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Jim is the CEO and owner of YPN™ Companies, Inc, CEO & Co-Founder of YPN Strategies, LLC and Chief Profit Generator at Your Profit Now, Inc. Our mission is "Helping people and organizations excel in their business venture!" and he is "Dedicated to Your Success"
Jim has over 37 years of diverse business experience in the field of sales, marketing, information systems, training, business development and operations on the national and regional/local levels. Starting his career as a clerk in retail grocery then onto a career with Coca-Cola in many roles and markets, Jim's leadership spanned from managing teams from 3 to over 319 and budgets in excess of $295M. Jim's ability to lead the independent bottlers in a synchronistic path of peak performance with Fortune 500 national clients was exhibited by sales results of over 77% compounded increases over 4 years. Through this journey, Jim acquired the skills and passion for leadership, team and personal development for his giving role at YPN™ Companies, Inc.
Since leaving Coca-Cola in 2005 and the creation of seven companies; YPN™ Companies, Inc, YPN™ Strategies LLC, Browning Business Solutions LLC, Your Profit Now™, Start Up Mentor 4 Me™, Online Marketing SME™ and Your Profile Now!®, he has been very busy helping others. Jim has been assisting over 47 companies; from entrepreneurial to Fortune 500, develop business strategy on the retail and manufacturer sides of the business. His dedication to the growing of their business regardless of size is paramount. Throughout this journey, Jim continued to focus on business relationships, personal relationships and networking.
This focus on relationships and networking created another opportunity for Jim in the Social Media and Networking world. He is always a constant learner, so learning new technology and tools is easy. Jim has created a successful business in social media and networking training. Jim is one of the world's largest and most respected social networkers on such tools as LinkedIn®, SunZu®, Facebook®, Xing and Twitter® with more than 81 million connections overall. On LinkedIn® alone, Jim has over 39,667 1st level contacts. On SunZu, Jim has over 14,695 contacts and is a Globally Ranked as a "Top 25" networker on both LinkedIn and SunZu.
Jim lives and exhibits a simple philosophy with all whom he touches, serving others, giving and helping others unconditionally and "pay it forward". Jim constantly gives back by assisting individuals and businesses on the benefits of using social media. He does this through training individuals on how to use LinkedIn® as a resource for the job search. He has trained over 23,353 people on the benefits of social media, FREE through church and non-profit "Jobs Ministries". He is sought after as a lecturer and keynote speaker having spoken at ACPI, Right Management, ASTD, Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Tech, Lee Hecht Harrison, GAPS, CLO, NAAAHR, ASA, Vistage, Execunet, SHRM, NGA, ROFDA, and others. Jim is a leader of leaders in all that he does. He is a member of the Chief Learning Officer 2013 Business Intelligence Board.
