About Us
Our Team
Stephen A. Burgess, Co-Founder
Stephen A. Burgess is the Co-Founder of OnlineBizHQ, a leader in turnkey, online business opportunities, information products and services educating entrepreneurs and business owners, and online marketing systems and tools. Steve is also the Co-Founder of Eureka ! Opportunity Mine, an organization providing entrepreneurs a wide range of business opportunities, training, coaching, learning products and support for a lifetime. He has provided strategic business counsel to clients and companies of all sizes from international giant Samsung to startups.
Steve has over 25 years of senior executive experience turning around, building and leading some of the fastest growing and most successful companies in America. For example, he led the 6th fastest growing small public company in the U.S. as rated by Inc. magazine (over 5 years) and held key executive positions in a startup that went from $0 to more than $1 Billion in revenue in only 5 years.
Steve has his MBA, makes media appearances, and is a highly regarded speaker at conferences, corporate and business events, and leading universities.
He is a #1 Best Selling author whose books include Purpose, Passion, Abundance, On an Enlightened Path, and Living in Abundance. He has written articles for leading publications including the cover article for the inaugural issue of Strategic Exit magazine.
In addition, Steve is the creator of the Master Your Business Intensive™ 3-day seminar, which prepares entrepreneurs, current and future business owners to build fast growing, high value businesses. His proprietary, interactive, sequential learning programs have been providing results for leading corporations, conferences and entrepreneurs for many years.
Ajay K. Prasad, Co-Founder
Ajay Prasad is the Co-Founder of OnlineBizHQ, a leader in turnkey, online business opportunities, information products and services educating entrepreneurs and business owners, and online marketing systems and tools. He is also Co-Founder of Global Marketing Resources, a marketing consulting and fulfillment firm based in the US. In his role, Ajay guides small and medium size firms through designing their online marketing and advertising campaigns for maximum impact. Ajay's focuses on a client’s offerings and their prospect's needs so the results obtained are the best possible result. He helps clients increase their sales and profits substantially without spending more money on advertising and marketing.
Prior to GMR, Ajay had over 17 years of marketing & business management experience at senior executive positions at large, medium size, and start-up companies. His past work experience includes Vice President of Marketing & Product Development for car navigation products, Director of Marketing Strategy for the world leader in digital map development, Head of a $100M division as Category Manager for a large Oil Company, and Vice President of Strategy & Franchising for a $1B restaurant chain. He also led sales & marketing for a location based information delivery start-up.
Ajay's functional expertise includes marketing management, business development, consumer research, market analysis and strategic planning. His industry experience includes consumer electronics, enterprise software, location-based services, and consumer marketing. He has developed successful marketing campaigns in the US, Europe and Asian continent. , He also has strategic alliances throughout India.
Ajay spoke at the J D Power & Associates conference on emerging technologies where he shared his vision of the car navigation marketplace with automotive industry leaders. Ajay has been quoted in major newspapers (Dallas Morning News, San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, etc.). He has also presented to the marketing executive group of the Nation's Restaurant Association. Ajay earned his Masters of Management Science degree from the University of Georgia.
Joe Sanfellipo, Co-Founder
Joe is the Co-Founder of OnlineBizHQ, a leader in turnkey, online business opportunities, information products and services educating entrepreneurs and business owners, and online marketing systems and tools. Mr. Sanfellipo is also founder of The Street Smart Group, offering consulting services to a variety of industries, and author of the award winning book Street Smart Secrets to Auto Care You Can Trust. The book describes how to find a place to trust and how to make your business a place to trust by focusing on building long term relationships with customers. The concept has wide application across many industries.
Joe is the co-author of Print Your Own Money, with Bruce Blechman, best selling author of Guerrilla Financing and Dr. Rick Cardin to be released in 2009 and co-author with Dr. Cardin of Nothing Down BOSS, a home learning course on How to Buy, Start, or Grow a Business with Little or None of Your Own Money.
Joe has concentrated on finding ways to tap what he considers the most underutilized assets in most businesses – their customers and marketing potential. One of his passions for over 20 years has been developing systems to maximize the potential of businesses, for example, by building relationships instead of transactions and using a variety creative methods of adding value in an existing business by repositioning advertising and marketing dollars and direction.
Mr. Sanfellipo became street smart at an early age, starting his first business at 18 and buying his first nothing down business at 22. That business made him a millionaire when he increased its sales ten fold in three years.
Mr. Sanfellipo is a franchising expert. As Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Gibraltar Transmission Corporation, he was directly responsible for building the company from 5 Long Island units into a national firm with over 100 franchises. He developed and wrote the franchise marketing and training materials and created successful television advertisements which took the company to the top position in several markets.
As a Director and consultant to Las Vegas Discount Golf and Tennis, he conceived and established the concept of growth via franchising and public investment capital. He structured the entire franchising program resulting in a professional franchise corporation which grew from a pilot store in Las Vegas into a publicly traded international franchisor with locations in Japan, Europe, and throughout North America, with system-wide sales in excess of $76 million.
Joe has been a consultant to many well known companies as a confidential behind-the-scenes expert on direct marketing, acquisitions and creative growth strategies. Clients have included international, public and privately owned manufacturers, distributors, real estate developers, franchisors and a wide range of automotive related businesses.
The combined total of businesses Joe has owned or franchised includes over five hundred locations in more than a dozen industries.
His lectures, seminars and guest appearances have included the Oprah Winfrey show (twice) as well as presentations at business groups, trade associations, colleges, SBA functions, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurs Conferences and a variety of entrepreneurial gatherings. |