If you’re looking to increase your customer counts and sales, you’ve come to the right place. As a marketing consultant, I've worked with some of the biggest names in the industry including: McDonalds, Outback, Hyatt Hotels, CVS Pharmacies, Cheesecake Factory, Denny’s, Mortons, Subway and more.
For 4 decades, Tom Feltenstein has been a long respected champion of innovative neighborhood marketing and advocates against pouring all your marketing dollars into mass-media advertising. Tom believes in thinking small and acting locally. He espouses a mantra that all you need for success can be found within your own four walls. He strongly advocates taking care of your internal customers ? your employees ? so they can become your marketing ambassadors. He is a people-person who preaches the path to success is the one that affords you the most influence, costs you the least, and offers the biggest payoff: live a joyful life of uncommon success. Further, he believes the era of mass marketing is dead. Prior to being a consultant to Fortune 500 companies for the past 25 years, he served as senior vice president for an international, billion-dollar advertising agency, Bozell Advertising. As Ray Kroc's disciple, he began his career with McDonald?s, rising up to become a senior-level marketing executive. He later served as a marketing executive at Burger King. He is the CEO and Founder of Power Marketing Academy, a leading consulting firm that serves and educates businesses in the industries of retail, hospitality, and service. PMA conducts clinics, seminars, strategy sessions, and trainings. As the founder of Neighborhood Marketing Institute?, he established himself as the food service and hospitality industry?s foremost marketing educator. In 2009, Tom was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Northwood University. He has been a featured speaker among superstars such as President George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, Larry King, Terry Bradshaw, Lou Holtz, General Colin Powell, Deepak Chopra, Rudy Giuliani, Art Linkletter, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, and Former CEO of McDonald?s Ed Rensi. Tom has also received acclaim from the media for his Neighborhood Marketing wisdom from Larry King, traded barbs on the David Letterman Show, argued the waste of running ads during the Super Bowl on the FOX News Pre-Game Show. He has shared his insight in interviews with Lou Dobbs, Voice of America, Bloomberg TV & Radio, US News & World Report, CNN ? Tips from the Top, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Food Network, Entrepreneur Magazine and other media. A visionary counselor to countless Fortune 500 companies and industry-leading organizations, Tom is a renowned keynote speaker, trainer, strategist and a widely published author. He has written 13 books