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Gary Willey & Associates Group Advisory Team and Review Board
Gary Willey & Associates works with an exclusive network of special Marketing Agencies across North America. All members of this team are successful marketing experts and business owners in their own right. Most are licensed AMCA's (Accredited Master Consulting Agents) in the Monopolize Your Marketplace System.
Many of these results-driven marketing experts participate in a weekly review of marketing strategies and materials in a Peer Group/Mastermind review format. Through their exhaustive critique (and we do mean exhaustive), they make sure all components of the MYM Marketing System are as powerful as they can be.
The combined talents of these individuals would make a Fortune 500 CEO drool, and put most traditional corporate marketing organizations to shame.
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Brett Lloyd Abbott
Brett is the founder and CEO of MYM Austin Inc., an MYM agency that works exclusively with swimming pool builders and high-end landscape professionals throughout the world.
Prior to founding MYM Austin, Brett enjoyed a successful 20 year career in high-tech marketing and sales management, where he was responsible for rolling out new product lines, creating and delivering strategic sales and marketing programs, and managing multi-national accounts and operations in the US, Europe and Asia.
In 2002, Brett left the high-tech industry and became a licensed agent of Monopolize Your Marketplace?. After extensive training in the MYM system, he founded MYM Austin. The operation has now grown into team of 20+ experienced professionals and advisers.
Brett is recognized by the Monopolize your Marketplace organization as a "Level III Accredited Agent," one of only three such agents in the country.
Brett is a frequent keynote speaker and leader of workshops and seminars throughout North America. More information on Brett at www.PoolBuilderMarketing.com.
Brett lives in Austin, TX with his wife Naomi, who is a MYM AMCA as well.
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Barry Adelman
Barry graduated from the University Of Michigan Business School in 1970. Over the next three decades, he developed a successful retail clothing and footwear business (Outdoors) with two locations, one in Chester, New York and the other in East Hampton, New York.
Barry became an MYM consultant in 2002. He regularly offers business building seminars and consulted with hundreds of companies. Barry was also chosen to serve on MYM's exclusive The Legacy Council, a group of 15 consultants to advise and comment on the future plans for MYM.
Barry is also a singer/songwriter, and in 2005 he formed a not-for-profit organization called "Music for Humanity." With Music for Humanity, he raises music scholarship funds for deserving individuals who need financial assistance to continue their music education.
Barry lives in Walker Valley, New York, and continues to monitor his original retail business while consulting for various industries.
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Julie Pearson Anderson
Julie is the founder and owner of JKP Anderson Consulting, a management consulting practice that provides diverse solutions including project management, marketing services and organizational strategies to businesses and non-profit organizations.
Anderson's experience also includes twenty years of successful and award-winning management and sales in Fortune 500 and regional companies. Julie partners frequently with Gary Willey & Associates in web site design utilizing MYM Site Builder technology.
Julie has been an active volunteer within her faith community, serving on and leading a variety of committees and boards. She has been married for twenty-two years to Clay Anderson, a PGA teaching professional.
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Todd Bray
Todd is founder and president of Smart Business Alternatives Inc. (SBA Inc.). In years past, he founded a successful national marketing company with seventeen representatives covering the lower 48 states. The co-founder of the largest hydraulic repair facility in Georgia, Todd designed and patented an underground boring machine, and co-designed and patented the "Smart Shock" for the suspensions of large trucks.
Todd is a graduate of Georgia State University with a major in management and a minor in marketing. Todd served for 30 years as a subcontractor to the DOD. He was selected as a member of MYM's Legacy Council.
Todd lives in Cody, WY with his wife Terri, where they specialize in helping organizations transform their inside reality into an positive outside perception in the marketplace. Todd's deep desire is to help others in their quest for business success, thereby satisfying his own personal desire to guide others along the path to financial freedom and personal satisfaction.
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Bud Glassner
Bud is the founder and principal consultant of Strategic Edge LLC, an MYM consulting firm that specializes in marketing systems for the HVAC, plumbing, construction, retail and health care industries.
Bud spent over 20 years in sales, marketing and operations management in the packaging industry, with responsibility for developing and managing a world-wide network of distributors. He has a doctorate in English education from Rutgers University and has taught writing and technical and professional communications at Rutgers and Michigan Technological Universities.
Bud lives in Hockessin, Delaware.
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Rich Harshaw
Rich is the CEO of Monopolize Your Marketplace, author of the book by the same name, and one of the nation's leading marketing minds and business leaders. At the age of 19, he learned to speak Mandarin Chinese. Two years later, he started an import-export business in Taiwan and China.
He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in business and entrepreneurship. In 1994, he founded Marketing Strategies, and over the next several years developed the Monopolize Your Marketplace system. In 2000, he started Y2Marketing, which made the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing privately held companies for three consecutive years (2002, 2003 and 2004).
In his professional career, Rich has become one of the nation's most sought-after marketing consultants and speakers because of his deep understanding of what motivates people to buy. He has written Marketing and Sales materials for over 1500 companies in virtually every industry.
His articles about marketing, sales and advertising have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers worldwide. Because the Monopolize Your Marketplace system exposes the inadequacies and questionable business practices of big ad agencies, it has earned Rich the title of the "Most Hated Man in Marketing."
Rich lives near Dallas, TX with his wife Tonia and their six children. He is an active member of his church and serves as a leader and mentor in the Youth program. Rich says, "My passion is teaching young people how to be successful in school, their families, financially, spiritually and in life."
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Beth Knabel
Beth is the founder and principal of N-Gen Marketing, an MYM consulting agency. She has worked in marketing and communications for over 25 years, beginning as a writer/producer/director in industrial television.
Beth’s agency and corporate experience includes product launches, exhibits/special events management, staff training, lead management and revenue enhancement, public relations and speaker placement. She is disciplined at applying human behavior and qualitative research to communications: Codifying why people buy, why they don’t; then executing an integrated communications plan, including social media and digital technologies, to persuade prospects.
Beth lives with her husband in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Douglas A. Shackelford
Doug is VP of Business Development for Exselleration, LLC, a sales, marketing and human resource consulting firm, in Washington, DC and CMCA for the MYM Marketing System. Doug is also VP of Marketing and Technical Applications for KJK International.
Doug has 25 years experience in sales and marketing of high-tech products and service in industrial and commercial applications. His performance has demonstrated strong customer relation management skills in opening and developing high volume dollar accounts and maintaining close relationships with key decision makers, principally at the “Plant Manager”, “COO” and “CEO” levels.
Doug has a BS with concentrations in chemistry and biology. He began his sales career with an industrial contracting firm, and then moved on to successful sales with Combustion Engineering, a global corporation delivering technical products and expertise to heavy industry. His career has included industrial construction supervision, engineering, and hands-on construction duties in industries such as primary and secondary metals, petroleum refining, chemical manufacturing, paper manufacturing and power generation.
Doug founded Exselleration and became an accredited agent in the MYM System to provide much-needed marketing expertise to small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurial endeavors working in the Washington, DC area. More info at www.Exselleration-llc.com.
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Rich Soracco
Rich is president of MYM Pittsburgh, a licensed and accredited agency of Monopolize Your Marketplace. He's also General Manager of the Hearing Aid Marketing team at Monopolize Your Marketplace, and founder & CEO of The O.S. Group, Inc. since 1981.
Rich is skilled in Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Franchise Modeling, and Business Development Programs, serving more than 1600 clients in a dozen states. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems. At Texas Instruments, Inc., he designed computers for the FAA's Instrument Landing System, now in use at all airports of size in the nation.
Rich lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife of 18 years and their twin daughters.
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Arnie Wentland
Arnie is the owner of 4Profit LLC, a licensed and accredited agency of Monopolize Your Marketplace. 4Profit focuses on growing businesses through product and process innovation and strategic and tactical marketing. Prior to starting 4Profit, Arnie worked as a business transformation consultant, business process analyst, business process modeling and analysis instructor, and a systems engineer for 35 years for IBM. He holds bachelors degrees in electrical engineering and engineering administration, a masters degree in business administration and has done graduate work in human resources. Arnie lives in Greenfield, MN with his wife of 40 years, Jan. They have four children and three grandchildren.
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Gary Willey
Gary is the founder and president of Gary Willey & Associates, Inc., an MYM consulting firm.
Gary is recognized by Monopolize Your Marketplace as a "Level II Accredited Agent," one of only a few such agents in the country.
Previously, Gary was Founder and CEO of MIDLAND Suppliers, Inc. in Lincoln, NE, and the largest DirecTV Commercial satellite equipment, programming and background music provider in Nebraska as well as several other ventures.
Before starting his own companies, Gary was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Century Manufacturing, the world's largest manufacturer of welders and battery chargers. Under Gary's direction, sales grew from $18,000,000 to more than $50,000,000.
Gary is Founder and Past President of the Nebraska Satellite Dealers Association, and a past member of the National Installer Board for Hughes Network Systems, which is the world's largest supplier of two-way satellite data systems.
Gary is an Instrument-Rated Private Pilot, and enjoys rebuilding classic cars. (Gary's cars have won numerous awards.)
Gary lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, AlyceRae. Together they have three children and five grandchildren.
Detailed Bio of Gary Willey...
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