Tony Blakeâ„¢

Anthony Blake, CEO of The Blake Marketing Group,,/Blake InfoMedia,, and CEO/CIA (Chief Idea Architect) of ideathink/BDMGi,, is a business development consultant, marketing strategist, direct response copywriter, author, publisher, speaker, entrepreneur, Internet and entrepreneurial evangelist and visionary based in the Ventura Co., CA community of Santa Paula.

Tony (as his friends call him) is considered by many of his clients as a marketing wizard, marketing mindreader and entrepreneurial genius, having created and implemented mastermind marketing strategies, concepts and techniques for more than 780 businesses in over 83 different industries. He has provided consulting services to everyone from small "mom & pop" home-based businesses to large, multi-billion dollar transnational corporations. And has been known to create more money-making, profit increasing marketing ideas and strategies in one day than most people do in a year... often creating several dozen in a matter of minutes.

As a business development consultant, marketing strategist and direct response copywriter, Tony has created, developed and deployed strategic business and marketing concepts and techniques, direct mail, space ad advertising, press releases and marketing materials for a wide variety of clients, businesses, products and services.

He has appeared in Upside, Wired, The Industry Standard, TheStreet.com, USA Today, Success Magazine, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, In Business, The Star-Free Press, The L.A. Times, NBC, ABC and CNBC; spoken before numerous business groups, organizations and corporations including the Eagle Institute, Prudential Insurance, and many others. Tony is also featured in the book "301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas" published by Inc. Magazine (edited by Sam Decker) and is also a recipient of the 2003 NRCC Businessman Of The Year Award and sits on the Business Advisory Council.

Tony is the publisher numerous profit increasing special reports, information products, audios and videos.

His extremely popular website, " Anthony Blake Online ,," receives more than 4 million visits a month, and his Entrepreneurial Success Forum ,, is one of the most popular marketing discussion boards on the net. Tony's exclusive " Gold Mentor Inner Circle Program ,," gives emerging and existing entrepreneurs the opportunity to consult and work with him on their business ideas, ventures, growth, marketing and product development.

Tony is the innovator and director of the Blackbelt Marketing Institute,,, founder of the Copywriters Institute Of America,, and president of the Prosperity Institute,,. He also the author and publisher of several new books including:

* Advertising Magic
* Postcard Profits!
* Psychic Mastery
* Copywriting Secrets Exposed!
* The Bread-N-Butter Marketers Workshop
* Blackbelt PR: Free Advertising Secrets You Can Use To Explode Your Business' Success! (with Mike Van Norden)
* Marketing MindReading,,: How To Get "Inside" The Head Of Your Prospects & Customers And Dynamically Increase Sales and Profits
* And Both The Blackbelt Marketing,, And "Inside The Marketers Mind,," Tape Series

Tony's electronic marketing and web incubator/development company ideathink/BDMGi,, is creating exciting new web destinations and ways to market products and services on the Internet. Ifluence.com,, another of Tony's companies is being developed as an Internet advertising solution for SOHO/Mid-size companies venturing onto the Internet and looking for exposure.

Tony has been involved with magic and mentalism since the age of 10. He toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and parts of Europe for 15+ years (starting at age 17) as a stand-up comic, specializing in comedy-magic. His act was recognized with several awards at industry conventions including a double win in the comedy magic and close-up categories at the 1990 PCAM convention. He was also a regular performer at the world-famous Magic Castle.

Tony left the world of magic and performing for 10 years to devote himself to building his marketing and consulting business and career. In that time he continued to read and collect magic books and paraphernalia as well as test effects that appeared on the market. He had an interest in mentalism from his early days in magic but didn’t discover the wonders of this medium until later years when he became more serious about his craft. Upon his return to performing Tony has exclusively performed mentalism. He draws inspiration from a variety of psychic entertainers both currently performing or masters from yesteryear.

His mental/psychic/mindreading show titled “Mind Mystery,,” has been performed for corporate and high-end private audiences and continues to grow both in scope and depth. Tony's corporate designed presentations "Marketing Mindreading,," and "Business Intuition,," is delivered both as a keynote presentation or an interactive workshop and has been embraced by the business and corporate world as a fresh new way to deliver powerful information, strategies and technologies by marrying "to-the-fact" info with amazing and entertaining displays and experiments in ESP and mental acuity.

Tony is currently developing a full-evening 90-minute mentalism show to be performed at venues across the U.S. as well as it's home base, an antique filled parlor in an exclusive restaurant housed in a remodeled Victorian home, plus he is known as the only “bar mentalist” in the world, performing thrice nightly at his “Ojai Mystery Bar” in the resort town of Ojai, CA.

In his off time Tony unwinds by collecting tin toys, classic GI Joe's and rare magic and mentalism manuscripts, books, texts and effects. He loves flyfishing, golf, cooking, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's Chai Latte's and fine Cuban cigars, and is the author of the upcoming mentalism book “Mind Mystery: The Mentalism Of Anthony Blake,” plus the mindreading based business book: "Marketing Mindreading: How To Get "Inside" The Head Of Your Prospects & Customers And Dynamically Increase Sales and Profits" and the co-creator of ESP CHIPS

Tony is the founder of The Mentalist Alliance, a member of the Genii, Magic Cafe and MagicTalk forums and the former Thoughtreaders Intl. (TRI)