Tony Brewer

My nephew loves to play sports, and is interested in becoming a coach. In addition to learning how to coach the players in how to play the games, he wants to learn more about caring for sports injuries; how to prevent them and how to care for them. He’s been talking about a website called physioroom.com that has a lot of information about caring for sports injuries, and sells a lot of products related to caring for them. He is planning to buy one of their great sports team first aid kits to give to his favorite coach to use at their games and practices.

Well, it’s official.  It is the holiday season.  Yesterday Teri started playing Christmas songs on the stereo.  When I got home from work she was playing the Garth Brooks CD “Garth Brooks & the magic of Christmas.”  We’ve had that CD for several years now, and I have to say it is my favorite Christmas music CD.  My favorite song on the CD is the song “Baby Jesus is born.”  That’s a toe tapping hand clapping song with a really nice beat and great lyrics.  I hope it doesn’t get played so much that I get tired of it!

One of the most important parts of running a successful business is getting the customer’s attention.  There are many ways to do that; some of which include advertising on television, radio, printed media, and the Internet.  On a more local level, customized signs and banners, custom license plates, car magnets, bumper stickers are also good ways to get the customer’s attention.  I was just having some fun checking out the various custom bumper stickers that were displayed as samples on the buildasign.com website.  I think that bumper stickers are a fun way to make a point.  While I was on the website I was also noticing that the website has a lot of different methods to help one promote a business, or a cause.  They also sell banners, flags, neon signs, magnetics, vinyl lettering, vinyl decals, and a wide variety of different types of signs.

I seem to recall reading in a college textbook a few years ago that 98% of America’s wealth is in the pockets of only 2% of American citizens. That doesn’t leave a lot of money left over for you and me, does it? I’m always interesting in finding out how wealthy people have made their fortunes. Obviously a large percentage of them inherit their money from a couple of generations ago when their grandparents were able to do things that are now illegal. Well, there’s really no way we can mimic that now and stay on the good side of the law, is there?

No, I’m more interesting in learning how the Nouveau Riche (French for newly rich) made their fortunes. I was reading a CNN Money website about the Nouveau Riche titled THE BILLIONAIRES 1991, and was interested to see how many billionaires there were in the United states back in 1991. It made me wonder how many there are now, seventeen years later! This article was fascinating in that it wrote about so very many wealthy people, and how they got their fortunes. As I expected, the vast majority of them inherited their fortunes. What I did find interesting was that the Nouveau Riche mostly made their fortunes through real estate transactions.