User:Tim Bete

Tim Bete is a direct-marketing copywriter, marketing consultant and world record holder (creating the world's longest Mad Lib. He specializes in the fundraising market. Tim is also author of the humor books, In The Beginning...There Were No Diapers and Guide to Pirate Parenting. He is the former director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton. His Web sites are EnergizedCopy.com, TimBete.com and PirateParenting.com.

Tim has won more than a dozen national awards for communications excellence, including an Educational Press Association Editorial Achievement Award and a Gold Apple from the National Educational Film Festival. I've been a speaker at many conferences and workshops including the Phone/Mail 101, EDUCAUSE, Dayton Association of Fundraising Professionals, Cincinnati Fundraising Conference and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. I've consulted with many non-profits, including a stint as chair of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's Communication Advisory Board.