Mike Blinder

Mike Blinder
President, Multimedia Sales Specialists

Mike Blinder is known nationally and internationally for his expertise in media, sales and marketing. With over 20 years experience in radio and television management, Mike helped launch the Interactive Media Division for Guy Gannett Communications' five newspaper and nine television properties. The award-winning Web sites and interactive platforms that resulted became some of the Web's most respected and successful.

Later, Mike played a key role in the emerging e-commerce industry as a Senior Vice President at an international internet application service company. While in that capacity, Mike was featured at over 100 seminars across the United States. He has spoken to over 25,000 business owners about how to effectively market and move their products on the Web.

Today Mike owns and manages The Blinder Group , a firm that helps media companies maximize revenues through effective sales of their multimedia assets. In 2002 the Blinder Group has helped generate over 4 million dollars of new print and online business for the newspaper industry. Some MSS clients include: Morris Communications, Sun Media, Hearst, Scripps & New York Time Regional Newspapers and over 100 media companies across North America.

Mike also owns and manages OperaWeb.com, the most respected Web development company of the classical music industry. OperaWeb.com represents world renown artists, including opera stars: Denyse Graves, Samuel Ramey, Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani and Frederica von Stade.

Mike is currently on a speaking tour for the Newspaper Association of America and has been featured at conferences all over the globe hosted by INMA, E&P, FPIA, SNPA, Inland Press and over 25 state press associations.