User:Delich Michael

Michael Delich has over 40 years’ experience in sales and marketing having worked at various top managerial positions.

= Personal Life = Michael Delich was born in Wyandotte, Michigan but spent a major part of his childhood in Minnesota. the family moved to Denver when Mike was 13 and stayed there for about a year and a half before finally moving to Omaha. The family’s decision to move to Omaha was because Michael’s father was offered a position as the President of Mutual of Omaha Fund Management Company.

Education And Carrier
After graduating from high school, Michael Delich joined the navy as an electronics specialist in 1971. He served aboard the USS Kansas City for four years and left the navy in 1975 to build a career in sales and marketing. He started working as a manufacturer’s representative and held that job for several years before moving to RTI, a wholesale record, and electronics business. He did not stay long at RTI, and left the job and bought Meyerson Distributing, a wholesale electronics and appliance merchant. However, success as a business entrepreneur did not seem to favor Michael, and the company was eventually dissolved.

Following the dissolving of Meyerson Distributing, he started working at American Gramaphone Records. When Delich took over the position as Director at American Gramaphone Records, the company was doing just about $1 million in sales a year. Using his unique marketing and sales strategies, Delich enabled the company’s sales to grow at a phenomenal rate. He stayed with the company for eleven years and developed a unique business model that helped the company sell 25 million records. The success of Michael Delich’s business model helped American Gramaphone Records become one of the prominent independent record companies in the United States.

Michael Delich met Norm Waitt, Jr. through a business acquaintance and the two began discussing Waitt’s business idea for a new entertainment company. Delich loved Norm’s vision for his new company, and the rest is history. Waitt asked Delich to join his company, and Michael agreed. From 1996 to 2005, Michael Delich served as the President and COO of Waitt Media, but after the entity was wound up, he was given an ownership opportunity and appointed the President of Waitt Outdoor, LLC.

Michael Delich is currently the president of Waitt Outdoor, LLC. The company is based in Omaha, Nebraska, and is one of the premier outdoor advertising companies in the area.

Interests

 * 1) Billboards
 * 2) Music Business
 * 3) Sales
 * 4) Strength Based Management
 * 5) Hiriing
 * 6) Negociation
 * 7) Managing People
 * 8) Technology
 * 9) Radio Business
 * 10) Television Business
 * 11) Marketing
 * 12) Strategic Planning