About Edwin J. Sprague
A “guy like us," Ed knows what its like to work from the bottom up.
He once accepted a $20,000 trial job offer in sales and, in less than five years, became the corporation’s president leading the organization to fulfill and distribute more than $2 billion in retail product. His clients included high-profile direct-merchandising titans QVC, Q-Direct, American Telecast Corporation, Aerobed, Total Gym Fitness, Torso Track, Ab Dolly and celebrity-branded products by such stars as Suzanne Somers, Hugh Downs, Victoria Jackson, Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley.
Taking those “little million-dollar ideas” we all get but don’t know what to do with, Ed became an award winning inventor earning numerous patents. His ideas have sold at Walmart, Kmart, Dicks, Sports Authority, Golfsmith, Edwin Watts, Academy Sports, Big Five and in thousands of brick and mortar retail locations in more than twenty countries and at countless on-line and specialty outlets selling nearly 3 million units.
A drop-out with a reading deficiency, Ed became an award winning and best selling author. After earning Publishers, Readers, Editor’s Choice and Star Awards for his first book, a self-published novel entitled The Point Guard, Ed was signed to a publishing contract by renowned publisher Career Press for the release of his second book, a motivational title, The Z Factor.
...Ed has landed invitations and tryouts with the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, Houston Oilers, Baltimore Colts, Dallas Cowboys and the USFL’s New Jersey Generals and Chicago Blitz before walking-on and being signed to an NFL free-agent player’s contract with the New York Jets.
Ed has appeared as a guest on local, national and syndicated TV and radio. He and his works have been seen, highlighted and featured on ESPN, in Forbes Life Magazine, Pop Culture Madness, Sync Magazine, Golf Digest, Japanese Nikkei Marketing Journal, Tour Partners Magazine, Golf Magazine and countless national and international print and online publications.
Born and raised in the row-home neighborhoods of Southwest Philly and Folcroft/DELCO, Ed is married with two sons and resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia.