Mike Wicks Email & Phone Number

Victoria, B.C. Canada

Victoria, Bc

I'm a ghostwriter, ghost blogger, freelance writer, author, and publishing consultant. I specialize in business books, memoirs, big-idea books, and self-help books. I most commonly work with successful professionals to produce books that build their credibility and businesses. I’ve written and ghostwritten 24 print books, including the Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly bestseller, Built Not Born: A Self-Made Billionaire's No-Nonsense Guide for Entrepreneurs and Tom Golisano's autobiography, The Italian Kid Did It!. More recently, I worked with Stacey Wempe on her powerful memoir, A Million Times We Cry, and with Robert Stack, on Silent No Longer:Developmental Disabilities and Social (In)Justice.I co-wrote Fire From The Sky – A Diary Over Japan, which won a silver medal for the best military memoir of 2005, awarded by the Military Writers Society of America. In 2023, I worked with Morgan Miller on his award-winning military memoir, Drafted: My Year in Vietnam.I am the author of How Not to Sell and How Not to Manage People published by Harpe Collins Leadership (August 2020).My sales and marketing column appeared in Douglas Business Magazine for ten years and I contributed food and lifestyle articles to YAM (You and Me) magazine, a lifestyle publication for southern Vancouver Island for more than a decade. My articles on travel have been featured in Salt magazine and Adventures NW. I am also the founder of WestShore magazine.I have more than 40-year experience in mainstream and custom book publishing, working at many of the great publishing houses including Random House, Michael Joseph, and the Pearson-Longman group. I founded one of the industry’s first special publications divisions, publishing corporate-sponsored books and specialist publications. I subsequently became managing director and part-owner of two custom publishing houses.

Victoria, B.C. Canada

Your Better Business Content publishes eBooks, eNewsletters and training manuals and is a division of Blue Beetle Books Inc. It also has an article library for busy people requiring a cost-effective quick blog post or newsletter article.All this company's publications are available for customization and are used as support material for clients and members of development corporations, business associations, and as promotional items to provide business learning materials for customers of B2B companies such as accounting firms.Blue Beetle Book's custom publishing imprint publishes books for a wide range of clients.

Victoria, B.C. Canada

I founded Blue Beetle Books Inc. in early 2010. In late 2015 Paul Abra joined the company as co-owner. Blue Beetle is a custom publishing house of both print and eBooks as well as eMagazines and training workbooks.Please check out our website at www.bluebeetlebooks.com

This company no longer carries out management consulting contracts. It is the legal company name for Mike Wicks author and freelance writer.

Victoria, B.C. Canada

In today’s social media driven world, we all know content is king, especially business content. However, so much of the business content you see online is mere fluff, there’s no substance to it – it’s poorly written and it lacks depth.Your Better Business Content – YourBBC – changes all that by providing superior, professionally written business content in ready-to-brand eMagazines and eBooks, and a brand new catalogue of business articles that take online business content to a whole new level.The principals behind YourBBC are Mike Wicks and Paul Abra. Mike is a published business writer and award-winning author, a seasoned book publisher and business trainer. Paul is a well-established executive coach and magazine publisher with a Masters in Education.From off-the-shelf eMagazines and articles to tailor-made publications and custom-written articles, all at prices you won’t believe, YourBBC is the only business content provider you’ll ever need. Add a range of eBooks and self-delivered training workshops and YourBBC is re-writing what great business content means one magazine and one article at a time.

I founded the WestShore magazine.

YCW managed/represented a team of writers and editors.

London, United Kingdom

Strategic Sponsorship was, at the time, Europe’s largest non-sport corporate sponsorship consulting firm. The company represented major corporations and government agencies. Key projects included the Seville Expo (The British Pavilion); London Marathon; Bailey’s Summer Stage Concerts; English Tourist Board and British Tourist Authority (responsible for sponsored publications). Managed a staff of five. Key responsibilities included creating innovative sales and marketing concepts linking corporations and non-profit organizations, and managing corporate sponsorship programs and events for major corporations, government and non-profit agencies. Initiated and managed a new publishing program for the English Tourist Board.

Holmfirth, Yorkshire. U.K.

Founded Rowan Publishing as the primary marketing arm of the Rowan Yarns Group of companies. Responsible for publishing two best-selling hardcover books, and a wide range of social stationery. Managed a domestic sales team of 12 and an international sales/distribution team of 17. Bought video distribution rights to an industry related television series, re-packaged it and sold it successfully worldwide.

London, United Kingdom

Founded the special sales/publications division. Developed new and innovative marketing concepts that put the company at the forefront of the industry. In its first year, the department achieved higher profit margins than any other division.

Bachelor'S Degree (Year One Only), Humanities

Education record

For many reasons I never had the opportunity of attending university. I started my career in publishing (in the U.K.) as a trainee sales.