Rob Frankel

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My career in advertising/marketing began at Foote, Cone & Belding/Los Angeles, and includes director-level experience at several of the world's major advertising agencies, including DMB&B, Dailey & Associates and others too miserable to mention. Having served eight years of hard labor, I finally managed to tunnel out and form Frankel & Anderson, home of Advertising, Marketing & Killer Creative™ and the country's first all-digital advertising agency.

Then I found out that you can't do great advertising without great branding. So that's when I decided to specialize.

Before that, I nabbed a BA in Economic History from the University of California, itself a pretty considerable feat when you consider that I had to invent the major in order to declare it. Playboy magazine acclaimed my first book, The Gentleman's REAL Guide to College, as "... a college guide from hell" that remains a cult classic. For those who doubt my ability to actually create something and actually derive revenue from it, you can search the United States Patent Office and find that I am the inventor and owner of U.S. patent 4,269,499 for Foto Pheet®, the world's lightest and smallest camera stand for travel.

So there.