Bill Bishop

Toronto, Canada Area Canada

BIG Idea Coach, Keynote Speaker, Author

Advertising / Marketing / PR

I am an author, publisher, speaker, coach and entrepreneur. It all began in 1957, when I was born into a marketing and entrepreneurial family. My father Arthur Bishop created, along with my mother Priscilla, Canada's first independent PR company. At age 7, I worked with them on many marketing programs, including advertising and PR campaigns. I was the child model for the insect repellent OFF, along with several other brand name products. In the early 80s while earning a BA in journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, I worked as a waiter at the KEG, a popular steak restaurant. It was there that I won a contest by selling 1,400 lobsters. (Twenty years later, I wrote How To Sell A ...