Jim Ackerman, MGS

Captivatingly entertaining, this dynamic "gunslinger" of marketing shows audiences how to get more customers and get more money out of the ones they already have, as he gets them "movin'and groovin'" with stunning stories of remarkable success.

Jim Ackerman is a nationally known Marketing Consultant, Copywriter, Columnist and Author who specializes in direct response and alternative marketing systems. He has written for the likes of Novell, Franklin Covey, and Nature's Way, as well as informercials for companies like Body by Jake and Bob Mann's Automatic Golf, and has contributed to advertising and sales systems for the Orlimar Tri-metal Wood, The Miracle Blade II and Nature's Sunshine Products.

Yet, Jim's counts his greatest accomplishments in helping small to mid-size business owners and entrepreneurs dramatically increase sales and profits, and reduce costs... virtually overnight!

His Principle-Centered Marketing Coaching™ Program is unparalleled for producing documented results... often turning companies around in a matter of just a few weeks, and is backed by a 400% ROI Guarantee.

As a speaker, Jim's "edutaining" delivery is bursting with quick and easy, "what-to-dos" and "how-to-do-its"... and riveting stories of those who've "done it," using his methods.

With over 340 of his 1-day How To Get More Customers Who Will Pay You More Money, More Often™ workshops under his belt and having addressed literally thousands of entrepreneurs, audiences large and small from all kinds of industries are fascinated by Jim's stories of stunning successes. All achieved by ordinary people, applying simple, sound, common-sense principles of marketing that often shock the listener out of "marketing myopia" and cause audiences to break free of their closely held, stifling, and erroneous beliefs about what works in marketing.

Stories like...

• The Hallmark Card Shop owner who turned a $19,000 July into a $59,977.00 July
  
• The Interior Designer who spent $300 on a mailing and got back $15,000.00 in NET profits
  
• The world's largest manufacturer of herbal supplements that added millions of dollars of revenue and increased add-on orders by 43% in 1-year by following Jim's prescription for taking phone orders
  
• The Chiropractor who used Jim's unique referral system to nearly double his practice in two weeks
  
• The Minnesota Health Food Store operators who increased their average sale by 27% in just minutes and had over 83% of their customers say "YES," just by using a simple, Jim-inspired script.
  
• The home delivery Dairyman who added 1,000 new customers with NO up-front advertising expense
  
• The British Columbia Realtor who slashed his advertising budget by $100,000.00 (75%) and still grew his business 28% in a market that was down 35%
  
• The Washington Carpet Cleaners who used a Guest/Host Joint Venture to NET $27,000.00 on a total marketing investment of just $2,000

These are just a few of Jim's remarkable stories of business success.

Jim is the author of several books including two on marketing, and he is the founder The Marketing Wizard's Alliance™, an organization of marketing-focused entrepreneurs nationwide, and has written and published The Marketing Wizard's Alliance Newsletter for more than a decade.

So what's a business guru like Jim also doing talking to youth and parents?

As parents of 9 children (7 boys, 2 girls), Jim and his wife Susan have been blessed to raise a professional ballerina and a successful building contractor. They have been able to avoid the normal "terrible teens" with most of their kids and have 2 Student Body Presidents, 2 Sr. Class Presidents, and several other Student Body Officers, along- with several full-tuition college scholarships. Jim and Susan enjoy the obligation to share the stories behind their successes -- and failures -- as parents, and the insights they've gained from them, with parents, youth and families.

Jim is an active youth baseball coach and is co-author of an instructional book for young ballplayers. He speaks to youth about their capabilities and motivation and how to succeed at home, at school, with friends and in life.

Presentations:

• How To Get More Customers Who Will Pay You More Money, More Often
• Bootstrap Marketing
• The 11 Critical Marketing Success Factors of Highly Profitable Businesses
• The 4 Essential Marketing Principles That Should be the Foundation of Every Marketing Program for Every Business
• How To Dramatically Increase Sales & Profits With the 7 Weapons of Influence
• Human Inertia & Pivotal Discomfort Factors
• The DELTA INITIATIVE...How To Easily, Permanently Change Whatever SUCKS in Your Business or Your Life, in 30 Minutes a Day, in 120 Days or Less
  
• Sweet Dreams & Cream (Raising Successful Kids & Living To Tell About It)
• Who Are Ya, What Do Ya Wanna Be, & What The Heck Are Ya Waiting For