SEATTLE, Sept. 14, 2011 — Financial services professionals across the United States are invited to attend a free webinar from Pro Athlete Direct™ ) designed to outline the roadmap for adding professional athletes to client bases and raising assets. Entitled “How to Raise +$10M in Assets in <6 Months While Saving Pro Athletes from Going Broke,” the webinar will be hosted by Pro Athlete Direct founder and former Wall Streeter Brian Ouellette.
“Pro Athlete Direct is a database and service focused on connecting finance professionals with pro athletes to expand their businesses while helping pro athletes and their families avoid going broke,” said Ouellette. “The majority of professional players go broke within a few years of retirement. For example, 60 percent of players in the National Basketball Association go broke within five years of retiring and 78 percent of players in the National Football League are broke after just two years of retirement. Our goal is to help financial advisors fix this problem and improve their business at the same time.”
The free 25-minute webinar (limited to 75 participants) will be held at 10:00 a.m. ET on three days:
- Thursday, September 15
- Friday, September 16
- Monday, September 19
During his webinar, Ouellette will cover the following topics:
- How so many pro athletes go broke.
- How this affects not only the players but their spouses, children and future generations.
- How financial service professionals can fix the problem.
- How to connect with pro athletes.
- How to stand out from the pack to sports agents and gatekeepers.
- How Pro Athlete Direct connects financial advisors with agents/pro athletes.
Interested parties can register for the webinar at .
For more than a decade, Ouellette worked as a money manager on the Chicago Board of Trade, on Wall Street in New York City and in Seattle’s financial district. In 2000, he was invited to be the market commentator for Q13 FOX News This Morning, and for three and a half years, he reported daily from his CIBC Oppenheimer office.
In September 2010, Ouellette launched Pro Athlete Direct, a comprehensive database of over 7,500 athletes and sports agents from 16 major professional sports leagues. “We are adding and updating database information continually and are in the process of adding over 1,000 European athletes and their agents,” he said.
“Pro Athlete Direct presents financial advisors with an extremely promising market,” Ouellette continued. “One of our licensees had already begun working on adding professional athletes as clients before signing with us. Within two years after creating a relationship with one sports agent, he added 28 NHL clients. With our help, financial professionals can start networking with sports agents right away so that they add athletes to their client base in a matter of months. The need is great, and the opportunities are lucrative.”
Contact:
Brian Ouellette
Pro Athlete Direct
877-979-7223
Email
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sbrianouellette
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