Pondering - Billy Mays

Billy Mays, people love and know him as that crazy pitch man we see trying to sell us products in classic infomericials such as OxyClean, OrangeGlo and Kaboom. But how did he get his start and what all products has he pitched so far is what I wanted to find out today.




Billy Mays is 50 years old, born on July, 20th 1958 in Pennsylvania.



The first item he was a salesman for was the "Weed-Matic" and he made his living after high school traveling around the country to state fairs and other events like home and garden shows trying to hawk a variety of products; but he got his start as an informerical pitchman with the Orange Glo company in 1993 for the Home Shopping Network. Orange Glo makes Oxiclean, Orange Clean and of course Orange Glo, and Billy got his big break by excitedly telling us how awsome these products were at cleaning our house.



Billy is now the Ceo of his own company, Mays Promotions, who takes jobs pitching many different products, and he has been called "The King of Infomericals".



and here is a list of products he has pitched that I stole from Wikipedia...



* Aquapel


* Awesome Auger, Ground Aug, Weed Auger, and Power Extender gardening tools


* Bedazzler


* Big City Slider Station


* Black Swan Furniture


* Bloomin' Onion Maker


* Buddy Putty


* Calcium Lime Rust


* Currie Motors Chrysler Credit Hotline


* Cucco Kitchenware


* DC Snowboards


* Ding King automotive dent remover


* Dualsaw


* Easy Off Bam!


* Energize energy supplement


* EngraveIt


* FixIt car scratch remover


* FoneFree wireless cellphone headset


* Foodsaver


* ESPN


* ESPN360


* FreeFone wireless phone holder


* Gator Grip


* Gem It


* Gopher reach extending tool


* Handy Switch


* Hercules Hook wall hangers


* House Dust


* iCan Benefit Group, LLC


* Kaboom


* Lint-B-Gone lint brush


* Liquid Diamond car waxing product


* Mantis Roto-Tiller


* Micro-Men Duster


* Mighty Mend It


* Mighty Putty


* Miracle Whip


* Never-Scrub tile cleaner


* Orange Clean, Orange Glo


* OxiClean


* Quik Strip wire stripping tool


* Ragazzi's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria


* Raptor-Be-Gone


* Samurai Shark knife sharpener


* Sandstrom OnTV


* Sealtite Tire Sealant


* Simoniz Fix It Scratch Remover


* Steam Buddy


* Street Options Auto Accessories


* Swiffer SweeperVac


* Tommy and Rumble


* Turbo Tiger vacuum cleaner


* Turbo Vac vacuum cleaner


* Vidalia Chop-it


* Vidalia Slice-it


* Vidalia Slice Wizard


* Volkswagen Group of America cars


* Zorbeez absorbent towels