Speaking of Business helps you find the best business speakers for your next event. Our speakers are hand-picked, highly rated professionals who give solid information with an entertaining delivery style. Speaking of Business is based in Vermont with a second office in New Jersey. We are a subsidiary of Raphel Marketing, a marketing firm and publisher of business books and videos.
Not only do we manage the best speakers for business, we also have experience developing and running business conferences. For many years, as part of Raphel Marketing, we developed and ran a 3-day conference called “Supermarket College,” which brought together the best speakers on supermarket marketing with an audience of supermarket owners and top management. We have also managed a number of loyalty marketing conferences and other seminars. We can help you with any aspect of meeting planning that you may require, from providing one of our great speakers to helping to organize your conference and plan a full roster of speakers. Please click on Planning Your Meeting to learn more about the services we can offer.
Neil Raphel is president of Speaking of Business. The founder of Supermarket College, Neil has organized many business conferences. Like everyone at Speaking of Business, he knows each of our speakers personally and can help you decide which speakers would be best for your conference.
Ruth Raphel is vice president of Speaking of Business. She is the chief contact for meeting planners to handle all the details of booking a speaker. Ruth has many years of experience coordinating and negotiating for business speakers.

Janis Raye is vice president of Speaking of Business. She works with the speakers and handles marketing for them and for Speaking of Business.

Resumes of Neil Raphel, Ruth Raphel and Janis Raye follow.


Neil Raphel
President
Neil Raphel is one of the founders of Raphel Marketing. He has a 20-year background in direct marketing. He started several divisions of the company, including Raphel Publishing (our book division), Supermarket College (annual marketing conference for the supermarket industry), Marketing InSight (our optical division) and Speaking of Business.
Neil has co-authored several books, including "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Winning Customer Loyalty," “Up the Loyalty Ladder,” “Tough Selling for Tough Times” and “The Loyalty Marketing Resource Book.”
Neil also has a background in finance and law, and was president of a commodities trading firm in New York City. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Texas Law School.

Neil is located in the Vermont office.
Phone: 802-751-8802
Email: neil@raphel.com


Ruth Raphel
Vice President

Ruth Raphel is a marketer, editor and consultant for Raphel Marketing. In addition she creates presentations and produces Murray Raphel's seminars.
Ruth was a co-developer of Gordon's Alley, a major retail complex in Atlantic City and New Jersey's first inner city pedestrian mall. She was involved in all aspects of marketing, advertising and promotion, and was a merchandise buyer for Gordon’s clothing store.

Ruth is located in the New Jersey office.
Phone: 609-348-6646
Email: ruth@raphel.com
 

 
Janis Raye
Vice President
Janis Raye heads the turn-key direct marketing programs for Raphel Marketing. She also is responsible for projects involving customer focus groups and other marketing research.
Janis is co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Winning Customer Loyalty" and “The Loyalty Marketing Resource Book.” She has edited several books published by Raphel Marketing.
Janis has a MBA from Columbia University and is an alumna of Wellesley College. Prior to joining Raphel Marketing, she worked in customer and employee relations at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Citicorp and Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino.

Janis is located in the Vermont office.
Phone: 802-751-8802
Email: janis@raphel.com