Ralph discovered many new heroes at the conference. John Carlton, master copywriter and dear friend of Joe’s and Gary Halbert (deceased), Dean Graziosi, Author of “Totally Fulfilled”, !Bill Phillips, Author of “Body For Life”, Timothy Ferris, Author of “The 4 Hour Work Week”, Dr. Edward Hallowell, MD, Author of “Crazy Buzy”, Ken Glickman, Lisa Wagner and Sir Richard Branson all impressed the audience with their genuine desire to help others. Bill Phillips and Timothy Ferris signed autographs and posed for photos with their fans until their hands fell off and their knees collapsed under the weight of so many photos.
My other heroes who attended were, of course Joe Polish, since it was his conference, and Cameron Johnson, Dave Kekich, who were speakers and Dave Bernstein, muscle-bound security and Carl Galletti, the incredible copywriter and Paul Colligan, Mr. Podcasting. In honor of their heroes interviews, I posted the audios of their heroes interviews on the Piranha Marketing Seminar page where I included the photos from Joe’s Piranha Marketing Seminar in 2005.
Sir Richard Branson is a flamboyant British entrepreneur with a seemingly insatiable appetite for starting new businesses. His internationally recognized brand “Virgin” is splashed across everything from credit cards, to airlines and music “megastores”. Branson is continuously seeking new business opportunities and loves a good challenge, especially when he enters a market that is dominated by a few major players.
The Virgin Brand: Richard Branson has created one of the most recognizable brands in the world. In Britain where he focuses much of his attention, Branson has managed to “Virginize” a very wide range of products and services. The variety of businesses he controls is as vast as the geographical coverage the brand has, with business located throughout The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Asia, Europe and South Africa.
Some of the businesses Branson has founded/collected include:
* Virgin Atlantic – An international airline flying to many major destinations.
* Virgin Megastores – Music Super-markets located in major locations in the UK, USA and Australia.
* Virgin Books – Publisher and distributor of books.
* Virgin Credit Card – Branson’s attempt to provide credit cards at a reasonable price.
* Virgin Holidays – Book a holiday and fly Virgin Atlantic?
* Virgin Trains – Virgin making trains sexy in the United Kingdom.
* V2 Music – Largest UK based independent recording label.
* Virgin Active – Chain of fitness clubs throughout the United Kingdom.
* Virgin Galactic – Branson’s planned affordable flight to space venture.
* Virgin America – NEW American airline
* Necker Island – Branson’s own private island located in the British Virgin Islands.
Branson is passionate about life and living every minute to its fullest. Since 1985 he has been getting his adrenaline rushes through world record breaking attempts by boat and hot air balloon. Several distance and speed records have been attempted and achieved, but his attempt to be the first person to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon was never achieved. Branson makes each record attempt a media event with his Virgin logo prominently displayed during every launch, which has been an excellent source of free advertising and brand placement for the Virgin Group.
“Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I’ve just had the most incredible dream.
I’ve just dreamt my life.”
— Richard Branson
Branson was awarded a Knighthood in 1999 and became Sir Richard Branson for his contribution to entrepreneurship. Branson has been married for decades with two children and currently lives in London. Think that a guy like that might be able to teach you a thing or two about how to quickly dominate the carpet & upholstery cleaning market where you reside?
New York Times bestselling author, magazine publisher, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur, inventor, self-made multimillionaire, motivator, Bill Phillips has thus far proved unstoppable. Now, he has his sights set on scaling what he calls the “Mt. Everest of health and energy goals: Transform America from worst to first—to make it the healthiest nation in the world within 10 years.”
Described recently by Outside magazine as “the most successful fitness author of all time,” Phillips’ runaway bestseller Body-for-LIFE has sold in excess of 6 million copies. The 12-week guide to achieving mental and physical strength has topped the charts in 11 different countries—including the U.S., England, Japan, Australia, Greece and Finland—and was, in 2004, named among the Top 15 bestselling books of the past decade by USA Today. Phillips’ recent work, Eating for Life, created to help inspire and guide even more people to improve their health and lift their quality of life to new heights, has become another bestseller.
Phillips has been asked to share his expert advice and insight for publications such as USA Today, Modern Maturity, Woman’s World, the L.A. Times, and for television programs including NBC’s Today Show, CBS’ The Early Show, Montel Williams, the Wayne Brady Show, CNN and Fox News.
Phillips has received many honors for his work including the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s® highest award. He was also honored by Paul Newman and the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., as one of America’s most generous business leaders. The United States Junior Chamber of Commerce honored Phillips in January 2000 as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans. Bill was also chosen to help carry the Olympic torch on its relay across America for the 2002 Olympic Games.
Over the years, Phillips has served as a “Personal Transformer” to a who’s who list of Hollywood icons and world champion athletes, including Jerry Seinfeld, Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore and John Elway. But what Bill is most proud of though, is helping hundreds of thousands of “ordinary” men and women (like you & me) transform themselves into extraordinary, inspiring examples for others to look up to and follow. People who have made a change in their lives and are now making a difference in the lives of others.
Within just the first half hour of listening to Bill Phillips and his “life-transformation” advice at the Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 you are going to be “floored” with what he has to share. You will quickly discover that Bill is the master of “working smarter… not harder!” and that with a little bit of his mentoring you… and with your “modeling” his step-by-step “blueprint for success” which he implemented to build his fortune…
To say the least, Cameron Johnson was not your typical teenager. Beginning at the tender age of nine, Cameron started his first business and before graduating high school, he was recognized as one of the most successful teenage entrepreneurs in the world. At the age of fifteen, Cameron was the youngest person to become an Advisory Board Member to a Japan-based company. That same year, a best-selling Japanese author wrote a biography book on his life. Over the last six years, Cameron has given more than one-hundred speeches worldwide and at the age of 17, he was the Keynote Speaker with Michael Dell (founder of Dell Computers) at the Youth International Technology Summit in Austin, Texas.
Now 22, Cameron has been featured in over two-hundred newspapers, magazines and television stations worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, USA Today, The New York Times, The New York Post, Time Magazine, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, and dozens in Japan as well. He has a brand new book titled You Call the Shots, which was released by Simon & Schuster on January 9th, 2007.
Look at what Donald Trump has to say about this young “rising superstar” …
If “Success really does breed success!”… then you will not want to miss out on any of the “words of wisdom” that will be spoken at my Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 by this “wiz kid” with the Midas Touch.
“The Master of The 4-Hour Work Week” Tim Ferriss, serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond has been featured by dozens of media, including The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, NBC, and MAXIM. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.
Tim has been profiled in The Success Principles, the New York Times bestseller written by Jack Canfield, and is a main character in the upcoming feature-length documentary “As Seen on TV,” produced by Emmy Award winner Dan Partland.
As a professional polymath, he has amassed a diverse roster of credentials and experience:
* Princeton University guest lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering.
* Cage fighter in Japan, vanquisher of four world champions (Mixed Martial Arts).
* First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango.
* Advisor to more than 30 world record holders in professional and Olympic sports.
* National Chinese kickboxing champion.
* Glycemic Index (GI) researcher Political asylum researcher and activist
* MTV breakdancer in Taiwan
* Hurling competitor in Ireland
* Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong
Tim received his BA from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments. He developed his nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee and formed his life philosophies under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
He is 29 years old, and The 4-Hour Workweek is his first book.
Also appearing at the Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 will be Internet marketing “guru” Mr. Armand Morin. Those in attendance will be thrilled to experience first-hand his unique style of teaching.
If you’ve been on the Internet at all over the past 10 years, you have seen Armand Morin whether you realized it or not. Either by seeing the end result of one of his many products, one of his student’s websites, or by simply seeing his name on hundreds of thousands of websites all over the world wide web. (In total, his name alone is on over 500,000 websites.)
Having started online in 1996, his personal online businesses alone have generated over $25,000,000.00 in online revenue since then. This doesn’t include the millions of dollars his students have produced from his teachings. Armand has taught tens of thousands of people his amazingly unique and proprietary Internet business building principles and strategies which work without fail for every single business which has implemented them.
Armand Morin’s straight-to-the-point teaching style (which has the unique ability to literally transform any business in 90 minutes or less) has made him a requested speaker not only in the USA, but he also has a huge constituency in other parts of the world such as, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and in Singapore.
He has helped thousands of people from all walks of life to increase and enhance their businesses through automation with his highly acclaimed AudioGenerator brand of software which is used by tens of thousands of people in 101 different countries.
Also on the menu of speakers/instructors at my Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 is none other than CleanFax Magazine’s 2006 Industry Person of the Year, Lisa Wagner.
Lisa is a second generation rug care specialist and one of the owners of the San Diego Rug Cleaning Company. The company was founded by her mother (and weaver) Kate Blatchford. The company is one of the premier facilities in the nation for the cleaning and repairing of oriental and specialty rugs.
Lisa has achieved the designation of Certified Rug Specialist by the Association of Specialists of Cleaning and Restoration, one of fewer than 60 internationally who have done so. She shares her expertise with others in the industry through her Rug Secrets hands-on workshops and with educational products she has developed.
Lisa has served on the Carpet and Fabricare Institute (CFI) board of directors for ten years. CFI is the non-profit trade association for cleaning and restoration professionals in California, Nevada, and Arizona. She has twice served on the international board of the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification (IICRC) and served on their Rug Cleaning Certification committee. She currently serves on ASCR’s Rug Council. She has been awarded the Bill Bailey Memorial Award for industry contributions three times.
As a carpet cleaning business owner, the education you’ll receive from Lisa Wagner will be “priceless” to you! Her all-around knowledge of the industry is unparalleled… as she is both a business coach and marketing consulting for Piranha Marketing. Lisa specializes in developing ELF businesses — easy, lucrative & fun. The consulting clients she works with range from small “mom-n-pop” service businesses to large multi-national corporations.
Dean Graziosi: Author of the book “Totally Fulfilled!” Dean is the creator and founder of Motor Millions and Think A Little Different, two successful business-opportunity infomercials that teach people how to make money with Cars and Real Estate. Dean’s infomercials have appeared on TV consistently since 1999 and he has sold over a million manuals, tapes and videos.
So what does any of this have to do with you… a carpet cleaning entrepreneur… and how Dean’s knowledge & experience can help you make a fortune in your business? Simply this… through all the trials & tribulations Dean faced over the decades; he finally (through trial & error) solved the puzzle about what it takes to make millions of dollars every year with just a small handful of employees working underneath him.
You see… Dean was in the exact same position that 90% of all carpet cleaning business owners find themselves struggling with year after year. Dean owned a brick & mortar business for years and struggled month after month with the aches, pains, frustrations and misfortunes associated with regularly employing 3-5 “wily” workers.
To make a long story short, Dean turned his struggling company into a MILLION DOLLAR A MONTH money machine… while still employing only 3-5 employees.
By the way, I want to make it clear that Dean Graziosi NEVER, EVER does “live” speaking engagements… and that the only reason he will be appearing at the Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 is because he is a very good friend of mine.
Edward M. Hallowell, MD: Founding father of the Crazy Busy Success Strategies Course… Dr. Hallowell has appeared on many national television and radio broadcasts, including “60 Minutes”, “The Jane Pauley Show”, “20/20”, “The Today Show”, “Dateline”, “Oprah”, “Good Morning America”, “NPR” and “The View.” He is also often interviewed and quoted in publications such as US News and World Report, USA Weekend, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times and many other magazines and newspapers.
Do you frequently find yourself pulled in a million different directions? Are you always running behind? Is your calendar loaded with more than you can possibly accomplish? Is it driving you crazy?
Want a way to take back control of your life and get more accomplished in less time than ever before?
You’re not alone. “Crazy Busy” is a modern phenomenon of brain overload – it’s a national epidemic. Without intending for it to happen, we’ve plunged ourselves into a mad rush of activity (BlackBerries, cell phones, and e-mail 24/7; longer workdays, escalating demands, and higher expectations at home, etc. etc.) expecting our brains to keep track of more than they effectively can.
At the Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 Dr. Edward M. Hallowell taught how to…
* Move from the “F State”: frenzied, flailing, fearful, forgetful, furious – to the “C State”: cool, calm, clear, consistent, curious and courteous.
* How to deal more effectively with cell phones and e-mail so they don’t overrun your life.
* How to quantitatively rate how you’re spending your time – and re-engineer your life based on your priorities.
* How to replenish and maintain energy throughout the day.
* How to make work effortless on demanding days by getting into a rhythm and flow.
* How to keep your brain sharp with a seven-step plan for peak performance.
What this all amounts to is… it’s a recipe for taking back control of your life and getting more accomplished in less time than ever before.
Other speakers at the Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007 included:
Doyle Bloss: Doyle is the Vice President of Education and Technical Services for Bridgepoint Systems, the largest network of carpet cleaning and restoration supply superstores in the nation. He is a well-known speaker and trainer in the carpet cleaning industry… with a specific emphasis upon real world management topics that affect your cleaning and restoration business.
Brian Standage: While attending college, Brian started Western Cargo Shipping for the purpose of paying for school. However, over the course of 5 years it grew from the acquisition of large clients such as US Airways, Corporate Express and others.
Upon graduating from Arizona State University with a BA/MA in Organizational Communications he launched into the corporate world with the publicly traded and most renowned time management company in the world- FranklinCovey. In 5 years he was appointed Director of Sales, and at the age of 32 he became the youngest director in the history of the company. While overseeing the Western half of the United States & Mexico comprising of 500 employees and 100 million in annual revenue, he helped set sales performance records never before attained in the company
In March of 2006 Brian became the C.E.O. of Piranha Marketing Inc. for the purpose of redefining its business and long-term profitable growth. His 12 years of business experience and insight has brought about the soon to be released book “What A CEO Should Know… But Doesn’t!”
When seeking financial wisdom and direction for your business, Brian’s openness to share his successes is why people continually seek his consulting. Not many match Brian’s ability to create results from the challenges and opportunities that exist in the private and corporate world.
John Carlton is a good friend and master copywriter.