Ilyce R. Glink

Ilyce R. Glink

Ilyce R. Glink Biography & Books

Speaker Biography:

Ilyce Glink is an award-winning television and radio personality, a communications and media strategist, an innovator in content marketing and the founder of three Chicago-based companies.

She hosts a popular radio talk show for WSB-AM, is the “Good Cents” contributor to WGN radio, a nationally-syndicated columnist, a top blogger for CBSNews.com and Yahoo!, and a best-selling author. She also hosts the “Real Estate Minute,” a daily radio/web video series, “Big Money Real Estate” for WITNation.com, and is a frequent guest on NPR.

Ilyce is the author of over a dozen books, including the best-selling 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask and Buy, Close, Move In!, and she has nearly 1 million books in print. Her latest ebook/webinar offering is Intentional Investor: How to be Wildly Successful in Real Estate. She is the managing editor of the Equifax Finance Blog and the publisher of ThinkGlink.com, a site dedicated to helping consumers make the best decisions with their money.  Ilyce’s YouTube channel has over 5 million video views.

She was an on-air talent/producer for WGN-TV, hosted two syndicated radio programs, and has appeared on every major network’s morning news programs, Oprah, CNBC, CNN, and Fox Business.

More than 15 years ago, Glink started Think Glink Media, a digital communications agency that combines technology, creativity and experience to build online and offline connections through powerful communities, breakthrough native advertising, and first-person social engagement. The result is award-winning work, profitable campaigns and loyal customers. Her clients include Fortune 1000 companies in the financial services, real estate, and health industries as well as start-ups and nonprofits.

Glink has won numerous awards throughout her career, including Best Consumer Reporter, Best Magazine Report, Best Blog, and Best Television Report from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. She has won several top awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), including Best in Business Blog. She also won the first Money $mart award from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and received two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club. In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy® Award. She was co-founder of the Medicare Newsgroup, and part of the team that won the 2012 Web Marketing Association’s award for outstanding achievement in web development for MedicareNewsGroup.com.

Reviews:

Ilyce knows more in her pinky about real estate than I do in my whole body.

-Clark Howard, syndicated radio and HLN show host

Books:

  • BUY, CLOSE, MOVE IN! How to Navigate the New World of Real Estate—Safely and Profitably—and End Up with the Home of Your Dreams (HarperCollins)
  • 100 QUESTIONS EVERY FIRST-TIME HOME BUYER SHOULD ASK: With Answers from Top Brokers from Around the Country (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • 100 QUESTIONS EVERY HOME SELLER SHOULD ASK: With Answers from the Top Brokers from Around the Country (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • 50 SIMPLE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO SELL YOUR HOME FASTER AND FOR MORE MONEY IN ANY MARKET (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • 10 STEPS TO HOME OWNERSHIP: A Workbook for First-Time Buyers (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • 50 SIMPLE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO IMPROVE YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES: How to Spend Less, Save More, and Make the Most of What You Have (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • 50 SIMPLE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO DISASTER-PROOF YOUR FINANCES: How to Plan Ahead to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones and Survive Any Crisis (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • 100 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES: And the Answers You Need to Help You Save, Invest, and Grow Your Money (Three Rivers Press/Crown)
  • THE REALLY USEFUL GUIDE TO WORKING SMARTER, NOT HARDER (Think Glink, Inc.)
  • THE REAL U GUIDE TO BANK ACCOUNTS AND CREDIT CARDS (Think Glink, Inc.)

Awards:

Winner - Best Consumer Reporter and Best Television Report from the National Association of Real Estate Editors

Winner of the first Money $mart Award from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Winner of Two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club

Nominated for an Emmy Award in 2006

Best in Business Blog and General Excellence from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW)

Selected as Chair, 2015 Annual SABEW conference

Speaking Topics:

  • Real Estate - for Buyers and Sellers
  • Personal Finance
  • Glinkonomics (Ilyce's take on the economy)
  • Content and Communication: Risks and Rewards
  • Financial Wellbeing

Speaking History:

  • Ilyce Glink has spoken before numerous leading business and consumer organizations