interested and ready to take the next level of responsibility for their health and well-being.

He is also in the process of opening a new clinic especially for people suffering from chronic moderate to severe low-back pain, who want to feel better without more drugs or surgery. The new clinic will combine the best in spinal decompression therapy with light therapy and cutting-edge function-based exercise conditioning programs.

Dr. Kamnitzer also provides a gateway for people to access cutting-edge wellness products and services including Isagenix Cleansing and Fat-Burning Programs, LifeWave Patches, Standard Process Nutritional Products, herbs from the Amazon Rain Forest, individualized Metabolic and Hormonal testing, and the Q-Link and Ally from Clarus Product International.

About Synergy in Action

The Synergy in Action web site was established and is directed by David Kamnitzer, D.C. He is a chiropractor, clinical nutritionist, and stress management specialist. Dr. Kamnitzer's goal is to provide you with accurate, relevant, and timely information to help you take the next steps on your journey into greater health and well-being.

We want to create an extended family of like-minded individuals who can share and care for one another through the open communication channels provided by our site.

Synergy in Action is dedicated to helping you become healthier, happier, and more successful with ease and grace. Synergy in Action is a virtual community, using Internet and other technologies to facilitate increased communication, understanding, and quality of life.

Lee Lorenzen

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Lee Lorenzen is a successful serial/parallel entrepreneur with more than 26 years of experience developing software and founding and/or funding numerous ventures and non-profit organizations. He is currently President, CEO of Adonomics and Altura Ventures.

Prior to Altura Ventures and Adonomics, he founded SHOP.COM (1997-2007) and as CEO/Chairman led the company from simply an idea to its current place as one of the Top 10 most trafficked multi-vendor shopping sites on the web.

Lorenzen's first start-up was Ventura Software (1985-1990) where he co-wrote Ventura Publisher -- the fastest desktop publishing system available on the PC. It was licensed to Xerox and achieved annual sales in excess of $50 million.

Next, Lorenzen founded Altura Software (1990-Present) and created the Mac2Win software which was used to port 60+ Mac applications to Windows (including ClarisWorks, Macromedia Director and Fractal Design Painter). Over the years, Altura generated $15+ million in revenue, reached the Softletter's Top 100 list and achieved Sales Per Employee levels in the Top 10 of all software companies.

Lorenzen also founded and assembled the management team of Fractal Design Corporation (1992-1996), which went public in 1995 before ultimately being acquired by Corel. Next, he co-founded PGSoft (1998-2001) which was sold to Novell after creating the Cody-award winning IFolder product.

Earlier in his career, Lorenzen developed some of the world's first graphical user interfaces. After graduating valedictorian from SMU with a BS in Computer Science, he joined Xerox, where he developed an icon-based graphical desktop user interface called Lone Star in 1981 (just prior to the shipment of the IBM PC). Next, he joined Digital Research Inc. (DRI), where he developed a graphical windowing system and user interface for the PC called GEM that was an early competitor to Windows and Macintosh.

Lorenzen holds a patent as co-inventor of the Universal Shopping Cart (US 7,197,475) Facebook.

About Adonomics

Adonomics™ is an open analytics and advertising platform for Facebook. Originally created by Jesse Farmer, a recent college grad from Chicago, it is now a portfolio company of Altura Ventures LLC.

Adonomics™, formerly Appaholic, is your source for Facebook analytics. By providing a stock-market-style analysis of the Facebook platform we enable developers and investors to track application growth, activity, and valuation.

Cathy Stucker

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

When I first made contact with Cathy Stucker I was on the phone with her for at least an hour and a half. We covered so much ground in that time I should have recorded it. However, since we were all over the place we decided to narrow it down and just cover one topic this time. The topic is “how to promote your book(s) on Amazon.com. I found Cathy while reading John Kremer’s book 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, Sixth Edition.

Cathy Stucker is an author and focused on a couple of niches, including mystery shopping and wrote Mystery Shopper's Manual, 6th Edition. The one discipline where Cathy get’s it right is Learn it, Do it, Teach it, this is her business model. You get the feeling that if you want to get something done all you have to do is ask Cathy how to do it, and if she doesn’t know how to do it she will in short order. Cathy is a person of action, she is an excellent person to model with the can do attitude.

This is a great interview for anyone who wants to market books and music on Amazon. It is especially great for bloggers who have books on Amazon. This is an excellent interview and you will be able to master Amazon in less than an hour.

About IdeaLady.com

Cathy Stucker, the Idea Lady will provide you with excellent advise and guidance for many Internet related activities. You'll find lots of resources for small businesses and professionals, consultants and coaches, authors and publishers, and mystery shoppers.

Whether you are already engaged in one of these professions, or just getting started, you can get the help you need at IdeaLady.com.

Want to know more about mystery shopping? Learn how you can become a professional shopper. Don't forget to sign up for the free email course on mystery shopping.

Check out Cathy's mystery shopping blog.

There are lots of free articles available on marketing, publishing, mystery shopping and more.

Rogelio Choy

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Rogelio (Ro) Choy is vice president of Business Development for RockYou. He is responsible for recruiting and managing partner relations. Before joining the RockYou executive team, Ro managed eBay's online parts business as a Director at eBay Motors and also was responsible for managing Market Development at eBay, including operation of eBay's U.S. wireless efforts. Prior to eBay, Ro co-founded Cima Systems, a leading VOIP software provider for auto dealers. Ro earned his MBA from Stanford University School of Business.

About Rock You

RockYou is a leading provider of applications and widgets on the web. RockYou widgets include photo slideshows, glitter text, customized Facebook applications and voicemail accessories that are simple to use and enable people to frequently refresh their online style. Founded in 2006, RockYou has over 35 million users, serving over 180 million widget views per day in more than 200 countries. RockYou applications are customized for easy integration across all social networks including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Tagged and hi5. RockYou's cost-effective, results-focused advertising platform is the largest Ad Network on Facebook and the most dynamic method for rapidly acquiring Facebook application users. New applications can reach over 100k users in 24 hours, spanning a suite of applications across multiple publishing partners. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, RockYou is funded by Sequoia Capital, Partech International and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Ted Demopoulos

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

I asked the 500 people in my keynote speech yesterday how many had googled me. Almost everyone’s hand went up. A senior hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company trained all his people how to look up potential employees online last year, going well beyond a simple search engine lookup. The results affect who gets hired and who doesn’t. “18% of working college graduates report that their employer expects some form of selfmarketing online as part of their job” Digital Footprints, Pew Internet and American Life Project, December 2007. A reporter from Investors Business Daily interviewed me yesterday. It was obvious he had Googled me online before we spoke. If he had found nothing or nothing interesting, we wouldn’t have been speaking. My friend Bruce has a new girlfriend. He definitely Googled her before considering dating her, and she looked him up online as well. Is “Love at first Google” possible?

Jim Butz

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Jim Butz: 30+ years of experience with bringing technology based products to market; he spent 18 years at Bell Labs, AT&T and Lucent Technologies. He had broad responsibilities in strategy and planning, product management and sales and customer service. His Enterprise Messaging Business Unit strategy was used in Lucent Technologies’ first major acquisition after spinning off from AT&T. More recently, he is a founder and principal at Resonnect, a six year old San Diego business consultancy, where he helps business owners and executives architect growth strategies and execution plans, negotiate strategic alliances and distribution agreements, and develop operations. Has been actively involved in various organization and company advisory boards. View Website

Tim Ash

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Tim Ash is the President and co-founder of SiteTuners and its parent company Epic Sky. He is the author of Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide To Testing and Tuning for Conversions (LandingPageOptimizationBook.com - John Wiley Press 2008). During his 20 year involvement with the Internet, Tim has worked with American Express, Sony Music, American Honda, COMP USA, Harcourt Brace & Co., Universal Studios, Eaton, Guidant, TrizecHahn Centers, SAIC, Pyxis, and B.F. Goodrich Aerospace to develop successful Internet initiatives. Before joining Epic Sky he co-founded Future Focus; an Internet business accelerator. Prior to that he worked in a variety of management and technical roles at SAIC, HNC Software (now a division of Fair Isaac), NCR, and the U.S. Navy. He has chaired Internet conferences and spoken internationally at numerous industry events including Search Engine Strategies, Affiliate Summit, eComXpo, PC Expo, and Internet World. Tim has written several articles on harnessing the power of the Internet for business and is a contributing columnist for several industry publications including Search Engine Watch and Website Magazine. He received his B.S. in computer engineering and cognitive science from UC San Diego "with highest distinction". Tim also completed his M.S. and C.Phil. degrees during his PhD. studies in computer science (specializing in neural networks and artificial intelligence) at UCSD.

About SiteTuners and Epic Sky

SiteTuners was launched in 2004 as a division of Epic Sky, Inc. Epic Sky runs large-scale pay-per-click (PPC) traffic acquisition campaigns for dozens of clients, and is also a "super affiliate" that drives PPC traffic on a performance basis. Many of Epic Sky's clients and affiliate merchants received excellent targeted traffic, but knew that they could make even higher profits if their website converted more efficiently.

SiteTuners was created to fill this need. Our services combine sophisticated proprietary technology, extensive testing expertise, and a choice of payment models to deliver results.

Epic Sky was created to help our clients get the best results from their "pay per click" (PPC) campaigns. We handle large scale campaigns on Yahoo Search, Google AdWords, and MSN AdCenter. That's all we do.

We are one of a select number of Yahoo Search Approved Third Party Services and are allowed to monitor and change bids up to 24 times per day for our clients. Our sophisticated bidding software was designed exclusively for optimum results with Yahoo Search, and has state-of-the-art capabilities incorporating multiple bid management strategies for each search term.

We are also members of the elite Yahoo Search Ambassador program. Because of the combined spending power of our clients we are able to get higher levels of customer service than those available to any individual Yahoo Search advertiser.

Jimmy Vee & Travis Miller

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

This one time at band camp (seriously)…on a steamy August day in Central Florida a relationship was forged that started a chain reaction which to this day leaves success in its wake.

It was 1995. The location, the University of Central Florida, we were both college students and at that very moment we were sweating our asses off – looking at each other and asking, “Why did we sign up for this?”

I was cavalier; loud and stuck-out-like-a-sore-thumb and Travis was a sarcastic, master-of-the-universe-type. Needless to say, we just clicked!

It didn’t take too much time sweating-it-out-in-the-sun before we made a pact to never do that again.

The End Of Band Camp And The Beginning Of Big Ideas

We always talked about success and what "hitting it big" would mean for us. We believed that on the other side of the pearly-gates-of-higher-education lay the land-of-milk-and-honey and million dollar pay checks.

We were both from middle class families, with parents who busted their butts for everything they had. We had average lifestyles but knew we were destined for greatness and college seemed like the logical place for us to find it. Boy, were we ever wrong.

How Complex Equations Led Us To Marketing

I was a pre-med major studying to be an optometrist and Travis was trying his luck at an engineering degree.

Then it hit us…Calculus!

It kicked both our butts and sent us reeling for a new choice of major. We needed to find something else to study and we knew it wasn’t going to have anything to do with complex equations.

Being naturally creative and a little off-beat, advertising seemed like a good fit (and easy to be quite honest).

Later that first year, Travis’ parents moved away leaving him behind in Orlando to finish college.
Man, he was poor and had no cash. He couldn’t even pay attention.
He couldn’t hold a job either. You seehttp://www.mysuccessgateway.com.Travis has a nonconforming attitude and unconventional thoughts about the way business should work and an insatiable need to make sure the establishment knew he was right.
At the time, I had a 2 bedroom apartment that I was sharing with 3 other people. Figuring I could save on rent and expenses, I set my old friend up in the dining room of the apartment.

We had 5 people living in 1100 square feet. College life was tough. We had no money, no amenities and an apartment full of chaos. One time we had a roommate spray an industrial-sized can of pepper spray at her boyfriend INSIDE THE APARTMENT!! We had holes punched in the walls, windows broken weekly and the only furniture we had in the whole place was a couch that a friend’s dad had died on. No joke.

We wanted more and we wanted it FAST.

The So-Called Experts Are Full Of Crap

We worked hard to finish college fast and graduated into what we believed to be the real world of advertising and marketing.

We both ended up interning at radio stations our final year in college. Travis became the copy-king at the station he interned for. All the sales people would come to him to have their ads written because he was the most creative person in the building.

I had created a 7 page, non-traditional resume with an advertorial as a cover letter. Everyone told me that my resume was a joke and that I'd never get a job (it's only supposed to be one page according to the know-it-alls at the college.) Before I even graduated, that 7 page resume landed me a job as the assistant to the Vice President at a Direct Response Advertising Agency.

After graduation, Travis began selling for the station he was interning for. Later, I recruited Travis over to the agency and rescued him from the world of radio sales but not before he gained some highly valuable skills in direct selling.

Degrees Don’t Make You Money

One night we met for a few beers and faced the reality that our studies in college had not prepared us for real the real world of marketing and money making.

It was a come-to-Jesus right there. We realized that we had spent several years diligently studying a subject, only to finish and find out we had learned nothing usable in the real, down-and-dirty world of entrepreneurship and small business!

Plus, we had gotten ourselves tens-of-thousands-of-dollars in debt! We learned the hard way that traditional education was a farce. At least for us.

But we still didn't have our fill. While working at the agency, we decided to go to graduate school. We thought that this might give us a better handle on what was real and what was fiction.

$25,000 plus dollars and two wasted years later, we each gained another framed diploma and an education lacking any REAL MEAT we could use to make our in-the-trenches clients money with effective advertising and marketing.

We kept trying and kept stumblinghttp://www.mysuccessgateway.com.struggling to make something happen.

How A Twist Of Fate Gave Us A Million Dollar Idea

One day, as fate would have it, being the new guys, we were assigned to a list of accounts that nobody else in the agency wanted. In fact, all of the accounts were car dealers and they all sold the same brand of car, which happened to be perceived as the worst car in America. Nobody wanted these things!

“How can you sell the worst car in America?”
“Who would ever want to buy the worst car in America?”
“Why are we stuck with these accounts?”

These questions plagued us for months as we stared at the walls dreaming up new reasons for people to buy these cars and new ways for our clients to sell them.

About Jimmy Vee

Jimmy Vee is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on attracting customers and creating businesses that are ESP—Enjoyable, Simple & Prosperous. In addition to his book, Gravitational Marketing: The Science of Attracting Customers, he has co-authored dozens of published business and marketing related articles, white paper and special reports.

Vee is the co-creator of Gravitational Marketing—a powerful concept that shows business owners, entrepreneurs and sales professionals how to naturally attract a steady stream of qualified prospects who pay, stay and refer.

Dubbed the “Five Foot High Marketing Guy” because of his short stature and big results, Vee is a serial entrepreneur and has used his own strategies to build a multi-million dollar business from scratch in six months.

Although traditionally educated (B.A. in advertising and public relations and M.A. in organizational management) Vee believes it's his real world education that gives him the ability to re-invent people's businesses through effective marketing and fresh, fun ideas.

Vee and his business partner (and former college roommate) Travis Miller have spent over 96 million dollars in marketing and have created over 10 billion dollars in sales for their clients. Vee says the secret to his success is the use of inspiring child-like curiosity through his marketing campaigns. Vee draws this creative energy from being an accomplished magician, ventriloquist and improv comedian.

Vee is well known for creative concepts and copywriting style that engage consumers and elicit rapid response. Jimmy believes that there is no creative challenge that cannot be solved in a fresh, entertaining and fun way. Vee's marketing campaigns have been seen and heard in almost every major market in the country and he is one of the top direct response copywriters in the country.

Vee is married to Christy Sue and has a baby girl named Autumn. They live in Orlando, Florida with their two dogs Bella (Aussie) and Oedipus (Whippet). He enjoys hiking, snowboarding, playing jazz on his trumpet and listening to jazz music.

About Travis Miller

Travis Miller is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on attracting customers and creating businesses that are ESP—Enjoyable, Simple & Prosperous. In addition to his book, Gravitational Marketing: The Science of Attracting Customers, he has co-authored dozens of published business and marketing related articles, white papers and special reports.

Miller is the co-creator of Gravitational Marketing—a powerful concept that shows business owners, entrepreneurs and sales professionals how to naturally attract a steady stream of qualified prospects who pay, stay and refer.

Called the "The Big Idea Guy" (partly due to the juxtaposition of contrasting size with his 5-foot high cohort, but primarily because of his rare strategic vision and critical development ability) Miller is a serial entrepreneur and has used his own strategies to build a multi-million dollar business from scratch in six months.

Although traditionally educated (B.A. in radio/television and M.A. in corporate communication and technology) Miller believes it's his on-the-street experience as an advertising sales rep turned agency executive combined with his entrepreneurial spirit that gives him the ability to conjure ideas and solutions that turn failing businesses around and super-charge already successful endeavors.

Miller and his business partner (and former college roommate) Jimmy Vee have spent over 96 million dollars in marketing and have generated over 12 billion dollars in sales for their clients. Miller attributes the success of his campaigns to his ability to get inside the heads of the customers and speak to them in a language that resonates with their deepest desires. Some people think Travis is a funny guy, but he prefers to think of himself as a seasoned musician and self-taught chef.

Miller is best known for his uncanny ability to dissect complicated business and marketing challenges into easily workable solutions and to create long-range strategic plans that deliver immediate results and sustainable profit.

Travis believes there is no problem in life or in business that can't be overcome with the proper combination of creativity, flexibility and tenacity. Miller's marketing campaigns have been seen and heard in almost every major market in the country and he has been behind some of the most recognizable local-market campaigns in the past decade.

Miller lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife Jennifer and baby girl named Ella. His favorite hobbies include cooking for friends and family, attempting to ski, strumming his guitar and traveling (for pleasure) as frequently as possible.

Guy Finley

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Guy is the best-selling author of The Secret of Letting Go and more than 30 other books and audio albums that have sold over a million copies in 16 languages worldwide. In addition, he has presented over 4,000 unique self-realization seminars to thousands of grateful students throughout North America and Europe over the past 20 years and has been a guest on over 400 television and radio shows, including national appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, Wisdom Network, and many others. His radio program, "Guy Finley Live," is a live chat that airs monthly on HealthyLife.net as part of the network's "Visionary Celebrity Host Series." His syndicated weekly radio program is aired on several international networks including Healthylife Radio Network, WorldTalkRadio Network, and Contact Talk Radio International. His work is widely endorsed by doctors, business professionals, celebrities, and religious leaders of all denominations.

Guy's career reached this point through a circuitous path. Born into a successful show business family, he is the son of Late-Night TV and radio pioneer Larry Finley. His childhood friends were the sons and daughters of the most famous celebrities in the world. As a young man Guy enjoyed success in a number of areas including composing award-winning music for many popular recording artists including Diana Ross, Debbie Boone, The Jackson 5, Billy Preston, The Four Seasons, as well as writing the scores for several motion pictures and TV shows. From 1970-1979 he wrote and recorded his own albums under the Motown and RCA recording labels.

Throughout his youth, Guy suspected there was more to life than the type of worldly success that led to the emptiness and frustration he saw among his own "successful" friends and colleagues. In 1979, after travels throughout North America, India and the Far East in search of truth and Higher Wisdom, Guy voluntarily retired from his flourishing music career in order to simplify his life and to concentrate on deeper self-studies.

In addition to his writing and appearance schedule, Guy presents four inner-life classes each week at his non-profit Life of Learning Foundation headquarters in Merlin, Oregon. These classes are ongoing and open to the public.

About The Life of Learning Foundation

Life of Learning Foundation is a non-profit organization founded and directed by author Guy Finley for the purpose of helping people to realize their full potential.

Life of Learning is a welcome harbor for anyone wishing to let go of harmful negative states such as stress, fear and resentment in favor of a life filled with more love, compassion, and excellence.

We are a true non-profit organization staffed entirely by volunteers. We operate exclusively on proceeds received from the sale of Guy Finley materials and charitable donations from our generous supporters. No one at Life of Learning, including Guy Finley, receives a salary or any of the proceeds from our activities.

The best way to get to know Life of Learning and incorporate Guy Finley's life-changing principles into your life is to plan a time to come visit. Guy speaks four times each week on the foundation grounds, and every meeting is open to all.

Guy Finley's encouraging and accessible message is one of the true bright lights in our world today. His ideas cut straight to the heart of our most pressing personal and social issues -- relationships, fear, addiction, stress/anxiety, peace, happiness, freedom and lead the way to a higher life.

Earl R. Smith, Ph.D.

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. Smith is a proven entrepreneur, seasoned senior executive, political and social theorist, published author and speaker. A veteran of Wall Street, he has founded two non-profit and six for-profit companies. Dr. Smith advises CEOs and other senior executives. He shows them how to unlock corporate value and improve performance.

Dr. Smith is available for radio and TV appearances, panels, seminars, speeches, key-note addresses, book signings and as a subject-matter expert. He is a motivational speaker who combines humor with lots of content.

About Earl’s Services

Entrepreneurial Experience: Dr Smith is a serial entrepreneur, political and social theorist, published author and speaker. A veteran of Wall Street, he has served as CEO/Senior Partner for all of the companies which he founded.

Proven Track Record – Across All Major Corporate Functions

Dr Smith’s experience includes designing and organizing companies, business/technology management, team building, strategic alliances, negotiating complex arrangements, governance & compliance, resourcing & financing, mergers & acquisitions, management/team/board assessment, coaching and strategic and tactical planning and implementation.

He serves on boards of directors and advisory boards, as well as in interim senior management positions. Dr. Smith’s expertise includes innovation, governance, succession planning, mergers & acquisitions, team building, strategic planning, turnarounds and reorganization.

Experienced Senior Executive Advisor

Dr Smith has been a highly effective executive advisor to over two dozen CEOs and senior team members and a strategic advisor to numerous senior management teams.

Skills & Selected Achievements

Dr Smith has strong written and verbal skills, is highly personable and able to work with CEOs of emerging technology companies and major corporate boards. Proficient in solving problems and forming and managing teams to implement complex solutions, he is the ultimate “hands on executive”, capable of efficiently managing at all levels. He also possesses a wide ranging network of important contacts. Dr Smith has:

Founded and managed a company that revolutionized the financing structures of the US film industry.
He worked at the top levels with money center banks, investment banking houses, accounting firms and major studios.
Founded and managed companies that acquired, financed, renovated and managed multi-family real estate and hospitality properties in six states.
Helped manage IPO and secondary underwritings for Real Estate Investment Trusts and Public Limited Partnerships in excess of half a billion dollars.
Also organized and led teams which delivered advisory services to clients such as Lockheed Martin, Tetra Tech, Tenix Datagate, Gerson Lehrman Group and Maxim Systems. He has assembled and managed tailor-made teams of experienced professionals to advise clients on a wide range of complex issues.

During his career, Dr Smith has:

Founded six companies in a wide range of industries.
Worked extensively with Wall Street investment banking houses, venture capitalists and accounting and law firms. He speaks CPA and legalese fluently.
Over three and a half decades of experience across the entire range of building and growing businesses both as a principal and an advisor.
Helped launch a major division at a front line Wall Street investment banking house.
Founded a NASDAQ broker/dealer and managed several million dollars in offerings.
A history of success in start-up, mid-size and front line corporate environments

Earl R. Smith, Ph.D.

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

About Earl’s Services

Proven Track Record – Across All Major Corporate Functions

Experienced Senior Executive Advisor

Dr Smith has been a highly effective executive advisor to over two dozen CEOs and senior team members and a strategic advisor to numerous senior management teams.

Skills & Selected Achievements

Founded and managed a company that revolutionized the financing structures of the US film industry.
He worked at the top levels with money center banks, investment banking houses, accounting firms and major studios.
Founded and managed companies that acquired, financed, renovated and managed multi-family real estate and hospitality properties in six states.
Helped manage IPO and secondary underwritings for Real Estate Investment Trusts and Public Limited Partnerships in excess of half a billion dollars.
Also organized and led teams which delivered advisory services to clients such as Lockheed Martin, Tetra Tech, Tenix Datagate, Gerson Lehrman Group and Maxim Systems. He has assembled and managed tailor-made teams of experienced professionals to advise clients on a wide range of complex issues.

During his career, Dr Smith has:

Founded six companies in a wide range of industries.
Worked extensively with Wall Street investment banking houses, venture capitalists and accounting and law firms. He speaks CPA and legalese fluently.
Over three and a half decades of experience across the entire range of building and growing businesses both as a principal and an advisor.
Helped launch a major division at a front line Wall Street investment banking house.
Founded a NASDAQ broker/dealer and managed several million dollars in offerings.
A history of success in start-up, mid-size and front line corporate environments

Stuart Elliot

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Stuart Elliot has been covering advertising and media since 1982 and has been with the New York Times as the advertising columnist since 1991. He was an advertising reporter with the USA Today, Advertising Age and consumer marketing automotive subjects in Detroit before coming to the Times.

About the New York Times

Welcome to our Company Web site. Here you can find out about our history, our business and journalistic endeavors and how our powerful and trusted brands are committed to quality news, information and entertainment in the U.S. and around the world. We strive to leverage our brands across multiple media platforms, to the benefit of our readers, advertisers, employees and shareholders.

To accomplish this, we are executing on our strategy of:

developing innovative new products in print and online,
expanding our research and development capabilities,
rebalancing our portfolio and
implementing operational efficiency and cost reductions.

The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2006 revenues of
$3.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, WQXR-FM and more than 30 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

Charlie Jones

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Charlie Jones entered the insurance business at age 22, with MONY. At age 23, he was awarded his agency's Most Valuable Associate Award. Ten years later, he received his company's highest management award for recruiting, manpower and development, and business management. In 1965, he founded Life Management Services to share his experience through seminars and consulting services.

Thousands of audiences around the world have experienced nonstop laughter as Mr. "T" shares his ideas about life's most challenging situations in business and at home. Two of his speeches, "The Price of Leadership" and "Where Does Leadership Begin?" have been enjoyed by millions. He is the author and editor of nine books, including Life is Tremendous with more than 2,000,000 copies in print in 12 languages.

He is featured in the "Leadership by the Book" series with Ken Blanchard, "Excelling in the New Millennium with Jim Rohn," "Dynamic Achievers World Network" series, "The Automotive Sales Training Network" satellite training service, "Insights Into Excellence" training series, Nightingale Conant's "Executive Treasury of Humor" series and two thirty minute programs by Salesmasters, "The Leading Edge" and "Learning - A Tremendous Experience."

Guest lecturer, Emory University, Goizueta Business School; University of Southern California, Purdue Life Insurance Marketing Institute, L.S.U. Insurance University, University of Tennessee, Lamar College, Harding University, Southern Missionary College, Dickinson College, Palmer College, Logan College, Life College, Parker College of Chiropractic, Pensacola Christian College, Executive Management School of the America Management Association.

President of Life Management Services Inc, Executive Books and ToolsCart.com. Advisory Board of Investment Timing Service, Chairman, Pneumedic Corporation, member of the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame (in 2001 was recognized as one of the top twenty speakers of the 20th century), member of the prestigious Speakers Roundtable, West Shore Chamber of Commerce, International Platform Association, Gideon's and Christian Businessman's Committee, Past Director of Harrisburg Association of Life Underwriters, Chairman of the Pennsylvania Association of Life Underwriters Awards Committee and Sales Congress, President of Harrisburg General Agents and managers, Board of Associates and Chairman of Development Committee of Messiah College, Director, Youth for Christ International, Ken Blanchard Faithwalk, and Guideposts Cabinet.

A FEW OF HIS HONORS:
Doctor of Humane Letters - Central Pennsylvania College
Doctor of Public Service - Parker College of Chiropractic
Doctor of Christian Education - Canyonville Christian Academy
Doctor of Chiropractic Humanities - Texas Chiropractic College
Central Pennsylvania College Library named "The Charles "T" Jones Leadership Library" in honor of his dedication to reading and sharing great books.
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial - Citation for Dedicated Service
Pennsylvania Senate - Citation for Dedicated Service
Office of the Mayor - Citation for Community Service
Man of the year Award - 35 Years of Community Service - Harrisburg Association of Life Underwriters
Life is Worth Living Award - Crystal Cathedral International Ministries
American Christian Patriot Award - Day Spring Academy
Mr. Sales American Award - MSA Association 1973
Lifetime of Sales and Marketing Excellence Award - Sales and Marketing Executives
Speakers Hall of Fame CPAE Award - National
Speakers Association, 1981
Legends and Star Award - Veteran Speakers Association
Speakers Roundtable - Elected 1969
Platinum Book Award - Tyndale House Publishers, for one million in sales of Life is Tremendous
Angel of the Year Book Award - Excellence in Media for The Tremendous Power of Prayer
Honorary Chairman - Cancer Recovery Foundation of America
Honorary Registered Financial Consultant - for fifty years of service to the insurance industry.
Honorary member of Patton's 10th Armored Division - for Patriotism
Honorary Lt Colonel, Alabama Militia - birth state

Chiropractic Honors:
International Speakers Award - Parker Chiropractic Resources Foundation
Commencement speaker, Palmer, Logan and Parker College of Chiropractic
Citation - ACA for Dedication to Chiropractic Professionals
Citation - ICA for Dedication to Chiropractic Professionals
Citation - Life University for Distinguished Service to the Chiropractic
Profession Professional Service Award for forty years of contributions to State Associations

About Executive Books
The heart of my life is books. My favorite saying is this: “You are the same today you’ll be in five years except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. In every turning point and crisis of my life, there’s always been a book that helped me think and see more clearly and keep laughing and keep looking up and keep my mouth shut. I would never tell anybody I ever had a problem, so everybody always thought I was on top of the world, and yet I was just like everybody else with problems coming out of my ears. Now, when people come to my office, they come to talk to me. Instead of conversing with me like they think they are going to do, I get them reading. I pick out some great books and have each person read three or four sentences. I just received another email from a person recounting how his life was changed by learning the power of reading together--rather than talking. I just can’t get over the power of a little book--sometimes only 30 or 40 pages--that literally turns and shapes an entire lifetime. Yet most people say, “I don’t read.” My heart aches for those people since I remember when I didn’t read because I was so ignorant. In my case, I was always blessed because I was ashamed of my ignorance; most people are proud to be ignorant.

We gave away over 25,000 books last year. This is how it all started. Years ago, I discovered that people throw away your business card. I could never imagine that people would be dumb enough to spend money on something that people throw away. I am not brilliant, but I am not dumb either: I gave away books as a business card and wrote my name and phone number in the book. People never threw them away! So I have given away hundreds and hundreds of thousands of books over the years and people remember me around the world. Many people say, “You’re the first person who ever game me a book.” What makes you different is not what you have in your head, it is what you have in your heart. It is reading that helps you see more clearly and grow: You can not be interesting if you do not read.

Dick White

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

If you are a small business and want to do business with the Federal Government you must know Dick White and Fedmarket. Fedmarket is a training company that assists small businesses on how to do business with teh Federal Government. Start with a GSA e-Lab to get your GSA Certification. Dick White crystallizes how “easy it is to do business with the federal government,” you just need to know how to do it and Dick lays out the steps to get the ball rolling. In Dick’s newest book Rolling the Dice in DC How the Federal Sales Game is Really Played Dick shares with you how to go about the process of cutting through the red tape and other government bureaucracies.

Mr. White built Program Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in government contracting, from its inception to $150 million in sales before selling the company in 1989.

Earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science, Mr. White dedicated his career to government contracting and computer-related fields. He has served as a management consultant with Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and as President of Macro Systems, Inc. As a federal contractor, he headed a 300-person computer services organization and a 1,200-person federal facility management division. He has extensive experience in overseeing the development of large Internet publishing products, such as ITBids and Bidengine. He currently serves as President and CEO of Wood River Technologies, Inc.

Mr. White is a national authority on federal, state, and local government marketing and sales. He is the author of the email installment series "Doing Business with Government" and is a frequent speaker on federal contracting topics. Recent speaking engagements include among others, the "Winning Government Business" seminars, conducted on a quarterly basis in Washington, D.C. Mr. White is a recognized expert in government marketing and sales. He knows the nuances of selling to governments, including the sales processes used for individual government markets defined by procurement size, multiple award schedule sales, negotiated procurement sales, and proposal writing. He is knowledgeable in all aspects of government electronic procurement including bid opportunity publication, electronic catalogue sales, and request for quote electronic processing.

About Fedmarket.com

Richard White, our company’s founder, recognized the enormous potential of the internet early on and decided in 1995 to launch Fedmarket.com. He drew upon his vast experience in government contracting and his information technology background when starting up the web site. Prior to 1995, Mr. White was the President and CEO of Program Resources, Inc. (PRI), a management consulting firm specializing in government contracting. Richard and his business partner founded PRI and built it into a company with $150 million in annual sales prior to selling the company in 1989.

Richard teamed up in 1995 with Tom Luparello and Eric Aaserud to create Fedmarket.com, an Internet portal for government vendors. Fedmarket’s web site was primarily designed by Tom with input from both Richard and Eric. It included free content (written by Richard and Eric), links to help vendors locate federal, state and local bid opportunities online, and current news concerning the federal sales market. 1998 was a landmark year for the company; Fedmarket.com introduced one of the first bid search tools available on the Internet, Bidengine. The introduction and eventual success of this product led to Fedmarket’s development of more refined government bid collection and distribution systems for federal public bids and the technology industry. Our product line has grown to include market intelligence products such as FedBuying Intelligence, Contract Search and our various Roadmaps covering federal agencies such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and more. In 1999, we added a GSA consulting services division and also began creating software and Internet-based tools to facilitate the process of proposal writing in general.

In speaking with Fedmarket’s customers, Richard recognized that an untapped market existed for training companies in the nuances of doing business with the federal government. In the late 1990’s, Richard began to travel the country to host seminars on topics such as winning government business. Based on the success of his seminars, Richard opened the Federal Sales Academy, a permanent, state-of-the-art training and classroom facility in Bethesda, Maryland and hired Eileen Kent to run the Academy. Ms. Kent now spends two weeks a month at the Academy and the rest of each month traveling the country to present the Academy’s numerous training courses.

Fedmarket.com has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other trade publications. Our customer testimonials speak to our competence and expertise in helping customers win federal business. We have been singled out by public and private organizations - - including the Small Business Administration and federally-funded Procurement Technical Assistance Centers - - as the most comprehensive government contracting resource in the industry. Our free web site content includes weekly newsletters on GSA Schedules, Proposal Writing and Federal Sales.

Mr. White’s new book, Rolling the Dice in DC, is now available at Fedmarket.com and amazon.com. The book was written with sales managers and salespersons in mind. It describes the day-to-day dogfight of competing and winning in the federal market. The book provides insight on the good, bad, and the ugly of the federal market, what it takes to enter the market, and the potential returns.

Jim Stovall

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Jim Stovall has been a national champion Olympic weightlifter, a successful investment broker and entrepreneur. He is Co-Founder and President of the Narrative Television Network, which makes movies and television accessible for our nation's 13 million blind and visually impaired people and their families. Although originally designed for the blind and visually impaired, over 60% of NTN's nationwide audience is made up of fully-sighted people who simply enjoy the programming.

Jim Stovall hosts the Network's talk show, "NTN Showcase." His guests have included Katharine Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Carol Channing, Steve Allen, and Eddie Albert, as well as many others. The Narrative Television Network has received an Emmy Award and an International Film and Video Award among its many industry honors.

NTN has grown to include over 1,200 cable systems and broadcast stations, reaching over 35 million homes in the United States, and NTN is shown in 11 foreign countries.

Jim Stovall joined the ranks of Walt Disney, Orson Welles, and four United States presidents when he was selected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Americans" by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. He has appeared on "Good Morning America" and CNN, and has been featured in Reader's Digest, TV Guide and Time magazine. He is the author of a previous book entitled You Don't Have To Be Blind To See, as well as his new book Success Secrets of Super Achievers. The President's Committee on Equal Opportunity selected Jim Stovall as the 1997 Entrepreneur of the Year.

About JimStovall.com

Jim Stovall has been an national champion Olympic weightlifter, the President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network, and a highly sought after author and platform speaker. He is the author of the best selling book, The Ultimate Gift, which is now a major motion picture starring James Garner and Abigail Breslin.

Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.”

For his work in making television accessible to our nation’s 13 million blind and visually impaired people, The President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity selected Jim Stovall as the Entrepreneur of the Year. He was also chosen as the International Humanitarian of the Year, joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as recipients of this honor.

Joe Nunziata

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Joe Nunziata is an internationally known speaker and the author. He has been delivering his life changing message at events and seminars since 1992. Joe has been working in the areas of personal development and human potential for over 20 years. His unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy and the power of energy results in revolutionary new programs and seminars.

Joe has always recognized the importance of working from within. He teaches that to be truly successful, you must make powerful changes and break destructive patterns of behavior. These unconscious patterns are connected to deep emotional energy that must be changed to facilitate long-term success in all areas of life.

Joe’s new book Spiritual Selling is now available. This book combines powerful spiritual concepts with proven sales strategies. This new sales philosophy is being embraced by many people and corporations in today’s business community. His other books and programs include: No More Mental Barriers, No More 9 to 5 and The soon to be released, 7 Keys to Transformation.

Joe has appeared on television including Good Day New York on Fox, plus various radio stations including KFNN, Phoenix, AZ, KTHO, Sacramento, CA, KCEO, San Diego, CA, KLMO, Denver, CO, WXCT, Hartford, CT, WPLC, Washington, DC, WOKB, Orlando, FL and many others.

About Spiritual Selling and the Attractor Sales System

It’s not just what you do….it’s how you think and feel. – Joe Nunziata

We have all been conditioned to believe that hard work and determination are the keys to success. I am not saying you do not have to work hard or be determined but, there is another critical piece of the puzzle you must have to become truly successful.

Your success is not tied to the action you takehttp://www.mysuccessgateway.com.it is tied to your unconscious energy and feelings. To make positive long-term changes you must transform your internal energy from the inside.

This book will show you how to make these simple, yet critical, adjustments that will have an incredible impact on your business and life.

This unique book combines powerful spiritual laws with proven sales strategies. The result is my new, Attractor Sales System. This revolutionary new system is designed to turn you into a magnet for new business and opportunity.

Joel Block

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Often dubbed a "growth architect" by his clients, Joel thrives in helping audiences to overcome business challenges by transferring powerful and usable skills so that participants can help their companies to achieve its highest potential.

He's well known and respected in his field both nationally and internationally, developing start-up, pre-revenue and middle market businesses within a range of industries, offering advisory services and professional speaking engagements including conferences, workshops, telephone seminars and university appearances.

Joel Block is a best selling author, assisting hopeful entrepreneurs worldwide with publications in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Investor's Business Daily.

Joel began his career at Price Waterhouse, later developing his own successful real estate syndication firm.

His proudest accomplishment to date was in the successful creation and marketing of Financial Fax, a personalized newspaper of selected stock market information. Financial Fax was sold to Los Angeles Times in 1995, at which time it was widely distributed throughout the investment community.

In 1990, Joel founded his current business, Growth-Logic. In this role, he does what he most enjoys -- teaching other entrepreneurs and business leaders how to be extremely successful. An out-of-the-box strategist, Joel speaks to corporate audiences to help improve their skills -- making them stronger contributors to their teams. He also advises companies on ways they can be more profitable in their ventures using innovative and entrepreneurial means.

As "America's Business Growth Guru", Joel's media-coined title, he accelerates organizational growth, helping both new and existing businesses recognize their greatest potential and retain their competitive edge in our growing global marketplace.

About Growth Logic

Growth Logic is a full service business advisory firm dedicated to promoting successful entrepreneurship. Our mission is to unlock an enterprise’s untapped value so that the company can be the best that it can be.

All businesses, whether start-up or growing concern, have underperforming resources – capabilities, people, ideas, capital, tangible and intangible assets. We help companies to see and to seize the opportunities hidden in those resources to take the business to the next level of success.

We work with companies to define and hit their business and financial bullseyes by monetizing the opportunities and resources that are buried deep within it.

Entrepreneurs built our great country and those who are creative and inventive will continue to build it - creating both value and wealth.

All of the members of the Growth Logic team have spent their careers as entrepreneurs – building businesses. The entrepreneur business has been very good to us: we have successfully built businesses and have accomplished what you may be trying to accomplish right now.

The opportunities for people who want to stake their claim are unlimited and we want to help every business succeed and optimize its opportunities. This is why we say that “if your success matters to you, then it matters to us”.

Joel Block

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Joel Block is a best selling author, assisting hopeful entrepreneurs worldwide with publications in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Investor's Business Daily.

Joel began his career at Price Waterhouse, later developing his own successful real estate syndication firm.

About Growth Logic

We work with companies to define and hit their business and financial bullseyes by monetizing the opportunities and resources that are buried deep within it.

Entrepreneurs built our great country and those who are creative and inventive will continue to build it - creating both value and wealth.

Gordon Quick

Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

After decades of leading businesses and companies, Gordon Quick formed CEO Mentors, LLC. His goal is to share his hard-earned lessons with other CEOs, enabling them to accelerate their learning process and achieve lasting success.

Gordon has served as a senior executive for most of his business career of 30 years. He has been the CEO and COO of both private and public early stage companies, and has also run divisions for a Fortune 500 company. In most cases, he has entered the business when a turnaround was required, and left it after achieving rapid growth. He has led a very early stage company to just under $100 million in revenue, ultimately resulting in the sale of the business for $800 million. He has taken a private company public and a public company private. As CEO he has had experience with many different cultures while managing offices all over the world and working with customers on six continents. Gordon has worked in a variety of industries, including software, fixed and wireless telecommunications and transportation/logistics. One thing he found was that the principles of successful stewardship of a company were quite consistent across his diverse assignments.

Working with a friend and business colleague (co-author Bob Fifer), Gordon has synthesized his 30 years of business experience into the widely acclaimed book The Enlightened CEO – How to Succeed at the Toughest Job in Business. This book serves as the foundation for much of the guidance he offers his clients.

Gordon earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics, marketing and management, culminating with a Ph.D. from the University of Florida.

About CEO Mentors

CEO Mentors, LLC was established to assist CEOs and senior executives in building successful businesses. We have documented our proven approach to creating a culture of high performance in our book – The Enlightened CEO: How to Succeed at the Toughest Job in Business. We use the principles articulated in the book to help create a culture which, when led by an enlightened CEO, leads to exceptional company performance. To get an overview of the key elements, see the brief summary on creating a high performance culture.

For CEOs of evolving small to mid-size companies, we augment this approach to meet their specific challenges. Between start-up and $200 million in revenue, these companies face unique hurdles as they work their way through the key stages of growth. To build these businesses, CEOs must understand and remain focused on the primary objective of each stage. While employing the same principles described in The Enlightened CEO, we complement the book’s prescriptions based on our experience in meeting the specific challenges faced by senior executives of these early stage companies.

CEO Mentors helps with both the understanding and the execution. That is, we not only help you understand what you need to do differently, but we work with you to see it effectively implemented.

Do you believe that you have to face your issues by yourself?
Do you think that no one has faced them before?
Don't you think it's possible to accelerate your understanding and resolution of the issues you face -- allowing you to minimize the missteps along the way?

There are many challenging thoughts our clients typically struggle with before enlisting us to help. However, once we are engaged they have found that consultation and mentoring are the fastest paths to improved results.

The role of CEO Mentors is to accelerate the development of a high performance culture, led by an enlightened CEO, that leads to exceptional results.

J.J. Ramberg

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

The weekly, half-hour program, hosted by JJ Ramberg, which focuses exclusively on America's small business entrepreneurs, is the place to go for news, advice, guidance, and tips for small business owners.

Each week, "Your Business" presents a profile of a small business owner, highlighting both the challenges and successes they have each faced. Guest panelists, who include venture capitalists, angel investors, business journalists, academics, and successful entrepreneurs, weigh in with their expertise and answer questions from viewers.

"Your Business" also features a segment titled 'Elevator Pitch,' where entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch their new business ideas to a panel of experts. Also included in the program are the latest small business headlines, interesting websites for small business owners, and the 'Small Biz Top Five,' the weekly top 5 tips for improving your business.

"Your Business" telecasts weekly on Sundays at 7:30 am (ET) and re-air the following Saturday at 5:30 am (ET). http://www.mysuccessgateway.com

Host JJ Ramberg joined MSNBC from CNN where she reported on a wide range of topics from breaking news to profiles of the country's top business leaders. Passionate about small business, Ramberg has first-hand experience, co-founding the search engine GoodSearch.com. Ramberg has a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

Scott Leon is executive producer of "Your Business." A veteran broadcast journalist for over 30 years, Leon was formerly executive producer of MSNBC's "Entertainment Hot List" and "MSNBC At the Movies."

JJ Ramberg is the host of MSNBC's new small business show, “Your Business.”

Before joining MSNBC, Ramberg was a reporter at CNN, where she covered a wide range of topics, ranging from breaking news to profiles of the country’s top business leaders. Her extensive field experience includes reporting from Biloxi, Miss., and New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She also hosted the daytime talk program “The Flipside” on CNNfn and was a producer on CNN’s profile program “Pinnacle.” She began her television career at NBC News, where she was an associate producer at “Dateline NBC.”

Ramberg is passionate about small business and has firsthand experience as an entrepreneur herself. With her brother, she co-founded GoodSearch.com, a search engine that donates 50 percent of revenue to the charities and schools its users designate. Ramberg also spent two years after business school as the director of marketing and one of the first employees at Cooking.com, an Internet-based cookware retailer.

Ramberg has spent her career balancing business with public service, spending considerable time during the past few years working for microfinance organizations in Uganda and India.

Ramberg graduated cum laude from Duke University with a bachelor of arts degree in English and received her MBA from Stanford Business School.

"Your Business" telecasts weekly on Sundays at 7:30 am (ET) and re-air the following Saturday at 5:30 am (ET). http://www.mysuccessgateway.com

Paul Miller

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Paul was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin. He received a BS in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. Paul served as an aide to former U.S. Congressman Les Aspin.

In 1996, Paul took a leave of absence from Washington and went back home to Wisconsin to run for the Wisconsin General Assembly.

Currently, Paul has his own lobbying firm Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies, LLC.

In addition to his work for his firm, Paul was elected as the youngest President of the American League of Lobbyists, the national association representing the lobbying profession.

Paul also is the founder of the Hoops for Hope charity basketball event that pits members of Congress vs. lobbyists each year in an effort to raise money for children's charities in the Washington, D.C. area. To date this event has raised over $250,000.

Paul has vast experience in the lobbying profession and in January of 2006, he introduced the first lobbying certification program. A program designed to help lobbyists keep pace with the profession and its standards.

Paul has led the fight to bring about changes to the electronic filing system in the House of Representatives. This new change makes it easier for lobbyists to comply and meet with obligations under federal law and allows the general public an opportunity to view lobbying reports online.

Paul was also instrumental in shaping the debate on lobbying reform in 2006 and 2007. As chief spokesman and lobbyist for the profession, Paul met with leaders from both parties on the issue of reform. He has appeared before both the House and Senate and has appeared on most television programs educating the public on the issue of lobbying and proposed changes to the Lobbying Disclosure Act. He has been a tireless champion in the fight to protect every citizen’s right to petition their government through lobbying activities.

As a leader in his profession, Paul has traveled abroad to talk with foreign leaders about their efforts to implement lobbying rules and regulations. He has met with leaders from Peru, Indonesia, Great Britain, Viet Nam, Czechoslovakia, Scandinavia, and Japan.

About Miller/Wenhold Washington D.C. Small Business Lobbyists

At Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies we believe that the most important quality a government affairs firm can offer to a client is trust. This trust is built on results, a principle our firm was founded on. Reputation, Relationships, Results, the three R's of politics, are what you seek and what Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies delivers.

We pride ourselves on having an excellent reputation with policy makers. We put that reputation to work for you. We believe that strong relationships with our clients and policy makers are fundamental to providing responsive representation. We put those relationships to work for you. We understand that at the end of the day the job must get done. We get the results you need. This combination of experience and personal attention gives our clients the competitive edge in getting results.

Paul Murphy

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Mr. Murphy is an economist, researcher and writer / programmer specializing in the area of federal procurement and federal grants. He is the founder and President of Eagle Eye Publishers, a firm he started in 1986 to help researchers understand federal spending trends and to help vendors market more effectively to federal agencies. He has extensive knowledge about government contracting trends and his company serves hundreds of domestic and international clients.

In 1988, Mr. Murphy developed the first-ever CD-ROM database of U.S. federal prime contracts for desktop computers. It remains the premier procurement database application for researchers who require comprehensive, transaction-level contract details for all agencies and markets. The application, now fully updated through FY 2005, contains detailed and summary information on 190,000 companies, 800,000 contracts and thousands of markets and agencies. Eagle Eye’s clients currently include over 100 major federal contractors as well as subscribers at the General Services Administration, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies.

Over the last decade Mr. Murphy has authored dozens of government and commercially- sponsored reports and studies. Under contract to the federal government in 1996, 1998 and again in 2000, Mr. Murphy designed and conducted groundbreaking analyses of bundled contracts and their impact on small federal contractors.

In 2002, Mr. Murphy authored two reports for the SBA. One analyzed the impact of government credit card purchases on small businesses and the second updated and expanded upon his original analysis of contract bundling. Mr. Murphy also contributed as a sub-contractor to an extensive analysis of small business contracting trends in the Forest Service and to a study of veteran-owned firm utilization by federal agencies. Both contracts were primed by Jack Faucett & Associates.

In 2005, Mr. Murphy authored five reports for the SBA. The first measured the generally minimal achievements of most agencies in meeting their procurement goals with Small, Disadvantaged Veteran-owned businesses. The second analyzed the extent of small business coding inconsistencies in the federal procurement database. A third study compared small business shares of federal procurement by NAICS code compared with corresponding small business shares of NAICS markets in the economy as a whole. The fourth study assessed small business participation on GWAC contracts.

In 2006, Mr. Murphy authored a pending analysis of small business participation in the GSA’s Coop Purchasing Program, which makes the GSA Group 70 Schedule available for use by state and local governments.

As a result of these and earlier studies, Mr. Murphy presented testimony to the House of Representatives’ Small Business Committee in 1999 and to the Senate Small Business Committee in 2003 in order to inform small business legislation and reforms to the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 19. Mr. Murphy was invited back to the House Small Business Committee in 2005 to provide testimony about small business procurement issues and trends.

In 1999, under contract to Pew Charitable Trust, Mr. Murphy merged federal contracts data with the Commerce Department’s jobs model to create a groundbreaking analysis of the true size of government-related employment called The Shadow Government by Paul Light. Mr. Murphy created an all-new contract jobs model for Mr. Light when Mr. Light updated The Shadow Government at The Brookings Institution in 2003. Mr. Murphy completed a third contract-jobs model for The Shadow Government’s third update in 2006 to be published by New York University.

Other studies performed by Mr. Murphy include The High Technology Small Business Sourcebook (Eagle Eye, 1997) and Congress and Defense (National Journal, 1988). Mr. Murphy’s data and views on various procurement-related topics have been widely quoted and cited in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Washington Technology, Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Federal Times, Government Executive Magazine, The Washington Business Journal and its affiliates around the country, Minorities in Business Insider, Set-Aside Alert, Industry Week, and others.

For the last five years Mr. Murphy has authored Tips and Stats, a weekly electronic newsletter that profiles key procurement issues and trends and is sent out to 5,000 subscribers. Mr. Murphy also provides the procurement analysis for Eagle Eye’s monthly Agency Business Intelligence Seminars, a monthly event held since 2004.

Paul Murphy

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Patrick Wanis

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Patrick Wanis is a renowned Celebrity Life Coach, Woman Expert, Human Behavior Expert, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Author with extensive credits and successes worldwide. He has coached various celebrities such as Hulk Hogan, consulted for major corporations, appeared on radio and television, and published various books on human behavior, the mind, hypnosis, relationships and personal development. More than four million people have read his work in English and Spanish.

Wanis is a charismatic and persuasive presenter. His expertise includes communication, human motivations, interpersonal relationships, body language, and persuasion. Much of Wanis’ work has focused on examining the role of the mind, body and physiology on behavior and psychological functioning, as well as the areas of body language, relationships, sexuality and women’s issues. His degrees include a Bachelor of Science in Communication and Associate Degrees in Dramatic Arts (Media) and Speech, Script-Writing & Communication from Australia, Associate Degrees in Advanced Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic

Programming (NLP) from the World Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Pennsylvania.

Wanis has appeared on radio and TV and has authored various books, publications and columns on human behavior, relationships, and the mind. He consults and presents custom programs for major corporations such as El Paso Energy, Exxon, Doubletree & Hilton hotels, Rinoval (Mexico and Canada), SuperClubs Bahamas, and Alpha Model Group. Clients and corporations use Wanis' Subconscious Personality Test - a unique personality and behavioral analysis for productivity and results.

Patrick Wanis began his career in Australia on stage, radio, and Television. He worked as Executive Producer and talk show host of News/Talk Radio 3AK in Melbourne, and TV Political reporter for Tens News Television. The Australian Journalists Association awarded Wanis the elite ranking of A+++ Grade Journalist and at age 25, Wanis became the youngest talk show host in Australian history.

Wanis soon traveled around the world and worked in Spain, Africa, England, Mexico and The Caribbean. In West Africa, Wanis studied the link between the belief in Juju spells and the behavior of various tribes. Later, Wanis began motivational training programs & workshops for Steiners Services, Carnival Cruises. Wanis also produced large-scale events including the Clinton/Gore 96 campaign visit to Orlando and Blues Brothers 2000 for Daytona 500. Allegro Resorts recognized Wanis' skills in management, leadership and show production with various awards. He also began consulting to large corporations such as Fox Television, Club Marival Mexico, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens. From 1998 to 2000, Wanis was a regular co-host and Hypnotherapist on America Talks Health, syndicated radio show.

Wanis hosted three TV talk show specials with teens on Terrorism and September 11 and. Wanis has authored numerous books. His published titles are: How To Find Happiness, What A Woman Wants, Finding God, How To Get Over It –Breakups, Betrayals And Rejection (audio book), How to Connect with a Woman, How To Hypnotize Anyone, How To Tap Into The Hidden Powers of Your Mind (two prints, and English and Spanish), Soul Mates (English and Spanish), Soul Mates –Find Your Perfect Match Now, Angels, Angel Encounters, and coming in 2006: The Art of Persuasion and; Get What You Want –Using The Power of Your Mind.

Patrick Wanis

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Programming (NLP) from the World Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Pennsylvania.