Bio

Bio

Summary of Experience

Michael Copeland is an entrepreneur and has started many businesses.  Presently, he helps clients with marketing and internet business strategies through his company Vision Knight Enterprises, LLC.  Michael specializes in business and client relationships as well as a viral marketing strategy he developed involving facets of social networking and marketing online and offline.

Michael has the gift of vision, although sometimes he says it’s a curse. He is able to take someone’s idea and see its growth and income potential.  From this vision, he is able to reverse engineer and build a plan to get there.

Michael already had a great track record as an entrepreneur since the age of 14.  His responsibilities have included marketing, website design and implementation, client relationships, customer satisfaction, instituting business growth, and finding the right people to be a part of each business.

Experience

Some of Michael’s businesses and responsibilities include:

  • Vision Knight Enterprises, LLC – Michael has grown his internet presence with multiple websites in multiple niches.  He has developed a marketing strategy which engages his businesses with the members of each of the website’s communities.  Through his study and experience in online business and internet marketing, Michael has proven his abilities to see the overall picture in a business’s marketing potential.  Michael is in the process of publishing a book and series of training materials to help teach his methods to others.  Vision Knight Enterprises, LLC also accepts clients on an approval basis.
  • House of Storage – Web hosting company.  House of Storage was created with artists in mind.  With the business being online and overhead absolutely minimal, House Of Storage had to be created.  Michael’s research and implementation of automatic services and scripts makes this business, automatic.  The main focus of this company is the support of artists such as filmmakers and media arts.  Generally they do not have web storage for collaboration nor have the funds to pay for it.  House of Storage solved this problem.  Company no longer in operation.
  • Underpaid Monkey VFX – Michael’s love is visual effects (VFX) and post production.  Underpaid Monkey VFX (UMVFX) was created to do the FX work for the film “Casting Call”.  UMVFX completed work on the feature film “Dead in the water” and are working on VFX for an episodic film series and commercial clients.
  • Underpaid Monkey Productions – Making a move to a more traditional name for a production company, Michael dropped the name CootDog.  Michael flew to Florida and shot a short film in two days.  He coordinated the crew and cast online and over the phone before his arrival to LHM Studios, where the film was shot.  However a few short days later, hurricane Wilma destroyed the studio and nearly everything in it.  The film “Casting Call” was being worked as a documentary, describing what happened while trying to make this film.
  • CootDog Productions – Michael moved from California to a suburb of Chicago where he currently lives with his wife and children. Deciding to focus his talents on producing films he created a few short films.  One of the films was an Official Selection at the Chicago Really Short Film Festival.  It was also featured on the front page of MySpace.com in 2008 and was sent in the newsletter to all MySpace.com users.  Michael was able to get the lead actor into a three magazine deal, landing him on the cover of the magazine and in two follow up issues.
  • Cyber Illusions – Entertainment and graphics company with a partner.  The area of entertainment was hosting concerts consisting of electronic music DJs.  They also did website and graphic design.  Michael started using 3D animation programs as part of the visual effects and graphics shown at the concerts.  His focus was advertising, and managing the overall show, including security, talent, sound and lighting crews, venue and vendor management.
  • M&J Enterprises –Pioneered the use of CAD (Computer Aided Design) systems for computerized engraving nationwide.  Managed tradeshows, marketing.  Won the highest award in the awards industry, the “Award of Awards” all in his teenage years.

Affiliations: External Vice President  – IL Jaycees