Humorist Tommy Z Joins Team TeleBrands as the Blogmeister General!

THE ORIGINAL JERSEY BOYS

26 years ago, Tommy Zarzecki, a young ad agency art director, met a brazen local kid with some sky high dreams. AJ Khubani had a box full of zany gadgets and a goal: sell them to the public and make a lot of money. The very first ad Tommy created was for a cheapie little AM/FM radio – that brought in $200,000 and Zarzecki became a believer.

The two twenty-somethings became close friends, hung out, attended each others weddings, while continuing to have a successful working relationship. After several years, Tommy went on to run his own advertising, brand identity firm, with an impressive roster of fortune 500 clients. After two decades, he left the ad biz to pursue a career as a magazine writer, blogger, and website developer.

Then, one late-summer day in 2009, Zarzecki did his best pitchman bid, convincing his long-time friend, Khubani, that a weekly blog was just what the great TeleBrands needed. The rest is history – and thus, THE BLOG was born!

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND……………………………….

Tommy Z is a humorist who grew up in the bowels of northern New Jersey – parented by an eccentric Polish father and a neurotic Italian mother. With this kind of colorful upbringing, what else could the man possibly be other than a humorist? Tommy is a feature writer for Cigar Magazine, creator and editor of JR Cigars Blog With the Zman, and the publisher of PLANETZMAN, the website affectionately known as The Last Great Bastion for REAL Men… His testosterone-laden kingdom can be found at www.planetZman.com.

The Zman has hosted his own pilot show on XM Satellite Radio and has been a recurring guest on XM/Sirius’s Ron & Fez Show. His resume boasts interviews with The Sopranos Frank Vincent, FOX’s Sean Hannity, renowned painter Leroy Neiman, NY Times Best Selling author & personal development master, Larry Winget, JR Cigars mogul Lew Rothman, XM Radio icon, Ron Bennington, and heavy metal singers Rob Halford of Judas Priest & Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickenson.