Meet the Experts
MaryEllen Tribby
Group Publisher MaryEllen Tribby has led the Early to Rise team since May 2006 as Publisher & CEO. With her, she has brought over 23 years of publishing and business experience; and most notably, her direct marketing expertise. With her killer instinct and passion for excellence, she has more than TRIPPLED ETR’s revenue in her first 15 months.
Her extensive publishing experience includes serving as President of Weiss Research, managing divisions of Forbes, Globe Communications, Times Mirror Magazines and Crain’s New York Business.
MaryEllen often speaks on expert panels at industry specific events including SIPA, FIPA and DMA.
She currently resides in Boca Raton, FL with her husband of 13 years, Patrick, and their three beautiful children, Mikaela, Connor and Delanie.
Her first book, Changing the Channel, co-authored by Michael Masterson, was released in October of 2008 and soared to the best selling list in 10 hours. See MaryEllen Tribby’s Recent Articles
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, M.Sc., is a Strength & Conditioning coach in Toronto, author of Turbulence Training, a contributing author to Men’s Health magazine, and a member of the Training Advisory Board for Maximum Fitness and Oxygen magazines. Craig’s fat loss, muscle-building website TurbulenceTraining.com features his best-selling Turbulence Training for Fat Loss program and TTmembers.com offers access to all of Craig’s Turbulence Training workouts and video clips (for men, women, mass-building, athletes, and bodyweight-only workouts).
Craig also has an advanced research background, completing a Master’s of Science Degree in Exercise Physiology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Craig continues to study the latest training, supplementation, and nutrition research that will help improve client’s health and wellness as well as their physical and mental performance. See Craig Ballantyne’s Recent Articles
Bob Bly
is an independent copywriter and consultant specializing in business-to-business and direct marketing. He has been hired as a consultant by such companies as Sony, Chemical Bank, J. Walter Thompson, Westinghouse, and Prentice-Hall.
Bob is also the author of more than 50 books including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Direct Marketing (Alpha Books), Targeted Public Relations, Selling Your Services, How to Promote Your Own Business, and Keeping Clients Satisfied. A phenomenal public speaker, Bob will share with you how easy it is to start your own business.
Whether you’re ready to quit your job or are just looking to make a little money on the side, you’ll want to hear Bob’s advice. Bob is a primary contributor to ETR’s Direct Marketing Masters Edition program.
See Bob Bly’s Recent Articles.
Charlie ByrneAssociate Publisher
Charlie Byrne is Senior Copywriter and Editorial Director for Early to Rise. Charlie spent the earlier part of his business career as a systems analyst, project manager and consultant in New York City for Fortune 100 companies including Philip Morris, Digital Equipment, and Citicorp as well as New York University and Columbia University.
He then spent over ten years at Reuters Ltd and Interealty Corp designing and implementing financial, real estate and news information services. In 2003, he joined Early to Rise as a senior editor and copywriter. Since then he has helped publish over 1000 editions of ETR, resulting in gross revenues of well over $25 million. He has also produced dozens of winning sales letters and promotions, including two that brought in over $200,000 in under 24 hours, another two that have grossed over $1 million each, and a single sales letter that sold 25 units of a $10,000 product.
See Charlie Byrne’s Recent Articles.
John Carlton slyly refers to himself as “the most ripped-off copywriter on the Web”, and almost no one on the inside of the online entrepreneurial world disagrees.
His sales copy has been stalked for decades by many of the best marketers both online and offline… and they freely admit using John’s ads as templates for their own breakthrough pitches.
Marketers model John’s hard-hitting copy because it works. As a freelance copywriter, John has remained one of a handful at the top of the game for his entire career — commanding fees that cause unprepared clients to choke, sought after by the largest mailers in the world, and consistently writing pitches that sell like crazy.
However, he has focused on teaching copywriting and marketing for the last few years… and is responsible for helping a verifiable mob of otherwise clueless marketers to get their act together. The rabid testimonials on his home site marketing rebel include nearly every famous (and infamous) online entrepreneur worth knowing about. He’s touched a lot of lives. (His blog, at john-carlton . com, is considered “must reading” by the cream of the marketing world.)
John’s career arc is now legendary. He started out as the hot-shot “secret weapon” freelance copywriter that Los Angeles direct response ad agencies snuck in the back door to write the hard-hitting sales copy their own staffs couldn’t pull off… worked closely with direct response giant Gary Halbert for years (with whom he helped perfect the “Hot Seat” seminar model that is now so common)… was a pioneer in online marketing (among the first to use blogs, podcasts, email and virtual seminars as effective sales tools)… and remains at the cutting edge of Internet entrepreneurial adventures. See John Carlton’s Recent Articles.
Marc Charles is often referred to as “The King of Business Opportunities”, and he has launched more than 40 successful businesses over past 22 years (and advised on many more). One business (ad rep agency) produced more than $6 million in sales in 36 months with a start-up budget of less than $2000.
Marc began his Internet adventure in 1993 by reviewing websites for Yahoo! Unplugged, which became a best selling book, online resource and interactive CD. His website reviews (more than 7500) were featured in Wired, Bloomberg Personal, Internet World, Internet Edge, Web Digest and Business 2.0. In 1999 he developed the first email newsletter advertorial. Email advertorials continue to be one of the most powerful marketing tools on the Internet. Marc’s passion is identifying great digital and Internet business opportunities for start-up entrepreneurs. He has written dozens of top selling ebooks and money making courses including China Wholesale Secrets.
See Marc Charles’s Recent Articles.
David Cross Although David hails from Blackpool, England – which is often referred to as the “Las Vegas of England” – he shunned a career in show business and instead followed a meandering career path overflowing with “life’s great experiences,” working or living in over 20 countries along the way. Chef, teacher of Transcendental Meditation, guest presenter on QVC, earthquake relief volunteer, CEO of a web hosting company, marketer at a radio station and all combined with years of direct marketing, PR and sales experience for clients as diverse as health food stores, small charities and right up to multinational public companies.
David brings unique talent and experience to his role for the last six years as Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Publishing Group. Working closely with Agora’s publishers and marketers to test new ideas and marketing campaigns, Agora’s Internet revenues topped $200 million in 2007. David understands and can communicate fluently with creative “right-brain” marketers and analytical “left-brain” IT and software teams, all with equal ease. He has a proven track record for generating results and creative thinking and excels at making trouble to find new ways of making things happen!
He lives on a small farm close to Mount Hood in Oregon with his wife Cinda, a veterinarian, and their four children and a menagerie of animals (no more, please!). When not marketing or brainstorming you’ll find David following a dream of self-sufficiency for food, power and water within 10 years, tending the land and caring for the farm and animals. Not surprisingly, David is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker with many amusing anecdotes from his work and travels over the years.
David is also the director of The Internet Rant
See David Cross’s Recent Articles.
E. Alan Cowgill is the owner of Colby Properties, LLC. and President of Integrity Home Buyers, Inc. Alan is a full-time Real Estate Investor, investing in single family and small multi-family properties in Springfield, Ohio.
Since 1995, Alan has bought and sold over 200 investment properties. Alan uses Private Lenders, not banks; to fund his real estate purchases. By doing this, he has created his own private bank of $2,000,000 in funds. Alan looks for “Win – Win” situations, where the seller, the lender, and the eventual homeowner can all “Win”. He is not a Realtor, but a Private Investor. Alan has served as an elected official to the Board of Directors for the Clark County Property Management Association. He is an author, consultant and national speaker.
He has been asked to speak on the topics of “Investing for the Beginning Investor.” and “Finding Private Lenders.” His home study system, “Private Lending Made Easy“, shows new and seasoned real estate investors how to find private lenders for their own real estate business. Alan is married and the father of (3) children. See Alan Cowgill’s Recent Articles.
Robert L. Cox. The Billionaire In You is a system of principles developed from Bob’s unique experience being involved with four Billionaires over the past 30 years.
As co-founder of the world’s first Home Shopping Channel to working with the largest privately owned hotel chain in the Southeast Bob has answered the question: How can it be that a group of people in the same city, with the same education, opportunity, upbringing and starting bank balance make riches beyond their dreams – and others do not? Answer: They used a system, which set them apart from the crowd! Bob with his wife and partner of over 30 years, Karin, is the “voice” of ETR’s Total Success Achievement Program which includes weekly Power Surge Messages, two teleseminars every month and coaching calls. Members have exclusive access to ETR’s Success Website to download past teleseminars (MP3 format), reread all the Power Surge Messages plus bonus downloads and a Forum for discussion.
Bob is an author of Flip the Success Switch, motivational speaker and independent Business Consultant who enjoys bowling, golfing and flying. He has a private pilot’s license and owns his own Diamond DA-20 airplane. Bob holds 2 world airspeed records with the National Aeronautic Assoc. (NAA) and Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI).
See Robert Cox’s Recent Articles.
Edwin Huertas, ETR’s Web Team Manager, has been developing and marketing Websites since 1994 as well as testing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) methodologies for many years. He has helped many medium- to large-sized companies around the globe by improving their Web marketing efforts.
Edwin’s background in programming has allowed him to approach Search Engine Optimization from a developer’s perspective. Studying search engines’ algorithms and patterns in order to develop successful SEO campaigns has helped him generate millions in revenue for previous clients and employers.
Heading most of ETR’s Internet Marketing projects, Edwin has dramatically increased the overall traffic and conversion rates for EarlytoRise.com. Currently he manages ETR’s pay-per-click (PPC) marketing efforts and has increased conversion rates from 12-15% to as high as 40% on most of ETR’s PPC campaigns.
See Edwin Huertas’s Recent Articles
Brian Edmondson is an author, speaker, and Internet entrepreneur specializing in generating website traffic and building responsive email lists. He is also the director of ETR’s Internet Money Club.
After leaving his “Wall Street” job in 2001, Brian found true success and independence through the power of the Internet. He has launched several websites, including one that grossed over $50,000 in sales in the first week and has masterminded many multi-million dollar Internet businesses. He now works full time online from his home outside of Philadelphia , PA (or anywhere there is an internet connection).
Brian is also known for his ability to generate “big profits from a small list”. In one example he generated over $15,000 in 7 days from a list of only 1,286 subscribers. Brian is co-author of The Ultimate Success Secret with Dan Kennedy.
Yarixa “Coach Yari” Ferrao
Yarixa Ferrao is a Certified Personal Trainer. She was voted “America’s Next Fitness Phenom” in 2008. Coach Yari is an expert in functional training, weight loss, sports performance, and cellulite. She is the founder of Get Fit in 6, a six-week life transformation program for both women and men in Delray Beach, Florida. Coach Yari is the author of the e-book, Cellulite and the Featured Fitness Instructor on Dr. Al Sears World Renowned P.A.C.E Program exercise video.
Justin Ford is an active investor in real estate and global stock markets. He is also a veteran financial writer. He has published, edited and written for over a dozen international investment newsletters, including launching the US version of the Fleet Street Letter, the oldest continuously published newsletter in the English Language.
He is the author of Seeds of Wealth, a program for getting children to adopt good money habits from an early age. He is the editor of the Seeds of Wealth Quarterly Investment Update Bulletin. He is a contributing editor and author to a number of books on personal finance, including Michael Masterson’s Automatic Wealth and Dr. Van Tharp’s Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom.
He is also the author of Main Street Millionaire a value-focused real estate investment program.
See Justin Ford’s Recent Articles.
John Forde’s 15-year career as a top copywriter started as an understudy of Bill Bonner and Michael Masterson. Since then, John has written countless winning controls, has generated well over $30 million in sales, and has successfully launched dozens of products. He’s also worked three years as a financial journalist and has written books on wealth building and health, as well as more than 250 articles on copywriting for his popular ezine, The Copywriter’s Roundtable.
John has taught copywriting in private seminars and conferences in Paris, London, Bonn, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Baltimore, and Warsaw. He currently lives and works from Paris, France.
See John Forde’s Recent Articles.
Patty GaleCustomer Appreciation Expert
Patty Gale, founder of InspiredWebWorks.com, is an internet marketing expert who specializes in empowering small businesses to harness the potential of the web. Her knack for taking the “geek-speak” of the web and explaining it “in plain English” inspires small business owners to bridge the gap from their street address to their web address to showcase their business to the world.
Her expertise is rooted in her background in investment management, where during the span of 17 years, she managed the trading desks of several large private investment firms whose clientele served high net worth businesses. In 2001, she traded in her suits, heels and the corner office in exchange to start her company from her home office and hasn’t looked back since.
Born and raised on Long Island, Patty attended Buffalo State College, NY where she earned her B.A. in Advertising and Broadcast Journalism.
Andrew Gordon is the investment director at ETR. He has 20 years of experience working in infrastructure and environmental projects around the world. When he wasn’t traveling, he taught marketing and finance courses at the state university of Maryland.
He is currently the editor of INCOME, and contributes a weekly column to Investor’s Daily Edge. Mr. Gordon has authored several books for McGraw Hill and other publishing companies on energy markets, global countertrade practices and the hot growth sectors of China and Russia.
He is also a top-rated speaker at financial conferences.
Don Hauptman was an award-winning independent direct-response copywriter and creative consultant for more than 30 years.
He may be best known for his headline “Speak Spanish [French, German, etc.] Like a Diplomat!” This familiar series of ads sold spectacular numbers of recorded foreign language lessons for Audio-Forum, generating revenues that total in the tens of millions of dollars. In the process, the ad achieved the status of an industry classic.
Don’s work is mentioned in three major college advertising textbooks, and examples of his promotions are cited in the books Million Dollar Mailings (1992) and World’s Greatest Direct Mail Sales Letters (1996). In a column in Advertising Age, his name was included in a short list of direct-marketing “superstars.”
He has a parallel career as a writer on language and wordplay. His celebration of spoonerisms, Cruel and Unusual Puns (Dell, 1991), received rave reviews and quickly went into a second printing. His second book was Acronymania (Dell, 1993).
Recently, Don retired from full-time copywriting in order to focus on other interests, including his passion for “recreational linguistics.” He is at work on a new book in that genre. He is a regular contributor to the magazine Word Ways and writes “The Language Perfectionist,” a weekly column on grammar and usage, for Early to Rise.
Don is author of The Versatile Freelancer, an e-book from American Writers and Artists, Inc. (AWAI) that shows copywriters how to diversify their careers into consulting, training, critiquing, and speaking.
See Don Hauptman’s Recent Articles
Kelley Herring, B.S., MBA - Kelley Herring is the Founder & CEO of Healing Gourmet – a multimedia company that educates on how foods promote health and protect against disease. As a young adult, Kelley battled a debilitating health condition that went misdiagnosed by multiple doctors for more than a year. Finding no help from “modern medicine”, she turned to her own knowledge of biochemistry and her passion for health research. She soon learned that her symptoms were related to nutrition and within weeks, she charted a course back to health with nothing more than simple lifestyle changes and the power of the plate. The lessons she learned spawned the creation of Healing Gourmet.
Kelley is a firm believer in vigorous exercise, moderate sun exposure and delicious, healthy, home-cooked meals. She is also the creator of Healing Gourmet’s Personalized Nutrition Software and Editor-in-Chief of the Healing Gourmet book series published by McGraw-Hill including Eat to Fight Cancer, Eat to Beat Diabetes, Eat to Lower Cholesterol and Eat to Boost Fertility.
See Kelley Herrings Recent Articles
Howie Jacobson is the author of the bestselling book AdWords for Dummies. As marketer Ken McCarthy said, “You couldn’t have put your hands on information like this for less than $5,000.”
Howie will show you – with amazing ease and insight – how to play Google like a violin, turning the sweet sound of clicks into clink. He has the brilliant ability to take a complete beginner and in almost no time flat, have them generating EXTREME amounts of traffic through Google AdWords – widely acknowledged as one of the Internet’s quickest and easiest ways to make money (IF you know how to do it right).
Howie’s marketing genius has made him the man other experts turn to when they need advice for quickly growing their – or a client’s – business. But whether you’re expert or beginner, you get everything in “plain English” that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you hear one money-making secret after another. Take a look at Howie’s Pay Per Profits Advanced Insider Secrets
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he netted $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant bestseller.
At the age of 23, Cameron has founded and sold more than a dozen successful businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, ABC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a wide-range of audiences including corporate audiences, entrepreneurial boot camps, and even high schools and colleges.
In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed your Way — And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship was released by Simon & Schuster and is available in stores worldwide. Cameron resides in Roanoke, Virginia.
Srikumar Rao Ph.D. – Dr. Rao received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He has an M. Phil. in Marketing from the same school in addition to an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His undergraduate training was in Physics at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
He conceived the pioneering course Creativity and Personal Mastery. This is the only business school course that has its own alumni association and it has been extensively covered in the media including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the London Times, the Independent, Time, the Financial Times, Fortune, the Guardian, Business Week and dozens of other publications.
Paul Lawrence is an entrepreneur who has made his living starting and running a series of profitable businesses. One day while cleaning his mother’s pool for a few extra bucks, it dawned on Paul that he could perhaps start his own pool cleaning business. He carefully employed all the marketing techniques that he had learned in school and designed his first flyer. Immediately the business took off and within a week, Paul had his own little business. He quickly expanded, hired employees and then eventually sold it some relatives who made well over $250,000 in the next year before they eventually sold it for a six figure profit.
After finishing college, Paul did a brief stint in a management program for a national rental company, but he quickly realized that he was much happier running his own show. Paul left the rental company and launched one of the most financially successful independent ballroom dance instruction companies in the state of Florida where he received quite a bit of media attention for his revolutionary business practices that included front page features in the Life Style section of the Sun Sentinel, features in the Miami Herald, Boca News, Center Stage Entertainment and many others. With that business running profitably, Paul started several other businesses either individually or as partnerships that included a million dollar video production company, a mortgage brokerage, a home maintenance business, several mail order companies, a business consulting service among others.
With a love of movies, Paul began to work at breaking into Hollywood as a screenwriter where he’s beaten the odds by becoming a produced writer. He is a credited writer for the film CRUEL WORLD, starring Jaime Presley and Eddie Furlong and has signed a development deal for a national television series with one of the world’s largest producers of television and films among his half a dozen sales and options of movie scripts he wrote. Paul is the creator of the Quick & Easy Microbusiness program.
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Dave Lindahl has rehabbed over 521 houses in just under 10 years and owns over 2204 apartment units. Starting out as a struggling landscaper with no experience in construction, Dave accepted an opportunity to renovate a foreclosed house for a local bank during the wintertime when there was no landscaping to do in Boston. The job was completed mostly with the advice of relatives and friends who knew how to do the work.
After completing the first house, he did another and then (after getting over his initial fears) began to buy and hold small apartment buildings for himself. To get the money for down payments (he originally used credit cards until they ran out!), Dave would rehab single-family houses to “flip” for chunks of money, so he could buy more apartment buildings. With in the first 14 months, Dave’s apartment buildings created a positive cash flow of over $10,300 a month for him and his family and with in three and one half years Dave became a multi-millionaire.
Today, Dave has earned millions of dollars renovating houses for resale, and owns over 1811 apartment units with a monthly cash flow equaling what most people make in a year!
Clayton Makepeace. In many of the 34 years since Clayton Makepeace began his career, his marketing brainstorms and sales copy have generated over 100 million dollars in sales for his clients – all told well over a billion dollars so far!
Clayton’s copy has generated as many as TWO MILLION NEW CUSTOMERS for a single product in just 36 months and doubled, tripled – and on four specific occasions, quadrupled – the number of paying customers on his clients house files in as little as a year or two.
He has increased his client’s sales revenues by up to 1,000 percent in a single month, and multiplied monthly sales revenues by up to 4,400 percent in one short year.
Clayton’s direct response copy has pulled in as much as $3.6 million in sales over a weekend $5 million in a few weeks and $16 MILLION in a single month!
See Clayton Makepeace’s Recent Articles.
Since 1991, Alex Mandossian has generated over $233 million in sales and profits for his clients and partners via’electronic marketing’ media such as TV Infomercials, online catalogs, 24-hour recorded messages, voice/fax broadcasting, Teleseminars, Webinars, Podcasts and Internet Marketing.
Alex has personally consulted Dale Carnegie Training, NYU, 1ShoppingCart Corp., Mutuals.com, Pinnacle Care, Strategic Coach, Trim Spa and many others.
He has hosted teleseminars with many of the world’s top thought leaders such as Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, Les Brown, David Allen, Vic Conant, Brian Tracy, David Bach, Harvey Mackay, Robert Cialdini, Harv Eker, Bobbi De Porter, Michael Masterson, Joe Vitale, Gay and Katie Hendricks, Bob Proctor, and many others.
He is the CEO of Heritage House Publishing, Inc., a boutique electronic marketing and publishing company that ‘repurposes’ written and spoken educational content for worldwide distribution. He is also the founder of the Electronic Marketing Institute.
See Alex Mandossian’s Recent Articles.
Michael Masterson has developed a loyal following through his writings in Early to Rise , an e-newsletter published by Agora, Inc. that mentors more than 450,000 success-oriented individuals to help them achieve their financial goals.
Masterson has been making money for himself and others for almost four decades. At one time or another,Michael Masterson (a pen name used by this ultra-successful businessman)has consulted for and advised multi-million dollar companies that wereboth public/private, onshore/overseas, local/international, service-/product-oriented, retail/wholesale/direct mail, and even profit/not-for-profit.
Masterson is the author of several Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Amazon.com best sellers, including Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat, Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire; Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence; Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out; Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life (all published by John Wiley & Sons); and Confessions of a Self-Made Millionaire and Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business (with MaryEllen Tribby).
See Michael Masterson’s Recent Articles.
Charles Newcastle “The Money Man”
Charles Newcastle is a lifelong entrepreneur and avid explorer. He is often referred to as a renaissance “money man” because of his ability to bring people, capital and deals together. He has asked that we protect his anonymity so that he may have the freedom to continue discovering contrarian and off wall-street profit opportunities uninterrupted.
Charles began his career as a Commodity and Currency Futures trader back in the 1980’s.
Since then, Charles has launched some 41 successful businesses during the last 3 decades (and advised on many more). His clients have included 3M, Pillsbury, Toro, and the US Government.
He has been featured in Wired Magazine, Bloomberg Personal, and Business 2.0 (among many others) for his ability to spot and capitalize upon emerging business trends. He has no mortgage, is debt free. And didn’t lose one thin dime in the market in 2008.
Charles continues to travel the world in search of unique opportunities and ventures and is the Founding Editor of The Liberty Street Letter. He also serves as an expert panelist on The Liberty Street League .
Andrew Palmer is an experienced online business builder who pioneered many of the marketing strategies and name accumulation techniques that have since become best practices in the publishing industry. An innovator with a proven track record of successfully managing multi-channel marketing campaigns, this pacesetter has cross-functional expertise in Direct Response Marketing, Email Marketing, List and Relationship Building, Search Engine Optimization (Organic & Paid), Affiliate Marketing, Market Analysis & Competitive Intelligence and Web Analytics & Reporting.
Mr. Palmer founded the position of Director of E-Commerce/Web Marketing for Agora Publishing in 2000. He was brought in to create an Internet business for Bill Bonner’s initial online venture The Daily Reckoning. The incredible success of The Daily Reckoning and Agora e-letters that followed… forever changed direct response publishing. Mr. Palmer was also responsible for all online advertising campaigns, websites, email list accumulation, and reporting & analysis for Agora Financial, until his departure at the end of 2006.
Mr. Palmer is an in-demand expert speaker on “Direct mail on the Web” and the “Free Content Model” of Internet Marketing. He has acquired—this is without exaggeration—more than one million “opt in” names and successfully monetized them online for millions.
A licensed California attorney, Mr. Palmer gave up the practice of law to enter the fast paced field of online/email marketing. Experienced in providing executive level assistance for law firms, non-profits and publishing companies, he deems leadership, management development, and innovation of marketable web initiatives as his strengths. Mr. Palmer has advanced degrees in Law and International Business. His career has taken him throughout Europe and Asia, with extensive time developing new markets in China.
Rick Pendergraft. Inspired by his high school economics teacher, Rick Pendergraft fell in love with the markets at an early age. He entered his first investing competition at 17, and opened his first brokerage account before he finished college. At the age of 23, on the third options trade he had ever placed, Rick turned $1,800 into $22,000 in less than a week, when the company he bought became the target of a takeover. He admits it was a stroke of luck, but it was a memorable education as to the leverage that options can provide.
After a ten year career in banking, Rick decided to pursue trading full-time. To get his foot in the door, he started out in the sales department at Schaeffer’s Investment Research. It was not long before his talent was recognized and he was invited to apprentice under Bernie Schaeffer, one of the top options traders in the world. Rick thrived in his new position and twice received the award for “Top Trader.”
Rick has developed a loyal following of readers who are grateful for his timely warnings and profitable advice. He is widely recognized as a market expert and has been frequently quoted by Reuters, BusinessWeek, Forbes, USA Today, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Rick’s primary focus is on identifying short and intermediate term rising and falling trends in the major market sectors. His analysis is based on technical factors along with indicators of market sentiment
Rick lives near Delray Beach, FL with his wife and three children.
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Thomas Phelan offers a unique blend of expertise regarding the Self-Directed IRA and 1031 Exchanging including the purchasing of foreign real estate using one or both of the latter. Thomas Phelan’s articles have been published by ETR, Escape Artist, International Living and the Wall Street Journal and he currently speaks on these most important subjects of the Self-Directed IRA and 1031 Exchanging for International Living in Mexico, Panama, Honduras and Buenos Aires to name a few of the countries he has visited. Thomas has been in the real estate and financial business for over 25 years. He began his career with a degree in Law.
He has held a Series 7 Stock Broker’s License while working for Smith Barney in New York. He has held various Insurance Licenses and Real Estate Broker Licenses in California, Colorado, Wyoming and New York. Since 1999 Thomas has been a Certified 1031 Exchange Specialist. He was a Representative for Starker Services and currently represents Asset Preservations, a national 1031 Exchange Intermediary. Thomas conducts IRA and 1031 Exchange Classes for numerous real estate firms including: Coldwell Banker, Re/Max, Century 21, Prudential and ERA. Thomas wrote: “How To Buy And Sell Real Estate And Never Pay Taxes (legally)”©2003“, a definitive work on the dynamics of 1031 Exchanging especially suited for Realtors®. The foreword is written by real estate legend Ron LeGrand who considers Thomas the Leading Expert in the 1031 Exchange field.
In 2002 Thomas created a seminar based on The Myths of the Self-Directed IRA. Soon Thomas was being invited to speak around the country about this most misunderstood and underutilized controversial subject. Thomas created the first Self-Directed IRA/SEP Wealth Building Boot Camp that specifically addresses the issue of what and how Non Traditional items, especially real estate (including foreign real estate) can be placed in a Self-Directed IRA, SEP, Solo 401(k) or the brand new ROTH 401(k). Thomas is editor of ETR’s Million Dollar IRA, 1031, and Instant Tax Relief programs.
John PhillipsSEO Expert John first cut his teeth in online marketing back in 1996, when he figured out he could use search engines to convert tens of thousands of people looking for credit card debt relief into new credit counseling customers. Since then, John has worked directly and consulted for major clients in the wireless/ telecom, non-profit, and financial publishing sectors, including the last 3 years at Agora Publishing and The Oxford Club, where he beat out the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Motley Fool to secure the # 1 rank on Google, Yahoo and MSN for the coveted keyword, “investment advice.”
He is expert in organic search, pay per click search, and social media strategies, and specializes in acquiring, converting and monetizing web traffic for his clients.
Robert Ringer has helped more people transform their aspirations and goals into reality than perhaps any other author in history. For more than two decades, Ringer’s works have stood alone as the gospel when it comes to conveying worldly wisdom that translates into tangible results.
Ringer is the author of three #1 bestsellers, two of which have been listed by The New York Times among the 15 best-selling motivational books of all time. All of his books combined have been read by more than 10 million people worldwide.
Robert Ringer has appeared on numerous national talk shows, including The Tonight Show, Today, Good Morning America, The Montel Williams Show, ABC News Nightline, and The Charlie Rose Show.
In addition, he has been the subject of feature articles in such major publications as Time, People, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Barron’s, and The New York Times.
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Buck Rizvi will show you how to invest time in a business that can actually SELL for a multi-million dollar price tag (if you want) or pass down to your children, creating a true financial DYNASTY. But don’t worry – it can also be making profitable sales within the first couple of DAYS! He’s the only person who can tell you the absolute best way to tap into a gigantic 23.8 BILLION DOLLAR “niche” market!
Richard Schefren has offline built, run and sold multimillion dollar businesses in the fashion industry, music industry, and the hypnosis industry. He’s been profiled in numerous media including the front page of The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, CNN news, Fox News, and dozens hundreds of other TV, radio, magazines and newspapers. Rich has continued his offline success online.
He currently has over 70 niche specific product sites, and has orchestrated teleseminars with marketers like Jay Abraham, John Cartlon, and many others that individually have grossed as much as $2.5 million. Currently Rich maintains an elite marketing coaching program, where many of today’s top internet marketers and service providers are among his clientele.
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Al Sears, M.D., has written six books and more than 500 articles in the fields of alternative medicine, anti-aging and nutritional supplementation. He enjoys a worldwide readership of millions spread over 123 countries and has appeared on more than 50 national radio programs, ABC News, CNN and ESPN. In The Doctor’s Heart Cure, Dr. Sears exposes the real causes of the modern epidemic of heart disease with practical how-to advice for building real heart strength and resistance to disease without drugs. It is available in nine languages and remains a bestseller three years after its publication. His 12 Secrets to Virility sheds light on the huge environmental and nutritional problems with virility in our modern world and gives men a step-by step guide for maintaining health, strength and masculinity as they age. It became a bestseller during its first month of release. His latest book Your Best Health Under the Sun addresses the myths of the sun’s dangers and gives readers an action plan for restoring this important natural resource for better mood, strength, energy and nutritional health.
Dr. Sears is board certified as a Clinical Nutrition Specialist and was appointed to the international panel of experts at Health Sciences Institute, (HSI) a worldwide information service for alternative nutritional therapies. A master gardener and herbalist, Dr. Sears maintains an herbal apothecary of more than 250 organic herbs used for research, education and treatments. Dr. Sears is the founder and director of The Wellness Research Foundation, conducting original research evaluating natural alternatives to pharmaceutical therapies.
Dr. Sears is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and is board certified in Anti-Aging Medicine. As a pioneer in this new field of medicine, he is an avid researcher and sought-after lecturer to thousands of doctors and health enthusiasts. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Youth Sports Coaches Association. As well as being a sports and fitness coach and a lifelong advocate of exercise programs, Dr. Sears is an ACE-certified fitness trainer. He maintains his integrative clinic and research center in Florida, where he has developed novel exercise and nutritional systems transforming the lives of more than 20,000 patients.
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James Sheridan’s Instant Internet Income
home-study program has been one of the top-selling “how-to” courses on the internet, with over 10,000 satisfied customers! And, no, he didn’t make his money from selling this home-study program… He made some, sure, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared from what he’s made using his internet marketing strategies. In addition to that James’ written work has been changing lives in several countries around the world since 1999.
Not only is he a published author. He is a businessman, real estate investor and a regular successful trader of worldwide currencies, futures and commodities. James contributed to the development of a number of programs marketed by ETR including:
Alexis SiemonSearch Engine Marketing Specialist
After graduating from Florida State University in 1997, Alexis got started in the golden age of the Internet marketing industry working agency-side where she performed everything from search engine optimization (SEO) to web analytics to media buying for several clients. She then took her expertise client-side managing SEO and pay-per-click (PPC) efforts, as well as other print and interactive marketing initiatives for companies in the financial and software industries.
In 2006, she came to Early to Rise where she currently manages SEM for 2 of the Early to Rise divisions – Investor’s Daily Edge and Total Health Breakthroughs.
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Yanik Silver is an established internet marketing expert, having been in business online since 1998. He has numerous internet products to his name, including Instant Internet Profits, Internet Marketing Lab, 21 Mind Motivators, Instant Sales Letters, Million Dollar Emails, Autoresponder Magic, and Instant Marketing Toolbox. Yanik has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland. He is also a frequent guest speaker at internet marketing seminars.
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Paul Smithson is the founder of Intellimon and the driving force behind the best-selling XSitePro web site development tool, and the soon to be released XHeaderPro. Since graduating in Business Strategy and Direct Marketing from two of Europe’s leading business schools, Paul has set up five multi-million dollar companies, one of which is now owned by the BBC. His areas of expertise include business strategy, e-commerce, on-line and off-line marketing, software development, and maximizing the potential of on-line businesses.
Jeff WalkerProduct Launch Expert For years Jeff Walker was one of those “under-the-radar” infomarketers who you would only hear occasional rumors about. Since 1996, with little fanfare, he has sold millions of dollars worth of “how to” information (until recently, his primary niche was financial investing and trading.) For years, Jeff’s specialty has been launching new products… and after word got out that he had generated $106,000 in seven days with a new product and a relatively small list, he became a sought-after “hired gun” for rolling out new promotions. The information marketing world suddenly took notice in 2004, when John Reese publicly credited Jeff’s teachings after he launched a new home- study course and sold $1.08 million in the first 24 hours.
Since then, the numbers have continued to grow, and his launch techniques have now generated more than $53.1 million in sales. Along the way, Jeff has helped other famous marketers such as Yanik Silver, Rich Schefren, Frank Kern, Brad Fallon, Dan, Kennedy and Bill Glazer. However, he has also helped many not-so- famous students who have had great success in all kinds of niches from massage therapy, to software training, to baseball coaches.