Rick Cesari has helped sell more than 2 billion dollars worth of product and launched over 30 brands including sonicare, oxiclean, george foreman grill, juiceman juicer, GoPro camera & many more.
Rick is also the author of Buy Now. He talks about some of the tough times on the journey below.
FUN FACT:
Rick was working on a commercial fishing boat in the Bering sea.
The boat sank in a storm and had to be rescued.
Background:
Rick Cesari has been responsible for many successful infomercial campaigns. Under his direction, his agency, Cesari Direct produced campaigns for OxiClean, George Foreman Grill, Sonicare, Rug Doctor, Eagle One, and the Juiceman Juicer.
Rick Cesari, along with his older brother Steve and six siblings, was raised in suburban Westchester County, New York, USA. After school and on weekends, he was expected to work in his father’s grocery store. Cesari earned a pre-medical degree before moving to the western United States to join a direct mail marketing partnership. In 1989, Cesari and his brother Steve took out a home-equity loan on their mother’s house to raise money to open their own business.
The new company was known as Trillium Health Products. The company ran seminars on proper nutrition and also sold a juicer, known as the Juiceman, and a smaller version known as the Juiceman, Jr.[1] The Juiceman Juicer was marketed with direct marketing.] Its annual revenues in 1989 were $950,000 and had jumped to over $75 million by 1991.
In 1993, Cesari and his brother sold their company to Salton Inc., and Cesari created Cesari Direct (formerly known as CRTV), which specializes in direct marketing. Cesari Direct produces infomercials, buys the media to display them, provides web development as well as SEM and SEO and manages back-end venders that are responsible for taking orders. One of his first large deals was with Optiva (the makers of Sonicare), to market their electric toothbrushes. Between 1994 and 1996, Optiva realized a 338% jump in sales.
Generally, 10% of direct marketing campaigns are successful, but as of 1997, Cesari Direct had a 70% success rate. Among their successful products are OxiClean, the George Foreman Grill, and the Sonicare Toothbrush. “‘The power of the infomercial is twofold’, Cesari said. ‘One, you have a whole half-hour to tell the story of the product as opposed to 30 seconds or 60 seconds. The second aspect is it basically creates a subsidized advertising program.”
Clients include the GoPro camera and Silk’n beauty products. Rick is the co-author of the book Buy Now published by Wiley in 2011. He launched the health and nutrition company Live Foods, Live Bodies in 2010 to market a line of appliances that help people eat a healthier diet. (from wikipedia)
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