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Sam Richter is an internationally recognized expert on digital information and is considered the father of modern-day Sales Intelligence.
Sam Richter created numerous technologies, including the world's top prospecting/sales meeting preparation resources, the Business/Sales Intel Engines, the world's top news search engine, YouGotTheNews; and a Blog search engine. He partnered with Mark Hunter, Meridith Elliott Powell, and Dr. Mary Kelly to create the Business Leadership Roundtable, a virtual mastermind/coaching, on-demand online learning, and sales-success training program used by thousands of sales executives at some of the world's leading organizations.
Sam Richter is a partner at Contata Solutions, a big-data and machine learning firm that produces sales, marketing, and business intelligence software. He also serves on the Boards of Directors for Brandpoint, one of the world's leading content management platforms, and Argos Risk, a business financial health and credit monitoring software platform.
Sam Richter also spent more than eighteen years in the advertising, public relations, and e-commerce/e-marketing industries owning his own firm and working for internationally recognized organizations as a creative director, group director, and marketing director. Richter has led product launch and strategic marketing programs for companies including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Major League Baseball, Polaris Industries, and National Geographic.
Sam Richter is founder and CEO of SBR Worldwide/Know More. Through his in-person keynote presentations and online programs, Richter trains leading organizations and entertains tens of thousands of persons around the world. His programs promise to be the highest-content, most take-home-value presentations attendees have ever experienced.
The National Speakers Association inducted Sam Richter into the National Speaker Hall of Fame, and he also received the Association's CSP Designation. He was named one of the Top 15 Highest Rated Speakers for Virtual Events, one of the Top 50 Sales Keynote Speakers in the world, and he is also a member of the Minnesota Speakers Hall of Fame.
Sam Richter is the author of the bestselling book, Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling, considered the preeminent publication on finding information online and using it for sales success. Take the Cold was named "Sales Book of the Year" by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals, and it was also named a "USA Book News Winner" and a "Sales Book Awards Silver Medalist."
Sam Richter was named by InsideView as one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Sales and he has been featured in thousands of television and radio programs and national and online publications.
Sam Richter has won Best of Show and Gold Awards at numerous sales and marketing competitions, Webby Awards, and a Gold Award at the International Film Festival. He's also won a Retail Vision Award and a Codie Award - "the "Oscars'' of the software industry" - for Best E-commerce Software. He is a member of the Business Journal's "Forty Under 40" and a past finalist for Inc. Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year.
