Check out an interview I did with Creme Magazine...It always seems like you can say waay more about yourself when someone else asks...Good Look Dominga! Thank you for the opportunity. Also check out all her hustles...She is on the move.
A practice that was exclusively for entertainers or the rich, seems to be spilling over into the business world....
(AP) -- On a recent business trip to San Diego, California, Kurt Barrett took his family to Sea World.
Between the banquet dinners and panel discussions on agricultural policy, he also took his 5-month-old daughter swimming for the first time in the hotel pool. Another day, they strolled through the humid botanical gardens in Balboa Park.
"It was like being at home. I got done with work, then enjoyed spending time with my wife and child," said Barrett, a 30-year-old general manager for a rice distributor in Williams, California.
"Work is very important, but there has to be a balance," Barrett said.
Traveling for work once meant sacrificing precious time away from home. But as the American workplace becomes more flexible about letting employees juggle their duties with family life, people like Barrett are finding it easier to bring their spouses and kids wherever their jobs may take them.
According to the National Business Travel Association, 62 percent of U.S. business travelers said they add a leisure component to at least one business trip per year. Among those travelers, two-thirds say they bring a family member or friend with them.
Pushing the trend is the growing number of single parents, women in executive ranks, two-income families, and those simply looking to save a buck by turning company-paid trips into working vacations. People are having kids later in life too, meaning they're more likely to be comfortable enough in their careers to blend work and family.
That blurring between office and family life represents a sea change from a generation or two ago, when children were told bothering their parents with a phone call at work could get mom or dad in trouble.
read more at cnn.com
Mediaweek via Young Global(Happy B-Day)
NEW YORK -- In one of the biggest marketing efforts by a global airline attempting to reach African-Americans, American Airlines has launched a partnership with The Steve Harvey Show, syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. The multimedia campaign, which launched Tuesday, will run through the end of November. It includes 30-second spots on Harvey's radio show (some voiced by Harvey), a co-branded Web site (featuring travel trips, vacation ideas and other travel information), advertising on the Steve Harvey Web site and branded client content integrated within the program.
entire story here
"It's impossible to get to a billion dollars by endorsement deals," said Carter. "The biggest deals only take you so far. It's how you make money when you're asleep that's going to get you there."CNNMoney.com says:
I'm sure everyone who talks about sports being too much about money can point to James' billion-dollar target as Exhibit A of that concern. But frankly that's more about the critics' envy than anything else.
No one objects when NBA owners use their investments to become rich at a young age, as Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban or Microsoft co-founder and Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen did. And I doubt there was much criticism when Ty Cobb used a savvy investment in Coke early in the 20th century to become very rich after his playing days.
The fact that James is looking to follow the same course to success while he works to make money for his team, his league and his sponsors shows that he's a pretty smart 22-year old, someone to be admired, not scorned.
Here's a excerpt from inc magazine 's How I Did It column, on William Wang.Remember this guy because he is changing the electronics game, by dropping the cost on flat panel TV's and moving them is mass numbers out of warehouse stores like Costco, and Sam's club. Now you can go cop that 60" plasma for the Low($2499.99).When the founder of TV-maker Vizio--soon to be a $2 billion company--says it’s not about the money, believe him. Surviving a fiery plane crash gives a man some perspective.
William Wang knows about keeping things in perspective. As one of 96 survivors aboard a Singapore Airlines 747 that took off on the wrong runway in Taiwan, struck a construction site, and broke in two, Wang instantly realized that the difficulties of his various technology businesses weren’t such a big deal—not when 83 passengers and crew members were killed that day in 2000. Wang shut down all his businesses after the crash, and in 2003 got into the flat-screen TV business by launching Vizio. His idea was to combine low prices (now around $1,499 at retail for a 50-inch plasma) with high quality and exceptional customer support, and to make this approach profitable through extremely lean operations. Wang, 43, started the company with $600,000, and this year Vizio will generate more than $2 billion in sales. Yet it still employs just 80 people, most of them handling tech support out of the company’s Irvine, California, headquarters.
To read more of his story-click here
Seems like a neat show.
And what Barbara states, I believe it's true, yes... But I think it'll be taken way out of context by many viewers.
The way schools are run have problems, but that doesn't justify or glorify bad grades, which ultimately many listeners will do.
Guerrilla gardeners will sometimes carry out their actions late at night geared up with gardening gloves, watering cans, compost, seeds and plants. They plant and sow a new vegetable patch or flowering garden. Others will work more openly, actively seeking to engage with members of the local community....[wikipedia]
Twelve Tips From www.guerrillagardening.org
1. Spot some local orphaned land.
You will be amazed how many little grubby patches of unloved public space there are. Neglected flower beds, concrete planters sprouting litter and untamed plants, bare plots of mud.
2. Plan a mission.
Make a date in the diary for an evening attack, when trouble-making busy bodies are out of sight.
3. Find a local supply of plants.
The cheaper the better... The cheapest plants are ones that are free.
In other words it is becoming more important for media brands to sell advertisers to YOU, as opposed to the traditional model of selling You to Advertisers. They are going to have to talk to us in our language-The universal language of the Global Grind Culture.
Ali Muhammad, Founder of 21st Century Hustle and former Vibe Magazine executive, said, “Our brand was founded on the principals of Urban Hustle. What’s really exciting about the study is the quantification of this consumer’s clout in the marketplace and their motivations behind reinforcing their “self-brand”. It will be increasingly necessary for marketers to position themselves across their spaces and seek ways to be invited to their exclusive world.”
According to Alloy Access in New York, Urban Hustlers, as it's dubbing this emerging group of 12-34-year-olds influenced by hip-hop lifestyle, is a powerful consumer market. Its emulation of [Bill] Gates and other entrepreneurs betokens the scope of its ambition and purchasing — these are hardcore shoppers. The "Urban Hustler" segment isn't defined by racial, geographic or other such demographics, but instead by "a shared mindset born out of the unique energy, creativity and diversity of America's urban centers and a shared aspiration for a lifestyle linked by social status and entrepreneurial and prosperous pursuits." The study was conducted with Harris Interactive; Alloy Access is the multicultural marketing division of Alloy Media + Marketing. Current figures verify this trend as no longer confined to inner-city zip codes. Almost 40% of Urban Hustlers live in suburban areas, and close to 40% of them are white. What further distinguishes them is a shared belief in their own influence. Three out of four Urban Hustlers (75%) characterize themselves as someone their friends seek out for advice on the latest trends.read entire article at www.brandweek.com
"They are the producers of content and information and trends," said Alloy Access president Tru Pettigrew. "They're not only looking to receive information about what's hot and new, but also produce and create and flip it. It doesn't matter where you start from. You've got the kid who doesn't have a pot to piss in, and Kanye [West], whose mother is a professor but he still has that mindset."
