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President of Eric Taylor Consulting Group, Author, and Speaker
Millstone, NJ
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* The characteristics needed to be successful in personal marketing and selling.
* How Eric promoted Jeffrey Gittomer's seminars for success.
* The lesson of asking, "How can I provide value first?"

Expert Bio
Eric Taylor started his “professional sales career” at the age of seventeen, selling pots and pans door-to-door in New Jersey and went on to build a successful seven-figure entertainment company while in college. He is now the President and Chief Collaboration Officer at Eric Taylor Consulting Group, a training, coaching, and consulting organization specializing in sales training, sales coaching, small business marketing, employee motivation, leadership and personal development.

Eric is also the co-author of the Mastering the World series of books, which includes Mastering the World of Selling and Mastering the World of Marketing. His new book, Life Lessons from Superman, is due out in March 2012.

For more information, visit Eric's website.
Contact Info for Eric Taylor
Business Phone: 732-236-1858
Web address: EmpowermentGroup.com
Travels From: New York, NY
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Dr. Alan Zimmerman is a full-time professional speaker and trainer in the areas of motivation, leadership, communication, change, and work-life balance.

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Brand Anthropologist and CEO
New York, NY
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* How a brand anthropologist operates.
* How to use the question "Why do you do what you do?" to uncover important core answers.
* What makes people "lean into" a web site when it is well-executed.
* The missed opportunity of not thinking you're a brand if you're "less than Nike."

Expert Bio
As Brand Anthropologist and CEO of Zing Your Brand, a NYC-based branding consultancy, laboratory and workspace for serious play, Mary van de Wiel [alias: Van] works with solopreneurs and corporate clients alike, pumping oxygen into suffocating brands to yield heightened marketplace visibility and unprecedented profits. Van is best known for her idiosyncratic views on the emotional clues that beckon online audiences to lean into their screens, hearts beating and eyes gleaming — or run away, screaming.

As a writer, producer & radio host, Van brings her fiercely individualistic perspective to NY Brand Lab Radio, as well as to her off-air training & networking portals, The NY Brand Lab and The Brand Reinvention Summit. She’s currently putting the finishing touches on her forthcoming book, Dead Brand Walking: A Brand Therapist’s Viewpoint.

In a former life, Van was the Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of an award-winning independent branding & design shop with offices in New York and Sydney. She’s led global brand campaigns for the launch of People Weekly magazine in Australia, the Macau International Airport in China, and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and has served as a business-building muse for Conde Nast Magazines, American Airlines, Sony, Sydney Opera House, Time Inc., News Corporation and The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.

For more information, visit Van's website.
Contact Info for Mary van de Wiel
Business Phone: 718-909-1140
Web address: ZingYourBrand.com
Travels From: New York, NY
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Strategy & Marketing Consultant, Author
Santa Cruz, CA
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* How being flexible allows you to respond to critial changes faster
* What "brand tension" is and how it creates opportunities
* How to respond to structural shifts in the market
* What to do when you find that you've been trapped by your own success

Expert Bio
Stephen Denny is a competitive strategy and marketing consultant who thinks marketing is about big ideas as well as selling things. He helps brands in technology, consumer products, clean energy, and services define their competitive positioning, communication strategies and implementation plans in the market. He is also the author of Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath In Your Industry.

Apart from writing and consulting, Denny is a frequent speaker at corporate events, industry conferences and graduate business schools on topics relating to competitive strategy and marketing. He holds multiple patents, has lived and worked in both the US and Japan, and has an MBA from the Wharton School.

Prior to consulting, he was a 20+ year senior marketing executive having managed the people, strategy and budgets at brand name technology companies like at Sony, Onstar, Iomega and Plantronics.

For more information, visit Stephen's website.
Contact Info for Stephen Denny
Web address: StephenDenny.com
Travels From: San Francisco, CA
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