LUXURY FLYING FOR WORLD CLASS ENTREPRENEURS

June 1st at 12:32am

Flying private is a growing phenomenon, largely thanks to social media and iconic figures flying lavishly across the globe. Some fly private for comfort or luxury. Others use it to bypass TSA or avoid hasty cancellations. As a busy executive, you can conveniently visit multiple cities. The number of providers and programs has more than doubled in the past decade. You no longer have to commit six figures. There are programs starting at $25,000. There are also programs that offer 100 hours of flying if you are constantly on the go. Cards today aren’t limited just to the U.S. There…

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BUSINESS ADVICE FROM RICHARD BRANSON

August 25th at 1:49pm

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. He founded the Virgin Group in the 1970s, which controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972. Branson’s finances are difficult to penetrate because of their complexity and opaqueness, with few of his large companies wholly owned by Branson himself. His big-branded firms…

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SUCCESS SECRETS FROM MARK CUBAN

August 18th at 1:35pm

Born in Pittsburgh in 1958, entrepreneur Mark Cuban has ventured into many diverse businesses. He made his fortune through the sale of startups MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com in the 1990s, and later became known as the zealous owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Cuban is currently worth a whopping $3.9 billion, according to Forbes. That puts him at No. 190 on the most recent Forbes 400 list. Mark Cuban shares secrets to achieving extraordinary success Time is the greatest asset. It’s worth being nice to people. “No balls, no babies.” If you don’t set aside time to have fun, your work will suffer. You can change fear from an impediment to a…

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WHAT TO LEARN FROM NIKE

July 28th at 1:13pm

Nike is good at a lot of things: manufacturing quality shoes; supplying equipment and gear for many professional and collegiate athletic teams; and making a ton of money. But where the company truly excels is its marketing. Nobody does branding quite like Nike. The Swoosh is easily one of the most recognized brand logos in the world. Nike is just shy of becoming the definition of sports themselves. … The idea is that embedding a celebrity image into the consumer’s mind will cause the consumer to associate the endorser with Nike’s products. Great marketing and business lessons from Nike: Stay Customer Focused People like great products that provides them serious benefits. Think Outside…

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