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Mitch Huhem has worked with presidents, celebrities, CEO’s, billionaires and business owners around the country. His call to leadership began at age 12 when he was presented the youngest Eagle Scout in America award by President Ronald Reagan. Since then he has become a multi-millionaire in nine different industries and garnered awards for investing and business innovation, including being named Young Entrepreneur of the state of Utah. Mr. Huhem has been called a Billion Dollar Business Strategist because he has the rare ability to find the key things in your business or investments that can make all of the difference. Having lived a true rags to riches story, he is passionate and clear about what works and what doesn’t. As an entrepreneur, investor and marketer he has used his time tested strategies to create profit and breakthroughs while facilitating growth and truly helping people at all levels succeed.
“I love showing people that so much more is possible in business, investing and life. I’m passionate about taking my businesses and clients to new levels of influence, profit and personal prosperity” – Mitch Huhem
In his financial seminar business, (that he grew in 7 years from $1 million dollars a year in annual revenue to over $220 million dollars in annual sales at its peak), he was one of the FIRST to make a deal with DONALD TRUMP, getting him in front of thousands of people in arenas across the country to teach tactics of financial freedom. Mitch’s talents for mass marketing, promotion, rainmaking and helping all levels of company leadership succeed were key factors in his ability to lead his organization to explosive growth and success. Today, one of his greatest passions is helping other entrepreneurs fine tune, accelerate and execute their own vision of growth and profit.
Integrity And Alignment
Mr. Huhem developed one of the largest direct response financial seminar companies in the world, conducting over 1,600 seminars per year in 638 cities around the country. Like most of his businesses, this one grew out of a need to serve with integrity and set an industry standard. Shocked by the economic incongruency in the seminar industry, where people were selling products that they were not an expert in and really knew little about, Mr. Huhem was determined to make a difference.
In a market changing move, he disrupted the industry, demanding that speakers on his stage not only be experts in their field and qualified to teach, train and lead; he also was adamant that they had to have made at least $1 million dollars in the topic they were teaching about in order to work with him or use his platform or stage. This level of transparency, integrity, and “alignment before assignment” is Mitch’s standard for doing business. This philosophy has not only proved to be more profitable in the end, but has also reaped a harvest of rewards by allowing his organizations, people and ideas to thrive.
Building a Strong Sales Force
Mr. Huhem recognizes that the most significant contributor to increasing profits and building competitive advantage is the way you sell. The ability to teach, train and build a sales force is vital to growth, sustainability and success. In fact, Mr. Huhem’s love of entrepreneurs helped him grow a direct sales organization of over 500,000 distributors in 22 countries that collectively had sales of over $480 million per year at their peak. One of the great gifts of this expanding business was the opportunity to work with a variety of people in America and abroad; to lead and teach others to be their best while expanding their vision of what was possible.
Mitch also recruited and trained 330 superstar sales people in telesales, producing millions of dollars each week over the the telephone, as a follow up to his financial seminar business. In this, and all his endeavors, he has been dedicated to growth, affirming and using peoples’ unique gifts and skills, as well as implementing the highest in compliance and top ethical standards. Today, Mr. Huhem enjoys working with motivated individuals and sales organizations to help them increase sales, create rich relationships, more referrals, higher profits and greater revenue.
Marketing Is King!
Mr. Huhem knows that marketing is not sales, instead it is the key to everything that makes money in a business. Marketing is one way interaction, not a two way interaction, which is sales NOT marketing. Therefore you must be an expert in marketing and what works or you will spend a lot of money for nothing and lose it. If you can figure out marketing and do it right, you can create for yourself a cash machine and a business that can make money automatically, 24 hours a day – 7 days a week, and And give you a business that can scale and grow at record proportions.
Mr. Huhem became an expert at Marketing by necessity. At the peak of his financial education seminar company he spent over $2 million dollars each week just on marketing and he sent over 110 million pieces of mail each year making him one of the largest mailers in America at the time (just behind the IRS and CitiBank.) This allowed him to register over one million people per year.
He learned the power of scale, the power of words and the science of neuro-marketing. After spending a small fortune on dozens of the best direct response marketers in the country to help him beat his marketing control pieces and increase his responses, the final outcome was that Mr. Huhem’s own creative, designs, and marketing pieces and strategies still out-did and out-performed the country’s best marketing consultants by a long shot. This was hard to understand until he realized the difference between those who talk about it and read about it, versus those who do it and have owner mentality. They know it because their money is on the line, and it is a win or lose situation daily.
He learned the power of scale, the power of words and the science of neuro-marketing. After spending a small fortune on dozens of the best direct response marketers in the country to help him beat his marketing control pieces and increase his responses, the final outcome was that Mr. Huhem’s own creative, designs, and marketing pieces and strategies still out-did and out-performed the country’s best marketing consultants by a long shot. This was hard to understand until he realized the difference between those who talk about it and read about it, versus those who do it and have owner mentality. They know it because their money is on the line, and it is a win or lose situation daily.
Mr. Huhem would know what works every minute of every day because there was millions of dollars on the line. The refinements were a necessity and the feedback was vital and brutal. It does not matter what you think works, it only matters what the market and your customers say will work – and they vote with their wallet and pocket book. They let you know by the actions they take and if the phone rings or the cash register transacts. There is no room for pretty, feel good or marketing that just looks nice; it either works or it doesn’t. If you can get marketing to work you can write your own ticket. Marketing is the KEY to business growth and sustainability.
Legendary Leadership
If you have ever seen a great symphony or orchestra, then you have seen Mr. Huhem in action. He is a master conductor and skilled orchestrator. He knows how to inspire, encourage, train, and get the most out of people, teams, and players. He knows how to skillfully and artfully put people in the right seat, the right section, playing the right instrument. He then takes control and gets into the flow creating the powerful heart-moving music (sales, marketing, revenue and profit).
Mr. Huhem learned how to lead at just 12 years of age when he organized dozens of businesses owners and hundreds of people for an Eagle Project to transform the dilapidated and dangerous city park into the nicest and safest park for children in San Diego. He did this in a matter of four days, orchestrating people of all ages to transform, paint, fix, plant, design and re-do an entire 10-acre park to serve the community (a park that had been inoperable for years before this). He later used these skills to find, recruit, and train over 500,000 independent distributors throughout 22 countries to do half a billion dollars in sales and then again to organize 750 employees to move like an army of special forces to put on over 1,600 seminars per year in over 638 cities responding to a million registrants, producing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Leadership is where it starts, and where it ends. One of the greatest competitive advantages you have is your company culture, and your culture is ultimately created by the behavior of your leader. Gain their trust, lead by example, know where you’re going and how to get there, and you will have an army that will follow you anywhere and go through brick walls and steel to achieve any goal you set before them. With the right command you will have loyal customers who are raving fans, who promote you and stand by you through thick and thin. Leadership is taught, earned and learned. The best way out is always through. Legendary leadership is what gets you through. Legendary leadership is what transforms businesses, groups and organizations from good to great!
Personal Background
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in San Diego, California, Mitch had unique assess to two very different rhythms and lifestyles. The oldest of five children, he learned early on that nothing was given, everything was earned. This resulted in him officially becoming an entrepreneur at the age of 9. That is when he crafted his first “irresistible offer”. For a quarter a week he would take out and put away all the neighborhood trashcans. Not only did he take care of the trashcans, he was prompt, conscientious, swept up any trash and made the experience seamless and delightful for his customers. And something magical happened. Tips. Many times far in excess of what he charged. In fact, by being excellent and going above and beyond he learned that amazing things happen. He internalized this and has lived it ever since. He now takes special pleasure in awakening this spirit in others – and seeing the powerful and positive results that follow.
Becoming a master of excellence and innovation early on helped Mitch succeed in numerous businesses. Before he was even 18 he lead his high school as Senior Class President, Valedictorian, and Prom King. Upon graduation Mitch attended Brigham Young University on a full academic scholarship, and went on to receive many more awards and accolades while there.
Bi-Lingual and Service Oriented
As a 19-year old young man, Mitch served the people of Chile as a full-time missionary for two and a half years. Through hard work and service, he paid for the entire trip and dedicated himself to living a harsh, ascetic life to better serve the residents. While there, Mitch was in charge of 220 other missionaries, teaching them, leading them and motivating them as they worked for free, away from their homes. Mitch was called “Elder FANTASTICO” because of his amazing love for the people and his relentless commitment to help them. He taughtthe poor, the rich, the common and the people in high places. When he returned, he was a fluent bi-lingual speaker and more determined than ever to succeed and open up doors to create prosperity and opportunity for anyone with the heart and courage to pursue it.
Becoming a Millionaire
At the age of 22, Mitch won First Place in BYU’s prestigious Marriott School of Management Business Plan contest. Just one year later, at age 23, he was awarded BYU’s Top Young Entrepreneur of the state of Utah. By age 26, Mitch was a self-made millionaire. He started his own seminar company called MIT – “Millionaires in Training”. His desire was to help people truly become wealthy and successful through real estate investing, stock investing and asset protection with proper tax planning. The foundation of Millionaires in Training was to have only millionaires teach. If they were not a millionaire, then they could not teach others how to become one. As Mitch’s father taught him: “Your life must be your message.” Many more businesses and investments followed. Mr. Huhem also started teaching business and entrepreneur classes at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University. In addition to his own businesses, Mr. Huhem has served as a turnaround CEO and a business strategist for several growing companies in emerging markets.
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Mr. Huhem resides in Boca Raton, Florida, with his wife Deborah. Their extended family includes a combined 7 children, and multiple cute and furry animals. Mitch is passionate about business, health, exercise, traveling the world, meeting new people, and once-in-a-while, winning a tough game of racquetball. A man of deeply held conviction, he has been a lifelong philanthropist and champion of free enterprise, and is dedicated to causes that elevate the human spirit and promote meaningful capitalism, goodness and exemplary character.
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