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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

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