About
Small Business Commandos is the brainchild of Dick Larkin who takes full responsibility for its content.
No employers, partners, affiliates, friends, nor pets should be characterized as being in agreement with any of the statements on this blog (regardless of the truth).
Dick is president of Weblistic, Inc., an online marketing firm created by the inventors of YellowPages.com. Weblistic specializes in local search engine marketing, video creation and saturation, and mobile advertising. Spot Runner acquired Weblistic in early 2008.
Prior to joining Weblistic, Dick was publisher of WorldPages.com, a top Internet Yellow Pages directory that was acquired by Yellow Book in a $1.5 billion transaction (the vast majority of which Dick did not get to keep 
). He developed and managed local online marketing for over 200,000 businesses.
He was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for GTE Interactive Media where he created a major software publishing house. He earned his CPA and CFP designations in the Japanese practice of Deloitte and Touche and has a business degree from the University of Notre Dame where he was a student manager on the Fighting Irish Football Team.
He lives with his wife and daughter in Chicago and Carlsbad, CA (depending on the seasons).
