Two New Podcast Interviews on Entrepreneurship from Stever Robbins and Jim Blasingame
May 4, 2008
Podcast Description: Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old co-founder of iContact.com, a 95 person email marketing company in Durham, NC. Ryan spoke in this podcast with Stever Robbins about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business.
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Podcast Description: When the economy is soft, we have to maximize sales opportunities with marketing campaigns that don’t break our budget. Ryan Allis talks with Small Business Advocate Jim Blasingame about how to use email marketing to pull off maximizing sales while minimizing marketing expenses. Ryan also explains his company’s capitalization strategy, including how he acquired venture capital.
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Two More Interviews on Entrepreneurship
March 27, 2008
Here are two more recent podcast/radio interviews on entrepreneurship done by Dr. Alvin Jones and Start-Up Spark. Enjoy!
Dr. Alvin Jones Radio Interview with Ryan Allis - (9min 17sec, WMA file) - A March 26, 2008 radio interview on WCBQ-AM 1340 and WHNC-AM 890 with Dr. Alvin Jones from the Paradise Radio Network about:
- Starting in business
- Going to UNC
- Being the son of a priest
- What iContact does
- The quote about taking action by Scottish Mountaineer W.H. Murray
- Setting big goals
- Understanding the entrepreneurial system
- Evaluating business ideas
- The three questions to ask prospective buyers
- Accessing the world of equity capital
Start-up Spark Interview with Ryan Allis (17 min 38 sec) - A discussion with Shannon Cherry from Start-up Spark about:
- Growing up in Florida
- Advantages/disadvantages of young entrepreneurs
- The MAR system
- Bootstrapping and living in the office
- Doing whatever it takes to keep expenses low
- How we hired our first employee
- Using equity initially to reduce cash burn
- The importance of systems and building a team when scaling
- How to avoid creating a job for yourself
- Why hiring people smarter than you is critical
- The definition of an entrepreneur
- Figuring out the purpose of your life
- What will motivate you to get through the hard times
- The mission of The Humanity Campaign
Now #2 on Amazon!
February 6, 2008
Zero to One Million reached #2 on Amazon around 5am this morning and is still there as of 1:30pm! We’re still pushing to get to #1. I’m up against Oprah-backed Eckhart Tolle. That guy is amazing! My only hope may be to get on Oprah!
Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books
My plane got re-routed and I’m sitting here in the Detroit airport working on getting back to RDU. Boarding now!
What We Accomplished Today — #3 overall on Amazon
February 6, 2008
Blog Readers—
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support of the launch effort today of Zero to One Million!
We reached #1 in Business & Investing, #1 in Marketing, #1 in Entrepreneurship, #1 Mover & Shaker, #2 in Non-Fiction, and #3 overall on Amazon today, only bested by Oprah-backed Eckhart Tolle and the perennial favorite John Grisham. We beat out Eat Pray Love, Good to Great, The Tipping Point, Blue Ocean Strategy, Ready, Fire, Aim, The Four Hour Workweek, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, Getting Things Done, The E-Myth Revisited, and well, every other book in the world other than Tolle’s A New Earth and Grisham’s The Appeal.
The momentum we built today will spread a message of entrepreneurial possibility to tens of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs across the United States and the world for many months to come. You’ve also helped with the beginnings of a lifetime effort to reduce poverty and hunger by increasing access to health care, education, technology, and entrepreneurial opportunity through The Humanity Campaign.
It’s been an amazing day in so many ways. It is truly amazing what can be accomplished through word of mouth in the name of changing the world and spreading a message of entrepreneurial opportunity.
I wanted to publicly thank Carlos Garcia, Buck Rizvi, Shawn Casey, Tom Bell, Cindy Turrieta, Nana Gilbert-Baffoe, Keith Baxter, Derek Gehl, Dearl Miller, Matt Gill, Michael Simmons, Mark Shay, Rich Sloan, John Jantsch, Adam Gilbert, and Ilia Nossov for recommending Zero to One Million to their lists today.
To have the #3 bestselling book in the nation on Amazon on launch day is an over-the-top successful book launch by any measure. Thank you very very much for making this possible!
Here’s a list of some of the blogs we reached today…
- http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/2395410/
- http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/entrepreneurship_and_ending_poverty
- http://blog.lawsonforcongress.com/2008/02/05/how-to-change-the-world-by-buying-a-book/
- http://taylorbarr.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/swan-dive-into-the-blogging-world/
- http://we-love-durham.com/news/2008/02/04/durham-entrepreneur-releases-book-does-good/
- http://bigwinner.org/2008/02/04/zero-to-one-million/
- http://thepayitforwardchronicles.blogspot.com/2008/02/super-tuesday-of-another-color.html
- http://brandonmilford.com/2008/02/05/ryans-book-launches-today/
- http://raisingentrepreneurs.org/blog/2008/02/06/young-entrepreneur-giving-back-already/
- http://hospitalinformatics.blogspot.com/2008/02/ryan-allis-book-release.html
- http://techtownnc.com/2008/01/23/ryan-allis-wants-you-to-help-end-poverty-and-buy-his-book/
- http://www.woodymaxim.com/fat-wallet-tuesday/
- http://povertynewsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/entrepreneur-ryan-allis-makes.html
- http://www.3tailer.com/entrepreneurship/buy-ryan-alliss-book-zero-to-one-million-tomorrow
- http://www.chooseabetterlife.net/world-of-work/zero-to-one-million/
- http://www.jamieratliff.com/zero-to-one-million/
- http://www.thegooglecache.com/rants-and-raves/launch-of-zero-to-one-million-book-today/
- http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2008/02/do-you-want-to-become-multi-millionaire.html
- http://rolereversal.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/changing-the-world-one-email-at-a-time/
Thank you sincerely for your help!
-Ryan
#4 — Writing from the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour Bus
February 5, 2008
We’re now #4! Competing against Oprah!!!
I’m writing from the back of the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour Bus. I spoke in Owensboro, KY today. We’re driving back to Evansville, IN right now.
It’s been an amazing days in so many ways. It is amazing what can be accomplished through word of mouth in the name of changing the world and spreading a message of entrepreneurial possibility.
Thank you very much for your love and support!
Here are just a few of the blog pickups from today…
We’re #6 On Amazon… The Final Push
February 5, 2008
Friends,
As of 10pm ET, Zero to One Million is #6 on Amazon. If you haven’t already bought a copy, would you help me and buy your copy tonight before midnight Pacific Time?
The link is http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071496661/
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2pm Monday - 38,979
4pm Monday - 29,032
7pm Monday - 24,245
9pm Monday - 13,486
10pm Monday - 11,471
11pm Monday - 13,328
12am Tuesday - 4,273
1am Tuesday - 2,319
2am Tuesday - 1,893
3am Tuesday - 1,558
4am Tuesday - 760
5am Tuesday - 532
6am Tuesday - 486
8am Tuesday - 421
9am Tuesday - 353
11am Tuesday - 175
12pm Tuesday - 68
1pm Tuesday - 29
2pm Tuesday - 18
3pm Tuesday - 14
4pm Tuesday - 13
5pm Tuesday - 11
6pm Tuesday - 10
7pm Tuesday - 8
8pm Tuesday - 6
9pm Tuesday - 6
You can watch the bestseller rankings at http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/. Man Eckhart Tolle is hard to beat!
If you’ve already bought your copy, would you contact any of your friends interested in entrepreneurship, marketing, business, or social change tonight and ask them to buy a copy tonight? We just need about 100 individual orders to make it to #1!
Thank you very much for your support and help spreading the word!
LAUNCH: Today Is The Day
February 5, 2008
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Blog Readers… My new book Zero to One Million launches today. Would you buy a copy on Amazon today before midnight Eastern Time? The link is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071496661/ Today, February 5, is the big push day that we are trying to become #1 on Amazon. If we can sell 2,500 copies of the book today we should make it to #1. I would like to sincerely ask for your assistance to reach this lifetime goal. In Zero to One Million, I share my story going from an 11 year-old with a dream living in Bradenton, Florida providing computer help to senior citizens for $5 per hour to today at age 23 running iContact in Durham, North Carolina, a company with 85 employees, 19,000 customers, and over $10 million in annual sales. I share a ten step process for building a company from scratch to over one million dollars in annual sales. I share everything I’ve learned about opportunity evaluation, raising investment and venture capital, product development, marketing, web marketing, web 2.0, online advertising, sales, finance, attracting and retaining superstars, managing a team, managing projects, setting goals, building systems, and scaling a company. I wrote the book with a desire to make this information accessible to anyone who wants to become a successful entrepreneur. This McGraw-Hill edition is fully updated from the original self-published edition from 2003. Would you buy a copy or multiple copies of the book yourself today as well as spread the word to as many friends and colleagues as possible today? The book costs just $11.53 on Amazon. All the proceeds from the book are being donated to my non-profit organization, The Humanity Campaign, which works to reduce poverty and hunger by increasing access to education, healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurial opportunity. You can read a recent article from the Raleigh News & Observer about these efforts at http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/900111.html. If you buy the book today, I’ll send you additional gifts including videos from me on how to raise venture capital and how our generation can change the world and bonuses from my entrepreneur friends Derek Gehl, Buck Rizvi, Carlos Garcia, and Shawn Casey. Just forward the Amazon receipt to bonus[at]zeromillion.com to receive the gifts. If you want to buy multiple copies for your friends, company, or local libraries–I am providing additional bonuses. If you buy five copies you’ll receive a video from me on how to access the world of institutional capital. If you buy 25 copies you’ll receive a signed copy of the original version of the book. If you buy 50 copies you’ll get a 15 minute strategy phone call with me. If you buy 250 copies I’ll invite you to visit me on-site in Durham for a day-long mastermind strategy session with the other large buyers. If you buy 500 copies, I’ll invite you to join my mastermind group of millionaire entrepreneurs for a quarterly meeting. You can buy multiple copies here on Amazon . In the message I sent yesterday, I shared the real reason I am doing this…
But as I mentioned above, I need your help today to get the book to #1 on Amazon.com and have a chance to reach the weekly New York Times Bestseller List. Here are a few things you can do…
Thank you very, very much for your help and assistance. I sincerely appreciate your help with Zero to One Million and look forward to working with you for many decades to change the world together. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance whatsoever to you now or in the future. Love, hope, peace, prosperity… Cheers, P.S. - Thank you very very much for your help!
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh |
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The Reason I Wrote Zero to One Million
February 4, 2008
Blog Readers,
I need to ask for your sincere help in the next 48 hours.
This Tuesday my book Zero to One Million is launching.
I am working to reach a lifetime goal and get the book to #1 on Amazon that day. I need to ask for your help on a personal level. The bottom line is that I’d like for you to email your friends and contacts on Tuesday and ask them to buy a copy of the book.
But first, let me share the real reason I am doing this…
While I am optimistic, I am distressed by the state our world is in today. I am distressed by two simple facts…
First, while we have prosperity and opulence in many parts of our world–49,000 humans, people just like you and me, die each and every day from starvation and preventable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and diarrhea. Second, while we live in comfort, 2.7 billion humans live on under $2 per day.
These numbers are Purchase Power Parity (PPP) adjusted–meaning that 42% of the humans in our world must live a full day on the same $2 that you and I might use to buy half a latte at Starbucks. These facts come from the World Bank and the World Health Organization, respectively.
When I learned these facts in Economics class at Manatee High School at age 17 from an inspirational teacher Robert Fletcher, I couldn’t ever afterwards pretend as if “I didn’t know.”
I’ve read a lot over the past six years about the topic of human poverty, global politics, and economics–inspirational books like The End of Poverty, The White Man’s Burden, How to Change the World, The Bottom Billion, Globalization and Its Discontents, The Lexus & The Olive Tree, The Road to Serfdom, Atlas Shrugged, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Secret History of The American Empire, The Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid, and The Mystery of Capital.
I’ve come to one singular conclusion…
I am going to dedicate the rest of my life to reduce poverty and hunger and increase access to education, healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurial opportunity here at home in North Carolina and the U.S. as well as in developing countries. This is not charity–this is humanity. We will never have a secure world when half of our brothers and sisters do not have access to basic human needs like shelter, food, primary education, and preventative medicine.
Personally, I believe entrepreneurship is an essential part of the solution–commercial entrepreneurship, public sector entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship.
But being an entrepreneur is NOT easy. The knowledge of how to build a successful organization isn’t easily learned.
Building a new ’start-up’ of any type whether a non-profit or for-profit is definitely not simple. I’m only 23 and I feel sometimes like I have developed the scar tissue of a 45 year-old building iContact to $10 million in annual sales.
It’s truly been an absolute bliss to come in every morning and know that I’ve played a big role in creating 85 jobs. I get so much energy from being around our team. Being an entrepreneur is truly my passion. I love it, but the experience is what I can only imagine raising a real child would be like. What one has to sacrifice, to give, to devote to the effort is immense. I never thought it would be THIS hard when I started six years ago.
What I can say is that I’ve learned so much more than I could have ever imagined.
I want to share everything I’ve learned about business, about opportunity evaluation, about raising venture capital, about product development, about marketing, about sales, about finance, about managing people, about creating systems with as many entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs as I possibly can–and not just commercial entrepreneurs, but social entrepreneurs, corporate entrepreneurs, and public service entrepreneurs in every part of our world.
Writing this book for me is part of spreading a message of entrepreneurial possibility and social change.
I believe that every person in this world should have access to the knowledge of how to be an entrepreneur.
I believe that anyone in this world should be able to become a successful business, social, or public service entrepreneur–if they set their mind to it and have the right tools.
I also believe that IF the knowledge was spread far enough and the financial structures existed in our global society for anyone regardless of location or class to become a successful entrepreneur–our world would have the entrepreneurial talent at the grassroots level to address the biggest challenges of our generation–how to eliminate extreme poverty, get food to the hungry, medicines to the sick, and microcredit financial resources to the ambitious youth of our generation–so that they can productively solve the needs of humanity with their talents, not fight in political or religious wars driven by a lack of hope.
This is why I wrote Zero to One Million: How I Built A Company to One Million Dollars in Sales… And How You Can Too.
It’s not to make money–all the proceeds from the book are being donated to my non-profit organization, The Humanity Campaign, which works to reduce poverty and hunger by increasing access to education, healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurial opportunity.
But as I mentioned at the top, I need your help during the next 48 hours.
First, let me reach out to everyone reading this who has a newsletter list. Would you send a message to your list endorsing the book and asking your readers to buy it on Tuesday morning? You can download sample email copy that you can use here and sample subject lines here.
Second, let me reach out to everyone reading this who has a blog. Would you post a message to your blog on Monday night endorsing the book and asking your readers to buy it? You can download an image of the book cover here. You can also read some advance reviews here.
Third, let me reach out to everyone reading this who uses Facebook. Would you invite all of your friends on Monday to ‘attend the launch’ Tuesday via the Facebook event at http://unc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7882273669 so that they will buy a copy of the book on Tuesday? Would you personally message your friends that you know are especially interested in business, entrepreneurship, marketing, or social change and ask them to invite their friends as well on Monday to the Event? If you Admin any groups would you send a message about Zero to One Million to the group members and post to the group wall?
Fourth, let me reach out to everyone reading this who uses LinkedIn. Would you log in to LinkedIn and click on My Contacts, scroll to the bottom of the page, click on Export Contacts, and then either use your email program or a free trial account of iContact to email your contacts endorsing the book and asking your connections to buy it on Tuesday morning. Within iContact, just go to My Contacts > Add Contacts > From File to upload your list to your account. If you have more than 250 contacts and need me to increase the size of your trial account just email me at ryan[at]icontact.com.
Fifth, let me reach out to everyone who has a list of contacts in Outlook. Would you open Outlook, go to File > Import & Export > Export to a File and export your contacts as a Comma Separated Values file, and then either use your email program or a free trial account of iContact to email your contacts endorsing the book and asking your connections to buy it on Tuesday morning? Within iContact, just go to My Contacts > Add Contacts > From File to upload your list to your account. If you have more than 250 contacts and need me to increase the size of your trial account just email me at ryan[at]icontact.com.
Sixth, let me reach out to everyone who has any other way of reaching people (Chambers of Commerce, Clubs, Service Groups, Fraternities, Sororities, Podcasts, Print Media, Radio, Television). Though whatever method you have, would you get in touch with as many people as you can endorsing the book and asking your connections to buy it on Tuesday morning?
Finally, let me reach out to everyone else. Would you get in touch with as many people as you can (your parents, friends, neighbors) and ask them to buy a copy of the book on Tuesday? The link to pass on is http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Million-Built-Company/dp/0071496661/.
This Tuesday, February 5th, is the big push day that we are trying to become #1 on Amazon. If we can sell 2,500 copies of the book on Tuesday we should make it to #1. If by chance you have an opportunity to spread the word about the book after Tuesday, please do. We are also working to sell 12,000 copies during the first full week so that we can make it on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week.
For everyone, would you mark your calendar and buy a copy or multiple copies of the book yourself this Tuesday morning as well as spread the word? The book costs just $11.53 on Amazon and I’ll email you $750 worth of gifts if you email your receipt to bonus@zeromillion.com.
When you buy Zero to One Million on Amazon on Tuesday I’ll send you six bonus gifts including a video from me on how to raise $5 million in venture capital at age 22 and valuable DVD and PDF report bonuses from Buck Rizvi, Derek Gehl, Carlos Garcia, Shawn Casey, and Tom Bell. Just email the Amazon receipt to bonus@zeromillion.com to receive the bonuses.
If you want to buy multiple copies for your friends, company, or local libraries–I am providing additional bonuses. If you buy five copies you’ll receive a video from me on how to access the world of institutional capital. If you buy 25 copies you’ll receive a signed copy of the original version of the book. If you buy 50 copies you’ll get a 15 minute strategy phone call with me. If you buy 250 copies I’ll invite you to visit me on-site in Durham for a day-long mastermind strategy session with the other large buyers. If you buy 500 copies, I’ll invite you to join my mastermind group of millionaire entrepreneurs for a quarterly meeting.
Thank you very, very much for your help and assistance. I sincerely appreciate your help and look forward to working with you for many decades to change the world together. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance whatsoever to you now or in the future.
You can buy the book starting 12:01am on Tuesday at http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Million-Built-Company/dp/0071496661/. I will post a reminder here on Tuesday morning.
Love, hope, peace, prosperity…
Cheers,
/RPMA
Ryan P. Allis
P.S. - Thank you very very much for your help!
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh
One Said Yes, So I Went With Him
February 4, 2008
In October 2003, I self-published a book called Zero to One Million. At the time, the book was primarily a case study of a health company I worked at while a senior in high school that went from nothing to $1,000,000 in sales in fourteen months.
I was absolutely amazed at how a 17 year-old kid and a 60 year old guy could build a company so quickly by having a good product and marketing it well.
I was inspired by what a young person with ambition could achieve and motivated by the possibility of entrepreneurship and ownership.
I committed then to starting my own company when I moved to Chapel Hill in 2002 to go to UNC.
The second month in school, I attended the first meeting of the UNC Entrepreneurship Club. There, over chicken nuggets and Hawaiian BBQ sauce, I met my future business partner in iContact, Aaron Houghton.
Aaron was a senior Computer Science major and I was a lowly freshman studying economics. I began working with Aaron at his office at the corner of Franklin and Columbia Streets in Chapel Hill. I started a marketing company called Virante and he ran a web development company called Preation.
We partnered the next Spring to launch iContact and on July 2, 2003 our baby, iContact was born.
I lived in the office the summer on 2003, slept on a futon, ate a lot of Ramen Noodles, and cooked on a George Foreman Grill. I would work from 3pm to 9am every day, six days per week.
We hired our first team member in September 2003–and we were on our way. We lost $5,000 that first year–but we were in business.
On September 1, 2005, we reached $1 million in all-time sales–eighteen days after my 21st birthday.
That next Spring, a seed was planted in my head. I had written about how to build a company to one million dollars in sales before–but now I actually knew what I was talking about. I actually knew HOW much more difficult it was to build a company to one million dollars in sales as a CEO instead of as a marketing consultant.
I wanted to share this knowledge with others who wanted to build a company. I wanted to get my book published by a real publisher and get the book in book stores.
First, I learned that I needed an agent. So I went to the bookstore and bought the book, “Guide to Literary Agents 2006.” There were 110 business genre literary agents listed in the book, so I typed up their names and addresses in a spreadsheet and sent 110 letters out. I heard back from ten of the agents. Nine said no and one said yes so I went with him. His name was Rick Broadhead from Toronto.
Within two months, Rick got me a publishing contract with McGraw-Hill.
On Tuesday, the fully updated version of Zero to One Million launches. We are working to make it #1 on Amazon on that day.
Within, I tell the story of building iContact from nothing to over $10 million in annual sales and provide a ten step process to building a company to $1 million in sales. The book is about how to build a company from scratch to one million dollars in sales. I share in it what I’ve learned the hard way about entrepreneurship, raising investment, venture capital, opportunity evaluation, product development, business planning, building a sales team, management, hiring and retaining superstars, organizational behavior, web marketing, web 2.0, building systems, and scaling a business. The book provides a ten step process for building a company from idea stage to over $1 million in annual sales based on the experience I’ve gained building iContact over the past five years to over $10 million in annual sales and 85 employees.
All the net proceeds from the sale of the book will go to The Humanity Campaign, my non-profit organization that works to reduce poverty and hunger by increasing access to education, healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurial opportunity at home and in developing countries.
Would you buy a copy on Tuesday and spread the word to your friends?
I’ll be posting a longer message about the book launch later on tonight…
Thank you very very much for your support!
Love, hope, peace, prosperity…
Cheers,
-Ryan
Book Launch Update: How You Can Help Today!
January 21, 2008
Friends–I wanted to send an update on how the February 5th Book Launch Effort is going for Zero to One Million.
One week in, we have 367 members of the Facebook Group and 7 reviews on Amazon. We have secured commitments from some very well known authors and online marketers like Keith Baxter, Carlos Garcia, and Cindy Turrietta to mail to their newsletter lists on February 5th, but I still need your help.
If you have a free moment, here are SIX things you can do to help right now:
- REVIEW THE BOOK: If you have received a copy of the book previously, would you go to http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Million-Built-Company /dp/0071496661/ and post a review?
- INVITE YOUR FRIENDS: If you have not yet, would you go to the group at http://www.facebook.com/gr oup.php?gid=7159607369 and invite your friends interested in entrepreneurship and social change by clicking on the ‘Invite People to Join’ link.
- CONNECT WITH INFLUENCERS: If you have any friends who have blogs or send email newsletters to an audience of entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, small business owners, or web marketers, would you connect me with them via email so that I can ask them for their support or forward information about the book to them? My email is ryan[at]icontact.com.
- REACH OUT TO PROFESSORS: If you are in school and have professors of business or entrepreneurship, would you email them a link to the book and inquire if they’d like to receive a free copy of the book for their review for consideration for use in their classes. If they’d like to receive a free review copy of the book you or they can email me at ryan[at]icontact.com with the address to send it to
- POST A RECOMMENDATION: If you have a blog or are part of any listservs, groups, or forums about entrepreneurship or business, would you post a recommendation? You can grab the cover of the book from http://profile.ak.facebook .com/object2/1898/84/n2047 6395300_593.jpg.
- BUY IN BULK: If you are part of an organization that can buy copies in bulk for distribution to your members, please email me at ryan[at]icontact.com for details.
If you have any advice on anything else I can do to help promote the book launch on February 5th, please do email me.
Updated Book Tour Schedule
Also, I have an updated College Tour Schedule for the Spring Semester that I wanted to share. Many of these events are with the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. Here are the schools I’ll be speaking at in the next 90 days:
February 5 - Green River College, Kentucky
February 12 - Ohio State University
February 13 - St. Louis University
February 25 - George Washington University
February 26 - Fairmont State University, West Virginia
March 13 - Metropolitan College of Denver
March 26 - Northwest State Community College, Ohio
March 27 - Iowa Western Community College
April 2 - Oklahoma State University
April 8 - University of Wisconsin Parkside
April 9 - University of Nevada Las Vegas
April 10 - Cochise University, Arizona
April 11 - University of Texas El Paso
April 17 - Columbus State University, Georgia
April 18 - Michigan Technological University
April 22 - York Technical College, South Carolina
I’m also in talks with Boston College, Juniata College, and Quinnipiac University to speak this semester or next and hope it will work out. If you’d like me to come to your school just send me an email and I’ll reply with details.
Sincerely–thank you very much for your assistance. I want you to know that this effort is not about me–it’s about a passionate desire to change the world, raise money to reduce poverty in developing nations by improving access to education, technology, and healthcare, and share what I’ve learned while building iContact about entrepreneurship, opportunity evaluation, raising investment, venture capital, web marketing, product development, business planning, finding partners, building a sales team, management, hiring and retaining superstars, organizational behavior, and scaling a business with anyone that wants to learn while spreading a message of entrepreneurial possibility.
I’ll be in touch again next week. Mark your calendars to buy your copy on February 5th!
Cheers,
Ryan Allis