About VIKRAM RAJAN: vik@cogrow.com, 516.642.4100

In addition to his AICPA marketing columns and CLE-credit advertising ethics seminars, Vikram Rajan is the founder of PracticeMarketingAdvisors.com and serves as a Practice Marketing Advisor™ for CPAs, attorneys, and financial advisors. Vik helps his clients implement Marketing Action Plans (MAPs) within his clients’ codes of ethics and compliance obligations.

Vikram’s book, 365 Marketing Thumb-rules: Daily Reminders for Rainmakers, has received praise from over 15 organization leaders within the legal, accounting, financial services, and real estate professions. Vik also contributes to his PracticeMarketingBLOG.com, which receives over a hundred views everyday.

Vik’s marketing column premiered in the AICPA’s CPA Insider publication in Fall 2009 and became the most popular column in July 2010. His marketing columns have also appeared in the New York Real Estate Journal, Financial Advisor magazine, Long Island Business News, Dominican Times magazine, Times-Ledger newspapers, Personal Branding magazine, and more. Vik has taught classes for the Fashion Institute of Technology and has been invited by C.W. Post (Long Island University).

Vik has also been quoted by the Wall Street Journal’s Startup Journal, Entrepreneurship magazine, Channel Pro, and more. In January 2005, Vikram was named a “Top 40 Under 40 Rising Star” by Long Island Business News.

Vikram Rajan has presented in front of many networking groups & organizations:
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) • National Conference of CPA Practitioners • Nassau County Bar Association (Academy of Law) • New York State Council on Divorce Mediation • National Network of Accountants • National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (Queens) • Association of Divorce Financial Planners • U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) • Independent Real Estate Brokers • Long Island Commercial Network (Board of Realtors®) • Direct Marketing Association of Long Island • Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce • and has produced presentations with HSBC Bank, North Fork Bank, Suffolk Federal Credit Union, and more.

Vik has co-chairs the Membership and the Business Development committees for the Hauppauge Industrial Association (HIA), Long Island’s 2nd largest business organization. Vikram was named Cross Island’s NYC YMCA Volunteer of the Year in 2009.  E-mail him at Vik@CoGrow.com.