Who is Peter Shankman?
Posted on Aug. 9, 2016 / Subscribe 0
Our August 18 program, Customer Experience Is Key: Radical New Ways Of Thinking With Peter Shankman, will feature popular author, entrepreneur, speaker and worldwide connector Peter Shankman. He’s a best-selling author, focusing on the customer economy. He’s the founder of Help a Reporter Out (HARO), the world’s largest source/journalist matching tool, and he runs the ShankMinds Business Mastermind Community, as well as Faster Than Normal, a leading ADD/ADHD podcast, focusing on the benefits of being gifted with ADD/ADHD. But if you're still questioning whether or not to attend our event, here are 12 questions to give you more insight on this incredible speaker.
Tickets are still available to our Aug. 18 event with Peter Shankman. To get yours, click here.
1. First news publication you read in the morning?
news.google.com
2. First job?
Sweeping up fruit at a fruit-stand
3. Most influential career mentor? Why?
Reese Schonfeld - helped found CNN with Ted Turner - Taught me that if I want something, I can't let anything stop me from getting it.
4. Key to superior customer service? Which brands are doing it right?
Listen. Pay attention. Empathy. Starwood Hotels, Skratch Labs, Safe Catch tuna, Eternal Spring Water
5. Besides ADHD, what’s another superpower of yours?
Sarcasm
6. Top social media, marketing or customer service pet peeve(s)?
Not responding.
7. Most rewarding accomplishment in your career?
Selling Help a Reporter Out, and the emails I get thanking me for my ADHD podcast.
8. Advice to your 20-year-old self?
It's going to be better than expected. Stay the course.
9. Job you would pursue if you weren’t the ShankMind?
I'd like to own a moped rental store on a Greek Island somewhere.
10. Favorite movie?
Back to the Future, Midnight Run, Point Break (the original)
11. Favorite vacation?
Phuket, Thailand
12. Any three dinner guests?
I'd love to see my grandmother and grandfather again. I'd pair them with Gary Carter, of the 1986 NY Mets. Would be a fun dinner.
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