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Is your search for a Communication Speaker now solved with Mark Hughes?
Some call Mark Hughes the $300 million dollar man. Time magazine calls him the guru behind “one of the greatest publicity coups in history.”
Hughes literally put Half.com by using the most effective communications tools to convince the 350 person Oregon town of Halfway, to rename itself to Half.com, Oregon. This single idea, as crazy as it may seem, had a method to its madness.
His payoff? eBay bought Half.com for $300 million dollars within a mere six months.
His book focuses on word-of-mouth communications and has been called better than “The Tipping Point.” ("Buzzmarketing" from publisher Penguin/Portfolio) has been lauded by business moguls like the former editor of The Wall Street Journal, the former Chief Marketing Officer of Pepsi-Cola, and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine Steve Forbes. A who’s who of accolades rarely found for a communication speaker.
The Financial Times of London named it one of the Best Business Books of the Year next to Freakonomics. Fast Company heralded the book one of "The Ten Best Business Reads of the year" in 2005. You’ll find it published in Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, English, and Hebrew.
Mark Hughes has one of the most energetic and informative speeches which your attendees can use the day the very next day. His speaking agent is the former agent for Malcolm Gladwell.
The list of blue-chip companies from Hughes’career before life as a communications speaker, consultant, and author, includes: PepsiCo's Pizza Hut Division (NYSE: YUM), Pep Boys (NYSE: PBY), American Mobile Satellite (transformed to XM Satellite Radio – NASDAQ: XMSR), and eBay’s Half.com (NASDAQ: EBAY). Hughes is son of a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and holds his MBA in from Columbia Business School in New York.
Creating word-of-mouth buzz and understanding the dynamics of conversation--is the currency of today’s economy. Perhaps $300 million dollars worth of currency.
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