ROARING OR BORING  

Although Kevin Daum concedes that he has a face better suited for radio than television, his new book, Video Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) and Amazon best-seller, ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle (Wiley) mean that if you haven't already seen him addressing a conference, you'll likely catch him on the web or TV. Humor, he says, is the key ingredient for great video. An Inc. 500 entrepreneur with a more than $1 billion sales and marketing track record, his firm, ROARing Video, develops must-see video messaging for organizations. Visit him at KevinDaum.com or e-mail kevin@roaringvideo.com@awesomeroar


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