Rick Itzkowich is the president of 501 Connections Inc. and serves as a Vistage chair helping CEOs and business owners. He is known as an expert in leveraging LinkedIn and online/offline networking. Itzkowich has created several products to help executives, sales professionals and real estate agents with networking and referrals. He has a background as a serial entrepreneur and has walked away from a multi-million dollar business to pursue a more balanced life, training others in self-development.

1. Rick Itzkowich
President
501 Connections Inc.
“Rick I - The LinkedIn Guy”
Vistage Chair - San Diego
Phone
(858) 456-7653
Email
rick@rickitzkowich.com
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/ritzkowich.com
Twitter
@thelinkedinguy
Facebook
www.facebook.com/rickitzkowich
Websites
www.rickitzkowich.com
www.quoteactions.com
www.newfarmingstrategy.com
Rick Itzkowich (It’s-ko-witch) aka Rick I “The LinkedIn Guy” and
Vistage Chair is best known for helping business people bridge the two
worlds of face-to-face networking and online networking. If you’re only doing one
and not the other, you’re missing out.
As an LinkedIn expert, Rick educates, trains and supports executives
in ways to leverage LinkedIn for their personal and professional advantage.
As a Vistage Chair, Rick brings an understanding of real world CEO pains to
the advisory groups he leads. With Vistage International, the world’s leading
chief executive organization, stressed-out CEOs can quit making decisions in a
vacuum. Rick helps CEOs become better leaders, make better decisions and
achieve better results.
As a Serial Entrepreneur, Rick has created three products to specifically
help C-level executives, sales professionals and real estate agents.
Link Power - How to Leverage LinkedIn
QuoteActions - A New Farming Strategy for Realtors
Rock IT Referrals - Targeted Referrals Made Easy
Career Highlights:
Walked away from a multi-million dollar family business in the 80s to pursue
a more balanced life and co-founded a successful self-development company in
90s where he trained thousands with its signature “Mind In Business” course.
Founder of Rick Itzkowich Consulting, incorporated as 501 Connections Inc.
Acting Vistage San Diego Chair helping CEOs and business owners triple
their company's growth rate while working fewer hours.
Directing executive board member of my family-owned Mexico City-based
Regiomontana de Perfiles y Tubos manufacturing firm.
Active SCORE San Diego and SBA workshop presenter.
Serves as Digital Media columnist for Women's Voices Magazine, a
recipient of the New Media Institute 2014 Standard of Excellence Award.
Co-authored Give: 16 Giving Strategies to Grow Your Business, Increase
Sales and Network More Effectively
Received BNI-Business Network International's Notable Networker Award
27 times and served as the Del Mar Chapter’s president three times.
Honored with the 2010 Best Speaker Award at the You Learn Twit Face
Social Media Conference in Dubai
Sought-after business resource for media: appeared on the
UK’s City7Business; featured article in UT-San Diego “LinkedIn a Powerful,
Essential Sales Tool;” spotlight story in Dubai Gulf News on “Building Brands
on Social Networks;” and more.
PROFILE
Let’s start
a conversa on.

2. What people are
saying about Rick . . .
QuoteActions is an automated email
follow up system especially suited for
Realtors. It’s turnkey and maintenance
free. It lets brokers and agents quickly
fill their buyer-seller pipeline creating
more revenue and profits.
QuoteActions helps prospects
remember you so that when they're
ready to buy or sell a house they’ll will
list with you. The inspirational quotes
and actions are branded with your
name, logo and company —
generating goodwill and top of
mind awareness.
Let’s face facts, LinkedIn is far more than
an online parking lot for your basic re-
sume-style profile. With Link Power, you
will learn how important it is to have an
up-to-date profile page with personalized
summary.
LinkedIn is the business world’s go-to
place to get information about you and
your company. With the series of video
tutorials, you will learn the in’s and out’s
of using LinkedIn to your advantage.
With Link Power you’ll increase your
revenues through referrals and innovative
word-of-mouth strategies.
Skyrocket your referrals. LinkedIn’s
powerful database combined with technol-
ogy tools for screen sharing, content short
cuts and online calendar scheduling create
a maxed-out, cost-effective, time-saving
way to quadruple the number of targeted
referrals you get from people you know.
Get video tutorials, “how to” eBook and
template guide with resources.
On a personal note, I love
to travel, play national
tournament adult baseball,
spend time with my 2
daughters and do Sudoku.
“I have participated in Vistage groups Rick
has facilitated as well as had one-to-one
conversations with him that have led to
significant professional insights.”
“Rick is a masterful presenter with a solid
understanding of LinkedIn and other
networking strategies. He provides optimal
actions for leveraging your networking and
increasing your business.”
“Thanks for turning me on to using
QuoteActions to stay in front of my buy-sell
leads. I’ve received four referrals this month
from being in the right place at the right time —
in their inbox to be exact! QuoteActions are
amazing easy for Realtors."
“As a member of Rick’s Vistage group, I have
finally found the help I needed to solve
internal team building challenges. The group
helps me see the forest for the trees!”
My motto in life is to live
an extraordinary life.
I’m passionate about
helping other people
live one too.
I know what it’s like to
make a lot of money and
be miserable doing it.
I help people wake up to
all of the possibilities life
has to offer!
“Rick's referral system is incredibly powerful.
I had met with Rick and the net result was 17
referrals between the two of us! Thank you
very much for a powerful system.”
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