Joe Rickards, real estate investment and marketing expert, was featured on ABC and other network affiliates across the country as an expert special guest on The Brian Tracy Show.

Orlando, Fla. – May 23, 2011 – Joe Rickards was recently a featured expert guest on The Brian Tracy Show.  Best-selling author Brian Tracy, one of the country’s leading business minds, hosts a show featured on ABC and other major network affiliates across the country.

“The Brian Tracy Show” features Brain Tracy interviewing business leaders and marketing experts from around the world. Mr. Rickards was one of Mr. Tracy’s recent special guests, discussing his expertise in the real estate industry. Mr. Tracy referred to Joe Rickards as “one of the foremost leading authorities in real estate and finance today.”

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, Morningstar, Yahoo Finance, and over 250 other networks around the country. Mr. Rickards is also the co-author of the best selling book, The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy. All book royalties are being donated to www.MarketersForGood.org.

Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.  He’s authored over 51 books and is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on personal and business success and his teachings have transformed the lives of millions around the world. Brian Tracy has consulted for more than 10,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in over 55 countries worldwide.

The Brian Tracy Show was produced by Nick Nanton, Esq. and JW Dicks, Esq.

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

About Joe Rickards:

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. They are buyers & marketing experts – not agents.  Their proven, cutting-edge marketing strategies help sellers and realtors sell luxury homes faster than anyone in the industry.

Since he can remember, Joe Rickards has 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 succeeded in building corporations 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 family in a poor farm home on the Canadian praries. Driven by his battered self-esteem, Joe worked hard and went on to graduate at the top of his engineering class and climbed the corporate ladder at leading Fortune 500 companies over the next 13 years. 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 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.