SEEP ‘n SPLURGE: How to effectively make SPLURGING your Top Priority in 2014.

Observations by REH: Robert E. Hofstadter

Managing Director:  NSD & YOTS

Chicago, Illinois USA

 

DATELINE:  November 7, 2013 – 4:20 PM CST

 

Everybody must be their own Brand these days in order to sell themselves, products/projects – whatever they are all about.  It doesn’t take just one time to HIT THE BIG TIME to make your Name into a household, recognizable Entity, but 7-8 critical times to SEEP into the Collective Consciousness of those that you are trying to affect and influence in order for them to EVEN TAKE NOTICE of your Email – Posting – Letter and/or other Form(ats) of Correspondence.  That said, it’s time to move ahead.  The New Year is approaching.

However, now in order to help you make that significant Difference, ASK: Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith of NATIONAL SPLURGE DAY ©1994 and the YEAR OF THE SPLURGE ©2010 is turning her undivided Attention allowing you to receive the Recognition due on your Concerns and Core Interests.  This is Communal ReInvention, pure and simple.

HOW THIS OPERATION WORKS:  On the Numbered Day of your Birth (say it’s January 1) and the First of each Month thereafter:

February 1, March 1, April 1, May 1, June 1, July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, November 1 and December 1 of each month thereafter, ASK will edit and distribute a brief one-page Rundown of your latest Project via Twitter – Facebook & LinkedIn, 3 of the most popular  and powerful Social Media Networks utilized.  That way your Story and Strides through 2014 will be recorded and become well-known.  A better Offer cannot be found.

THE MOTTO:   Splurge on to Yourself.

 

“Splurge on to Yourself” is the First Principle of Recognizing your True Worth and Value in Life during the 20^TH Year ABC: Anniversary-Birthday-Celebration of NATIONAL SPLURGE DAY ©1994 that now recognizes 12 poignant and demanding Themes, one applicable to each Month of the Year. 

YOUR MISSION is to provide new Material one week before your Birthday and Anniversary Date (each Month thereafter) and a Publicity Blitz YOU-tilizing these 3 Social Media Networks will be generated. 

You will also receive a Verified Copy that can be adhered to your Website as a Testimonial of your Participation in NATIONAL SPLURGE DAY ©1994 & the YEAR OF THE SPLURGE ©2010 for further mileage. 

COSTS:  Only $1200 ($100 a Month), prepaid by Wednesday, November 27, 2013; starting on January 1, 2014. 

Payable by Certified Check and/or Paypal.

Email ASK at askoopersmith(at)hotmail(dot)com to discuss your Rise up the Pop Culture Charts during the YEAR OF THE SPLURGE. After all, no matter WHAT YOU SELL, you’re always selling yourself.

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In desperate Need of Successful Sales? Hire America’s most Successful Sales Man: Robert E. Hofstadter.

IF you must hire somebody, hire ‘The Best.’

The Resumé of ROBERT E. HOFSTADTER (from the American Family who won 3 Pulitzers & 1 Nobel Prize) is contained at the close of this Entry. As of September, 2013 MR. HOFSTADTER has over 8 years of recent successful B2B Telephone Sales Experience. He possesses zero ‘phone fear’ and usually gets past ‘The Gatekeepers’ – THE TROLLS –  to speak to those IN-THE-KNOW – known as the Senior Level Decision Makers. All within a Day’s Work.

Furthermore, THE HOF-INATOR (as he is popularly known by his Business Associates & Friends) is incredibly passionate about Architecture.  The first Home he bought was a George Fred Keck house in Glencoe, Illinois USA.  Although Robert was wild about THE ARTS and wanted to pursue a Degree in Architecture, he honestly admits he was not ‘that good’ on the boards. Instead, he changed gears and pursued another one of his likes and obtained a Degree in Civil Engineering at one of the top Schools in the Nation, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology  where his Focus centered around Structures. His re-invented Outlook was that if he would not be designing the Outside of a Structure, he could most certainly design its Infrastructure. And, as we all know: Today, EVERYTHING is infra-structurally based. However, to keep his LOVE OF THE ARTS in the forefront of his Regiment, ROBERT was Co-Owner of the ground-breaking Ancient Echoes Gallery in trendy Lincoln Park that helped launch the Creative and  ART Careers of such Internationally acclaimed Artistry as the incomparable, Riva Lehrer and Bev Ovington.
 

REGARDING SALES SUCCESSES:

Soon after College Graduation, ROBERT moved to Chicago and arrived on the doorsteps of Oppenheimer.  He tells us that he began his Career in the General Sales Area and within only a year’s time, he had reached the Advanced Level of Sales to warrant a semi-private Vice President’s Office. He didn’t mention if the room had a window.

At Marcus Evans (based at NBC Tower on the One Mag Mile in Chicago), after a short two months’ run, THE HOF-INATOR quickly rose to being the 2^ND highest Producer in a pool of 60 Sales People.  He attributes this phenom to the fact that he worked hard and smart and had no reluctance (whatsoever) in making a significant Number of targeted Cold Calls where he pitched only to Decision Makers.  Thinking ‘outside of the Box,’ ROBERT thinks of how a company should be run and addresses the issues that will make it be(come) a toddling Success. 

Moving on, at Midwest Health and Wellness Magazine, a Quarterly Start-up from publisher, Boston Hannah (based in Chicago’s Loop), its Premier Issue saw a 60+% over-projected Revenue largely due to his unstoppable Efforts and that of one other experienced Sales Person on that Staff. ROBERT and his co-worker produced nearly equal revenues while the other two team members slouched and negligibly contributed little to the company’s growth potential. Sales is no an easy job, especially as the US Urban Economy was not booming at this time of his Employment.  ROBERT can hold his own each and every time as his History as proven; or as seen, is the ‘bread and butter’ for keeping a Company afloat.   

THE HOF-INATOR’s SALARY HISTORY:  The two key words he chooses to use are:  ‘varied widely.’

At Oppenheimer (based on commission only), his Annual Income fluctuated from $45,000 to $100,000 annually.

At Marcus Evans, base ($1,750) + Commission yielded ~ $50,000 per year.

At Midwest Health and Wellness Magazine, his $2,500 base + Commission produced an Annual Income of approximately:  $55,000-$60,000.

IN CLOSING:  To reiterate:  ROBERT holds his own each and every time as his History as proven and creates an enticing and highly enjoyable Work Environment where the Best for the Employer & Fellow Employees is his top priority.  Being ‘The Bread ‘n Butter’ for keeping a Company in the Fortune 500 League, ROBERT E. HOFSTADTER is undoubtedly one of America’s finest Sales Man, bar none.   

CALLING ALL POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS:  ROBERT looks forward to scheduling an Interview with you to explore further Opportunities that will undoubtedly benefit both Parties in the long term for the future of an Operation.

Contact him directly at:

Robert E. Hofstadter

HOFSTADTER & ASSOCIATES

Chicago, Illinois USA

 

847-890-1489

Robert(dot)hofstadter(at)gmail(dot)com

 

 

R E S U M E

ROBERT E. HOFSTADTER

Chicago, Illinois USA

 

847-890-1489

 

E-Mail: robert.hofstadter(at)gmail(dot)com [Preferred]

 

CAREER OBJECTIVE:  Position in Sales or New Business Development

SUMMARY: Twenty (20) years of Sales and New Business Development Experience with both tangible (but primarily) intangible Products and Services. Assisted in the Formation and Operation two (2) Chicago Small Businesses: Ancient Echoes Gallery & The Firm (the Midwest’s Premiere Workout Gym/Spa).  Experienced in closing both large and mid-sized Transactions encompassing both Businesses and Individuals.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

CHICAGO LIFE MAGAZINE                                                                  

2010-2011
(Chicago, Illinois)
Magazine advertising sales, researching topics, industries and prospects. 

BOSTON HANNAH, Inc.

(Midwest Health & Wellness Magazine)                                           
2009-mid-2010
(Chicago, Illinois)

Magazine advertising sales, researching topics, industries and prospects. Always in top 10% of Producers.

 

MARCUS EVANS, INC./Active Communications Inc.                               

2004-2008         
(Chicago, Illinois)

Event phone sales, research and registrations (both to delegates and sponsors) to Senior Level Corporate Executives. Always in the top 10% of Producers.

 

HOFSTADTER & ASSOCIATES                                                                        

1997 - 2004
(Glencoe, Illinois)

Provided Marketing, Sales and Strategic Planning Services for numerous managed Care Organizations and Hospitals in the Midwest.

 

HEALTHSTAR, INC.                                                                                

1987 – 1997
(Chicago, Illinois)

Sales, sales management and new business development services for a full-service multi-state PPO. Researched prospects and conducted/managed entire sales process to closing for both providers and payers. Prospects included insurance companies, TPAs, self-funded employers, union health and welfare plans, hospitals, large group practices, PHOs and IPAs. Dubbed “Resident Wordsmith” by company CEO he was responsible for editorial content and/or review of most written output from company.

MILLER-MULL & COMPANY                                                                             

1985 – 1987
(Rolling Meadows, Illinois)

Provided the sales effort for this three-person investment banking ‘boutique.’  Originated and placed leasing, financing and refinancing transactions.

OPPENHEIMER & COMPANY                                                                         

1982 - 1984
(Chicago, Illinois)

Sales focus on large ticket private placement transactions to high net worth individuals.  Achieved VP sales volume and moved to VP office before joining Miller-Mull & Company.

MERRILL LYNCH and COMPANY                
1977 – 1981
(Evanston, Illinois)

Registered representative with sales focus on stocks and bonds.  Evanston office liaison with NY for both OTC and government securities.

UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES                                                                 
1972 – 1977
(Northbrook, Illinois)

Project Engineer, Fire Protection Department.  Designed and conducted testing programs in accordance with nationally recognized standards.  Responsible for analyzing test results and writing formal reports of those results.

EDUCATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS AND MISC.:                                         

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana

B.S.C.E. Degree, May, 1972.  Passed Indiana EIT 1972.  Civil Engineering  program structures oriented. Co-editor college newspaper: THE ROSE THORN.

Earned CFP Designation while at Merrill Lynch (1980)

Owner, ANCIENT ECHOES GALLERY, Lincoln Park West (1987-1999)

Owner, The Firm, North Shore & Oak Street / Chicago (1983-1990)

Served for 6 years as a Director on the Board of the Midwest Regional Association of PPOs (1990-1996)

HOBBIES & PASSIONS:  

Voracious Reader finishing one 250 paged book within 2 days;

Cook / Chef / Gardener / Traveler / Exerciser / Extreme Bicyclist

Editorial Assistant as his Moonlighting Gig;

Tutor to underprivileged Children;

Volunteering to help end Homelessness in America;

Avid Research Assistant to a variety of Artists/Writers/Authors;

Father of 2 successful Sons;

Advocate for several Wildlife Nature Organizations; and

Penning a Book on the Obesity Epidemic plaguing The Vulnerable in the 21ST Century. To be released:  March, 2014.                               

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ASK of Chicago’s Award-Winning Lit(erary) Works now primed for THE BiG TiME. Time to jump on-board. Next Stop: Toy-a-Paloosa where every TOY & ANT gets their Hey-Day.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

  

Dear LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter Associates and Friends:

I’ve been writing-up a Storm the last three (3) years and now I am taking a Break to solicit your Expertise & Assistance. I’m taking this Action before 2014 sets in because the Topic is very timely and Time is of the Essence in all Concerns and Matters.   In 1,262 Words, I’ve explained my Purpose below: 

No doubt about ‘IT.’  Racism is the worst Problem Mankind faces.  Moreover, if we dissect the Word ‘Mankind,’ there is nothing ‘kind’ about Man when ‘IT’ comes to the Hate, Bigotry and Scorn many of them/us use when ‘IT’ comes to our Brothers & Sisters (i.e. The Family of Mankind) who … after all, share the same Ground, Air, Space and DNA with us.  Therefore, in order to put ‘IT’ all into Perspective and to eliminate Racism once and for all (of us), I have written (to date:  Saturday, August 17, 2013) 4/7 of a Series called:

SKiN: SACRED KINSHIP iN NATURE™

How 10 Beloved Plush TOYS Redefine Race ^©2009

 

“What the Movie, ‘Bambi’ did for Forest Fires in the early 1950s

is what ‘SKiN’ does for Racism here in the 21^ST Century.”

 

That’s a direct Quote from Robert E. Hofstadter of Hofstadter & Associates (1 of my Readers whose Family has won 3 Pulitzers and 1 Nobel Prize.  Therefore, he knows about the Dynamics of what Great Literature is all about). Hof’s Comment was aired about ‘THE SKiN SERiES’ after Script #3 entitled:

iN THE COMPANY OF ANTS ^©2009

beat out 3,164 other Movie Scripts in the annual Scriptapalooza International Screenplay Competition held in Hollywood, California. Its Founder & President, Mark Andrushko (formerly of Chicago, my Hometown) employs only the top Movie Industrialists – the Movers and Shakers – to read (peruse and ultimately select) these Submissions.  This Corporate Elite evidently know what will sell and what will ‘make IT’ on the A&E: Arts & Entertainment Scene.

Since July of 2010 when iN THE COMPANY OF ANTS ^©2009 was selected, I meticulously rewrote the Project into 2 Books & 2 Spec Scripts to demonstrate the Topic has Lasting Power.  Historically, ‘ANTS’ ranked as Spec Script #3 (of THE SKiN SERiES) as I taught myself how to screen-write after Hugh Grant, an Actor/Producer read Chapter/Scene 28 of the Original Text and seriously declared in April of 2009:

“Adrienne, this sounds like Children’s Performance Theatre.”

From that Point (58 Character Deduction) onward, I knew the Series had Merit.  Now, PROJECT: SKiN (that encapsulates iN THE COMPANY OF ANTS ^©2009) needs its ‘Break into the Big Time.’ 

 

TACKLING ONE ANT HILL AT A TIME:  To keep the(ir) momANTum in place, as

‘America’s Premier Eventologist’

(a Title I received from Gene Koprowski of Insight Magazine of Washington, DC

 in August of 1996)

 

&

 

‘The Premier Eventologist in The History of The World’

(yet another Designation I received from

 Eric Zorn of The Chicago Tribune in Chicago, Illinois

 in January of 2001),

 

I have proclaimed:

‘August is ANT Appreciation Month ©2010’

Following suit, I have obtained the acceptANTS & recognition of scores of Myrmecology (ANT SciANTist) Groups, Associations and Organizations on Facebook and throughout The Web for the last three (3) years.  Fascinating as these Insects are, because there are 31 charactANTS® in my 2 Scripts/Manuscripts (as well as an ANT-iculated Vocabulary of 245 ANT Words/Terms that delight Children and aid in the Marketing/Branding/Interacting of the Product Lines), there is Continual Interest and a build-up about iN THE COMPANY OF ANTS as a popular Entity. 

 

Due to the unmitigANTed Fact that ANTS naturally come in a wide Variety of Colors and Sizes (as Humans do), this Species of 130,000,000 years old has collectively seen a PlANeT that was NOT riddled by Humans…when Bigotry, Prejudice & Hate were nowhere to be found. 

“As fascinating as a Topic on what ANTS can represent,

 Koopersmith examines how People can finally solve

one of our gravest of all Societal ills  as poignANTly as can be done.”

 

That direct Quote is from Julie Kurtz, Translator & Interpreter ( of Evanston, Illinois) who is working on the Spanish Translation of the Manuscripts. 

TO REITERATE:  No doubt about ‘IT.’  Racism is the worst Problem Mankind faces.  Worse than the Wrath of Mother Nature and the Cause of many Wars, Racism bears Contempt, Dislike and Inhuman Dramas that none of us need. Racism can begin with an off-colored Remark posed as an Insult tossed between 2 Elementary School Kids that escalates into a Bullying Match that leads to Militia, Hate Groups and Holocaustic Events that still mar our Planet.  As Smokey the Bear (who turned 69 on August 9 when I turned 61, as active BabyBoomers, who have the ‘Right & Write Stuff’ on our furry and fleshy Sides): 

“Only you can prevent Forest Fires.”

As the Creator of SKiN ™, I say:  “Only you can eliminate Racism.”

…one Person at a time; one Smile at a time; one Chat at a time;  one ANT at a time; one TOY at a time. 

 

MY SPECIAL REQUEST IS:  PROJECT: SKiN ™ needs to get discovered. The Time is right.  In today’s current Events and Global News, the Topic of Racism leads the List.  The Topic makes News 24/7.  The CharacTOYS^® in the other Scripts (of which 4/7 are penned already) are TOYS from my Private TOY Collection as I have been actively collecting TOYS since Birth, which are the most Marketable Commodity in Contemporary Branding Wars.

THE GOAL OF THIS MiSSiVE:  I want to assemble a Team of Expert Professionals consisting of Venture Capitalists; a Movie and/or Animation Studio; Publishing House and Media Outlets (for starters) who want to invest and launch this Project.  Together we can:

Eliminate Racism;

                                    Dispel the Mixed Signals & Ironies We received every Day; and

Get to the Heart of what really matters.

Those are the prevailing Themes of:

SKiN: SACRED KINSHIP iN NATURE™

How 10 Beloved Plush TOYS Redefine Race ^©2009

featuring:  iN THE COMPANY OF ANTS ^©2009

“In Literature as in the Movies, the Bottom Line remains as ‘IT’ (whatever ‘IT’ may enfold) has always been about ‘The Glory of The Story.’  Mark my Words (all of them) as others have examined ‘IT,’ The SKiN Series will travel through Time and Space with Grace much as Aesop’s Fables have affected Readers of all Ages and throughout all the Ages.”

All IT takes is one call…

After all, isn’t that the Message we behold when leading our Lives? 

Thank you for your anticipated Help and Cooperation.  I look forward to receiving your Feedback and hearing your Comments, if Time prevails.

 

Sincerely,

ASK:  ADRiENNE SiOUX KOOPERSMiTH

Screenwriter – Author – Eventologist – Promoter
KOOPERSMITH’s GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
“People read what ASK writes about…”
STUDIO 1437
Chicago, Illinois USA

 

847-630-9201 – ASK’s Cell 

847-448-0544 – VM

 

Adrienne.Sioux.Koopersmith(at)gmail(dot)com

Askoopersmith(at)Hotmail(dot)com

 

http://adriennesiouxkoopersmith.blogspot.com/

 

Facebook.com/Adrienne.Sioux.Koopersmith

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PS:  Please feel free to post, share and retweet.

The following is a 140 Character Tweet I’ve fashioned just for that Purpose on your individual Accounts:

ASKs award-winning Movie Scripts/Manuscripts SKiN: Sacred Kinship in Nature needs Prodctn Aid Ends Racism. 2days leadg Topic Wont U help?

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NOTE-WORTHY NEWS:  For those curious amongst you, the colorful Avatar here is of GORF, THE FROG who is 1 of the 11 leading CharacTOYS^®  in this Series.  BTW:  GORF is FROG back-words, a Creature who has resided on Planet Earth for 217,000,000 years.  Having outlived the Mighty Dinosaur, THE FROG (like all the Creatures in my Series here) has a History, Prehistory & STORY  to RST: Relay, Share and Tell.  He would indeed make Aesop proud.

                
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