I’m speaking at the Luxury Council event in New York at the beautiful Hotel Plaza Athenee along side some very impressive collegues in the industry. Greg…. From Halogen.com, Michale… From Protero.com, Susie Ellis from Spafinder.com and Steve Nobel from the Luxury Council.
I’m #4 - ugh! These people are SMART - what should I say? We’re talking to executives from luxury brands - I don’t want to repeat what the panel members have already discussed - I listen - I’m watching the nods and reactions from the audience.
All of a sudden, Bill Murray pops into my head - that scene where he’s trying to kill himself, again, by driving off a cliff in the movie “Ground Hog Day” - that’s what this is like, I think - today, in the marketing industry. I’ve been in this movie before - over and over again - in fact, we all have:
- 1987 - the S&L crises, Black Monday October 19th, 1987, Graham Rudman, Crashing Real Estate and Financial Institutions
- 1992 - Desert Storm
- 1994 - Netscape browser is free - the web; what’s that (the first year I bought my first Internet company for $40,000)
- 1999 - 2000 .Com boom/bust
- I skipped over the oil prices in the 1970’s
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- Web X.0
Posted by: tim in Realestock, real estate on
May , 2008
Assume a $400,000 home in California became an $700,000 home in the period of a few years based on no real tangible value – here’s how:
Side note for mathematicians: I'm taking the liberty of the J.M. Keynes approach to this economic analysis and the numbers - ' I'd rather be approximately correct, than precisely incorrect...' (I've also heard this "approximate" quote attributed to W. Carr). Thus, if my math is "off" don't get too hung up on the figures - the concept is to identify economic reality, not the ten grand here or there of value ...
Posted by: tim in Realestock, real estate on
Apr , 2008
[NOTE: The market trends we are basing the RealEStock.com model on – RealEstock.com is a new distribution model – beyond just “pretty pictures” ... this blog stream of thought is the beginning of a series on the current real estate market ... ]
First, please excuse the “academic” nature of this article – I realize I am going back to my old “Professor Vasko” days. However, I felt an overwhelming urge to run through a discourse on what’s really going on in the financial and real estate markets. Mostly because, right now is a great opportunity for “smart money” looking to buy real estate from around the world and for our RealEstock model … so here I go ...
Posted by: tim in Realestock, real estate on
Apr , 2008
After nearly half a decade of research and development, and a couple of decades in experience, RealEstock is born.
On March 25th, 2008 we announced the launch of RealEstock.com - I encourage you to visit, if you haven't already, and begin to understand the meaning and significance of what RealEstock.com is today for the real estate, and considering the current global financial scene, for the related sectors of finance and mortgages.
Sun to buy MySQL The old adage, "you get what you pay for" never has really applied to technology. Sometimes business pays tons of money and gets nothing more than a big tax write off. Sometimes developers are nearly free or actually free (for love of the innovation in an 'open source' spirit) and the returns are astronomical in productive tools and value to the world. It is hard to tell, who or what you'll get - that only comes with experience - at painful price. It's a school I've personally paid dearly to attend (don't try this at home. Unless you hope to get into the tech business - get some help!)
Posted by: tim in Untagged on
Jan , 2008
After a year of "quiet perseverance and thought" - a period in my personal and professional life that has compelled me to keep my thoughts and opinions to myself - readying for a major launch of our latest innovations - I just received this quote and excerpt today from another forward thinker in a business out to change the world for the better.
In the last year I have decided to just do what my Dad always told me "...Shut up! And get the job done...."
Posted by: tim in Untagged on
Jan , 2007
I promised to write in my Blog prior to the holiday with three thoughts - a promise I was never meant to keep.
My father and mother were visiting from California. They had just arrived at my home on December 19th. After only a few minutes, my Dad, a happy, health (as far as we knew) and positive soul had a massive stroke - he passed away on December 22nd.
Posted by: tim in technology, CMAEON on
Jan , 2007
I recently observed an RFP process that used the standard “old school” methods to replace some seriously outdated marketing systems. It was interesting to see in action the classic “definition of insanity” – expecting different results by doing the same thing over and over again. As Einstein once spun it, “we can not solve the significant problems we face today at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them…”
Posted by: tim in tim vasko, CMAEON on
Dec , 2006
Observation - Prediction #1 of 3:
As I wind up my year, I am thinking about how connections that have evolved further in 2006 will change our future forever as new Connected Market Spaces emerge for business.
These last few Blog entries of the year are my favorite observations, books I’ve read, and offer a fond farewell to a wonderful year 2006 - with sights set on 2007 and the opportunity to deepen our connections with our markets, our customers and clients we here as some things that will creating more value than ever in the future and my thoughts:
The connected market space is the space, every space and place, in which you operate. If you're like many of us, you take your personal space with you where-ever you operate.
Just yesterday I had a client tell me he had to write 17,000 words for a new program. So he jumped on a flight from NYC to Frankfurt and back-away from the office, kids, house and staff, to get the job done. I totally understood his logic. I carry two long life batteries for my tablet PC (my new littel Oragami UMPC), that gets me from coast to coast, so I can work uninterrupted as my iPod shuffles through sounds that keep out the white noise and surrounding conversations - it's my 30,000 foot office and view space.
