by Paull Tickner
Wednesday March 25, 2015

With hints of the long awaited Spring in the air and with the Chelsea Flower Show just around the corner across the pond, here’s an update on some new ideas for UK garden tours. Some of them like the Capability Brown 300th anniversary in 2016 will be of great interest to your gardening contacts while others will appeal to customers cruising or flying in/out of Southampton, Dover or Harwich this year.

Mira Borukhin had just finished her BA in Advertising at a New York City college and started working for an airline where soon, she became the top salesperson. Then, her urge for entrepreneurship took over and she opened a small travel agency in the shadows of the World Trade Center. Downtown Travel was born in the mid 80’s based on the principles of tough work ethics and great customer service.…

When the great advertising genius David Ogilvy started his business he found himself “pitching” his new one-man agency to a large prospect. The smug buyer informed Ogilvy that his competition was offering to put 30 people on his account. He looked Ogilvy in the eye with a grin and asked, “How many people are you planning to put on my account?”