Experts
Written By Christophe Published January 7th, 2010Article Tags :
STEPS TO EXPERT ADVISERS
Gary Spirer
Gary holds a bachelor’s degree in Literature from New York University graduating magna cum laude, and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.
Gary began his career at the prestigious investment banking firm Lazard Freres, where he worked at their real estate affiliate. Subsequently, Gary founded his own real estate company, Capital Hill Realty. In real estate Gary has developed, syndicated and invested in properties that in today’s value, aggregate over $500 million. Gary has raised over $60 million dollars from individuals and small funds.
Gary founded Capital Hill Group, Inc, a boutique investment banking firm, in 1981. Capital Hill Group, Inc. is a member of FINRA and is governed by the SEC. Gary continues to provide investment banking services for emerging growth companies, and is one of the leading experts in raising capital, building businesses, real estate and marketing, especially on the Internet.
Gary has been involved in the entertainment world, film, and is currently finishing a Wall Street thriller.
Rick Frishman
Rick Frishman, the founder of Planned Television Arts, www.plannedtvarts.com, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 33 years. Working with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Putnam, and Hyperion Books, he has worked with best-selling authors including Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Mark Victor Hansen, Nelson DeMille, John Grisham, Hugh Downs, Henry Kissinger, Jack Canfield, Alan Deshowitz, Arnold Palmer, and Harvey Mackay.
Rick is publisher at Morgan James Publishing in New York. In 2009 “MJ” published over 190 books. Morgan James only publishes non fiction books and looks for authors with a platform who believe in giving back. Morgan James gives a portion of every book sold to Habitat for Humanity.
Rick has also appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide including OPRAH and Bloomberg TV. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post and scores of publications.
He is the co-author of eleven books, including national best-sellers GUERRILLA PUBLICITY, NETWORKING MAGIC, and WHERE’S YOU WOW. “GUERRILLA MARKETING FOR WRITERS”- 2nd edition is being published in January of 2010.
He is the co-host (with attorney Richard Solomon) of the radio show Taking Care of Business, which airs every Thursday from 2:00-3:00 pm on WCWP-Radio in Long Island, New York. ( www.tcbradio.com ) Rick has a B.F.A. in acting and directing and a B.S. from Ithaca College School of Communications and is a sought after lecturer on publishing and public relations and a member of PRSA and the National Speakers Association.
Rick and his wife Robbi live in Long Island with their three children, Adam, Rachel and Stephanie, and two Havanese puppies Cody and Cooper.
Go to www.rickfrishman.com for more information and to get Rick’s “Million Dollar Rolodex.”
Dustin Mathews -“The Marketer”
Dustin is known for creating “marketplace frenzies” that drive people to buy millions in products and services online and offline, including a startup company that landed on the Inc. 500.
He managed and marketed over 200 events, seminars and boot camps per month generating over $12 million dollars in the course of a year.
Author of How to Get Rich Working For FREE and Secrets of the Real Estate Millionaires, Dustin also publishes the most widely read offline newsletter for speakers and promoters.
Dave VanHoose – “The Closer”
Dave started from the back of his truck and in four years built his last company with 100+ employees and over $14 million in revenue. This accomplishment landed him at No. 35 on the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies.
Considered the top closer in the country, he has mastered the art of persuasion from the platform through 3000+ presentations and has taught his secrets to many other speakers to dramatically increase their closing ratio.
As an Arena Bowl (XVII) World Champion Dave knows what it takes to motivate world class people to take them to the next level.
Kirk Ouimet
As a wiz-kid genius, Kirk Ouimet — as an undergraduate in college — has created websites and internet tools that are VIEWED over 150 THOUSAND times PER DAY, and CREATE enough PASSIVE INCOME that he DOES NOT NEED TO WORK AGAIN! — And all while only 26 years old!!! Even better, in his free time Kirk and friends used their mad skills to create a tool called PageMass that can help You do the same!
Most business people have websites but do not understand where they are strong or weak, or how to spend their limited amount of time and resources to drive more traffic and increase conversions. Kirk developed PageMass to help users, big and small, to understand their web-presence, giving users specific easy-to-use metrics that show where they are doing great or where they could improve, in comparison to their competitors. Ultimately Kirk did this to help his own websites and others to determine exactly where and what they can do next to get more traffic and make more conversions.
With so many spending so much money on Internet promotions, Kirk wanted to find an innovative way to track exactly how effectively that money was working and to know where people are getting ripped off or not. Kirk designed proprietary algorithms into PageMass that pull data from thousands of sources online to give users information, power, and control that they have never had access to before.
Sam Cawthorn
Life after death is a subject most of us will never live to tell, except in the case of the remarkable Sam Cawthorn.
In October 2006 Sam’s life changed forever when he was involved in a major car accident, where he was pronounced dead. He was thankfully resuscitated, but left with an amputated right arm and a permanent disability in his right leg.
Sam was hospitalized for over 5 months and was told that he may not survive and best case was that if he was to survive he would never walk again. A year later he defied all odds taking his first steps into a new life, where his story would continue to inspire and change the lives of Australians and people all over the world.
It was Sam’s difficult journey that enabled him to develop a mental resilience and strength that gave him the tools to miraculously recover from an accident that could have taken his life.
Sam’s story is simple, yet his message demonstrates the awesome power and strength found within the human spirit when faced with the choice to continue living as a victim of a tragic accident, or to make a choice to seize the opportunity of ‘life’.
Forever the opportunist Sam chose life, and is now a hugely successful keynote speaker, reaching thousands of people in Australia and the world.
Sam has a diverse background within the Australian Federal Government as a Youth Futurist and is also a highly skilled musician, and one of the only people in the world that plays the guitar with an above elbow amputation.
Sam is at the forefront of global trends and has the unique ability to transform impossibilities into possible realities. Sam has been nominated for many awards, and recently won the 2009 Young Australian of the Year for Tasmania.
His powerful message will challenge his listeners to be truly who they are and to believe in all that they have to give. He provides the skills to be resilient, overcome fears, and to achieve goals and dreams that we that we may think are unachievable.
Sam walks his talk, and it is through his experience that his authentic message is heard. After all we only have one life.
Tim Stallard
Mr. Stallard founded ProLink in 1996. He has produced more than 50 professional ATP/USTA events. His original productions include Grand Slam Jam, co-founded with tennis legend Jim Courier, and the Willie Nelson Hill Country Challenge, co-founded with music legend Willie Nelson.
ProLink Sports & Entertainment (PSE) is a special event, promotion and management company. Established in 1996 in Austin, Texas, PSE has produced more than fifty professional tennis events throughout the United States featuring such players Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Andy Roddick, John McEnroe and Anna Kournikova. ProLink’s original music productions include concert series featuring Willie Nelson, Elton John, Kelly Pickler, Clint Black, Jerry Jeff Walker, Gavin DeGraw, Tracy Lawrence, Los Lonely Boys, Chris Robinson, Soul Asylum and Kenny Wayne Shepard. www.prolinkplanet.com
In Spring of 2005, Tim co-produced the Serving for Tsunami Relief event in Houston, TX, which raised $518,000 for the Bush-Clinton Relief Fund.
