Mark J. Stoddard
Lecturer and Teacher Mark Stoddard's career has spanned the world, literally. His marketing and business acumen and his ability to teach artists how to dramatically increase their income have taken him for prolonged stints in Russia, China, Australia, the Middle East, and throughout Europe and America. His career accomplishments make him difficult to
pigeon-hole into a single category. Here's a sampling of what makes
him uniquely qualified to teach singers how to improve their marketing,
promotion and business skills needed for their financial security: * Guest teacher for Negotiating and Marketing Skills for Singers at more than 50 seminars and conventions including sites in Graz, Austria, Boston Univ., North Park Univ., and BYU. * CEO of an international cruise company. One of the first companies to gain entry by invitation to the Soviet Union. Organized more than 100 Russia river cruises bringing Russians and Americans together. Then he created more than 24 other world tours taking more than 8,000 people on luxury/ educational tours. * Co-Founder of to develop a revolutionary Positive Displacement Infinite Variable Transmission for vehicles. He creates the marketing strategies and raises funds. * Simultaneously he is also a marketing, advertising and business consultant for musicians, artists and classical singers. He teaches from a wealth of experience. * Producer of more than 100 classical music concerts. Taught the singers how to negotiate and market their skills. Most saw their incomes quadruple thereafter.ks on travel, He's written the music, book and lyrics for a full musical. * Professor of Business, Marketing and Writing on an adjunct and guest speaker basis to prestigious universities around the world. Lectured or had his books used at UCLA, USC, Stanford, and Universities of Calgary, Moscow, Beijing, Kiev, and Havana Polytechnic. * Guest lecturer at Boris Yeltsin's Council of Ministers, was the first foreigner to address the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine, counseled the Prime Minister of Moldava on how to transition to a free market, advised the government of BeloRuss, and taught full day classes on free market economics to the city councils of 17 Soviet cities. * Creative Director of a national marketing and advertising agency where his ads have sold millions in trackable sales. In fact, records show his advertising for a host of products including fine arts and music have generated more than $750 million in sales. * He has created acclaimed training programs at the Jefferson Institute for Economics. With those programs in hand he hired dozens of entrepreneurs and professors to present those training programs to teach more than 10,000 people how to start their own businesses in the USA, USSR/ Russia, Ukraine, China, and Cuba. * His negotiating expereince spans contracts, management and employee relations as well as fund raising. He negotiated the right to be one of the first Americans to sell Swiss Real Estate to Americans, previously prohibited by law. His marketing plan and materials (brochures, letters and videos) sold out all 3 developments in less than 6 months. * Mark was responsible for creating international division in Saudi Arabia and overseeing a 10-fold leap in new business development for LASS Construction. More than 300 custom homes as well as offices and apartments were build by that company. * Executive Director for a non-profit citizen's free market lobby in D.C., Free the Eagle. Grew this non-profit organization with 3,000 donors to 250,000 donors in 3 years. * CEO and President, Target Publishing. Rebuilt Target to become profitable, by restructuring its debt and asset management as the largest financial and investment publishing house. * Consulting and other Work: Managing director of marketing and/or Creative Director at Heritage Schools, Basic Research, Woods Industries, Universal Syndications and Classical Singer Magazine in business development, marketing and advertising. * Community Leadership Experience * Academic Credentials
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