Hi:

My name is Ernie Zelinski.

I am an innovator, international best-selling author, speaker, and unconventional career expert specializing in creating inspirational, humorous content for books, ebooks, calendars, and websites.

My focus is in the areas of creativity, retirement, work/life balance, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

I can help your company create COOLNESS, GOODNESS, and AWARENESS with your target market.

One important point about content for the Internet and newsletters: The common adage used by marketing gurus is "CONTENT IS KING."

In fact, in today's internet world, "SNACKABLE CONTENT IS KING." This is an important distinction. 

I have years of experience in creating valuable content that has proven itself in the marketplace. My books have sold over 625,000 copies worldwide and have been published in 28 countries.

Not so long ago I put together a book of quotations about money called The 777 Best Things Ever Said about Money and ended up selling the Japanese rights for an advance of $8,000 within three hours of accidentally sending it to the wrong Japanese literary agent. The rights to this book are available in all other languages, including rights to use this book in electronic form as a promotional business item on a financial website.

My international bestsellers The Joy of Not Working (over 225,000 copies sold) and How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (over 110,000 copies sold) are my million-dollar properties simply because these two books have made over a million dollars in pretax profits for me.

My latest creative work is an illustrated gift book called  The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks that presents a positive message about retirement utilizing "snackable content."

I am willing to license the content from The Joy of Being Retired to any organization that would like to post a positive one-a-day message about the joys of retirement on their website or in their newsletter.

I have several other books that can be customized for any client's specific message to its customers including:

 

Several major organizations such as Allstate Financial and the Syncrude Corporation have purchased thousands of copies of my international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free as a premium gift book to give to retiring employees and baby-boomer clients. Here are some of the numbers of copies purchased by various organizations:

• Allstate Financial —  3,750 copies  
• Syncrude Corporation —  1,100 copies  
• Strathcona County —  120 copies  
• Ford Motor Co. —  250 copies  
• Life Planning Works —  500 copies  
• Nettworth Financial Inc. —  1,800 copies  

My various websites get over 75,000 unique visitors a month. The visitors come wholly from organic retirement-related searches, mainly from Google and Yahoo. I have never used PPC to get traffic.

I am willing to partner with any organization that wants to target their message to the visitors to my more than 20 websites.

Following are a few of my websites:

• The Retirement Cafe  
• Retirement Quotes Cafe 
• Real Success Resource Center  
• VIP Books Promotional Giveaways     
• How to Retire Happy                   
• The Joy of Not Working               
• The Friendship Cafe                    
• The Joy of Being Retired             

I am also interested in proposals from anyone who would like to market my intellectual property and creative works for partnerships with major corporations on a commission basis.

Contact Information

  E-mail Addresses:    vip-books  telus.net

  or  success101coach  yahoo.com

    Phone 780-434-9202

Some of the Things That Have Been Said

“Ernie Zelinski helps others find the time to live.”
— Boston Herald"

"Take inspiration from the success of Ernie Zelinski."
— Leslie Whitaker, Philadelphia Inquirer

“This Zelinski guy knows how to write prose that has the potential
to become those old proverbs everyone repeats."
— Herb Denenberg, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin 

“Get this book [How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free]
if you look forward to a retirement with 'zing!' ”
— Nancy Paradis, St. Petersburg Times, Florida

"Next to the Bible it [ How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free]
may be the most inspiring book I have read."
— Richard Thibeault, Pointe Claire, Quebec

“To be sure, retirement books are a glutted field, but most focus on
money and financial planning. They view the finish line as the last day
of employment. That’s where Zelinski’s [retirement book] begins.”
— Jonathan Chevreau, National Post

“I have learned much from Ernie.”
— Azizi Ali, Multimillionaire, Best-Selling Author,
and Professional Speaker

"If he was in a different kind of business, he'd be one of those
 successful entrepreneurs on the covers of magazines."
— Sharon Budnarchuk, Owner Audrey's Books, Edmonton

My Top-10 Specialties

1. Innovator and Creator — I am a specialist in helping Corporations increase awareness and exude COOLNESS AND GOODNESS by having them give away my Premium Gift Books to clients and employees.

2. International Best-Selling Author — My best-selling books have sold over 625,000 Copies worldwide.

3. Early Retirement — I semi-retired when I was 35 and had a net worth of minus $30,000! I know that this may sound impossible to some people, but it was possible because my retirement plan has always been better than most.

4. Solo-Entrepreneurship  — "Secure Career" is not part of my vocabulary!

5. Publishing and Marketing — All of my Best-Sellers had to be self-published because they were all rejected by major publishers. That's okay because I make a lot more money by self-publishing.

6. Foreign Book Rights Sales — I have negotiated over 101 Book Deals in 28 different countries without going to the Frankfurt Book Fair where major publishers go for foreign rights deals.

7. Public Speaking — Only when I feel like it, get paid to fly Business Class, and get to stay at Hotels such as the Ritz-Carlton in Istanbul, the Chateau Lake Louise, the Banff Springs, and the Pacific Palisades in Vancouver!

8. Living the 80/20 Way — Working 4 or 5 Hours a day and still earning a better living than 90 percent of the corporate world.

9. Unconventional Career Expert — I advise people on how not to work hard and how to avoid working in corporations by working smart and by being innovative.

10. World-Class Leisureologist — A major newspaper, in fact, called me a "world-class loafer" but I have chosen to change this title a bit. Although I like working, I don't believe anyone should have to work more than 4 or 5 Hours a day. So leave the relaxing to me if you are too busy to do it yourself!