After positions at five different companies, Mark Ziebarth is once again "planning for a new start". (Publisher Profile).

Newsletter on Newsletters, The, October, 2002 by Goss, Fred

Armed with a newly minted college degree, the proudly conservative and young Mark Ziebarth went to Washington, D.C. in 1982 for what became a five-year stint in fundraising with the conservative Heritage Foundation.

"It's the most creative form of selling," Zeibarth said, "because, using direct mail and other techniques familiar to newsletter publishers, you are convincing people to send you money in exchange for nothing

(except promises to continue the 'good work')."

Bell Atlantic

After five years, ready to spread his wings and having added an MBA to his resume, Ziebarth joined Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in 1987 for one year during which he was "utterly miserable."

Phillips Publishing

A colleague from the Heritage...

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