John Palumbo

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John Anthony Palumbo (born 1956) is a businessman and motivational speaker based in Jacksonville, Florida, ^[1] and the host of the "Investment Gambler" segment on WJXT^[2], a Jacksonville television station. He is also the executive producer of the syndicated television series America's Dumbest Criminals. ^[3]

Palumbo was born in 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama, the oldest of four children. His father, Leonard, was a modest homebuilder and mother, Joann, was a stay-at-home mother. He realized early that he had a mind for business. Palumbo attended college, but did not graduate.

Mr. Palumbo has at least a dozen businesses, an attempt to take advantage of any situation with a profit potential. One of his first companies was The Sterling Group, described as an idea studio for sales and marketing management, and Palumbo is the CEO.

He is the principal of the firm, Bankruptcy Asset Management, and one of the nation's leading authorities on the evaluation and liquidation of unusual assets in bankruptcy. He has the ability to recognize value in items dismissed as worthless.^[4]

Over the last two decades, Mr. Palumbo has taken part in and crafted literally hundreds of successful business deals. His unorthodox but effective style gave him the rights to intellectual properties such as the Alex Haley estate, which included the assets Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Another deal yielded the rights to America's Dumbest Criminals television series.

However, his biggest talent is probably his motivational speaking, and his company, Theatre of the Mind Productions presents one-day seminars on many topics:

Closing encounters
The Challenge of New Home Sales Management
Prescriptions to Cure Slow Sales Syndrome and Boost Your Profits NOW!
Super Sales Rally: Live with Meredith and John
Selling on Stage
Essential Closing Strategies
Sales Management 360°

Palumbo's speaking style enlightens, educates and entertains at the same time, incorporating humor and real world situations to drive home the methods that his years of experience have provided.

He is also the author of the books, Close and Grow Rich and What's Your Sales DNA?