Seems like I m the Youngest here

Name
Varun Pratap

Age
23

Location
India

Year in Business
I started with computers when I was 17,.. then started with web designing. both bombed..
Right Now I m more into Health/writing/speaking.

Fav Interests
Martial arts, Health and Fitness, Yoga.
Xtreme sports.
Video games.
handwriting Analysis.
human Psychology, NLP, Hypnosis.
Reading, Writing
girls(tho I don't hav much free time )

Favorite Book
Way too many to list. Got into SPeed reading so I can normally read 2-3 books in a week.
But I like books by Brian traacy, osho,J krishnamurti.
latest I m reading Private Posts by Allen Says.

Favorite movies
The Matrix, The Fight Club, The Partiot
any movie Mel Gibson is in.

[b]Favorite TV shows[b]
The Contender, I think apprentince 1st season was good...

[b]Hobbies
Martial arts
xtreme sports..
learning new skills..

Favorite quote
"Some Day you are statue, someday you are pigeon."

Varun

Name
Susan Landry

Age
30

Location
Rhode Island

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting

College
B.S. in Psychology 1996

Years in business
Less than 1

Favorite Interests
Trying to improve my copywriting and finding out all the little tips and tricks of the trade
Watching movies
Writing fiction
Fine dining at pricey restaurants
Being a homebody
Spending time with my family
Playing with my many pets
Sitting around and talking for hours with friends, with a supply of good coffee on hand
Taking care of my mental health
Trying to figure out how I can quit my day job

Favorite Book
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
Dolores Claibourne by Stephen King

Favorite Movie
"The Shawshank Redemption"
"Tommy Boy"
"Dumb and Dumber"
"Carrie"
"The Haunting"
"Suspiria"
And about a billion others, I love horror movies especially.

Favorite TV Show
Law & Order (SVU)
The Simpsons
The Golden Girls reruns
The Twilight Zone reruns
Kingdom Hospital (why did they cancel this??)
Pretty much anything on the Sci-Fi channel

Favorite Websites
This one
CNN.com
MSNBC.com
Dictionary.com
HowardStern.com

My Website(s) I wish to share
www.susanlandry.com

Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.
Don't know just yet, I've only begun this journey!

Who do you look up to in business
Don't know exactly who just yet, but pretty much anyone who writes copy for a living out of their own home is my hero.

Favorite Quote

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." ~James Openheim

Name
Nate Custard

Age
22

Location
Lincoln Nebraska

Primary Business Venture
Entrepreneur (Ad Agency)
-->previously just a college student with a little passion for advertising

College
-University of Nebraska-Lincoln
-Advertising Major, English Minor

Years in business
-Did some freelance work in college (actually, I'm still finishing up school)
-This is my first year as an agency owner

Favorite Interests
-Talking to people
-discussing politics, religion, pretty much anything controversial
-watching movies
-helping my friends

And most definitely...
- Jack Daniels and sour mix (a little white trash, but hey, i'm from Nebraska!)

And last but not least ...
- Inundating myself with advertising and design

Favorite Book
-this sounds bad as a copywriter, but i'm not really much of a reader (i'm trying to force myself into it though!)

Favorite Movie
There's so many....gonna have to go with Stand By Me and The Breakfast Club though (i'm a sucker for 80's movies)

Favorite TV Show
-The Daily Show
-Family Guy

Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.
-Any writing class I took in college
-A creative thinking class taught by Clint! Runge of Archrival

Who do you look up to in business
-Clint! Runge of Archrival
-Dan Armstrong and Dustin Black, BBDO MPLS
-Robin Raye of Modern Dog (Seattle)

Name
Dan Furman

Age
39

Location
Kingston, NY

Primary Business Venture
Writer

Years in business

5 (not counting two other "not quite successful" entities in the 80's and 90's)

Online since 1987
Own website since 1995

Favorite Interests
computers / internet / marketing
Movies (big DVD collection
Reading
Autumn - I love autumn. I guess you could call it an "interest".
fixing stuff / home improvement (I'm good with tools)
and writing, of course.

Favorite Book
Most historical non-fiction. With a slight slant towards the Civil War.


Favorite Movie
Way too many to list. I love horror in particular.

I'm also a big fan of MST3K. I have almost every episode (thanks to Ebay)


Favorite TV show

The Yankee's game or some other sport. I don't really watch too much TV these days. I like my XM radio more.

Favorite Websites
www.gamespot.com
www.theonion.com
www.horrorexpress.com

My Website(s) I wish to share

http://www.clear-writing.com


Who do you look up to in business

Haven't thought about it much. Perhaps Ron Popeil. the best salesman ever. I like Harvey Mackay too.

Name
SDM

Age
26

Location
India

Primary Business Venture
Instructional Designer

Years in Business
5.5

Interests
Reading, writing, and traveling

Favorite Book
Couple of them.. Like To Sir With Love, The Da Vinci code (in fact all Dan Brown's books), and so forth.

Favorite TV show
Friends, Will & Grace

Name:
Curtis Penner

Age:
34

Location:
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba
(Lived in Ottawa for six years and consider it my 2nd home - GO SENS!)

Primary Business Venture:
Personal Fitness Training

College:
- 1 1/2 years of beer drinking and pool playing.

Years in business:
- Since 2002
- Online since 2004
- Own website since 2004

Favorite Interests:
- cracking the code to becoming fabulously wealthy
- playing golf occasionally
- watching hockey
- reading (mostly business books)
- lifting weights (but not as much as you would think)
- chocolate (we all have vices)

Favorite Books:
- Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
- Your Best Body - Guaranteed (Me - website soon to come)
- Awaken The Giant Within (Anthony Robbins)
- Beyond Brawn (Stuart McRobert)
- Psycho-Cybernetics (Maxwell Maltz)

Favorite Movies:
- Rocky I, IV
- Star Wars (all)
- Finding Neverland
- Supersize Me

Favorite TV Shows:
- Law and Order
- CSI Las Vegas
- Hockey Night In Canada
- Star Trek Voyager and Next Generation
- Lost
- Without A Trace

Favorite Websites:
- http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com
- http://www.t-nation.com
- this one

My Website(s) I wish to share:
- http://www.progressivefitness.ca/
- http://www.free-weight-loss-help.com


Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.:
- Make Your Words Sell (Dr. Ken Evoy)
- Turn Words Into Traffic (Jim Edwards)
- Make Your Site Sell (Dr. Ken Evoy)

Who do I look up to in business:
- Dr. Ken Evoy
- Jim Edwards
- Dan Kennedy
- Dennis Yanke (client and mentor)

Hobbies:
Sadly I have taken little time to indulge in any. But when I finally have the time and money to do them, they will be...
- Playing golf much more often.
- Playing hockey regularly
- Mountain biking
- Snowboarding

Favorite Quote:
"Do or do not. There is no try" - Yoda

Name
Janet Beatrice

Age
44

Location
Eastern Massachusetts

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting

College
- Professional Music (principal instrument: guitar)
- Took grad courses in English

Years in business
- Began my own copywriting business in 2004
- Wrote press releases for local arts organization, 2002 to 2005
- Published news articles, feature articles and humor columns since 1986

Favorite Interests
- Playing guitar
- Listening to music, esp. bluegrass
- Playing djembe (African drum)
- spirituality
- Music & Movement classes for young children – I used to teach those, and I hope to once again, when I have the time.

Favorite Book
- "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle

Favorite Movie
- Don’t have a favorite, but I enjoyed “Chocolat”

Favorite TV Show
- My Name is Earl
- Scrubs
- SpongeBob Squarepants (it really is funny)

Favorite Websites
- http://www.thehungersite.com/ et al

My Website(s) I wish to share
Scribe for Hire (not dot com, although that will take you to the website of another very nice copywriter in California)

Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.
- Web Site Marketing Makeover one-on-one course with Marcia Yudkin

Who do you look up to in business
- Marcia Yudkin
- Shel Horowitz

Hobbies
- Playing guitar and djembe
- beading

Favorite Quotes

“Whatever you can do or dream you can,.... begin it! Boldness has genious, power and magic in it.” – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." - Author: Henry Van Dyke (because of how it relates to the Early Childhood Music & Movement classes, where we want kids to sing and never learn to be self-conscious about it).

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr. (OK, it's not related to copywriting, but it is a favorite quote because it's so wise and powerful).

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.” – Albert Einstein

I never noticed this thread

Name:
Eric Engel

Age:
Too old to tell...ok, 30 something (it's my wife's job to remember)

Location:
Cincinnati, Ohio...was born, grew up, and will probably die here.

Primary Business Venture:
At one time copier/printer tech...
now siding with writing

College:
I went once attended a class so I could legally hunt and fish in Ohio

Years in business:
1

Favorite Interests:
I lost them all after the fifth kid. I guess I'll pick them back up again when number six is off and married.

Favorite Books:
The Flying Inn (GK Chesterton) '
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquainas)

Favorite Movies:
Any John Wayne

Favorite TV Shows:
Everybody Lose Raymond

Favorite Websites:
mine

My Website(s) I wish to share:
http://copyforsale.com

Who do I look up to in business:
My Wife

Hobbies:
Wasn't that covered in favorite interests?

Favorite Quote:
"God created man in His own image. Man, being the gentleman he was, returned the favor." (Chesterton)
...something like that.

Name
Robert Torrey

Age
29

Location
San Diego, CA USA

Primary Business Venture
Dating Adviee Workshops for Men



Years in business
Worked for a competitior in 2004
started Fidentia in 2005

Favorite Interests
Surfing
snowboarding
weight lifting
self improvement
making friends


Favorite Book
Well don't really have a favorite

It changes all the time
Last Book I read was called "The Game" by Neil Strauss
which some of my business partners are mentioned in.


Favorite Movie
Don Juan De Marco
Office Space
Matrix
Swingers
(and martial art movies)

Favorite TV Show
so many to choose from

Favorite Sports Teams
SD Padres


Favorite Websites
www.fidentia.org (mine)


Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.

not sure but that's why I'm here.
So far I've gotten some help from Jay Abraham

Who do you look up to in business
- my father

Name
Sarah Nuttall

Age
39

Location
North Yorkshire, UK

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting

University
Ancient History, Archaelogolgy & Greek - yep, it's true!

Years in business
- Since 2000
- Online since 2003
- Own website since 2003

Favorite Interests
- Reading American novels
- History & culture
- Drinking, smoking & crap like that....

And most definitely...
- Morrissey

Favorite Book
- An Interrupted Life: The diaries & letters of Etty Hillesum - 1941-43
- A good Man in Africa - William Boyd
- I'm not scared - Nicocolo Ammaniti
- The president of Good & Evil - Peter Singer
- The Gulag Archipelago - Alaxander Solzhenitsyn

Favorite Movie
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- African Queen
- Taxi Driver
- Jean de Florette
- North by North West


Favorite TV Show
You wouldn't know any but generally of the following ilk!:
- Father Ted
- South Park


Favorite Websites
- http://www.incameraphotography.com
- http://www.ebay.co.uk

Who do you look up to in business
- Robert Roth - copywriter on your side of the pond!

Hobbies
- Reading - It must be top for most copywriters, surely?!!!
- RPG & strategy PC games - Morrowind, FF, Neverwinter, Sim City, Total War, Diablo - you name it! I'm a geek!

Favorite Quote
"You can't step into the same river twice"
Heraciltus. Think about it then you'll get it!