Thursday, December 2, 2010
Movie Development Teaser
I have a script, a vision and little money. Those looking for investment opportunities in the film business should look no further. This project is destined to be a winner. I will release scripts with a non-disclosure.
Contact me through my blog 'My Book Of Five Rings'
Monday, September 13, 2010
DuPure
Successful businesses typically find their traction when time, space and hard work coalesce. Now, is such a time for DuPure, a water treatment company based in Houston, Tx. DuPure's consumer-centric business model is strengthened by honed home-builder relationships. Venture capitalists and fat heavy organizations like Culligan can't figure out how to make it work. Culligan is actually backing out of the residential sector and a business model that is dependent upon a fractured...strike that...a broken patchwork of independent franchisees. The only thing Culligan has going for them is history...and that was the Culligan Man...which they can't even promote anymore due to franchisee outrage. Sorry Culligan Man. DuPure is moving forward and deliberately like an unreckoning Bull that knows Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Do what u wish to compete...but know that you are going to hit the mat hard. Noone else is delivering a product mix of synthetic, crystal and physical point of entry systems and premiere filtered drinking water systems. The reason for this product diversity is a result of the diverse distribution channels established, customer transparency, and clarity of vision. DuPure is now on the road to becoming a manufacturer, distributor, service company and now lifestyle company. To learn more about DuPure Products go to http://www.dupure.com
Monday, August 24, 2009
Recession Is Over: Long Live Depression
This blog will also assist my audiences in tracking blogs and comments of heroes and warriors interested in communicating ideas of truth, humor, or downright bravery.
I'm sick of hearing from prospects/clients that want to delay corporate marketing, public relations, online exposure, etc, etc until the market comes around! Sorry Charlie...ain't gonna be no tomorrow. The shakeout is happening now. What are you gonna do?! There are so many opportunities for exposure right now and it's cheaper to do it...just like anything else these days. If you think you have a righteous company...well...put it to the test. In Jiu-Jitsu we always say that you must trust your movements. Target your opponent and execute! Again, on the mat, if you want to underhook your opponent with your right hand...do it...lock up their other arm with the left...do it. Cross your outside leg in front of them and spin. There ya go...one opponent down...SMASHED! These days with fear, shrinking opportunity, and a major shakeout...it's also easier to put your opponent down with less...you're marketing dollar will go far...particularly when your opponent is unprepared for the fight. Who is going to be the one left hanging on to the market share? Yeah, that's right, you! Especially if you contact Fuse5. Myself, Shari King, and Sensei Doug Williams can assist you with all your Business Development concerns (online media, social media, PR, Marketing, interactive marketing.) How ever you want to define it Fuse5 will benefit your bottom line. http://www.fusefive.com/
Now, on with the show. Sorry for the shameless plug...but ya know everything I said is true.
Now see what my insightful friend Peter Schiff from seekingalpha.com has to say about the economy. And contact me to tell me you don't need help with your business development approach:
Have you heard the great news? The recession is over! It’s true; I saw it on TV. Why fret about growing unemployment lines when banks are paying big-time bonuses again?
Proof of the turn was apparently revealed by the 2nd quarter GDP figures that showed that the economy declined by only 1%. After four consecutive quarters of negative GDP, the green shoots now assume that growth will resume over the summer. But before we pop the corks, it may be worthwhile to ask, “what really has changed, and what is responsible for our new lease on life?”
In truth, because of the continued profligacy of the government and Federal Reserve, the imbalances that caused the current recession have actually worsened. We are now in an even deeper hole than when the crisis began. Rather than wrapping up a recession, we are actually sinking into a depression. If things look better now, it’s just because we are in the eye of the storm.
We must remember that recessions inevitably follow periods of artificial growth. During these booms, malinvestments are made which ultimately must be liquidated during the ensuing busts. In short, mistakes made during booms are corrected during busts – and in the recent boom we made some real whoppers. We borrowed and spent too much money, bought goods we couldn’t afford, built houses we couldn’t carry, and developed a service sector economy completely dependent on consumer credit and rising asset prices. All the while, we allowed our industrial base to crumble and our infrastructure to decay.
In order to lay the foundation for real and lasting recovery, market forces must be allowed to repair the damage. However, current policy is counterproductive to this end. Trillions in stimulus dollars have kept the party going, but now what? How does deficit spending by the government address the problems that brought about the crash? It doesn’t; it just delays and worsens the hangover – and we have to hope we don’t die of alcohol poisoning.
By interfering with the unpleasant forces of the recession, we simply trade short-term gain for long-term pain. By propping up inefficient companies that should fail, we deprive more effective companies of the capital they need to grow. By holding up over-valued asset prices, we prevent the prudent or less well-off from snatching them up and, in doing so, creating a new price equilibrium based upon reality. By maintaining artificially low interest rates, we discourage the very savings that are so critical to capital formation and future economic growth.
In addition, the false economic signals the Fed sends the market prevent a more efficient re-allocation of resources from taking place and leads to even more bad economic decision being made. By running such huge deficits, we further crowd-out private enterprise by making it harder for businesses to invest or hire.
The recently passed “cash for clunkers” program (currently on-hold, as it ran out of funding in one week) is a perfect example of how government policy can make the economy worse. By incentivizing Americans to destroy fully paid-for cars so they can go deeper into debt buying brand new ones, the government weakens an already crippled economy.
The last thing we want to do is subsidize Americans to go deeper into debt by buying more stuff. Don’t they realize that is precisely the behavior that got us into this mess?
Think about it this way. If your friend were in trouble because he had too much debt, would you encourage him to take on even more? Wouldn’t a real sign of progress be a reduction of debt, even if he had to cut back on his everyday expenses? What is true for an individual is also true for a collection of individuals, even if they call themselves a ‘government.’
If, as a country, we are even deeper into debt now than we were before, we are worse off. Period. The fact that the additional debt enabled better short-term GDP numbers is a long-term negative.
Since we have learned nothing from past mistakes, we are condemned to repeat them. As if we have not already suffered enough as a consequence of the Bush/Greenspan stimulus, Obama/Bernanke are giving ever larger doses, which will prove lethal to any recovery. The recession is over; long live the depression!
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I'm sick of hearing from prospects/clients that want to delay corporate marketing, public relations, online exposure, etc, etc until the market comes around! Sorry Charlie...ain't gonna be no tomorrow. The shakeout is happening now. What are you gonna do?! There are so many opportunities for exposure right now and it's cheaper to do it...just like anything else these days. If you think you have a righteous company...well...put it to the test. In Jiu-Jitsu we always say that you must trust your movements. Target your opponent and execute! Again, on the mat, if you want to underhook your opponent with your right hand...do it...lock up their other arm with the left...do it. Cross your outside leg in front of them and spin. There ya go...one opponent down...SMASHED! These days with fear, shrinking opportunity, and a major shakeout...it's also easier to put your opponent down with less...you're marketing dollar will go far...particularly when your opponent is unprepared for the fight. Who is going to be the one left hanging on to the market share? Yeah, that's right, you! Especially if you contact Fuse5. Myself, Shari King, and Sensei Doug Williams can assist you with all your Business Development concerns (online media, social media, PR, Marketing, interactive marketing.) How ever you want to define it Fuse5 will benefit your bottom line. http://www.fusefive.com/
Now, on with the show. Sorry for the shameless plug...but ya know everything I said is true.
Now see what my insightful friend Peter Schiff from seekingalpha.com has to say about the economy. And contact me to tell me you don't need help with your business development approach:
Have you heard the great news? The recession is over! It’s true; I saw it on TV. Why fret about growing unemployment lines when banks are paying big-time bonuses again?
Proof of the turn was apparently revealed by the 2nd quarter GDP figures that showed that the economy declined by only 1%. After four consecutive quarters of negative GDP, the green shoots now assume that growth will resume over the summer. But before we pop the corks, it may be worthwhile to ask, “what really has changed, and what is responsible for our new lease on life?”
In truth, because of the continued profligacy of the government and Federal Reserve, the imbalances that caused the current recession have actually worsened. We are now in an even deeper hole than when the crisis began. Rather than wrapping up a recession, we are actually sinking into a depression. If things look better now, it’s just because we are in the eye of the storm.
We must remember that recessions inevitably follow periods of artificial growth. During these booms, malinvestments are made which ultimately must be liquidated during the ensuing busts. In short, mistakes made during booms are corrected during busts – and in the recent boom we made some real whoppers. We borrowed and spent too much money, bought goods we couldn’t afford, built houses we couldn’t carry, and developed a service sector economy completely dependent on consumer credit and rising asset prices. All the while, we allowed our industrial base to crumble and our infrastructure to decay.
In order to lay the foundation for real and lasting recovery, market forces must be allowed to repair the damage. However, current policy is counterproductive to this end. Trillions in stimulus dollars have kept the party going, but now what? How does deficit spending by the government address the problems that brought about the crash? It doesn’t; it just delays and worsens the hangover – and we have to hope we don’t die of alcohol poisoning.
By interfering with the unpleasant forces of the recession, we simply trade short-term gain for long-term pain. By propping up inefficient companies that should fail, we deprive more effective companies of the capital they need to grow. By holding up over-valued asset prices, we prevent the prudent or less well-off from snatching them up and, in doing so, creating a new price equilibrium based upon reality. By maintaining artificially low interest rates, we discourage the very savings that are so critical to capital formation and future economic growth.
In addition, the false economic signals the Fed sends the market prevent a more efficient re-allocation of resources from taking place and leads to even more bad economic decision being made. By running such huge deficits, we further crowd-out private enterprise by making it harder for businesses to invest or hire.
The recently passed “cash for clunkers” program (currently on-hold, as it ran out of funding in one week) is a perfect example of how government policy can make the economy worse. By incentivizing Americans to destroy fully paid-for cars so they can go deeper into debt buying brand new ones, the government weakens an already crippled economy.
The last thing we want to do is subsidize Americans to go deeper into debt by buying more stuff. Don’t they realize that is precisely the behavior that got us into this mess?
Think about it this way. If your friend were in trouble because he had too much debt, would you encourage him to take on even more? Wouldn’t a real sign of progress be a reduction of debt, even if he had to cut back on his everyday expenses? What is true for an individual is also true for a collection of individuals, even if they call themselves a ‘government.’
If, as a country, we are even deeper into debt now than we were before, we are worse off. Period. The fact that the additional debt enabled better short-term GDP numbers is a long-term negative.
Since we have learned nothing from past mistakes, we are condemned to repeat them. As if we have not already suffered enough as a consequence of the Bush/Greenspan stimulus, Obama/Bernanke are giving ever larger doses, which will prove lethal to any recovery. The recession is over; long live the depression!
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
I'm in!
I may not be sitting at the top of a grand mountain in ancient Japan like my inspiration, Miyamoto Musashi. My couch and this laptop will have to suffice. In fact, I wonder how access to online media might have impacted Miyamoto's work...
The mission of this site is two-fold:
1) Allows me to reflect on the five rings or interests in my world...helping me to focus and achieve personal and business goals. Many of those goals crossover and are sure to impact the organization of this site. Prepare for this thing to be in a constant state of flux!
2) Hopefully, my areas of knowledge or expertise (film, marketing, PR, Jiu-Jitsu, and sales) will benefit those of you that have somehow made it to this page.
Wish me luck as I reflect on years of battle and conflict. I aim to parse out my lessons of import and share...atleast those that are bloggable.
The mission of this site is two-fold:
1) Allows me to reflect on the five rings or interests in my world...helping me to focus and achieve personal and business goals. Many of those goals crossover and are sure to impact the organization of this site. Prepare for this thing to be in a constant state of flux!
2) Hopefully, my areas of knowledge or expertise (film, marketing, PR, Jiu-Jitsu, and sales) will benefit those of you that have somehow made it to this page.
Wish me luck as I reflect on years of battle and conflict. I aim to parse out my lessons of import and share...atleast those that are bloggable.
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