About Us
The MARKETING WIZARDS ALLIANCE™ is a consortium of progressive, like-minded, profit-driven entrepreneurs, business owners and managers, who are dedicated to consistently improving the measurable results of their marketing efforts.
Through the Marketing Wizards Alliance Newsletter, web presence, YouTube channel GoodBadnUglyAds, Monthly teleconferences and FREE Call-in Days, preferred vendors and much, much more, the Alliance helps each member to “genetically engineer” their marketing efforts for ever-increasing success.
The Alliance provides many opportunities for members to improve their own marketing skills, but also provides opportunities for members to consistently help each other. It is, after all, an ALLIANCE!
Nationally renowned marketing speaker, advertising speaker, sales trainer, and author of the book How To Market Your Crap When The Economy Is In The Toilet, Jim Ackerman is the engine that drives Ascend Marketing and the Marketing Wizard’s Alliance.
Jim is the arguably the most successful
marketing coach in the US, the inventor of the
Principle Centered Marketing Coaching™ Process, which offers clients an unparalleled 400% ROI GUARANTEE, for which he has never had to refund a red cent.
Jim has been the keynote marketing speaker or advertising speaker for national associations like catalog associations, the National Nutritional Foods Association, Snowsports Industries America, the Long Island and Wisconsin Floor Covering Associations, several jeweler and HVAC groups and many, many more.
He has built turnkey, ready to use marketing systems and provided training for companies large and small. His work with Chem-Dry, Howard Brinton Seminars, Nature’s Sunshine, Lennox, Nature’s Way, Body By Jake, Bob Mann’s Automatic Golf Video’s and many more national companies has resulted in millions of dollars in added revenue per year for each of these companies
Jim’s most valuable contributions to the marketing mix have been in defining and redefining what effective marketing is… “buying customers.”
Jim’s strategies focus on the aspects of marketing that typically go ignored in almost every business… increasing your unit of sale, and your frequency of purchase, for example.
The system-oriented approach Jim has taken in building his proprietary systems delivers predictability to clients. Jim then develops and devises training to support the systems. Jim’s insight into Unique Purchase Appeal, how to Sell the Benefits, his ability to help clients understand their Target Customers, and the Lifetime Profit Value of a customer are just a few of the business-revolutionizing concepts that he has developed.
With integrity and a strong tradition of excellence and hard work as his banner, Jim has assembled the most tangible solutions and results oriented panel of experts ever. His top priority in life and in business has been to change the lives of the people he helps. Jim can also help you “Get More Customers Who Will Pay You More Money, More Often.”