Company Name: "The Nitpicker" Address: c/o Kent Butler 101 Saluda Pointe Drive - Suite 915 Lexington, SC 29072 Telephone: 803-957-3168 Email: butler46@windstream.net

Kent Butler, also known as "The Nitpicker", edits the iCop Internet Marketing Trade Journal. He has been writing and editing in the business genre for some thirty years, from articles and booklets to training and marketing materials. The writing and editing, Kent says, are avocational; his "real" career is in marketing and sales.

Kent has enjoyed (mostly) a varied career including such diverse things as being a radio personality and program director, an IBMer, a residential real estate broker (from sales agent to corporate division manager), and a talent agency owner.

Training has always been one of Kent's favorite endeavors and he's proud to have helped train hundreds of salespeople and managers. In those efforts, he has produced numerous training programs covering subjects from ethics to body language to closing the sale.

Since 1995 he has owned his own marketing company, which is doing nicely and allows him time for other ventures. Among those are writing occasional ezine articles on a variety of topics. As time permits, he's writing a series of small ebooks on the subject of writing. "I hope to be able to help people communicate better, thereby improving their online (and offline) businesses," Kent says. They are entitled The Nitpicker's Guide to... (Power Punctuation is available free at: http://www.personal-puzzles.com/punctuation_power.pdf; Word Power and Power Writing are in the works).

Kent also owns Personal-Puzzles.com - a service creating completely custom, personalized word puzzles. Both Word Search (crisscross) and Freeform Crossword are available. He says the puzzles are not only challenging and fun, but make great training materials for adults and learning aids for kids.

Kent is also Editor and Publisher of Catnip Chronicles, The Feline Fancier’s Digital Magazine at CatnipChronicles.com He says it is fast becoming a world-class “cat-centric” publication.

Kent lives happily with his best friend (his wife) in "The Land of Beautiful Places and Smiling Faces" just outside Lexington, South Carolina. He works at home. "Nicest office I've ever had," he says, "complete with home entertainment center and our three playful cats. Hard to work some days ..."

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