David Garfinkel is President of Overnight Marketing in San Francisco. The firm specializes in Results-Driven Direct Marketing for Entrepreneurial Businesses, helping them get more sales back from the advertising they do. As a marketing consultant and master copywriter, David has worked with businesses in 81 different industries.

He's an established teacher of business writing skills with a long list of successful clients in the corporate, entrepreneurial and professional services arena. David's Money-Making Copywriting Course is the only such course endorsed and recommended by the National Mail Order Association.

David's clients include such well known companies as IBM, United Airlines, Pacific Bell, Time-Life Books and MCI. Today, most of David's clients are smaller prosperous businesses that want to increase sales quickly, and sustain the increase at the lowest possible cost. David still works in many industries, but most of his clients are in the seminar, software and financial services businesses.

David is the co-author of Effective Sales Management and Guerrilla Marketing for the Imaging Industry. He is one of a small group of experts on Bank of America's web site. In his early career, David was an award-winning business journalist. He completed his journalism career in 1985 as McGraw-Hill Magazines' San Francisco Bureau Chief.

Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales trainer and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, ministers, and sales teams. Meetings and Conventions magazine named her "One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America." She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Steven Covey's Executive Excellence magazine named her "One of the top 50 consultants, trainers, speakers, authors and professors who cover the Seven Dimensions of Excellence." Kiplinger's Personal Finance says, "Patricia Fripp's speaking school is the sixth best way you can invest in your career." 

Before becoming a full-time speaker, Patricia enjoyed a successful career in a service industry for 24 years. She owned two highly successful businesses that included training both service and sales personnel.