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Bill Rancic

Celebrity Entrepreneur & Real Estate Developer

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Several years after his introduction to America as Donald Trump’s original Apprentice, Bill Rancic continues his commitment to entrepreneurship throughout the country. Today, he is building businesses, seizing opportunities and sharing his views on how to succeed in business and in life.

A budding entrepreneur at a young age, Rancic got his first taste of success by founding Cigars Around the World in a 400 square foot studio apartment in Chicago. And today, it is a multi-million dollar operation now owned by Synergy Brands, where he sits on the board of directors. Currently, Rancic is developing real estate in Chicago, producing and appearing in several television programs and speaking to businesses and organizations on motivational and business topics.

Rancic regularly appears in The Board Room on NBC’s primetime show, The Apprentice. He produces and stars in the A&E series, We Mean Business, Style Network’s reality series Giuliana and Bill, and he is the executive producer of Repo Man, airing in January 2010 on the Discovery Channel. Rancic makes regular appearances on numerous daytime broadcast and cable television programs such as Today, The Tonight Show, The View and various CNBC programs to talk to viewers about business and entrepreneurship. He also regularly appears in many major national, regional and local print outlets throughout the country.

A published author, Rancic wrote Beyond The Lemonade Stand to help educate and motivate young people worldwide about the value of money and how to leverage skills, talents and abilities at an early age. All proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to charity. Beyond The Lemonade Stand is the follow up to The New York Times best-selling book, You're Hired: How To Succeed In Business And Life, which chronicled Rancic's successful life, experience and proven advice.

Highly engaged in charitable activities, Rancic was recently named national spokesperson for Gradiant Gives Back – a program awarding financial makeovers to deserving families during today’s challenging economic climate. He is also an active board member for the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls.

3. Other topics include:

·How to manage and lead your team in times of uncertainty: educate, motivate, activate.
·Innovation; the bloodline to your future
·How to think long-term in a short- term world
·How to think like an entrepreneur in corporate America
2. How to Use Challenging Times to Your Advantage

Knowing your stuff, knowing your boss’s stuff, and knowing your competitor’s stuff will help you get ahead in challenging times. Strategies like Setting the Standard, Rejecting Conventional Wisdom and Thinking like a Big Fish in a Small Pond are topics that Bill will discuss to get you through challenging times.
1. How to Succeed in Business and Life

Many strategies helped make Bill Rancic a successful entrepreneur. From starting a boat wash and wax business while in college to running a million dollar company and working for Donald Trump, Bill will share the ups and downs on his road to success.

Bill’s talk gives the audience a glimpse on lessons he has learned throughout his many business experiences. Some of the lessons are - How to Break from the Pack, Make Each Day Count - Twice, and Separate Your Expectations from your Shortcomings. This motivational speech is packed with advice that audience members can apply to their lives immediately.

Thanks so much for fitting our MMLA conference into Bill’s busy schedule. He was wonderful!! All my surveys from the attendees gave him an “excellent” review! Bill was very gracious and patient with some of the ladies (and 1 guy) who wanted pics with him. Please send him my thanks and gratitude! I will be sure to pass your contact info on to all the other MBA state associations – especially Barbara Zajicek of the Illinois MBA in Chicago. Thanks again!

Michigan Mortgage Lenders Association
Bill was an absolute hit! His sincerity and down to earth manner allowed the group to easily identify with him and his message about facing your fear and never giving up was very well received. We also appreciated Bill taking the time to answer everyone’s questions, take photos and sign all of the books. The group was absolutely buzzing afterwards. A superb start to our conference!

ING Life
We have some unique business circumstances and were looking for just the right person to address our team. Not only was Bill the perfect speaker, tying in his personal business experience, leadership characteristics and business success tips for navigating change, he was simply a great, sincere person with whom everyone enjoyed conversing. Our group was very pleased with his presentation.

Global Human Resources
It was a pleasure to meet you at the Yorkville Economic Development Corporation’s Annual Dinner. Please accept my compliments on your wonderful speech. It was very inspiring. You are an outstanding role model for creativity and entrepreneurship.

Yorkville Economic Development Corp.
On behalf of Standard Federal Bank, please accept my sincere thank you for speaking at our client conferences March 22 and 23 in Michigan. Customer feedback this year was outstanding. Your presence helped to draw record attendance, and you most certainly delivered. Attendees complimented your wholehearted telling of a success story that we can all identify with. Hard work and ingenuity really do pay off, and your story was inspirational to our middle-market audience. The time you spent with our customers during the reception was equally as valuable and aided our goal of creating a one-of-a-kind experience. In addition, I would like to personally thank you for your willingness to go above and beyond by joining some of our most important customers and executives for an intimate dinner. You left a wonderful impression, which also reflects well on the bank. The 2005 Standard Federal Bank Client Conference was a great success and I thank you again for your contribution.

Standard Federal Bank Client Conference
Thank you so much for doing such a wonderful job as our keynote speaker. We received a great deal of positive feedback and the event was a major success for our organization! It was also a great pleasure to visit with you and I wish you all the best with new ventures.

UDI 50th Anniversary Gala
The event was wonderful – Bill exceeded our expectations and I have heard nothing but wonderful comments, including several voice and e-mails. I truly appreciate all of the effort both of you made – the event was a total success. In fact, we had to bring in extra chairs after the event began. The president of Fox Communities Credit Union said in effect, “Anyone can make a speech, when Bill answered questions from the audience; you saw that there was a real intellect behind the man!”

MarketWise Consulting Group, Inc. Â Â

September 2006
Beyond the Lemonade Stand

Want to go on a money-making adventure? In "Beyond the Lemonade Stand," Bill Rancic, winner of the smash-hit show The Apprentice, coaches you on how to succeed in business - while being smart, fair, and helping those who need it. Includes: 20 ideas for your own kid business and 5 easy steps to get each one started; Stories from Bill about how to be honest and come out on top!; Words of advice from super celebrities such as Donald Trump and Andy Roddick on how they learned to succeed; Thoughts about how you can share your successes with others, by helping those who need it; A build-your-own business worksheet that will turn your ideas into reality.
September 2004
You're HIRED
Bill Rancic, winner of the hit TV show The Apprentice, tells how anyone can become their own personal success in both business and life, using his own experiences as a self-made entrepreneur. Getting back to basics, Rancic shares insights about his own path to The Apprentice -- his work ethic, top business strategies, and lessons learned competing on the show, working for Donald Trump -- and offers a practical, step-by-step guide to climbing the success ladder from first job to Boardroom. From valuable lessons learned as a budding ten year old entrepreneur pitching pancake sales; to starting his own small business to pay for college; to launching an on-line cigar company now worth millions -- Rancic proves you don't need to be a Harvard MBA to be a success in business.

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1. How to Succeed in Business and Life

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