About Rick Beneteau
Rick Beneteau
Rick is a professional copywriter, an Internet marketer, an Internet business consultant, and a songwriter with over 400 songs to his name.
Rick started working for his family’s dry-cleaning business straight out of high school, eventually purchasing the multi-store chain from his father.
Professional Songwriter. Throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, while “firing up the dry-cleaning boilers” at five in the morning, six days a week, Rick pursued his musical passion: writing, recording, and pitching songs. He won Billboard Magazine’s International Songwriting Competition the first two years running, in addition to winning other major music competitions. However, not long after his music successes enabled him to leave the dry cleaning business, complications stemming from a divorce derailed those successes and his finances.
Internet Entrepreneur. Devastated and unwilling to lead the starving artist lifestyle, Rick made his way to the Internet and began using his entrepreneurial and creative skills to become one of the original Internet marketers. He was the first person to write about joint-venturing as a means of Internet marketing; created top-selling marketing products such as Ezine Marketing Machine, Branding You, and Breaking the Bank; and he originated the Internet’s first two-tier affiliate program with his traveling billboards, I.D. IT! Plates. Many of the biggest Internet marketers in the world owe their start to Rick’s pioneering work.
Philanthropist. In 2001, Rick founded the Internet’s first toy drive, recruiting the top Internet marketers in large promotional campaigns to make sure all children have at least one gift under the Christmas tree. InternetToyDrive.org is a corporate sponsor in direct affiliation with the official “Toys for Tots” program.
Entrepreneurial 9/11 Transition. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 affected Rick so profoundly that he decided to change direction from helping people build online businesses to simply helping build people. His breakthrough ebook from 2002, Success: A Spiritual Matter, the first in a series of products that bridge business success and spirituality, remains an entrepreneur’s favorite to this day.
In 2003, Rick published his first print book, A Large Slice of Life to Go, Please!, landing him the prestigious Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and many high-level endorsements.
His current line of NLP products like Quit Smoking Right Now, Make Every Day A Great Day and Better Sales Right Now, are licensed by some of the world’s top self-development entities.
Personal Growth Expert. One of his most popular quotations is:
Give a shelterless man tools and he will build a home
Inspire him, encourage him, give him vision, and he will build an empire.
10 Million Clicks Founder. On the morning of July 15, 2006, Rick was downloading his usual hundreds of emails. It would be a morning that would profoundly affect his life.
The first email was a CNN Breaking News Alert outlining the latest gory details about the bloodbath in the Middle East. It literally made him nauseous. The second email was from Julian Kalmar, a man Rick hardly knew. Julian explained that he couldn’t sleep that night, fearing for the lives of two friends, one in Lebanon, and one in Israel – friends he could no longer reach and whom he feared had been killed. He wrote that he had asked the Universe what he could possibly do to help, and immediately, “10 Million Votes for Peace” jumped into his mind. That was Rick’s cue to call Julian. At 6:42 a.m. they began discussing the project that became known as 10 Million Clicks for Peace.
Three years later, Rick is as enthusiastic as ever that the work he’s doing will change the world. The Peace Impact Meter (i.e. Peace Machine) technology he developed with Julian Kalmar opens the doors of philanthropy wide to the waves of regular folks who want to help, but don’t know what to do. “Now they know exactly what to do and can see measurable results right on their computers and cell phones. We’ll empower millions to create world peace for their children, their grandchildren, and themselves, and I believe we’ll reach the tipping point for peace. This is the legacy I want to leave, and this work is how I’m spending the rest of my life.”
