I am a 67 year old Writer,Lecturer on things Marketing & Advertising, living in Burgundy in France. Also a part-time Artist (I started life as a Commercial Artist &Illustrator). As with my part of my business I illustrate items of social history - cars, aircraft, military uniforms etc.
We are now concentrating on converting our Courses 'Career Training on CD' which are fully-narrated MBA courses as delivered to various Business Schools into e-books. The CD's are available from between $US25 - $US48 with up to 14 hours of study material on them!
I am also long-term, happily married to a French lady called Laure, and we own an old farmhouse in the heart of Burgundy in France, from where we work and make our various excursions.
We have lived and worked in 10 different countries in the past 30 years (longer than 1 year in each). UK, France, Belgium, Hungary, Malta, Australia, Bahrain & Gulf States, Estonia, Latvia. We have worked for shorter periods in Jordan, Vietnam, Russia and the Ukraine. Project work has been done in more than 20 other countries.
I was Professor of Media Studies with European Business Schools in Brussels,
Visiting Professor of International Marketing with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh State Universities, Professor Marketing Psychology, Research in Marketing with United Business Institutes in Brussels.
I was GM of JWT Direct in Australia, Agency Head for Michaelis Bayley in Australia, Partner in Lintas-Clark Direct & Promo in Budapest, and Partner in NCTraining in the Baltics with AGEcom (Saatchi & Saatchi in the Region).
In 1999 AGEcom published my book The Basics of Marketing Commuication, and I am just having my second text is now published 'Fitting in the 4th P - an IMC Primer' (ISBN 1420887181) thanks to the sponsorship of RCP Global, the international financial 'fix-it'company, and can be seen on http://www.amazon.com and for US readers - Barnes & Noble - http://www.bn.com, or through http://www.authorhouse.co.uk. Type Norman Clark in the search boxes.
I have now completed my Memoirs, 'Brothels, Beans & In-betweens - or 50 years an Ad-man'.
Current projects are the publishing of a series of Old Poster books, of which seven are now available through http://www.lulu.com/norman-clark