Speaker Bios and Testimonials

Adnan Majid

Speaker Bio

Adnan Majid BA (Hons), FCCA is a UK based entrepreneur and business owner. A CPA equivalent fully qualified Chartered Accountant, and thus having a deep knowledge of Finance, Tax, Accountancy and Law and executive positions within several large worldwide multinational companies were not satisfying enough to keep him back from living his dream - to show others how easy it is to work for yourself. Not even a career in Hollywood as an actor could keep him from this passion. His universal model provides an understanding of all the concepts relating to products, services, pricing, advertising, marketing concepts, IT, and the general running of a business worldwide, earning the individual profits anywhere and on autopilot.

Adnan provides an insight into running a business - from researching a product or service to its lifecycle, advertising, marketing, sales, and the ins and outs of running a company and an idea on setting up a website and marketing it, accounting and taxation, and the right people to contact and network with.

Today, he is in charge of a multi-faceted business empire. His businesses cover a wide variety of sectors and the business networks he is involved with have celebrity clients including Chris Tarrant, Girls Aloud, and the Spice Girls. Not only does he show people how to work for themselves, he also discovers talent within the film and music industry thereby starting careers of other people. Adnan has high motivation and has done bungee jumps and parachute jumps for charity, acted on TV, written poems on sale in books, acquired 3 black belts in Tae Kwon Do, run 36 miles without food or water in a 24 hour period making him a rare individual who loves to challenge the ethos and produce when people least expect it.

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This is the only genuine business scheme I have seen that has actually worked for me, and I have been trying for years. It is truly astonishing that this actually works within a recession and globally also. Thanks for an exceptional seminar Adnan.

First Class... Highly Recommended...great value for money, Thanks for changing my life Adnan. I love the products you also allowed us to sell - great idea!!!

The A - Z of Business and how to work for yourself, quality products and advice. I have done many schemes to start my business, but there are none as genuine as this. Adnan uses his vast Business, Accountancy and Finance skills to break down every possible area that you can think of, and then also answers any questions. A must for anyone wanting to start their own business.

Outstanding...Phenomenal... Adnan really simplifies how to get involved in business and breaks every step to make you understand, I can actually now think of giving up my day job and continue just working for myself.

Ron MacDaniel

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Ron MacDaniel is an author and online lead generation specialist. He is a specialist in using the Internet to create targeted leads via Inbound Marketing and Content Marketing strategies. With a special brand of social media and business blogging, Ron has generated huge leads for businesses in as little as two weeks.

He has worked in service, retail, technology and sales. He worked for start ups and fortune 500 companies.

Ron McDaniel is an entertaining speaker that speaks on simple, effective strategies that organizations can use with content and social media to increase profits and ROI on the web.

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Buzzoodle took our old domain that was not producing leads and created a effective solution that started generating leads almost immediately.

Within 30 days it was so effective in creating targeted traffic that I purchased a second one for another product we are offering. I knew I could write, but the technical and conversion issues were not something I wanted to deal with. With Buzzoodle I can focus on what I do best, creating new contents and coaching my business clients.

Literally within two minutes of realizing what Buzzoodle could do I was sold!

I do not have a lot of time to manage online advertising, or to figure out how it works and this tool makes it as simple as it gets. With Buzzoodle, our company was able to take an old domain we had and put it to work for us immediately. In an unbelievably short period we went from practically non existent to ranking very high for important keywords.

We quickly started getting traffic from targeted people out searching for our service on the web. Buzzoodle is a great tool for attracting local buyers for a product like ours. And I can’t wait to cut my yellow pages ads down next year!

Buzzoodle helped me focus on the web as a lead generation tool.

I use Buzzoodle to help me reach my target audience. By publishing articles on my Buzzoodle site I am able to rank well in search engines and draw people that need my business coaching services to me through free, organic search.

Most importantly, instead of the overwhelming options that traditional web development can present, Buzzoodle is single minded in how it builds and measures value and creates income for businesses with existing products. I recommend Buzzoodle.

Ron Finklestein

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Ron Finklestein also known as Your Business Success Expert^TM is president of AKRIS INC. He holds an Associate in Applied Science Data Processing from the University of Akron, a Bachelors of Arts Business Administration from Malone College and various businesses, personal and technical certifications. With over 20 years experience in direct selling, marketing, business operations, and technology consulting. He has worked with a very diverse clientele including high tech companies, banks, manufactures, government agencies, insurance, professional service organizations, and a variety of entrepreneurs and business advisory boards.

Ron has written four books on business growth: Celebrating Success! ^TM Fourteen Ways to Create a Successful Company, The Platinum Rule® for Small Business Mastery, 49 Marketing Secrets (THAT WORK) to Grow Sales and his latest Nine Principles for Taking Inspired Action, A New & Targeted Perspective.

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"Last month's seminar is worth repeating!! The attendees all had positive comments and...we have invited Ron back."

• "Ron is always ...an excellent speaker & presenter."
• "Ron was very funny and informative."
• "Short & Sweet. Great!"
• "Fascinating subject, very useful info. Got me feeling schizophrenic. I'm like 3 persons in one!"
• "They really raved about you, your information, and how motivational you were.
  They did not want you to leave! I can't thank you enough." Cuyahoga Community College
• "I heard many positive comments after the meeting from our volunteers. They noted they’d never been exposed to many of the ideas that you presented and were excited about the possibilities of incorporating them into their activities." WVIZ/PBS
• "You did a top-notch job, one class act!" Better Financial Solutions
• "Wanted to let you know that R. T. said your COSE (Council of Smaller Enterprises) presentation was fantastic." Jim Hornyak
• "I am so glad that Shaun gave me your number. You certainly gave the members some things to begin thinking about. I also own your book. Your talk was inspiring, educational and refreshing. Thank you very much for accepting the invitation to speak." NARI (National Association of Remodelers Inc.)

Marty Dickinson

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Marty Dickinson delivers hope, humour, enthusiasm, anticipation…and Internet strategies that work. He started his first website as a pet project in 1996, which continues to be one of the largest in its field by commanding over 1,500 top ten search positions on Google. He also manages more than 50 of his own websites and nearly 300 client websites serving a variety of industries.

Today, his first Internet project has become one of the largest services in its field in America. And, he has launched several successful companies and products of his own over the past 10 years.

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"My net annual revenue grew 125% in the heat of the recession with a 165% increase in traffic because of what Marty taught me about search engine optimization. I really could do it myself afterall!"

"Within 2 days, we had 99 product pages on top of Google's free search results and $17,000 in product sales by the end of our 3rd week...and we hadn't even announced the site to our existing customers yet."

"Having access to someone like Marty and his team for more than 10 years now is a rare luxury and we attribute much of our continued growth to that guidance and support."

Jeff Beale

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Jeff Beale at Jazar Dezign delivers business marketing solutions to business owners and marketing executives of small / mid-sized companies that struggle with generating business and retaining customer loyalty. By improving these companies' competitive edge while expanding their customer base through increased referrals, saving them time and money which reduces marketing costs. Companies generate more leads and obtain a higher conversion ratio by applying the proven marketing methods combines with a comprehensive online business process developed for them.

Jeff Beale and Jazar Dezign provides you the leverage of a full professional staff of experts for cost significantly less than the employment of an entry level employee with minimal experience.

Jim O’ Donnell

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Jim O'Donnell - 2 The Top Marketing

Jim O'Donnell is President of Jaguar Management Consulting, Inc. For the past 15 years he has been advising companies in the emerging, growth, or turnaround phases with marketing and business development strategies for revenue growth and profitability. His focus has been on advising small and medium size businesses, including two long term consulting contracts with the City of Portsmouth Economic Development Department and the City of Somersworth Business Development Department consulting with 400+ businesses in these cities for Internet Marketing, financial management, marketing, Internet Marketing and financial restructuring. Mr. O'Donnell is currently teaching businesses how to utilize the power of the Internet to grow their business and increase their bottom line through Internet Marketing and Social Networking techniques.

Dana Vanden Heuvel

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Dana VanDen Heuvel is a consultant, author, professional speaker focused on using his energy and forward thinking to collaborate with B2B organizations and create cost-effective breakthrough digital marketing strategies that engage customers and increase sales.

Dana graduated from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin in 1999 with a degree in Business Administration. He is an advisor to the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College E-Business Program and is a past board member for the Fox Valley Advertising Association and the Milwaukee Interactive Marketing Association.

Dana most recently served as a contracted Chief Operations & Sales Officer with Perfect Patients Pty Ltd, a provider of websites and web services for chiropractors. Prior to forming VanDen Heuvel Executives, Dana was the Director of Business Development at Pheedo, Inc., an RSS and weblog marketing solutions provider helping advertisers produce successful integrated RSS marketing campaigns.

Dana is a widely recognized expert on blogging, podcasting, RSS, Internet communities and interactive marketing trends and best practices. He regular contributes to a variety of industry publications and is often quoted on blogging and Internet marketing trends in Marketing Sherpa, Wisconsin Technology Network, Internet Retailer, Event Marketer, Sales and Marketing Management and other publications.

Johnny Campbell

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Johnny Campbell-codename: The Transition Man, is an author and business speaker, who specializes on the topic of change and how to use social media marketing tactics to build your brand and sell more products & services.

Johnny is a 2007 speaker-hall of fame inductee and holds the designation of accredited speaker a designation award by toastmaster international and held by only 58 professional speakers in the world for excellence in public speaking. Johnny was also voted the 2009 wordsmith of the year by the state of Illinois chapter for National Speaker Association.

In the Social Media world, Johnny's is a one of kind marketer with his highly effective marketing and selling tactics that get people to reach in their wallets and buy. Based on Johnny social media selling system for selling, he has had leaders from around the country with Annual incomes of over 900 million dollars seek his advice on how to position themselves to sell in the social media world.

Based on his business results and his experiences at creating income streams for clients fast he is known as "The Transition Man".

Speaker Testimonial

Get The Social Media Edge with The Transition Man
"Johnny is truly an expert at teaching others about social media marketing, his style and his unique way of tailoring the information to each person's unique needs in his class was great. I highly recommend him for showing you how to get the upper edge and make money with social media marketing. He is very genuine.

Cutting Edge Information You Can Apply Today
"I got cutting edge information and learned how to apply it to my business today for a profit. I never really understood the all the logic behind social media marketing and how to drive traffic to my business and site- - - until today."

Finally Answers You Can Use - Today
"I got the why's and the how's of social medial marketing I understand how it can make me money. Finally - - Answers instead of just some more smoke and mirrors!"

Johnny's Social Media Training and Marketing System works....
" Recently, I attended an event in Naperville, Illinois where Johnny Campbell- The Transition Man taught about 175 business owners fundamentals of monetizing social media. Not only did he give them current information, he also showed evidence of his personal results in his presentation. Alot of speakers talk. Johnny talks about what he has already done and done well."

Ron Davies

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Ron Davies kknown in some circles as the "Social media alchemist" is a Social Media & IM Coach to Top-Rated Biz Coaches in Canada, the USA, and Overseas.Ron is one of the most dynamic, exciting, and innovative Internet marketing consultants. He began his IM career while still in the Canadian Military; he started out trading domain names and developing the first true all inclusive Click Bank mall system. Ron currently owns a thriving Internet business with his brother.
His internet marketing services include ; Social Media Workshops, Status Quo Web Site Evaluation, Search Engine Optimization, Site Content Development, Site Traffic Creation, All About Conversion, Google AdWords & Other PPC and Totally Automated Email Marketing. With an experience of working over 20,000 websites his main focus is on leveraging time, energy, and technology to create more time, greater focus, reduced ad spend, bullet-proof brand monitoring and broadened market reach.

Susan Sweeney

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Susan Sweeney, CA, CSP is an Internet Marketing Specialist and Professional Speaker. She is the founder and President of Connex Network Inc., a thriving Internet marketing and E-Business consulting firm. She is an experienced Internet marketing professional with a background in computers, marketing, and the Internet. She is the past owner of an Internet presence company, a web based software Development Company whose product was marketed exclusively on the Internet and an International Trade Commissioner for the Government of Canada.

Susan Sweeney is the author of the highly regarded and successful Internet marketing book 101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site (6th edition). Her Internet Marketing for Your Tourism Business, has received rave reviews from many tourism industry professionals. Her books include 101 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home, The E-Business Formula for Success and Going for Gold.

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A better understanding of the principles of Internet Marketing, specifically directing traffic to a website. I learn something new from Susan every time she speaks.

Insight into the grand scale of web design and creating hits, especially using Keywords and Mata Tags.

Awesome Mine of Knowledge, I learned web skills that works!

I learned the major changes that have taken place in e-business and the need for integration between web design and Internet marketing.

The broad spectrum of ways to improve traffic to a website. Extremely informative and has given me a road map for creating websites.

Very practical, eye opening information, I will be much more aware of what to include in the development of my own website, I feel I got some really practical hints and tips to better my future site.