Rick Broadhead

Is your organization effectively harnessing the latest e-commerce and e-business opportunities? Let Rick Broadhead show you the way! Rick Broadhead is renowned as one of North America's foremost experts on e-business and e-commerce. He is also a leading consultant, industry analyst, and professional speaker with a track record that is virtually unmatched in the technology industry. He is the co-author of a record-breaking 30 books about the Internet and e-business, including Lightbulbs to Yottabits: How to Profit by Understanding the Internet of the Future, Get a Digital Life: An Internet Reality Check, and Good Health Online, the first book in North America to comprehensively examine how the Internet can be used as a health resource for consumers. Rick is also the co-author of Selling Online: How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant. Officially endorsed and sponsored by VISA, Selling Online has sold well over 100,000 copies worldwide and is being used in VISA's national e-commerce training initiatives. An international success story, Selling Online has been translated into both French and German and a Russian edition is scheduled for release in 2002. As an industry expert and visionary, Rick is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and consultant by corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and trade associations across a wide range of industries. His clients have included organizations such as McDonald’s, Andersen, the National Spa and Pool Institute, Microsoft, IBM, JDA Software, Freightliner Trucks, Rogers AT&T Wireless, Travelodge Hotels, Choice Hotels, Manulife Financial, the Association of Crafts and Creative Industries, Entel (one of the largest telecommunications firms in Chile), CIBC Mellon Trust Company, Sun Microsystems, the National Tour Association, and the Minnesota Office of Tourism, where Rick provided a keynote address to over 400 tourism officials at the Minnesota Governor's Conference on Tourism. During the last six years, Rick has assisted executives and managers from hundreds of leading North American companies with their Internet and e-business strategies, including prominent industrial and consumer-oriented firms such as Kraft Foods, HMV, Duracell, Polaroid, Motorola, Bayer, United Parcel Service, Kodak, Ford Motor Company, Benjamin Moore Paints, Lucent Technologies, Volkswagen, Samsonite, Sears, Xerox, Nestle, AT&T, and Coca-Cola. As an Internet industry veteran and bestselling Internet author, Rick Broadhead is regularly called on by both print and broadcast media for his analysis and commentary on events in the Internet and e-commerce industry. He has conducted hundreds of interviews with radio stations, television networks, magazines, daily and community newspapers, and industry publications on topics ranging from the AOL/Time Warner merger to the Code Red Internet worm. He has been interviewed by such high-profile media outlets as The Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today, US News & World Report, PC Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. In recognition of his unique insight into the Internet and e-business industry, Rick was retained as an expert witness in a groundbreaking legal battle between an Internet start-up and 20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Paramount, ABC Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc, Fox, the NFL, and the NBA. The case made headlines around the world. In 1999, Rick teamed up with New York-based United Media, one of the largest newspaper syndicates and licensing companies in the United States, to create and launch "e-Trivia", a nationally syndicated newspaper feature about the Internet. Rick has also been co-host of a Internet radio show which was syndicated by the Sound Source Radio Network. Rick holds an MBA in marketing from York University's Schulich School of Business, where has he was awarded the George A Edwards Marketing Medal for demonstrated excellence in marketing. Industry associations, government organizations, and businesses of all sizes have booked Rick Broadhead for keynote speeches on a variety of topics relating to the Internet and e-business. Rick's presentations are never technical, and he excels at speaking about e-business and e-commerce in an engaging, yet entertaining manner. Regardless of whether you need a presentation for small business owners, middle managers, or high-level executives, Rick will impress your organization with his vast industry knowledge and compelling insights into this exciting, fast-changing technology!