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Charlie Seymour Jr. leads a charmed life and follows his passion for marketing and for helping families grow in what he does for a living.

Charlie is an Ultimate Work At Home Dad, an entrepreneur, and a marketer with a heart for families, children, the arts, and how they tie together. He created UltimateWorkAtHomeDad.com, RaisingGreatFamilies.com, ILearnedItAllFromMyKids.com, and FathersAndTheDaughtersTheyLove.com.

Charlie has studied with some of the best direct response marketers on the planet – one on one, in the classroom, at seminars, and with work at home courses. He is no stranger to thinking big. He is an entrepreneur with a variety of interests and abilities, mostly focused on families and the Arts.

He honed his skills as a business marketer and entrepreneur after earning his MBA from The Wharton School in 1975 and his BA in from Tufts University in 1973. He sold $247,368,657.97 as a salesman and marketed more than $1 billion as the Vice President of Marketing for Jackson-Cross Company.

Charlie is featured in the new book, "Dream Inc," about 32 Philadelphia-area entrepreneurs and their million dollar secrets to success, and "The Ultimate Success Secret" by Dan Kennedy and Michael M. Capuzzi. Artistically his life has also been rich by directing musical theater when not working.

As a marketing consultant, Charlie defines Get Them Off The Raft Marketing which identifies the difference between Web 2.0 type marketing and old fashioned Teaching Frogs How To Drink Beer Marketing. He explains both here in HubPages and on his websites, as listed below.

He is a frequent speaker and author about Marketing, Work At Home, and Web 2.0. He runs his own photography and video business; is an online community builder; and has been an Ultimate Work At Home Dad for nearly 20 years. In addition to his major online projects, Charlie created http://LizSeymour.com to assist his daughter as she produced her first music CD. His personal portal site is http://CharlesSeymourJr.com.

Learn more here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesseymourjr

A fourth generation theater producer and director in the Philadelphia area who has worked tirelessly at the professional, community, university, summer, youth, and high school levels, his artistic abilities and genuine interest in promoting the well-being of live theater are complemented by his business strengths, particularly his expertise in business/arts marketing.

He founded Torn Ticket at Tufts University where he earned his BA in Economics and Music and was a founder of Wharton and the Arts at The Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania where he earned his MBA in Marketing and Arts Administration. He has also studied Dan Kennedy's Direct Response Marketing and is a Gold Level Member of the Insiders Circle.

Artistically his life has also been rich. After he wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (with NY composer Neil Radisch) as a major musical, helped lead McCarter Theater Company in Princeton and the Loretto-Hilton Repertory Theater in St. Louis, was the Producing Director and a Board Member for The Players Club of Swarthmore Theater, directed major musicals like "Sweeney Todd," "West Side Story," "Evita," "Follies," "A Chorus Line," "Rags," "Blood Brothers," and "Cabaret," traveled to Ocala, FL, Memphis, TN, and Kalamazoo, MI to direct theater, he was also the Artistic Director for Mask and Wig (the all-male troupe of the University of Pennsylvania) for three years.