August 27 - 28, 2010 | Las Vegas, Nevada
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
David Gass
Founder of Business Credit Services, Inc.
Las Vegas, NV
David Gass is the Founder of Business Credit Services, Inc. and creator of the Business Credit BuilderSM process. Through his companies he has helped small business owners raise hundreds of millions in credit and financing.
He is the author of the books, “Building Business Credit for Business Owners,” “Success Steps to Business Credit,” “Success Steps to Business Financing,” and the ten book series “Building Blocks to Business Success.”
Mr. Gass has created THE system for achieving success and has followed it to the letter within his own organizations. Having passion, drive, and determination, Mr. Gass started Business Credit Services, Inc. in the fall of 2000. He has taken BCS through the much choreographed stages of both the business credit building process and his 10 step building blocks to success from passion straight through to exit.
After 8 years of business success and more than 12,000 very satisfied clients achieving their own business success through his guaranteed systems, Mr. Gass exited Business Credit Services, Inc. The acquisition between the two privately owned entities has positioned BCS to gain resources and expansion opportunities by aligning with the global corporate services provider Corporation Service Company (CSC) Mr. Gass and the BCS executive team have joined forces with CSC and The Company Corporation ("TCC"), CSC's division serving small business.
Mr. Gass has been featured on television, radio, business newspapers and magazines around the country. He has been interviewed by Kiplinger, Fox News, CNN Money, Forbes, Business Week, Entrepreneur and more on the subjects of business finance and credit. He is an entrepreneur, consultant, author, and sought after speaker on the subject of entrepreneurship, business finance and credit.
He is also a member of several committees on entrepreneurship and marketing for local high schools and has also co-produced the “BizDoc Software”, which maintains and tracks the legal activities of a corporation or LLC.
David Gass’ many articles can be read online at thousands of websites that have published his works.
Testimonials: “David, you may remember me, from a long time ago, my review of your company is on the customer part of your website to this day. |
Scott Fritz
Founder Growth Connect and Angel Investor
Scott Fritz is an Entrepreneur, Business Coach, Angel Investor, Earn.com Expert Advisor and Author. In March of 2008 he founded Growth Connect. By leveraging and combining the services of business coaching, advisory board development and angel investment resources, Mr. Fritz specializes in the hyper growth entrepreneur and business owner. He also facilitates many of the Earn.com Executive Boards with Entrepreneurs from all across the country.
Mr. Fritz founded his previous company, Human Capital – peochoice.com, in 1997. Human Capital is a Professional Employer Organization providing small to medium sized businesses with employer administration services. Through persistent passion and focus, Scott grew his company into a nationwide player with 2007 annual revenues of $170 million dollars. This hyper growth landed Human Capital and its affiliate division on the INC. 500 list in 2003 and 2004 with growth rates in excess of 1,000 percent. Servicing 350 client companies and 5,000 employees in over 40 states, Human Capital was sold to a nationwide staffing firm in December of 2007.
As an active Angel investor, Mr. Fritz has invested in multiple ventures over the past ten years. Some areas of investment include: land development, environmental services, business services, technology and entertainment. His involvement with these companies ranges from passive investor and advisory board member to paid coach and consultant. Scott enjoys sharing his experiences in growing companies, coaching budding entrepreneurs, and developing strategic plans for each of his endeavors. One of his recent investments sold for $70 million dollars within three years of his initial funding, equaling well over a 300% return on investment.
Mr. Fritz resides in Las Vegas, and is the Past President of the local Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) Chapter – eonetwork.org. Scott has held various volunteer positions within EO over the past ten years including Global Chapter Development Committee Chair, Regional Director and Area Director. Mr. Fritz is also an EO Certified Strategy Summit and Accelerator Facilitator. This role enables him to coach the “leaders of leaders” and improve the focus and alignment of EO Chapter Boards and Accelerator programs throughout the United States and Canada. Since 2005 Scott has facilitated over seventy individual strategic sessions and programs.
Scott’s personal interests include: spending time with his wife and two girls, traveling, politics, automobiles, art and an occasional game of golf.
Testimonials: Working with Scott has changed the entire trajectory of our company. When we first engaged Scott roughly 18 months ago, we had hit a plateau as a 20 million dollar company. We didn’t realize the amount of misalignment amongst our leadership team, and without knowing it, we were pulling each other in different directions. Not only is our trend line indicating 40 million, we are aligned. Most importantly, we have the tools to stay that way. We continue to work with Mr. Fritz and are grateful for the effect he has had on our leadership team, employees and because of it, customers. - Matt S. |
Mark Del Guercio
Investor, Business Coach and Social Entrepreneur
Mark Del Guercio is a remarkable speaker, investor, business coach and social entrepreneur.
Mark Del Guercio started his first million dollar business at age 26, and has been an entrepreneur for the past 22 years. Mr. Del Guercio has helped thousands of business owners and investors achieve their goals by structuring business entities, working with focused teams of professional legal and tax advisors, and assisting in the formation of qualified and non-qualified pension plans.
As an active real estate investor, Mr. Del Guercio has arranged multi-million dollar financing for projects in Las Vegas, Nevada; Alberta, Canada; and the Dominican Republic. He has also spoken at over 100 real estate trainings and seminars on the topics of asset protection, tax strategies for real estate investors, structuring joint ventures, and the use of self directed IRAs for investing.
Recognizing that contribution is important, Mr. Del Guercio founded Prosperity Advisors, Inc. in 2001; an organization dedicated to assisting individuals in starting non-profit organizations and obtaining tax-exempt status. To date, he has incorporated over 300 non-profits with positive letters of determination from the Internal Revenue Service.
Mark resides in Las Vegas, NV. His personal interests include: spending time with his wife, running, reading, automobiles and traveling.
Testimonials: “Raising money is one of the most important skills needed for any entrepreneur to succeed. Mark and the team at Earn.com completely REVOLUTIONIZED my business in this area and opened doors I never knew existed. Being a full-time real estate investor during this last market correction could have been either a curse or a huge opportunity. Luckily for me, with the new funding strategies EARN helped me develop, it has a been a huge opportunity for growth and my best year in almost 10 years! If you want to learn from people who have “been there done that” and know what’s truly important to make a business venture succeed , business break-through is a must!” - Jim Sheils "I first met Mark, at Extreme Wealth, and I was totally drawn into his entertaining presentation style. He is easy to understand, he clearly knows his content and he sprinkles everything with humor. Since then I’ve applied some of his strategies and I now have a continuous flow of passive income. I’ve also taken his “Business Breakthrough” course that is, over-the-top, packed with value. Mark and his team deliver an interactive program and give tools that will catapult any business or business idea to the next level. If you are thinking about taking a positive step towards growing yourself and your business I would definitely recommend Mark and his team as the experts to have on your side." - Sheila Walker |
Tom Wheelwright
Founder and CEO of ProVision Wealth Strategists
Tom is the creative force behind ProVision Wealth Strategists. For more than 25 years, Tom has devised innovative tax, business and wealth strategies for sophisticated investors and business owners in the manufacturing, real estate and high tech fields. Tom has a wide variety of professional experience, ranging from Big 4 accounting, where he managed the professional training for thousands of CPA's in the national office to in-house tax advisor for a Fortune 1000 company.
Tom is a published author on partnership and corporation tax strategies and his ideas have been featured in two books in the Rich Dad Poor Dad™ series. In addition to his frequent lectures on wealth and tax strategies, Tom is an adjunct professor in the Masters of Tax program at Arizona State University. The founder of ProVision, Tom is responsible for innovating new consulting services for ProVision's premium clientele and for marketing ProVision services worldwide. In addition to his management responsibilities, Tom still likes to coach select clients on their wealth, business and tax strategies. Tom has his master's degree in taxation from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah.
Testimonials: "Tom Wheelwright is a rare combination of CPA, real estate investor, and teacher. He has the ability to take the complex and often boring subject of tax and tax law and make it into something that's simple enough for a person like me to understand. The difference between Tom and other CPAs is that Tom understands the purpose of the tax code. It's not just a set of rules. It's a document that when followed is designed to reward certain behaviors through lowering or eliminating taxes. Does you CPA see the tax code this way?." - Robert Kiyosaki "Tom’s in-depth knowledge and expertise on US Tax and general accounting and financial planning blew away our attendees not only by the virtue of its quality, but by how he presented the information. It takes a unique blend of talents to make Accounting and Financial planning interesting to a broad based audience and Tom has the magic and personality to do so with style. Of all the speakers we have had on our stage, Tom leads by the strength of the relationships he forged with our students. He was also ranked as one of the most favorite speakers receiving a 9 out of 10 on content and presentation." - Greg Habstritt |
David Francis
Small Business Strategist
David has built a career on helping small businesses become big businesses. For the last 30 years he has been a serial entrepreneur, and calls himself a "Small Business Strategist". His vast knowledge and experience in the business arena distinguishes him as a leader in Joint Ventures and Strategic Partnerships. He is a master at growing businesses. In today’s competitive business world, you need every advantage you can get. David offers workable, tangible, profitable techniques and strategies for developing a winning business strategy.
If you need someone to show you the ropes, David is the person. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs over the years develop their own systems to make millions based on just a few core principles that have catapulted David to be one of the top underground business strategists in the country.
David Francis is CEO of Meta Profits, Inc., a business consulting company that identifies specific needs and deficiencies in businesses plans and then by implementing proven and proprietary strategies, takes those businesses to the next level and beyond.
Jeff Magee
Founder of JMI, Inc.
Jeff Magee has been called one of the leading “Leadership & Marketing Strategists” today. He started his first business at age 15, sold it before going to college and had penned more than 100 newspaper columns appearing in major daily newspapers before age 21. By age 24 he was recognized by American Home Products, a Fortune 500 company, as one of their top salesmen in the nation, while at the same time becoming the youngest certified Sales Instructor in the World for the Dale Carnegie Sales Course. After experiencing downsizing in 1987 he went on to work as a sales associate for the nations largest educational and youth advertising/marketing firm (Target Marketing), and was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Chief Operating Officer within two years.
For the past twenty-one years Jeff has lead the team at Jeff Magee International / JMI, Inc. as one of the industries leading human capital talent management and development niche’ firms. As a tax payer, payroll provider and employer he has learned that theories are good, but it is the practicum and reality that pays the bills.
As a performance execution Coach he is well credentialed. He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Certified Professional Direct Marketer (PDM) and has been recognized as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Americans” known as TOYA by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. A three term President of the Oklahoma Speakers Association, and awarded twice their Professional Speaker Member of the Year, today the Chapter’s outstanding member of the year is awarded the “Jeff Magee Member of the Year Award”!
For year’s, Magee has participated in awarding an annual scholarship to an emerging professional Member of the Oklahoma Speakers Association Chapter – “The Magee-Stovall High Impact Emerging Speaker Award” and has an endowed Scholarship at his undergraduate alma mater, Baker University in Baldwin City Kansas.
Today, Magee is the writer of the national Leadership Column that you may have seen in your own local newspaper, serves as the publisher of the national success publication, PERFORMANCE Magazine® and is the author of more than 20 books, transcribed into multiple languages, including 4 best-sellers. His Dissertation was converted into a text, Yield Management and was the #1 selling graduate management school textbook in 2000 for CRC/St. Lucie Press. His 2008 release of it!, an innovative turn-key approach to selling expanded his 2004 work in the McGraw-Hill best selling The Sales Training Handbook for performance execution among sales professionals and military recruiters nationally.
Many of the Fortune 500 firms from BOEING and Harley-Davidson to Anheuser-Busch, USA/NASA, and El Paso Energy today use Jeff for PERFORMANCE EXECUTION® in the areas of managerial-leadership effectiveness and sales training and coaching. He has also been repeatedly invited to share performance ideas with leading “think-tanks” like the Conference Board (the Diversity Council and Human Resources Council repeatedly), College Board and Boomer CPA Consulting Circles, as well as Keynote at many major Associations like the ABA, AICPA, Farm Credit Services, NSA, MPI, and ASTD across America. He has been invited to speak atWEST POINT Military Academy and the National Guard on leadership!
In 2001 Magee was commissioned to design, train and present a series of national leadership and sales recruitment programs for more than the 5,000 professional sales recruiters and sales managers with the US ARMY National Guard. For this he has subsequently received the prestigious Commander’s Coin of Excellence!
In 2007 Tulsa Oklahoma Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) appointed Jeff to a five year term as a Commissioner for the City of Tulsa’s Civil Service Commission (CSC). The CSC serves as the final authority to any civil service personnel and human resources policy, issues, endeavors, grievances and serves as the supervisory body for the City of Tulsa Personnel Director.
The London Business Gazette has hailed Jeff as “An American Business Guru” … His home town of Tulsa Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce Awarded him the Small Business Administrations Business Publisher of the Year Award in 2008-2009 and the State of Oklahoma did the same in 2009. The United States ARMY National GUARD and President Bush recognized him with the high honor of the “NATIONAL Guards Total Victory Team” medal, for his service to the Nation’s GUARD.