Summary: About The Guest Michael Alden is an engaging public speaker, best-selling author and the founder and CEO of Blue Vase Marketing, LLC, a multi-million dollar full-service Direct Response Marketing Agency offering media production, sales and customer satisfaction call centers, warehousing/fulfillment and analytics. Under Alden’s leadership, Blue Vase has grown from a small call center into a comprehensive marketing management company ranked by Inc. Magazine for three years in a row as one of the nation’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies and named the 2015 Large Business of the Year by the Greater Beverly Chamber of Commerce. In 2014, Alden was named by the Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s “Forty Under Forty” business and civic leaders who are making a major impact in their respective fields and the civic life of the Boston area. Most recently, Michael Aden received SmartCEOs Future 50 Award in recognition of Blue Vase Marketing’s fast-paced growth. Alden is the author of the best-selling books Blueprint to Business, 5% More and Ask More, Get More all of which have been listed at the top of Amazon and placed on the Wall Street Journal and USA Today’s best-selling lists. He is also the author of the children’s book Peanut Butter and Toast. He is seen by millions worldwide as the host of The Alden Report which features dozens of infomercial products and he is a regular guest on national and local podcasts and television shows. Alden also hosts a podcast of the same name in which he features nationally recognized leaders in the business world. Most recently, Alden has become an advocate for the world of Cryptocurrency. With the exponential rise of Cryptocurrency, Alden recognizes that people are thirsty for information and services in order to educate themselves about it. As it can get very technical and there are very few informational guides for the everyday person, Alden has dedicated himself to spreading information about this new world as he truly believes it to be the wave of the future by writing his latest book Crushing Crypto, How anyone can build a fortune in cryptocurrency. He has been featured in Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur.com, Huffington Post and CNBC.com discussing many business topics including cryptocurrency. Alden has established a long-standing corporate objective of community involvement fostering an environment in which Blue Vase employees contribute thousands of dollars and volunteer hours to groups such as YMCA of the North Shore, the North Shore United Way, Beverly Bootstraps and the Beverly Children’s Learning Center. Alden holds a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Political Science from Springfield College. For more about Michael, visit www.Michael-Alden.com. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat @MikeAlden2012
