Grant W. Hicks, CIM, FCSI

Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute

Grant Hicks has been successfully selling business-building ideas since 1989. These ideas are based on his everyday experiences as a retirement planning specialist and business builder. He managed a financial planning firm and built it up over 3 years from 20 advisors to more than 70 advisors. He then went back to managing clients and as a Retirement Planning Specialist and rapidly built up his business from $1 million to more than 120 million. Now in his new role as Vice President, Western Canada for Manulife Securities, Grant is in charge of helping advisors develop their business to reach their full potential.

His web site www.financialadvisormarketing.com  is a virtual search engine for marketing for investment professionals and the financial industry with hundreds of links to the best marketing ideas and strategies in the industry today.

He holds the Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) portfolio management designation from the Canadian Securities Institute and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI), the highest mark of professionalism in the Canadian Securities Industry.

Grant has been an invited speaker by many organizations including TD Bank, Manulife Financial, Standard Life, Vancouver Island University, Advocis, RDBA Registered Deposit Brokers Association, RBC Dominion Securities, Scotiamcleod, ILS education and the Guerrilla Marketing Association.

He is also a financial advisor marketing and business coach at www.proadvisorcoach.com

He is co author of "Guerrilla Marketing for Financial Advisors " Trafford Publishing with Jay Conrad Levinson, contributing author of "Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines" Morgan James Publishing, "Guerrilla Marketing Remix" Entrepreneur Press and author of Canadian Retirement Planning Mistakes, Trafford publishing.

Grant is married with two children. He enjoys hockey, golf, boxing and skiing. He played professional hockey in Europe before starting his career in the financial services industry.

Feel free to email Grant : grant@financialadvisormarketing.com

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Jay Conrad Levinsonbr> The "Father of Guerrilla Marketing"

Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best-selling marketing series in history, "Guerrilla Marketing," plus 29 other business books.

His books have sold 14 million copies worldwide. His guerrilla concepts have influenced marketing so much that today his books appear in 39 languages and are required reading in many MBA programs worldwide.

Jay taught guerrilla marketing for ten years at the extension division of the University of California in Berkeley. And he was a practitioner of it in the United States -- as Senior Vice-President at J. Walter Thompson, and in Europe, as Creative Director and Board Member at Leo Burnett Advertising.

He has written a monthly column for Entrepreneur Magazine, articles for Inc. Magazine, and online columns published monthly on the Microsoft Website -- in addition to occasional columns in the San Francisco Examiner. He also writes online columns for several Internet websites, including Netscape, America Online, Fortune Small Business and Hewlett-Packard.

Jay is the Chairman of Guerrilla Marketing International, a marketing partner of Adobe and Apple. He has served on the Microsoft Small Business Council and the 3Com Small Business Advisory Board. His Guerrilla Marketing is series of books, audiotapes, videotapes, an award-winning CD-ROM, an Internet website, and a breakthrough online marketing advancement called The Guerrilla Marketing Network, a marketing support system for small business, a way for business owners to spend less, get more, and achieve substantial profits.