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I have been speaking with a number of folks in the industry the last week or so and listening to the general concerns of the operators, mostly on the East Coast. I can't imagine it is limited there however, I was a little surprised as a guy who previously thought he was a little removed from the problems.

You see, I live in Arizona. When the housing market tanked, we went first. It is common over the up and down cycles I have seen for this to happen and it generally means Arizona comes out of i… Continue

Stuart, Steve and I are all going to the conference and have a booth there. I am very much looking forward to meeting everyone. Who all is going to the show?

Will you stop by and say hi!

I will be the nice one in our booth. (but don't tell Stuart or Steve I said that...)

Before we go any further, you need to understand this is not about appraising the economic value of your fleet, but rather about expressing to a customer two important value propositions. The first, what is the value of using a limousine service, the second, what is the value of using YOUR limousine service.

If you haven't yet discovered this, my world is sales as a profession first and the limousine industry in a near second. I have met literally thousands of small business owners, who didn't… Continue

Randy Pausch, a college professor at Carnegie Mellon University recently died of Cancer. Ya, I know. Not a an uplifting way to begin a blog post. But if you aren't yet familiar, before he died, he addressed his class with what he called "The Last Lecture." It is all over the internet and all over YouTube but for me it is well worth watching a few times a year. If you haven't seen it, I am happy for you to watch it here. If you have, feel free to bookmark the location and watch it when you think… Continue

I saw this post on LimoLiscious the other day, commented on it and thought y'all might like to see it too, if you get a chance, click here and let me know what you think about the post and the comments. Thanks all.