Is $100 Million Ron Popeil Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Ronald M. "Ron" Popeil (/Poʊˈpiːl/; Born May 3, 1935) Is an American Inventor and...
Ron Popeil Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Ronald M. "Ron" Popeil (/poʊˈpiːl/; born May 3, 1935) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie ("Set it, and forget it!") and for using the phrase, "But wait, there's more!" on television as early as the mid-1950s. He is also well known for making a pocket fisherman casting toy.
Full Name
Ron Popeil
Net Worth
$100 million
Date Of Birth
May 3, 1935
Place Of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Occupation
Inventor and infomercial salesman
Profession
Inventor, Businessperson
Work Position
He Invents! Markets! Makes Millions!
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Nationality
American
Spouse
Robin Angers (m. 1995), Lisa Boehne (m. 1981), Marilyn Green (m. 1956–1963)
Lisa Popeil, Jerome Popeil, Jerry Popeil, Pamela Popeil
Nicknames
Ron Popeil, Popeil, Ron
IMDB
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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But wait! There's more!
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Now, how much would you pay?
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I'm an inventor first and a marketer second. Other people in our business take the spaghetti approach. They throw a lot of stuff against the wall and hope something sticks. The failure rate is dependent solely on what you're throwing up against the wall. I don't operate that way. I'm willing to make a serious investment in an idea and take two to two and one-half years of my life to create it, to get behind it and understand it and take it to the marketplace.
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Fact
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A likeness of his head appears in Futurama: A Big Piece of Garbage (1999) as the inventor of the technology to keep disembodied heads alive.
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Co-host, with Nancy, of an infomercial for the "Ronco Food Dehydrator". [2008]
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Co-host, with Steve Bryant, of an infomercial for the "Showtime Rotisserie". [2006]
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Co-host, with 'Steve Bryant' of an infomercial for the "Showtime Knives". Also appearing are his daughters Shannon Popeil and Lauren Popeil, and his cousin Arnold. [2006]
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Co-host, with Jill Whelan, of an infomercial for the "RONCO rotisserie". [2002]
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Co-host, with Nancy, of an infomercial for the "Ronco Electric Pasta Maker". [2008]
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Release of his book, "The Salesman of the Century: Inventing, Marketing and Selling on TV: How I Did It and How You Can Too!" by Ron with Jefferson Graham. [1995]
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Co-host, with Nancy, of an infomercial for "GHL" (Great Looking Hair). [2008]
"Ronco", the company he sold in 2005, has filed for bankruptcy protection [June 15, 2007].
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Satirist 'Weird Al' Yankovic, had a song about the infomercial king on his 1984 album, "In 3-D". The song is called "Mr. Popeil" and it mentions many of the more memorable Ronco products (the Vegematic, the Pocket Fisherman, etc.) as well as unrelated infomercial gadgetry
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In every one of his commercials he uses the line: "But wait! There's more!"
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Inventor and TV pitch-man of various gadgets. Since the relaxation of advertising restrictions on US television, he has become a fixture on "infomercial" paid programming.
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Coined the phrase "cordless electric" to make an item seem more sophisticated than "battery operated".
