Mark Amtower

Mark Amtower

Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Experience

  • Amtower & Company Graphic

    Amtower & Company

    Baltimore/Washington - virtual

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    Dynamic speaker for conferences, company sales meetings and more

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    Crystal City, VA

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    San Diego, California, United States

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    Washington DC-Baltimore Area

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    1500 AM in Washington, DC, worldwide at www.FederalNewsRadio.com

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    online at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R3GDBJB

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    Columbia MD

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    https://www.amazon.com/Government-Marketing-Best-Practices-2-0-ebook/

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    YouTube

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    Washington DC-Baltimore Area

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    Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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    Fairfax, Virginia

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    Amazon.com

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Columbia MD

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    Columbia, Maryland

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia, MD

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    Bethesda, MD

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    www.smallbiztrends.com

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    Woldwide

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    Highland MD

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    McLean VA

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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Education

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • How to Win in the Government Market

    Government Market Press

    50+ essays by two government contracting industry experts.

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Aha Moments from Thought Leader Life (03)

    THiNKaha

    This book is comprised of aha moments from thought leaders appearing on Thought Leader Life with Mitchell Levy, @happyabout and Michael Procopio, @michaelprocopio. In addition to Mitchell and Michael, ahas in the book are provided by Robert Galinsky, @robertgalinsky, Michael Bosworth, @MikeBLeadership, Willis Turner, @willisturner, Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey, @barefoot_spirit and Mark Amtower, @amtower.

    Other authors
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  • Selling to the Government

    John Wiley & Sons

    35 Five Start reviews, an Amazon best-seller, Selling to the Government is a comprehensive overview of the government market, from market entry, research, contract selection, positioning and marketing, using social media and much more. It has a comprehensive glossary of "gov-speak" and a list of B2G publications and associations.

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  • Government Marketing Best Practices

    Government Market Press

    My first book on marketing to the government. It was derived from the seminar of the same name. The seminar is ongoing, now in the 14th year. The book is out of print.

  • Various industry and business publications

    over 800 artilces

Honors & Awards

  • GovSales Hall of Fame

    https://www.govsaleshalloffame.com/

    Inaugural awards from the Hall of Fame for government sales and sales support.

  • Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Government Marketing

    Government Marketing University

    During the awards presentations at the 2018 GAIN conference, a final, previously unannounced award was given for Lifetime Achievement in Marketing to the Government.

  • 2015 Top 200 LinkedIn Experts

    Andy O'Hearn

    Using his own research and studies conducted by others on LinkedIn, including Pedro Camarez, LinkedIn expert and trainer Andy O'Hearn tried to determine who was among the top LinkedIn experts world-wide, His research is a "list in progress". I made the initial list of 180.

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-expert-200-work-progress-andy-o-hearn?trk=prof-post

  • 2012 Top 1% "Most Viewed" profiles on LinkedIn

    Linkedin

    LinkedIn recognized those whose profiles were among the most viewed in 2012. Acknowledged were those were at least among the top 10%. I was among the top 1%.

  • Rock the World with Your Online Presence

    Contest run by Mike O'Neil and Lori Ruff

    Contest to determine the top profiles on LinkedIn. In 2009 there were approximately 45 million and 7 profiles were selected as "Best." My profile was one of the seven.

  • BtoB Marketing Magazine Who's Who 100 (top business marketers)

    Crain's BtoB magazine

    BtoB's annual award for the Top 100 business marketers in the U.S.

  • Certificate of Appreciation, Secretary of Defense

    Director, Resource Management, DTSA, Office of the Secretary of Defense

    In recognition of "superb support in helping me to better understand and thereby manage personnel, information technology, and administrative activities of the Defense Technology Security Administration in its effort to protect the U.S. military technological advantages, and to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction and destabilizing conventional weapons". Presented by the Director, Resource Management, DTSA, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

  • 2015 Top 250+ LinkedIn Bloggers (Crowdsourced list by Paul Drury)

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/help-lets-crowdsource-best-writers-2015-right-here-paul-drury

    Paul Drury, one of the top 10 bloggers on LinkedIn, crowd-sourced a list of the most popular bloggers on LinkedIn. There were requirements on # of views, likes and comments and i was thrilled to make the list.

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/help-lets-crowdsource-best-writers-2015-right-here-paul-drury

Organizations

  • Growth Officers Association

    Board member and VP Communications

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    A new association targeting Chief Growth Officers.

  • Government Market Master Forum

    Founder, Director

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    The Government Market Master Forum provides continuing education for those involved in selling to the government: marketing, sales, business development, management and other personnel with a direct or indirect involvement.

  • AFCEA

    Member of Small Business Advisory Council

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  • Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC)

    Member, Executive Advisory committee

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  • Howard Tech Council

    Co-chair, B2G Council

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  • American Small Business Coalition

    Founding member, chairman of the board

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    I chaired the Board of Advisors for ASBC for 3+ years when they first started.

  • Women in Technology

    First male member

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  • Women in Technology

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  • ACT-IAC

    Chairman, IAC Election committee

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    With Carl Peckinpah, in charge of managing the election of new IAC officers during a time of major turbulence with IACs parent organization, FGIPC (now ACT). This represented the first full and open election process in the history of IAC. http://fcw.com/articles/1996/06/09/group-prepares-first-open-election.aspx

  • Association of Mailers to the Federal Government

    Founder and Chairman

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    After discovering a number of issues impacting the delivery of promotional mail and trade publications in government facilities, I asked several of those with vested interested interest in this to join with me so we could meet with the federal mail management community and resolve some problems. Among the participants: CDW, Federal Computer Week, Federal TImes, FOSE, Government Computer News, Government Executive magazine, GTSI, Jane's, and many others. We met on a monthly basis, always had a…

    After discovering a number of issues impacting the delivery of promotional mail and trade publications in government facilities, I asked several of those with vested interested interest in this to join with me so we could meet with the federal mail management community and resolve some problems. Among the participants: CDW, Federal Computer Week, Federal TImes, FOSE, Government Computer News, Government Executive magazine, GTSI, Jane's, and many others. We met on a monthly basis, always had a federal mail manager as a speaker, met with the Committee on Mail Policy and successfully resolved several problem areas.

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