Gary Willey & Associates Peer Group Advisory Team and Review Board

Gary Willey & Associates works with an exclusive network of MYM Agencies across North America. Each member of this team is an AMCA, a marketing expert and business owner in their own right, fully trained and accredited as licensed agents of the Monopolize Your Marketplace System.

These results-driven marketing experts participate in a weekly review of marketing strategies and materials in a Peer Group / Mastermind review format. Through their exhaustive critique (and we do mean exhaustive), they make sure all components of our Marketing Systems are as powerful as they can be.

The combined talents of these individuals would make a Fortune 500 CEO drool, and put most traditional corporate marketing organizations to shame. 

Now, lets meet the members of this unique group (listed below in alphabetical order) and read about their talents and capabilities:

Brett Lloyd Abbott

Barry Adelman

Barry graduated from the University Of Michigan Business School in 1970. Over the next three decades, he developed a successful retail clothing and footwear business (Outdoors) with two locations, one in Chester, New York and the other in East Hampton, New York.

Barry became an MYM consultant in 2002. He regularly offers business building seminars and consulted with hundreds of companies. Barry was also chosen to serve on MYM's exclusive The Legacy Council, a group of 15 consultants to advise and comment on the future plans for MYM.

Barry is also a singer/songwriter, and in 2005 he formed a not-for-profit organization called "Music for Humanity." With Music for Humanity, he raises music scholarship funds for deserving individuals who need financial assistance to continue their music education.

Barry lives in Walker Valley, New York, and continues to monitor his original retail business while consulting for various industries.

Todd Bray

Todd is founder and president of Smart Business Alternatives Inc. (SBA Inc.). In years past, he founded a successful national marketing company with seventeen representatives covering the lower 48 states. The co-founder of the largest hydraulic repair facility in Georgia, Todd designed and patented an underground boring machine, and co-designed and patented the "Smart Shock" for the suspensions of large trucks.

Todd is a graduate of Georgia State University with a major in management and a minor in marketing. Todd served for 30 years as a subcontractor to the DOD. He was selected as a member of MYM's Legacy Council.

Todd lives in Cody, WY with his wife Terri, where they specialize in helping organizations transform their inside reality into an positive outside perception in the marketplace. Todd's deep desire is to help others in their quest for business success, thereby satisfying his own personal desire to guide others along the path to financial freedom and personal satisfaction.

Bud Glassner

Bud is the founder and principal consultant of Strategic Edge LLC, an MYM consulting firm that specializes in marketing systems for the HVAC, plumbing, construction, retail and health care industries.

Bud spent over 20 years in sales, marketing and operations management in the packaging industry, with responsibility for developing and managing a world-wide network of distributors. He has a doctorate in English education from Rutgers University and has taught writing and technical and professional communications at Rutgers and Michigan Technological Universities.

Bud lives in Hockessin, Delaware.

Rich Harshaw

Rich is the CEO of Monopolize Your Marketplace, author of the book by the same name, and one of the nation's leading marketing minds and business leaders. At the age of 19, he learned to speak Mandarin Chinese. Two years later, he started an import-export business in Taiwan and China.

He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in business and entrepreneurship. In 1994, he founded Marketing Strategies, and over the next several years developed the Monopolize Your Marketplace system. In 2000, he started Y2Marketing, which made the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing privately held companies for three consecutive years (2002, 2003 and 2004).

In his professional career, Rich has become one of the nation's most sought-after marketing consultants and speakers because of his deep understanding of what motivates people to buy. He has written Marketing and Sales materials for over 1500 companies in virtually every industry.

His articles about marketing, sales and advertising have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers worldwide. Because the Monopolize Your Marketplace system exposes the inadequacies and questionable business practices of big ad agencies, it has earned Rich the title of the "Most Hated Man in Marketing."

Rich lives near Dallas, TX with his wife Tonia and their six children. He is an active member of his church and serves as a leader and mentor in the Youth program. Rich says, "My passion is teaching young people how to be successful in school, their families, financially, spiritually and in life."

Beth Knabel

Rich Soracco

Rich is president of MYM Pittsburgh, a licensed and accredited agency of Monopolize Your Marketplace. He's also General Manager of the Hearing Aid Marketing team at Monopolize Your Marketplace, and founder & CEO of The O.S. Group, Inc. since 1981.

Rich is skilled in Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Franchise Modeling, and Business Development Programs, serving more than 1600 clients in a dozen states. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems. At Texas Instruments, Inc., he designed computers for the FAA's Instrument Landing System, now in use at all airports of size in the nation.

Rich lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife of 18 years and their twin daughters.

Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan is the President of Shred Marketing.

Jim spent 18 years with Marriott Corporation and Host Marriott Services as a food and beverage marketing expert.  He held director level positions in marketing, business development and brand management. 

As a regional marketing director Jim was responsible for the promotional success of 40 mid-Atlantic accounts.  He later led a team that developed signature food and beverage brands for Marriott Corporation and negotiated deals to bring national brands like Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks to Host Marriott Services airports and travel plazas.

Jim left the corporate rat race in 1999 to start his own firm, spending four years as an expense reduction consultant.  He worked exclusively with local non-profit organizations to reduce their expenses, so that they could provide additional services to the community.

In 2003 Jim was recruited by Y2 Marketing.  He honed his marketing skills consulting in a variety of industries including kitchen and bathroom remodeling, carpet cleaning, tree care services, emergency water removal, mold remediation and chiropractic care.

Jim now works exclusively as a marketing consultant in the records and information management industry.  He started Shred Marketing in 2007 after sharing his marketing program with shredding company owners during a National Association for Information Destruction conference.  To date Jim has contracted with 16 shredding and records storage clients from California to New York, to help them growth their businesses.

Gary Willey

Gary is the founder and president of Gary Willey & Associates, Inc., an MYM consulting firm as well as CEO of MIDLAND Suppliers, Inc. in Lincoln, NE. 

Previously, Gary was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Century Manufacturing, the world's largest manufacturer of welders and battery chargers. Under Gary's direction, sales grew from $18,000,000 to more than $50,000,000.

Gary is Founder and Past President of the Nebraska Satellite Dealers Association, and a past member of the National Installer Board for Hughes Network Systems, which is the world's largest supplier of two-way satellite data systems.

Gary is an Instrument-Rated Private Pilot, and enjoys rebuilding classic cars. (Gary's cars have won numerous awards.)
 
Gary lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, AlyceRae. Together they have three children and five grandchildren.

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Arnie Wentland

Arnie is the owner of 4Profit LLC, a licensed and accredited agency of Monopolize Your Marketplace. 4Profit focuses on growing businesses through product and process innovation and strategic and tactical marketing. Prior to starting 4Profit, Arnie worked as a business transformation consultant, business process analyst, business process modeling and analysis instructor, and a systems engineer for 35 years for IBM. He holds bachelors degrees in electrical engineering and engineering administration, a masters degree in business administration and has done graduate work in human resources. Arnie lives in Greenfield, MN with his wife of 40 years, Jan. They have four children and three grandchildren.