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Michael Alden is an American entrepreneur and author. He is founder and chief executive office of the direct response company Blue Vase Marketing located in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Early Life
Alden was born and raised in Beverly, Massachusetts. He grew up in a low-income housing project surrounded by poverty, crime and family alcohol and drug abuse which eventually lead to the death of a brother due to a heroin overdose. Alden graduated from Beverly High School in 1993. He then went on to Springfield College and later graduated from Suffolk Law School.

Business and Writing
In 2009, Alden founded Blue Vase Marketing. In 2014, Alden released Ask More, Get More: How to Earn More, Save More, and Live More...Just by ASKING. The book was ranked 4th on The Wall Street Journal Best Seller list for April, 2014 for Non-Fiction E Books. It also was listed on the USA Today Best Seller List. His second book 5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results was published by Wiley and Sons in 2016 and reached the USA Today Best Seller List.

Personal Life
Alden has one daughter.