Joe Rickards, real estate investment and marketing expert, recently hit two separate Amazon.com best-seller lists with the new book, “The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy.”

Orlando, Fla. – March 21, 2011 – Joe Rickards recently signed a publishing deal with a select group of America’s leading entrepreneurs and business experts to collaborate and co-write the business and marketing book titled, The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy. It features forward thinking trends to help entrepreneurs and business people across all industries to thrive in the new economy.

The book was published by CelebrityPress™, a leading business and marketing book publisher founded by Nick Nanton, Esq. and business partner, JW Dicks, Esq.

Joe Rickards has been featured as America’s premier real estate expert on FOX, NBC, CBS, ABC, CBS News, Forbes.com, Wall Street Journal online, NewsDay, Morningstar, Yahoo Finance, LA Daily News, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Salt Lake Tribune, WorldNetDaily and over a dozen other affiliates around the country. Joe Rickards has been referred to as one of the foremost leading authorities in real estate and finance today by best-selling author and world-renowned business speaker Brian Tracy.

The new book, The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy, was released on Thursday, March 10, 2011. On the day of release, The Next Big Thing reached best-seller status on Amazon.com, reaching #4 in both the Entrepreneurship and Communications categories.

From CelebrityPress:

The old adage states: “Driving forward while focusing on the rearview mirror will land you in an accident.” This also holds true in business. While it’s important to understand the past, the future is where the real opportunity lies. But how do you tell the difference between passing fads and profitable trends? The authors in this book aim to do exactly that. Forty-one leading experts across multiple industries have teamed up to share The Next Big Thing to help you profit in this new economy.

The authors in this book have donated all book royalties to www.MarketersForGood.org.

After such a successful release, Joe Rickards will be inducted into The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many leading independent best-seller lists.

To order a copy of the book, go to http://www.amazon.com/Next-Big-Thing-Leading-Dominate/dp/0982908369/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1299767268&sr=8-5

About Joe Rickards:

Since he can remember, Joe Rickards has always had two passions – real estate investing and marketing. Flat broke and straight out of university, Joe bought his first property with no money down. He went on to make a fortune in Canadian real estate over the next two decades. Joe currently runs several successful businesses with partners such as Andrea Lucas, the former Director of The World Bank, and has billionaire Bill Bartmann on his company’s board of advisors.

Although he became a self-made millionaire in his late twenties, Joe didn’t have an easy start. He was raised in a dysfunctional alcoholic family in a poor farm home with no running water. Driven by his battered self-esteem, Joe worked hard and went on to graduate at the top of his engineering class and over the next 13 years he climbed the corporate ladder at leading Fortune 500 companies. He then left his engineering career to pursue his passions full time

After having business struggles of his own, Joe learned that most businesses fail due to a lack of effective marketing. Realizing that marketing is the hidden secret to achieving business success, Joe spent over six figures personally studying cutting-edge marketing strategies with leading business and marketing experts such as Dan Kennedy, Jay Abraham and Chet Holmes, to name a few.

Joe’s eureka moment that inspired him to jump on the social media bandwagon came when he found concrete proof that social media has turned conventional sales and marketing on its head and that most businesses today are missing out on the next big thing in marketing. Together with partners, Joe developed some of the most powerful viral social media marketing strategies available today. As a result, they are creating a flood of new paying customers for their consulting clients across the US, Canada and the UK.

Joe Rickards is the founder of Worldwide Luxury Homes Group Inc., part of the Luxury Homes Group of Companies – the recognized leader in the global luxury real estate investment market.  They have an 11 year track record of buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in luxury homes around the world. Their marketing division uses an established list of international buyers and proven, cutting-edge marketing strategies to help sellers and realtors sell luxury homes faster than anyone in the industry.

Joe and his wife and best friend Olga enjoy a full life and live in a golf course community in the Okanagan Valley – British Columbia’s vacation playground.

For more information about Joe, please visit www.JoeRickards.com

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