Important People in the World of Marketing & Copywriting

Here I am pictured with the late great "prince of print" himself, sir Gary Halbert. My brother Joe Polish and I were among a handful of attendees at this private seminar at sea. (It was held on a cruise ship). Boy, what a crazy time this was. However, Gary taught us all some amazing things and I worked with him many times after this event. Gary gave me the rights to video tape this sea bound seminar, and I hold the only existing copies of what he taught there. So far, I haven't made the videos available, but now that the legend himself has passed away, I may do so in his memory.

The first time I met Ken, it was in an I-Power seminar. There were about 60 people in the room and after we all stated our names and what we did, Ken was able to recall every person's name in that room, all day long! It was amazing.Ken's been featured on the View, CNN, ABC, NBC and Fox Television. He is the former vice-president of Boardroom Inc and the current editor of Bottom Line Personal, two of the largest publishers in the world. Ken and I are pictured together here during a break at one of our Piranha Boot Camp seminars.

Here I am at one of Dan Kennedy's super conferences with Joe Sugarman. Joe is an excellent marketer and one of the top advertisers of America.Joe is famous for his books, videos, and audio's. His famous books include Advertising Secrets of the Written Word, Triggers: 30 Sales Tools You Can Use To Control the Mind of Your Prospect to Motivate, Influence and Persuade, Marketing Secrets of a Mail Order Maverick, Television Secrets for Marketing Success, and Success Forces. All of his books are brilliant and Joe is a true gentleman. One of my top 10 most favorite marketers and copywriters.

This was the last time I got to see my friend Thomas K. Crawford alive. This Christian brother went home to be with the Lord after a freak bicycling accident in 2006. Tom founded the Leadership Network Corporation with his wife Tammy to help cultivate business relationships for leaders in a chaotic world that has become disconnected despite innovative communication technology.. Leadership Network Corporation is an event company dedicated to serving leaders of industry through a strong philosophy centered on changing people's lives - both personally and professionally.

At the same time, Tammy and Tom founded the Leadership Children's Foundation, a philanthropic organization that exists to help preserve childhood and improve the quality of life for young people across the nation. Over the past decade, LCF has raised over $2 million for charities that include the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Childhelp, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and many others.

With a background as diverse as running national political campaigns, inking Wall Street deals, and financing business growth, Mr. Crawford served as Chairman & CEO of Leadership Network Corporation until his untimely death, and it is now headed up by his dear wife Tammy.

Leadership Network Corporation owns and produces leadership conferences that focus on gathering the influential business leaders of an industry, in order to bring them together to interact and learn from each other. The events are founded on two principles. The first is gather the great minds and great things will happen. It is through shared ideas and meaningful interaction that business leaders stimulate not only their marketplace, but also the economy as a whole. The second principle is that relationships are the most precious commodity in business today.

Prior to founding Leadership Network, Mr. Crawford served in high-level positions, including Senior Vice President of Franchise Finance Corporation of America (FFCA), President of FFCA Institutional Advisors, and as a member of the Board of Directors for Phone Bank Systems. Mr. Crawford also served on the Board of Directors for Childhelp USA, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is missed, but his legacy goes on, changing lives for the better.

Here I am with Jim Rohn at one of Dan Kennedy's superconferences. You may know of Jim as a popular American motivational and business coach. He has been giving seminars to large companies and indivuals for more than 40 years. He is a published author of many books that cover leadership, business skills, self development, dealing with customers, and motivation.

Jim Rohn simply cannot be described nor defined. Instead, he must be experienced. The remarkable combination of his personal style and his message does something to people that cannot be captured in a text description. The power that is behind his extraordinary effect on people is not found just in what he enables them to learn, but in what he makes them feel. Time spent with Jim Rohn, whether at a live seminar or through his audio and video programs, is an indescribable emotional journey that will expand your self-confidence, rekindle your determination to succeed and enrich your attitude - further intensifying your ambition to alter your life for the better.

Carl Galletti has risen to the top of the world of direct response advertising, copywriting and Internet marketing, and is now considered by many to be one of the best freelance copywriters and marketing experts in the country.

Carl and I share a unique place as a copywriters, because our marketing skills are at least as valuable to our clients as our copywriting skills. In fact, many of the top people in direct response advertising have turned to Carl to write copy for them. One of them is the late great direct marketing expert Gary Halbert, (pictured at the top of this page). Gary selected Carl to be a part of a handful of the best copywriters in the country who would write ads for the people attending two of his high dollar seminars.

Jay Abraham is another "guru" who has hired Carl. Jay is considered to be the top marketing consultant in the country. He charges $3000 per hour for his telephone consultations and his seminars cost as much as $20,000 for five days. Carl has written several direct mail sales letters for Jay.

Carl's client list is diverse. He has worked with authors, professional speakers, publishers, computer companies, contractors, executive search firms, printers, training organizations, jewelry manufacturers, schools, health technology firms, and the American Red Cross. Anyone can benefit from Carl's advice and copy. I offer one of his courses on my products page and I encourage you to take a look at it.

Blue Man Group is the three-man performance troupe, the bald, blue-headed guys who, though unspeaking (and occasionally unspeakable), have been wreaking havoc on contemporary art in the intervals between playing their own music on plumbing pipes at the Astor Place Theater in Manhattan since 1991.

Before that they did their thing in living rooms and in Central Park, once conducting a ''Funeral for the 80's'' for the late, great postmodern and deconstructionist theories of art. ''Surprisingly,'' they write on their Web site (www.blueman.com), ''the funeral worked. The next day, artists all over the world agreed to stop making art based on these misguided concepts.''

The original Blue Men, Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink, were street performers who established their own Club Nowhere on a sidewalk outside the Copacabana in the late 1980's. By now, Blue Man has effected a corporate merger with himself. Thirty other Blue Men have joined the troupe, plus two in training. On Third Street in the East Village, Blue Man has an enormous rehearsal and performance theater, plus a recording studio (its first CD, ''Audio,'' came out last year).

I first met Mike Vance at one of Dan Kennedy's super conferences. Mike is a distinguished name in speaking and communicating. His fast-paced delivery, sprinkled with good natured humor, makes him one of the most stimulating speakers and sought-after teachers.

Mike Vance spent years in charge of idea and people development for Walt Disney Productions, Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Vance was also Dean of Disney University, famed for its superlative training programs which set a new standard for customer service. The programs Mike created to prepare the leadership cadre for Walt Disney World have become exemplary models. He is considered one of the outstanding innovators in management development, training, and building corporate cultures.

Mike Vance began speaking about "out of the box thinking" 30 years ago, popularizing the phrase "Think Out of the Box." He co-founded the Creative Thinking Association of America with Diane Deacon, and they have written the books Think Out of the Box, Break Out of the Box Techniques for Achieving Breakthroughs and Raise the Bar Creative Strategies to Take Your Business and Personal Life to the Next Level.

Mike Vance worked with Walt Disney during the start up of Walt Disney World. His interest in environmental design came from his direct exposure as a student to Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller and Walt Disney. He helped create G.E.'s multi million dollar high tech learning center, as well as many other unique design concepts for corporate headquarters, training facilities, and others.