Billy Mays: The King of Infomercials and Commercials

How He's Selling Everything from Oxy-Clean to Health Insurance

Ever since Oxy-Clean hit the markets you got to know the upbeat and perky salesman named Billy Mays. The Oxy-Clean infomercials and later commercials would air day and night and all you could think of was Billy Mays talking about how great the product was and as a result of him being their pitchman the product still sells in the millions today as a result of him promoting the product along with other household cleaner products on the Home Shopping Network (HSN). Now Mays has crossed over to selling everything from garden tools to health insurance since the latest commercial is for a health insurance company called Ican Benefits, LLC and you would think that Billy Mays' television tenure would have gotten old and a new pitchperson would have been brought on. Apparently Mays' enthusiastic and upbeat pitches have sent many of the products he endorses selling into the millions. He got his start doing sales pitches on the boardwalk of Atlantic City, New Jersey just shortly after graduating high school. He spent nearly 13 years doing sales pitch work until it paid off with his endorsement for the laundry and household cleaning powder Oxy-Clean.

He later went on to endorse other products from Zorbeez to the gardening tool the Awesome Auger. Mays got the Orange Glo gig after making friends with another rival salesman who was the founder of Orange Glo International, a Denver, Co-based manufacturer of cleaning products. He's had quite a successful run with all the products he's endorsed and he later founded his own production company called Mays Promotions Inc. based in Dunedin, Florida. In 2005 he built a $1.8 million dollar home in Odessa, Florida where he currently resides with his wife Candace. He's also had some challenges in his personal life when in the same year he was reportedly accused of sexual misconduct with residents of a retirement community until the charges were dropped and according to Wikipedia the alleged victims reportedly died after suffering from mysterious hip fractures.