Coming To America is a comedy/romance film staring actor Eddie Murphy, and directed by John Landis released in the summer of 1998. Murphy portrays a African Prince of a fictional nation, Zamunda. The Prince, Akeem Joffer will set out on a journey to America in hopes of finding a women to marry. For additional information about the film click here. Although the film is mainly based in Queens, New York, the scenes in Zumunda are the ones that are the most portrayed.
Moving forward, several celebrations have been based on the movie Coming To America. For instance, Real Housewife of Atlanta, Kandi Burruss wedding was based on the iconic film. Here are some images courtesy of Bravo.com
Several celebrities have celebrated special events inspired the comedy "Coming To America". More recently celebrated was the birthday party of rapper/actor Snoop Dogg or Snoop Lion's son Cordell Broadus. Also added to list is producer, Swizz Beats, who's African affair was arranged by his wife Alicia Keys.
With the biggest trends surrounding the celebrity world of celebration being based on the film, Coming to America, there is no wonder why my company Birthday Sugar: Party Designers was contacted to create not a birthday party.... not a wedding... but, a BABY SHOWER! Yes, Birthday Sugar recreated a theme that has been duplicated several times prior and produced a "Coming To America" inspired baby shower. The wait is over... I present to you, the royal shower...
Industry
expert Tim Berry has been called the Obi-wan Kenobe of business planning. Guy
Kawasaki made Berry his business plan expert in "How to Write A Business
Plan". " The father of business Planning" is a name given to him
by Jim Blasingame. So what make Mr. Tim Berry
so great in the eyes of many? Let's analysis his method of business
plan reviews to see what make him the holder of all of these titles.
Plan-run-review-revise
is the template that Berry recommends for people who run or own a business.
Berry operates on the idea of "plan as you go" or as he like to call
it "PRRR"
plan-run-review-revise.
If Berry's expert advice sounds simple to you, well... that's
because it is.
"It’s not that business plan document you do once and then
forget. It’s a core plan, just big enough to run your business, that you keep
live and on a computer. You review it monthly. You don’t dress it up with fancy
summaries and descriptions until you need them for a specific business plan
event." (Berry, 2015)
However, Berry also says that he works on more complex business
plans but of course he prefers his method of "PRRR". Above all Berry
tells his reader on TimBerry.com
that he recommends that before you hire him please review the free business
plan material that he always has available on his site.
The next business plan expert I will discuss is Bill Payne
of Bill Payne and Associates. Mr. Payne is a business executive, entrepreneur
and a "angel investor". Payne's website helps business
owners primary learn how to pitch to angel investors. Under his web link
"Get
Angel Money", Bill has a definitive guide to raise money from
angel investors. Because Payne's guide is $37 to purchase there isn't
much information on the website that you would find in the
book.
"Angel
Investing is a Miracle of the modern world. In fact, I believe history will
show it to be the most important development in funding this century. Never
before has it been possible to take a small idea, stand in front of 20 to 30
highly successful business persons for 20 minutes with the realistic
possibility of securing capital from them. These small Angel Groups are all
over the world, funding more businesses every year than even Venture
Capitalists." (Payne, 2015).
Did you read the Sunday paper today? If you answered yes then you are 1of 23% of consumers who still read the tangible Sunday paper. Although it's been discussed several times before, print is still a option and will possibly always be a option for newspaper. I mean let's face it.. statistics change and so do people. A while back I was contributing to a discussion post about things going digital. Looking around at the World today, its a no-brainer that all things all going digital, but at the same time, a lot of things are still the same.
Personally, I do 97% of projects and media digitally, such as magazines, books, and music. However I still purchase cd albums, I am still subscribed to magazines, and I still appreciate a hard back every now and then. Without a doubt the World around us is primarily digital, and there will be more to come, but with all of this digital technology there will still be the original way of doing things. Take mail for instance, many people believed that once email was created, regular mail would be non-existent and people still rely on the mail system weekly as a means of sending and receiving, not just mail, but everything. Digital contents are convenient but it won't wipe off the physical, and tangible things in life.
Moreover, it seems as if majority of society realizes that everything is going digital. Check out this Youtube video "Everything We Touch Turns Digital" by Burke W.
A article that was written in 2005, Totally Digital was expressing the ideas of everything going digital and used photos as an example. Once upon a time having photos printed was a process that involved a chemicals, a actual camera, and a lot of other things that we are not sure of. Fast forward to today, to apps like instagram, and services like cvs photo center... just to name a few, and not to mention wireless printing.
The World has evolved, thats a fact, but I think we will always have physical libraries and book stores. True enough record stores are a thing of the past, and you may find a vintage music store here and there, but music is forever, and history repeats itself. So just as the music stores cease to exists, they may come back with more digital content along with physical cd's.
Reference:
Florina, Carly. Totally Digital, (2005) http://www.economist.com/node/3372202 retrieved December 17. 2014
