Hasan Kursad Devecioglu is the author of “Strategic Natural Stone Marketing” book, direct marketing consultant and a natural stone importer. He has been applying his direct marketing knowledge on U.S. natural stone industry for many years. Hasan Kursad Devecioglu studied in Business Administration Department at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. After graduation, he worked at Ege Seramik A.S. in Izmir as a budget officer. Hasan Kursad attended Mercy College in New York City where he graduated with a high distinction from MS in Direct Marketing program in 2004. He worked for various natural stone importation companies in New York and New Jersey. He is currently the president of Marvelous Marketing Consultants and Marvelous Marble Corporation where he continues natural stone importation operations and consults with small and midsize companies in the New York metropolitan area to help them solve direct marketing problems. Mr. Devecioglu has published numerous articles in English and Turkish in various publications such as Stone Business Magazine, Turkish Stone World and CRM Pro. In addition, Mr. Devecioglu was the speaker of the seminar " 7 ways to profitable direct marketing natural stone products in the U.S. marketplace" during international Marble 2005 show in Izmir, Turkey. Turkish-American Chamber of Commerce & Industry organized the same seminar in New York City for stone professionals and investors of New York Metropolitan Area in 2005 and in 2007, where Hasan was the speaker for both seminars. Mr. Devecioglu continues to give seminars and training programs to natural stone companies and construction related associations on direct marketing, general marketing, CRM operations and entrepreneurship. You can visit his website www.directmarketingturkiye.com to learn more about him and his projects. He can be reached at kursadd@yahoo.com or h_kursad@hotmail.com