Ron Popeil- Father Of The Slap Chop
There are videos available online wherein you can watch Ronco’s famous founder/inventor Ron Popeil demonstrating and pitching the Chop-O-Matic. The Chop-O-Matic makes easy work of the boring task of chopping and dicing food and the machine was a huge hit across American decades ago. In the video demonstration, Ron Popeil’s focus is on the [...]
Ron Popeil’s Greatest Hits
Ron Popeil, American inventor who is well known for his direct response company Ronco, will long be remembered for a wide variety of products designed to make life easier. Popeil is a natural born salesman and pitchman. He is able to take a product that for instance, men would not usually be interested in, and [...]
The Rise Of Ron Popeil
Ron Popeil is an American inventor and marketing genius who is known best for his company Ronco-a direct response marketing company.
Ron began to sell his father’s gadgets made for the kitchen at the largest flea market in Chicago in the mid 1950s at the young age of 13. In his late teens he sold the [...]
The Family History Of Ron Popeil
Nathan Morris immigrated to the United States in the late 1880s and called Asbury Park, New Jersey his new home. Nathan was a pitchman who worked the boardwalk and traveled up and down the east coast selling kitchen gadgets that were made by Acme Metal. Nathan founded N.K.Morris Manufacturing in the early 1940s which produced [...]
Get Snuggies
The Snuggie definitely has made an impact on the landscape of America’s pop culture scene. Referenced often, people simply get snuggies. One guy who did not “get snuggies” is AJ Khubani, CEO of TeleBrands. On the television show Pitchmen he admits he passed on The Snuggie thinking it would never sell, then [...]
