what’s Ripper Marketing?

About Ripper Marketing:

Ripper Marketing is three things:

1. a sometimes controversial, definitely opinionated blog reflecting the independent thinking of businessman Bill Henthorn.
2. a revolutionary, totally integrated system of sales, marketing, advertising, and public relations, backed by cutting-edge technology. It’s built on fundamentals that have been tested and proven powerfully effective and profitable in the real world, using secret, advanced techniques that are exclusively used by the very top marketing pros to make their clients of tens of millions of dollars and millions for themselves every week. Then these advanced techniques are tweaked and improved by incorporating the next-generation technology that you can’t read about anywhere unless you’re already one of the hundred or so on the planet who are in the deepest inner sanctum of the technology world. Even the very top marketing pros don’t have this access.
3. a joint project of Bill Henthorn’s Spiral Marketers and Tim Eisenhauer.

About Bill Henthorn:

Growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii, in a family where generals, ambassadors, and other power elite were dinner guests, Bill gained a deep sense of how the world really operates apart from the marketing and propaganda messages we see every day.

He graduated from Honolulu, Hawaii’s elite preparatory academy, Punahou School, which has produced luminaries such as AOL founder Steve Case and US President Barack Obama, and was on campus at the same time as Obama. EBay founder Pierre Omidyar also attended Punahou School.

Bill is the founder and president of Punahou NorCal, the official Northern California chapter of the Punahou Alumni Association.

He received his economics degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

In his first career, Bill owned a Honolulu commercial and investment real estate brokerage and counted circuit court judges, real estate developers, and other movers and shakers as his colleagues. His real estate deals included bringing a $50 million Hilton hotel to contract, and he personally represented a range of corporations and wealthy individuals from dozens of countries, including Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Hungary, Papua New Guinea, and Liberia.

In his current second career, Bill operates through Spiral Marketers, which partners with highly scalable businesses in exchange for a percentage of equity. Past and present partnerships include: an investor-funded e-commerce company, the premier business-for-sale listing marketplace, a leading photo sharing/storage/community site, vertical search engine businesses, sports and recreational marketplaces, cutting-edge security and surveillance technology consulting firms, corporate training firms, owners of the premier social networking/community platform, and many more. His partners and colleagues have included members of the board of directors of Toastmasters International and world-class branding, identity, and graphic design authorities whose clients have included Snoop Dog, Norah Jones, many of the Fortune 100, and whose accomplishments include naming the Ford Explorer and the American Express Optima card.

Bill is an award-winning inspirational speaker whose speeches have touched tens of thousands worldwide. He enjoys collecting rare books, adding them to his library of 1300 books.

About Tim Eisenhauer:

Tim Eisenhauer is quite simply a world authority on ASP.NET technology.

He has 12 years of website architecture and development experience with a focus on usability design, user interface, and web engineering. Tim is a master in creating state-of-the-art GUI designs for the ASP.NET platform, built for SEO optimization design, along with a pure-CSS design structure. Tim also has tremendous expertise in developing content management systems, CRM, ERP, innovative web design ideas and SEO friendly web applications.

His firm, Axero Solutions, itself is a rapidly growing technology company with offices in the United States and in India staffed by 25 software architects and developers, has developed and sells the premier social networking/community platform along with products specifically for software developers. There is no technology that is beyond their capability.

His ASP.NET community, codeasp.net, is the premier and most trusted resource for the world’s technologists to increase and develop their ASP.NET software development skills. In true community fashion, seasoned ASP.NET developers and architects share their knowledge with beginner programmers for one purpose: making sure everyone navigates their way to the top and keeps informed of the newest and best tools.