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  2. Billy Mays - Wikipedia

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    Mays was born on July 20, 1958, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania to Joyce Palm [6] and Billy Mays Sr, where he was raised in nearby Pittsburgh. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] He was a student at Sto-Rox High School , [ 2 ] [ 7 ] and later West Virginia University , where he was a walk-on linebacker on its football team during his two years there.

  3. Flex Seal - Wikipedia

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    Flex Seal is an American brand of adhesive bonding products made by the family-owned company Swift Response in Weston, Florida. [1] Founded on February 28, 2011, [1] the company employs 100 people led by its pitchman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Swift. [1]

  4. After the death of a salesman, what happens to the ad ... - AOL

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    As the direct-marketing industry copes with the sudden death of pitchman Billy Mays, it's worth considering the fragile relationship between celebrity endorsement and death. In Mays's case, his ...

  5. Anthony Sullivan (pitchman) - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1990s, Sullivan moved to the United States and teamed up with a manufacturing company to create the "Smart Mop". A few years later, he debuted it on HSN, where he met his future business partner and friend Billy Mays. In the mid-1990s, HSN hired Sullivan as a network show host.

  6. The new Billy Mays infomercial, and the deaths of other ... - AOL

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    As the direct-marketing industry copes with the sudden death of pitchman Billy Mays (right), it's worth considering the fragile relationship between celebrity endorsement and mortality. The ...

  7. Billy Mays pitches from beyond the grave - AOL

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    Although Billy Mays died two weeks ago, the powers that be have determined that the show -- and Mays' amazing showmanship -- must go on. Before his death, the famed pitchman recorded commercials ...

  8. Vince Offer - Wikipedia

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    Stevenson compared Offer to earlier, "more upbeat" television pitchmen like Billy Mays and the Home Shopping Network hosts and concluded that Offer's "smooth-talking condescension" was more suited to the present "zeitgeist" than the "earnest fervor" of spokesmen like Mays and Ron Popeil. [15] Consumer Reports reported that the infomercial for ...

  9. For Billy Mays, one final pitch - AOL

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