Stan Cotton, veteran marketing and advertising, author and idea man.

Stan Cotton is a retired free lance ad producer (never a corporate employee) who made a ton of money in the ad business on his own.

He's an old fire horse who can no longer resist the temptation to get back in the business. There's no balls out there. The opportunity and reward for gutsy advertising and promotion is greater than ever. He has spent much of his professional life creating for small and large clients contrary, negative-to-positive feather-ruffling, thought provoking, chuckle inducing, out-of-the-groove, and occasionally shocking ads THAT SELL!

Q. OK, if Stan Cotton's such a hot shot guy, where has he been for the last 10 or more years? A. Good question. From advertising in the 90's he fell into a counter-trade business for multi-nationals, made a ton of money and played with his stock portfolio while caring for his family. Now he's back to his first love creating exciting ads that will impact business and the political process. In each instance, Cotton did not rely on complicated research, time-consuming focus groups, decision trees or charts or graphs depicting "consumer sensitivity" or "how to seek art awards."

If you get to do business with Stan, here's how it works. Call and let Stan learn about your project. He will come up with an ad concept with new 2010 style graphics that scares the pants off you, but knocks the socks off the public. Customers come running barefoot to you. And we all make money.

Cotton's ad work is truth in the form of a bucket of cold water in the face. It wakes people up and gets them moving in your direction.

Have any doubts? Then challenge him and he'll troll a couple of ideas by you that will have you wondering whether he's crazy or a genius.

(Even if you don't use it, it's worth flashing in front of your ad agency).