Meet The Mentors

So Just Who Are The IM Mentors?

Jack Spirko - Jack Spirko’s history in sales and marketing follows  a colorful 13 year history.  Intitally developing his career in the telecommunications sector specializing in fiber optic networks he made the move into sales in 1996.  In January of the year 2000 he landed his first million dollar purchase order at the young age of 28.  (This was a 1.4 million dollar deal with Yahoo!).  From there he moved on to positions with GarrettCom and Fluke Networks.

While selling came naturally to Jack he always saw it as a limited field.  In his own words, “Once you sold something no matter how much you made doing it you had to turn around and do it again to have ongoing success and growth.  I realized very early in life that systems were more important then raw talent“.  So in 1999 he began experimenting with using Internet marketing to develop leads for his sales teams and soon found success, as the Internet grew so did the success of his programs.  Eventually he made the transition out of sales and moved on to 100% focus on the power of Internet based marketing techniques.  During this time Mr. Spirko has consulted with and achieved results such as

  • From 2007-2008 he served as a personal consultant to Donald Trump’s “Trump University” winning accolades such as this one.
  • Serving as a National Trainer for Cognigen Networks (now Commission River) from 2003-2006, he provided Internet marketing training to their 200,000 plus agent base and wrote the company’s primary training manual.
  • He developed the internet marketing and email marketing systems for Sage Telecom
  • He improved the web dominance of “The Auto Club” in Austin TX assisting them in selling the company to AAA
  • Serving as Masterlinks “Director of Internet Marketing” he helped double their SEO business in 2005
  • In 2006 he developed the a lead capture and pay per click marketing system for TexasLending.com that tripled their initial results.  A system still in use today!
  • Recieved National Recognition for his review of Microsoft’s Adcenter Launch in Feb, 2006
  • Appeared as a guest speaker and guest lecturer at educational institutions and events such as delivering the Key Note address at the 2008 Construction Expo in Dallas, Texas.
  • Some of his videos are currently being use in Masters Level Marketing Courses at the University of Texas, Arlington
  • Developed the marketing program behind Ballistic Striking taking an unknown martial artist from zero to over 100,000 dollars in DVD sales

While working with big companies provides large finincial rewards Jack has found his work with small entrepreneurs much more rewarding.  Quoting Mr. Spirko, “When you tell an individual entrepreneur about a mistake they take quick action and fix it. “When you tell a major corporation about a mistake, they call a meeting, discuss the issue and then they come up with an excuse for why they can’t make the change. This reality is what led me to create training programs for the Individual Entrepreneur”.


Neil Franklin - Neil Franklin is an award-winning British entrepreneur and executive currently based in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Franklin made history by leading his company, Dataworkforce, to win first place for a record two years in a row in the prestigious Sunday Times/Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 competition in 2000 and 2001, a competition to find the UK’s 100 fastest growing companies.

Mr. Franklin’s entrepreneurial and executive flair has also resulted in him being highlighted by Deloitte & Touche’s Indy judges at The Independent on Sunday, being a finalist in the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Awards and being ranked 7th in the Enterprise 100 Entrepreneur list.

Mr. Franklin is also listed in the British ‘Who’s Who’ in Recruitment 2002 and the 2003 edition of ‘Who’s Who’ in British business excellence. Additionally, he has served as a Telecommunications Industry spokesperson for the BBC, Sky Television, and the British and American National Press including Time Magazine, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times and The Dallas Morning News.

Neil began his business career in 1983 at the age of 19, by forming a marketing business for the direct sales industry. In 1985, Mr. Franklin entered the staffing services industry and in 1987, began his career in technology with Metro Computer Consultants, a specialist staffing organization serving UK Industry. In 1988, Mr. Franklin moved to IT staffing firm MSB International, where he became Sales Director and also a shareholder.

In 1994, Mr. Franklin founded Dataworkforce Limited, a specialist technology staffing organization serving the telecommunications industry, and built the company out of his living room in South London to a global enterprise with offices in London, Switzerland, Singapore, Mexico City, Malaysia and Dallas, Texas. The Dataworkforce Group of companies is a leading international telecommunications-engineering firm that provides the most reliable and responsible service for communication systems implementation and expansion across the globe.

Since 2005, Mr. Franklin as the Chief Executive Officer based in the Dataworkforce headquarters in Frisco, Texas, has been spearheading the growth of Dataworkforce throughout the Americas, where the focus will be on providing innovative staffing solutions to future generations of converged technologies. Mr. Franklin is also an investor and Board Advisor to Dallas-based Cerion, Inc., a company providing specialist software and services to the telecommunications industry, and also is an investor and advisor to Dallas-based staffing organization, C-People, Inc.