Joe Bencharsky is a PubCon Certified Internet Marketing, SEO, Social Media Specialist. His professional background includes over 20 years of print media and marketing experience serving multiple industries including software, internet, financial services, advertising, non-profits, legal industry to name a few. He helped pioneer software packaging techniques in Silicon Valley during the software boom of the 1980's and consulted with many key Internet start-ups in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco in the mid '90's.

His educational background includes undergraduate work in Communications, Business and Computer Science, Technical and Creative Writing and graduate work in literary criticism. He studied under noted women's author and screenwriter Frances Mayes portrayed by Diane Lane in the Movie "Under the Tuscan Sun" and acclaimed NPR radio personality and author Michael Krasny He is an EzineArticles.com Expert Author and Newsvine Contributor and was presented a writing award by legendary Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury. He has contributed a chapter on Internet Marketing for a college Marketing course textbook, and a guest lecturer on Social Media, SEO and Internet Marketing at California State University Sonoma.

In 2011 he was interviewed by Richard Quest on BBC television on the business news show "Quest Means Business" broadcast internationally on CNN for his views regarding the U.S. Economy and Federal Deficit and was interviewed for the inaugural episode of the small business video series "Social Media on 6 Minutes a Day"

He has appeared as a speaker and presenter in front of many business organizations on topics including: Internet Marketing, SEO, Social Media, the History of Communications and Media and Network Marketing.

In addition to an excellent command of the English Language, Joe Bencharsky has also studied and/or has a degree of functional knowledge of Greek, Hungarian, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

He is a second generation native San Franciscan and has been a resident of Marin County, California for the past 15 years with his wife of 25 years who is a professional opera singer.