Bob Andelman

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Bob Andelman's Overview

Current

Co-author at Mind Over Business (Sole Proprietorship)
Girls Soccer Head Coach, Middle School at Shorecrest Preparatory School
Freelance Writer at The Poynter Institute

Radio Host and Producer at Mr. Media Radio/TV Interviews
Writer/Author at Andelman.com (Self-employed)

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Past

Co-author with Pat Brown at The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
Contributing writer at Maddux Business Report
Contributing Editor and Frequent Writer at Corporate Meetings & Incentives Magazine (Penton)

Co-Author with Vernon W. Hill II at FANS! Not Customers: How Commerce Bank Created a Super-Growth Business in a No-Growth Industry (Self-employed)
Co-author with Vernon W. Hill at Commerce Bank
Field Interviewer at "Creature Comforts USA" TV Show (CBS/Aardman Studios) (Self-employed)
Author at Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (M Press/Dark Horse) (Self-employed)
Coach at Northeast Raider soccer
Co-Author at The Profit Zone (Self-employed)
Co-author at Mean Business with Albert J. Dunlap
Pop Music and Radio Beat Reporter at The Tampa Tribune

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Education

University of Florida
University of Miami
NBTHS

Recommendations

19 people have recommended Bob

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Bob Andelman is the host, producer and writer of "Mr. Media®" a celebrity and media newsmaker show seen at MrMedia.com and widely syndicated via iTunes, BlogTalkRadio, CPRRadio, Live365, iNCO, PodBean, Stitcher and more.

The show began its sixth year of audio and video podcasting on February 1, 2012. The show's archive includes more than 1,000 interviews.

He is also the author or co-author of 12 books, including:

• "Mind Over Business" (with Ken Baum; Perigee/Penguin, March 2012)

• "The Consulate" (spy fiction, with Thomas R. Stutler; MIHI Trust, March 2011)

• "The Profiler" (with Pat Brown; Hyperion/Voice, May 2010)

• "Four Seasons: The Philosophy of a Business" (by Isadore Sharp, founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts; Portfolio/Penguin, 2009), Did not author or co-author this book but came in and helped Sharp near the end of the writing process by conducting dozens of interviews with Four Seasons managers and executives and contributing additional material to the finished manuscript.

• "Fans Not Customers" (with former Commerce Bank founder and CEO Vernon W. Hill II; the book would have been published by Portfolio/Penguin in September 2007 but Mr. Hill stepped down from the bank in June 2007 after the book was accepted but not yet published.)

• "Will Eisner: A Spirited Life" (Dark Horse/M Press; October 2005)

• "The Corporate Athlete" (with Jack Groppel; John Wiley, 2000)

• "Built From Scratch" (with Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank, co-founders of The Home Depot; Crown Business, 1999)

• "The Profit Zone" (with Adrian Slywotzky; Crown Business, 1997)

• "Mean Business" (with Albert J. Dunlap; Crown Business, 1996)

• "Stadium For Rent" (McFarland and Company, 1993)

Agents: Jane Dystel and Michael Bourret, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, http://www.dystel.com

Specialties

Ghostwriting: Collaborating with people in business, sports and entertainment who have expertise in their field but need assistance telling their story or sharing their wisdom in book form. I work with title credit or without. Books are usually for major publishers but I also work on self-published or in-house books.

General Assignment: I also have experience as a newspaper and magazine correspondent, including several years with the St. Petersburg Times, Newsweek and BusinessWeek.

Co-author

Mind Over Business (Sole Proprietorship)

Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry

January 2010 – Present (2 years 5 months) St. Petersburg, Florida

Wrote book with Ken Baum (author of The Mental Edge)

Girls Soccer Head Coach, Middle School

Shorecrest Preparatory School

Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry

2007 – Present (5 years)

Working with the kids is the most fun I have all week. I coached soccer at the rec level for five years before being hired to coach soccer part-time at the school. Best job of my life.

Freelance Writer

The Poynter Institute

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry

2001 – Present (11 years)

Contributed to Poynter Online, Romenesko Plus, Mediawire, wrote white papers for News U

Radio Host and Producer

Mr. Media Radio/TV Interviews

1994 – Present (18 years)

So much media, so little time! Who keeps track of it all? That would be me! Several times a week, I interview celebrities and newsmakers: http://www.MrMedia.com. And on UStream live every Thursday @ 7 p.m. ET.

Writer/Author

Andelman.com (Self-employed)

May 1982 – Present (30 years 1 month)

Author or co-author of biographies (Will Eisner: A Spirited Life), business (Built From Scratch; Mean Business; The Profit Zone; Bankers As Brokers; Profit Drivers) and sports books (The Corporate Athlete; Stadium For Rent; Why Men Watch Football), as well as magazine and newspaper articles.

Co-author with Pat Brown

The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths

2008 – May 2011 (3 years)

New book published by Hyperion Voice, May 18, 2010

Contributing writer

Maddux Business Report

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry

1988 – July 2010 (22 years)

I write many of the monthly's cover stories, Tampa Bay area regional reports and have for more than 20 years.

Contributing Editor and Frequent Writer

Corporate Meetings & Incentives Magazine (Penton)

1993 – 2009 (16 years)

I wrote cover stories and inside features for Corporate Meetings and Incentives, and occasionally contribute to its sister magazines, including Association Meetings, Medical Meetings, Financial & Insurance Meetings, and Religious Conference Manager. I also provided daily reporting, photography and editing at the annual RCMA Convention.

Co-Author with Vernon W. Hill II

FANS! Not Customers: How Commerce Bank Created a Super-Growth Business in a No-Growth Industry (Self-employed)

February 2006 – July 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Co-author of the Portfolio/Penguin book from the founder and chairman of New Jersey-based Commerce Bank, Vernon W. Hill II. Scheduled publication date was October 2007, but the book - completed - was cancelled when Mr. Hill stepped down from the bank.

Co-author with Vernon W. Hill

Commerce Bank

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TD; Banking industry

2006 – 2007 (1 year)

Co-author of book, Fans Not Customers

Field Interviewer

"Creature Comforts USA" TV Show (CBS/Aardman Studios) (Self-employed)

January 2006 – June 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Conducted a number of field interviews for the animated CBS-TV summer series "Creature Comforts," which is produced by Aardman Studios. At least two made it to air in the series' initial run.

Author

Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (M Press/Dark Horse) (Self-employed)

November 2005 – December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (Dark Horse/M Press) is the biography of the legendary artist and writer who is often credited with taking comic books out of the ghetto in the 1940s and establishing the market for adult, long-form comics – graphic novels – in the 1970s
Starlog magazine wrote: “The late Will Eisner was a comics legend – and he has been honored with a biography to match.”
The Miami Herald review said, “Eisner was an innovative and influential artist, but Bob Andelman's new biography also correctly focuses on Will as a groundbreaking businessman.”
“Andelman's most significant achievement is his seamless tying together of the multiple threads in Eisner's long and ever-changing career,” according to a review in the Roanoke Times.
Publishers Weekly called Will Eisner: A Spirited Life “an intimate albeit sprawling biography of the legendary comics author and comics innovator.”

Coach

Northeast Raider soccer

2005 – 2006 (1 year)

Taught girls in rec soccer league

Co-Author

The Profit Zone (Self-employed)

September 1997 – September 1998 (1 year 1 month)

The Profit Zone: Lessons of Strategic Genius from the People Who Created the World’s Most Valued Companies (Times Books/Random House), with Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison, partners in Boston-based Mercer Management.
The Profit Zone is Andelman’s best selling book overall. More than 100,000 hardcover copies in print after 10 printings. After five years in hardcover, Three Rivers Press published the paperback edition on February 26, 2002.
The New York Times ranked The Profit Zone as No. 10 on its best-selling business books list on April 5, 1998.
Business Week’s John Byrne wrote that The Profit Zone “provides insights and lessons aplenty... It makes practical and usable some compelling theories for how to win in today’s marketplace.”
The Boston Globe’s David Warsh wrote “The Profit Zone is better than most strategy books... more coherent than a business magazine, more helpful - and more fun.”