I am the Founder of Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company. We buy beautiful businesses and hold them forever.

We have a deep respect for our fellow business founders because we were founders ourselves.

We know just how much time, hard work, and struggle goes into building a company that customers love and keep coming back to.

Having invested in companies, sold companies and raised funding, we have seen the costs of the short-term mindset of private equity and venture capital up close. We wanted to do something fundamentally different.

Following the inspiration of Berkshire Hathaway, we decided to build the company that we would want to buy the companies we started.

One that would hold it forever instead of selling it to the highest bidder. 

One that would take care of our employees and create opportunities for them to grow wealth if the business grows. 

One that would mentor our next generation of leaders. 

One that would give our business the time it needs to grow (or simply stay the right size) at whatever pace is right for it. 

That company is Enduring Ventures.

You can follow me here for my thoughts on buying and investing in businesses.

Sieva Kozinsky

Timothy "Sully" Sullivan

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I create powerful sales results, marketing improvements and increased ROI for my clients. Focus on working with information publishers and online direct marketers. Recent results for clients include: total turnaround of established, faltering online publisher, reversing months of continuous sales declines with profitable sales increases, doubling sales in seven month engagement. ($7M company); 100% conversion boost for financial publisher's primary subscription product; Revised and edited multiple long-form sales letters and emails into outperforming new controls; Executed price increase on core product adding $500 per unit directly to bottom line with no unit sales rate decrease. Created new out-performing control for lead gen piece, boosting opt-in by 21% for $120M e-commerce company. Created & creative directed marketing elements and advertising for $1 Billion luxury real estate development, among others. Grew family business from $750k in sales to $5M and negotiated sale to public acquirer. Direct Marketing strategy, copywriting, product & offer development. Management consulting. Staff training and development.

Direct Marketing  Consultant | Management Consultant

Olson Capital Investments

Associate Partner

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Senior Copywriter

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Script & Story consultant and ghostwriter on multiple independent film and television projects

Creative Consultant

Film and Television Writer/Producer

Script consulting, project creative development, screenwriting, story editing for multiple independent film and television projects

Owner

Independent A&R

Scouted, signed and developed music artists. Discovered Grammy-nominated, Platinum selling Columbia Records recording artist Shawn Mullins.

Sullivan Health & Rehabilitation, Inc.

Grew our healthcare services business by nearly 7x in sales, without debt. Initiated, negotiated and closed its sale to a public company in an all-cash deal. Full P&L responsibility as COO. From 5 to 52+ employees in five southeastern states in a little over six years.

Co-Owner & COO

Arista Records

Regional field marketing on multiple Platinum, multi-platinum and gold record campaigns for major artists including Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and many others.  High-impact positive results in the Southeast market.

Marketing Consultant

RCA Records

Field marketing support for multiple Gold and Platinum record releases

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I'm an experienced direct marketing & copy consultant, executive and former business owner. I help internet based companies, info publishers and marketers boost sales, key metrics and cashflow. I help with regulatory compliance issues. 
 
Some successes:
Turned-around and doubled sales for a multi-million dollar (sales) DM client in seven months, adding $120k+ to their bottom line in 90 days (with no increased budget); Boosted sales conversion rate by 50% on a $25M publishing client's core subscription offer (with no change in spend or traffic). Wrote winning Facebook Ad set copy for $20M publishing division of $1.2B group. 

I offer Copy and Compliance training for key staff so they can reach their maximum effectiveness, grow as individuals and avoid regulatory landmines. 

Clients include Agora Financial/Paradigm Press; Bonner Private Wines, Eagle Financial Publishing, Primal Health (Primal Labs); Bill Bonner, founder of Agora Publishing; direct marketing legend Michael Masterson (Mark Ford); Justin Goff, Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave International; A $110 million+ online B2C e-comm company and many others.  

As former co-owner and COO, I grew our Atlanta-based medical services business revenues by 6X in just under seven years. 20%+ net profits while using zero long term debt or outside capital. The company was still in rapid-growth mode when I closed its sale to a listed public company. (NASDAQ roll-up)

Specialties: Online Marketing, Social Media marketing, Financial Offer Compliance, Copy Training, Conversion Optimization, Direct Response Marketing; Business Consulting & Coaching

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