What is luxury?

Following wikipedia: In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, in contrast to a "necessity good", for which demand is not related to income.

Following this we don't need it to survive. Luxury takes us more money then another goods and it is not available for everyone. But everyone is dreaming of. Little luxury in our lifes ist just healing our soul.

Meaning of luxury can differ depending on people you are talking to. In these days luxury can be also used for mental goods as time, freedom, travel etc. Of course there are still some brands like Chanel, Dior, Rolce Royce and others who will be always associated with this notion. And of course in the eyes of everyone.

It is not easy to rise a brand today, especially not a luxury one. You always need the special additional value that another brand doesn't have. today it is not easy as they are more brands than people on earth.

Especially difficult it is in the sector of hospitality. There are many ressort and many hotels offering the same or similar. And your dilema is: which one is better? Do I spend my money in the right way - I want luxury and I am willing to pay more for the best quality but is this the best quality? And will I get what I need in the environment I wish to be?

There are many offers for clients and not everyone is keeping what it is promissing. But I know one that is. Do you?

Have a great evening.

Facebook - the life after

Dear All,

My last post was handling on facebook. And I am proud of what I did after having finished the post - I left facebook! Hiya!

I know this is a ridiculous sentence but many of us are too much used to facebook. It is like a drug - it looks for an explorer and gamer in you. And everyone of us in a kid deep inside of our soul. That's why café, farmville or paradise island are so popular. Myself, I played all three of them and at the beginning I was even a citisan of farmtown! Fortunately it was too complicated so I gave up quickly.

Today I got an answer on my blog on network SENATUS and I learnt there are different types of facebook users. All of them try to leave facebook but all fail. There are:
1. The Games Maven - You spend too much time playing Facebook Games
2. The Paranoid Android - You’re skeptical of the privacy setttings on Facebook and don’t want everyone to know everything about your life.
3. The Romantic - You only signed up to get in touch with one special person. Now that’s complete, so you’re quitting.
4. The Regretful Socializer - You feel that you’re overdeveloping your loose acquaintance relationships and not spending enough time with your real friends.
5. The Entrepreneur - You’re starting a business, and you are spending too much time on Facebook and not enough time on LinkedIn
6. The Spammed Gamer - You just can’t handle all the random application invitations, notifications, group invites and other types of spam. The tool has become unusable for you.
7. The Explorer - You want to try out a new social network, like Orkut or Bebo.
8. The Kid - You’re too young to use Facebook and your parents caught you.
9. The Traitor - You work for MySpace and Fox doesn’t like traitors.
10. The Trapped Adventurer - You are moving to a new life and want to break away from your old habits and friends.

Fascinating. This is a real culture for its own. And this could be a perfect new world if this little privacy thing wasn't there.... And Mark Zuckerberg has no profile but a fan page whith limited access to post on it. Interesting... And giving the reason to ponder and to learn from it. Myself, I did and I am happy about. I let facebook live but without my data input.

And guess what? I have more time for really interesting things, including networking.

Have a great evening,

Martha


To know more about types of facebook users see below:
http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/03/quit-facebook-fail/