While successful businesses should budget and employ good methods to aim at marketing and sales targets, often one of the most important and least costly, yet still neglected marketing is "what say the current customer or client about you?" The [...]
In my daily work of helping folks buy and fly their airplanes I am often posed with the following question: Tim, can I make money if I buy an airplane and lease it back for air charter? The motivation behind your [...]
Over the past couple of years the aviation industry has had some hard times from the economic downturn to politicians who feel business aviation is an extravagance. An interesting study was released recently from NBAA. The published titled, Business Aviation: [...]
Most of us have far too little "quality" time with our families. Vacations and holidays are wonderful times that we've shared an adventure - something that we will remember and talk about for years. These can be the most precious [...]
Across the country this past Sunday folks celebrated and remembered Veterans Day. Originally known as “Armistice Day” back on Nov. 11, 1919, this day marked the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in [...]
Here we are again in the closing days of an election year. A right and privilege we have as Americans to choose our next leaders, both President and representatives. It is a defining moment in history. A time we get [...]
The aviation consumer is no different than most other consumers: shopping for a good product or service at a good price. The shopping process often used reminds me of the Jamaican saying "monkey see, monkey do." The mimicry means to [...]
When I first considered using a Cirrus airplane as a charter airplane, the idea was proposed to me by my new business partner. He owned a Cirrus airplane, and he thought it would make a great charter plane. At first, [...]
What influence and image are we making on the business of providing Aviation Services? Whether or not you think you are important to aviation's overall image, maybe a fifth grade student, can demonstrate as he answers the question, "Why do [...]
Tim McConnell, Director of Aviation Accounts, a former airline pilot, is one of the relative few individuals that have transformed themselves from the cockpit to the boardroom successfully. Tim crafted his career around three basic business principals; people, planning and [...]