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	Inventor Ron Popeil Biography
		Ron peered through a window at the long, straight road leading to the school, hoping to see his father's car approach.
		Ron's job was to help him in that endeavor by demonstrating the products to customers in the stores.
		Popeil is one of those rare survivors who's built up and amazing fortune, lost it and made a remarkable comeback.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/popeil.htm (2196 words)

	Ron Popeil
		Ron Popeil (born 1935) is a millionare inventor and huckster, well-known for his company Ronco[?].
		Popeil learned his trade from his father Samuel who was also an inventor/carney salesmen of kitchen-related gadgets such as the Chop-o-matic (later called the Vegomatic - "It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries!").
		The invention of the Vegomatic caused a problem which marked the entrance of Ron Popeil into television.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Ron_Popeil.html (131 words)

	gladwell dot com - the pitchman
		Ron set up a comparison test in his kitchen, cooking chicken after chicken at varying speeds until he determined that the optimal speed of rotation was actually six r.p.m.
		Ron was travelling with his daughter Shannon, who had got her start in the business selling the Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator on the fair circuit, and the plan was that the two of them would alternate throughout the day.
		Ron was extolling the virtues of the oven one final time, and, sure enough, the line began to take a sharp turn upward, as all over America viewers took out their wallets.
	www.gladwell.com /2000/2000_10_30_a_pitchman.htm (7099 words)

	Ron Popeil Biography, Ronco Inventions, Ronco Corp, Developments Inc. Ron Popeil and Family
		Born in 1935, Ron and his 17-month older brother, Jerry, were shuffled off to a foster home in upstate New York between the ages of three and four when his parents were divorced.
		Ron would stand in the middle of the street and look down what seemed to be an endless road waiting to see his mother or father’s car approach.
		Ron agreed to work with Fingerhut on the project but, because of some internal problems, they subsequently backed out of the deal at which time Ron decided to do the infomercial himself.
	www.popeilfamilystore.com /ronhistory.html (1904 words)

	Ron Popeil Biography - Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Popeil's parents divorced when he was very young, around the age of three or four.
		Popeil proved to be a natural salesman and expanded his efforts beyond the crowds of
		Popeil was even spoofed on the television show, Saturday Night Live, by actor Dan Aykroyd with an imaginary product called the "Bass-O-Matic," which was supposed to slice and dice fish.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=177863 (456 words)

	CNN.com Chat Transcript - Ron Popeil on his inventions and entrepreneurship - April 13, 2001
		Ron Popeil: I did it when I was in my early 20s, and it just came to me to do that.
		Ron Popeil: When you put two chickens in that are four pounds each, they will first be head over heels spinning around, rather than horizontal, as I do one chicken.
		Ron Popeil: I think the viewer is asking in regards to the inventing and marketing business, I would say Tony Robbins is one individual who I look to for good business dealings with the public.
	www.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2001/04/13/popeil (1574 words)

	gladwell dot com - the pitchman
		Ron set up a comparison test in his kitchen, cooking chicken after chicken at varying speeds until he determined that the optimal speed of rotation was actually six r.p.m.
		Ron was travelling with his daughter Shannon, who had got her start in the business selling the Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator on the fair circuit, and the plan was that the two of them would alternate throughout the day.
		Ron was extolling the virtues of the oven one final time, and, sure enough, the line began to take a sharp turn upward, as all over America viewers took out their wallets.
	gladwell.com /2000/2000_10_30_a_pitchman.htm (7099 words)

	ron popeil bankruptcy (Site not responding. Last check: )
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	hometown.aol.com /intopsite133/ron-popeil-bankruptcy.html (254 words)

	Out There \| Ron-o-matic! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ron created things that most people didn’t even know they needed until he, through his masterful use of low-end, poorly produced television commercials, created that need.
		Ron’s broad shoulders, his melodic voice, his stiff-yet-confident smile, his seamless pitch line, his impossibly high cheekbones, his broad chest, his beady eyes, his balding pate, the way he wore his apron...
		She was the perky little helper who followed Ron around the studio kitchen in a pink apron, oohing and aahing over everything he did.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/out_there/documents/02127278.htm (778 words)

	Ron Popeil Photos - Ron Popeil News - Ron Popeil Information
		Ron was voted by "Self Magazine" readers as one of the 25 people who have changed the way we eat, drink and think about food.
		Ron wrote a book called "The Salesman of the Century" in which he reveals how you can discover, market, and cash in on your own million-dollar idea.
		Ron Popeil: So, I gathered up some kitchen products from my father's factory, he sold them to me at a wholesale price so he made a full profit, and I went down to Maxwell Street on a Sunday to give it a try.
	www.tv.com /ron-popeil/person/18940/summary.html (572 words)

	Ron Popeil, Ronco - Famous-Entrepreneurs
		You may not know him by name, but chances are if you have ever had a sleepless night and turned on the television, Ron Popeil has been there to keep you company.
		Popeil now split his time evenly between working for his father and working for himself, selling goods on Maxwell Street.
		Popeil was just sixteen years old when he began selling his father’s products on Chicago’s infamous Maxwell Street.
	www.evancarmichael.com /Famous-Entrepreneurs/1064/summary.php (1041 words)

	Ron Popeil and the Amazing Infomercial -- Wally Bock's Monday Memo, Author, Business Futurist, Keynote Speaker
		Ron Popeil has been in your living room and you probably remember what he had to say.
		Ron Popeil and the infomercials will also teach you that you have to tell folks about the product more than once.
		Ron Popeil and the infomercials will show you that information and demonstration sell.
	www.mondaymemo.net /030224feature.htm (1975 words)

	BookPage Review: The Salesman of the Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Those are three reasons you would never have heard of Ron Popeil.
		When I saw this book I rejoiced that the time had come for Ron Popeil to tell his story.
		Ron Popeil is one of the giants of television, and a history of the medium would not be complete without him.
	www.bookpage.com /9601bp/business/thesalesmanofthecentury.html (193 words)

	IDFuel, the Industrial Design Weblog - Post details: Design-O-Matic
		The exhibit went on to describe the rise of the Popeil family from run of the mill street pitchmen to manufacturers and distributors throughout the entire midwest.
		Ron Popeil, Samuel J.’s son, Co-founded Ronco in 1964 with his former college roommate, and a hot new idea: Take the pitch to TV.
		The exhibit made it clear that Ron was by no means the first to use television for pitching, but he was, and is one of the best.
	www.idfuel.com /index.php?p=41&more=1&c=1 (1028 words)

	He Invents! Markets! Makes Millions!
		Ron Popeil, he of the Pocket Fisherman and spray-on hair, has perfected his formula for success: Invent.
		Marketed in the seductive TV infomercial format he pioneered, Popeil demonstrated the durability, versatility, and appeal of the oven -- a contraption equally adept at producing a "scrumptious, flavorful rib roast" as it was a "mouthwatering pork-loin roast" -- before a rapt studio audience (and at-home insomniacs).
		Popeil insists his catchphrases are unscripted, but says he recognizes when he's uttered a zinger.
	www.businessweek.com /smallbiz/content/oct2005/sb20051003_862270.htm (1589 words)

	Ron Popeil Trivia - Ron Popeil Facts - Ron Popeil Notes
		Popeil" on his second studio album, "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D. The verses are structured as pitches for unnamed but easily recognizable Ronco products, and draws upon all the cliches associated with the Ronco infomercials, including the phrases "It slices!
		Ron's inventions have been spoofed on "Saturday Night Live" where Eddie Murphy did a commercial spoof for the "Popeil Galactic Prophylactic".
		Ron learned his trade from his father Samuel who was also an inventor and carny salesman of kitchen-related gadgets.
	www.tv.com /ron-popeil/person/18940/trivia.html (805 words)

	Infomercial Man - MSN Money (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ron Popeil is well known to anyone who has flipped around late-night television.
		Popeil on the Showtime Rotisserie: "Set it and forget it." Popeil on the Pocket Fisherman: "The biggest fishing invention since the hook...and still only $19.95!" Popeil on his Dial-O-Matic: "Slice a tomato so thin it only has one side."
		Popeil: The fact that I'm an inventor first and salesperson second is the reason why so many people buy my products.
	articles.moneycentral.msn.com /News/InfomercialMan.aspx (938 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Salesman of the Century: Books: Ron Popeil (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Popeil provides remarkably detailed information on product innovation and effective marketing, along with many often overlooked details of patent law, copyright, FCC regulations, manufacture at home and abroad, pricing, order fulfillment, publicity and advertising.
		Long before there was a home shopping channel, Ron Popeil made millions selling these and other Ronco products to a nation of insomniacs and impulse buyers during late-night and early-morning marathon television commercial breaks.
		Ron's book gives one a good overall insight into what it takes to get a product to market.
	www.amazon.ca /Salesman-Century-Ron-Popeil/dp/0440507669 (530 words)

	Ron Popeil: Pitchman Turned Rich Man (Me & My Money: Personal Finance) \| SmartMoney.com
		Popeil invests to keep what he's got — not to strike it rich.
		A self-described "ignorant" investor, Popeil doesn't employ a stockbroker — "If a broker really knew what the hell was going on, he wouldn't be a broker" — and tracks his few stocks through an E*Trade account.
		You won't catch Popeil sitting in first class.
	www.smartmoney.com /mymoney/index.cfm?story=200101301 (1331 words)

	"King of the Infomercial" Ron Popeil Appoints Stone America Marketing as Exclusive Licensing Agent Business Wire - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stone America Marketing (www.StoneAmerica.com) announced today that it has secured a licensing representation agreement with billion-dollar salesman and inventor Ron Popeil that will allow his likeness and image to be licensed to quality houseware and kitchenware appliance retailers, food and food-related products, and manufacturers.
		An American icon and a pioneer in home-shopping, Ron Popeil's company, Ronco Inventions LLC, has sold more than $2 billion in retail merchandise over the past 40 years.
		Popeil is also responsible for such "As Seen On TV" products as the Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, Popeil's Pasta and Sausage Maker, the Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator, the Popeil Pocket Fisherman, the Smokeless Ashtray, Mr.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Oct_30/ai_66430829 (399 words)

	Powells.com From the Author - Tim Sandlin
		What I tell people who ask where I went for the seven years between my last novel and the new one is that I wrote five books about myself and ran out of material.
		The last three projects I worked on, before breaking back for fiction, were bio-pics of Gorgeous George, Ron Popeil, and Brian Zembic.
		Ron Popeil bills himself as the "World's Greatest Salesman" and I believe him.
	www.powells.com /fromtheauthor/sandlin.html (1657 words)

	NPR : But Wait! There's More!
		Ron Popeil demonstrates the Chop-O-Matic in his first TV commercial, in 1956.
		The answer came in 1956, when Samuel's son, Ron, went before the camera at the age of 21, hawking the Chop-O-Matic: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to show you the greatest kitchen appliance ever made...
		The Popeils are also remembered for something they never sold: the fictitious "Bass-O-Matic," a fish-blending machine pitched with gusto by Dan Aykroyd on NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1976.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/june/ronco (515 words)

	Ronco Products Online - Ron Popeil
		As Seen On TV Ron Popeil is an inventor of many infomercial products.
		Also included with the 2 Flip-Its is a half-pound container of Ron's award winning Char Rub.
		Now, for the first time, charismatic pitchman, Ron Popeil, reveals the upside and the downside of his most ingenious creation of all: his spectacular rags-to-riches life.
	www.surftilyoudrop.com /ronco.htm (1089 words)

	The Miracle Marketer - Ron Popeil \| blog.bagaki.com
		Here are a few great quotes from one of Ron Popeil’s infomercials.
		ron: “yes, i believe this is your miracle.”
		ron: “this product has been tested for 10 years, its effective, its safe, and its just a plain ordinary cosmetic, and it just washes in the evening, aahh, let me just put a little more out, and this is all she had(has) to do.”
	blog.bagaki.com /2006/04/the-miracle-marketer-ron-popeil (245 words)

	The Unofficial Weird Al Show Home Page: Episodes: #3604
		Al, Ron Popeil, and Tony Little: Be Like Us!
		Ron Popeil: It's the only way you're going to keep your promise to your friends.
		Ron Popeil: That boy was our only hope.
	www.ritachu.com /~jon/altv/shows.php?episodeid=3604 (970 words)

	The Biography Channel in Canada :: Features
		From the man who lined streets of Beverly Hills 90210 to the patriarch of the one of America’s most loved TV families, the Huxtables, meet the iconic men of modern-day television.
		See how Ron Popeil’s late night commercials for his inventions including the Veg-o-matic, Mr.
		ET/PT Ron Popeil: America’s Inventor* – Wednesday, November 21 at 8:00 p.m.
	www.thebiographychannel.ca /tv/highlights (786 words)

	gladwell dot com - biography
		Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996.
		His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.
		He is the author of two books, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference," (2000) and "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (2005), both of which were number one New York Times bestsellers.
	www.gladwell.com /bio.html (135 words)

	Ronco Products, Showtime Rotisseries, Food Dehydrator, Ronco Cutlery & Knife Sets, Pasta Maker, Rocker, Machine
		Find Ronco Products by America's favorite inventor, Ron Popeil:
		Ronco Cutlery, Six Star Knife Sets, Popeil Pocket Fisherman and more!
		Or search for Ronco Rotisserie, Pasta Maker and Food Dehydrator Accessories.
	www.popeilfamilystore.com /roncoproducts.html (84 words)

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