Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman helps audiences Get More Customers Who Will Pay You More Money, More Often™.

He is a nationally known Marketing Speaker, Advertising Speaker, Sales Trainer, Copywriter, Columnist and Author who delivers specific profit-proven principles, strategies and techniques to help businesses instantly increase revenues and profits, showing them how to bring in more customers, increase the average sale and get existing customers to buy more frequently, and for longer periods of time.

Jim specializes in direct response and alternative marketing systems that take companies with drooping sales and literally turn them on a dime. Sometimes literally in 24 hours!

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.

NEW FOR '09: Jim's new book is How To Market Your Crap When The Economy Is In The Toilet. And he is offering a NEW PRESENTATION by the same name. (If you can't take the title you can substitutue How To Market Your Junk When The Economy Is In the Trash.) His other NEW PRESENTATION is entitled Customer Service As Your #1 Marketing Tool in Today's Economy.

Presentations:

• How To Market Your Crap When The Economy Is In The Toilet (New for '09)
• How To Get More Customers Who Will Pay You More Money, More Often™
• Customers Service As Your #1 Marketing Tool In Today's Economy (New for '09)
• The 11 Critical Marketing Success Factors of Highly Profitable Businesses
• The 4 Essential Marketing Principles That GUARANTEE You'll Never Worry About Lousy Sales Again
• How To Dramatically Increase Sales & Profits With the 7 Weapons of Influence
• Human Inertia & Pivotal Discomfort Factors... Why Prospects say NO when they know they should say YES, and what you can do about it
• 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

Jim's Principle-Centered Marketing Coaching™ Program is unparalleled for producing documented results and is backed by a 400% ROI Guarantee. Nearly 500 clients have been through the program and he's never had to refund a thin dime, a plugged nickel or a red cent.

As a marketing 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 400 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, advertising and sales, 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 added 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%
• Another Realtor who instantly increased response to his newspaper advertising by 10X when Jim changed 2 words in his headline
• 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. He is a former President of the National Speakers Association, Mountain West Chapter.