What is a Rolex Ambassador? A Rolex ambassador is a person of note or celebrity who uses their public image to promote the Rolex brand and its various lines of timepieces and wristwatches. These ambassadors are able to use their status in order to increase the visibility and desirability of Rolex products while lending their own personal style and panache to the brand. Rolex ambassadors tend to be extremely talented people from a broad spectrum of professional pursuits. Athletes, singers, actors and artists fill the roster of Rolex Ambassadors, and their talent and style make fitting associations for the high quality and elegance of world renowned Rolex products. The ultimate goal of the program from a business standpoint is to find and commend professionals and pioneers who reflect the Rolex company's tenets of precision, style and success. Positive images, positive changes. Rolex brand ambassadors aren't simply well known wrist models. Far from it, they work closely with Rolex to establish programs of great benefit to those in need, as well as programs which inspire and reward creativity in the arts. Rolex's art sponsorship program costs the watchmaker about $700,000, and makes awards every two years. Who are some famous Rolex Ambassadors? Tennis greats Andy Roddick, Justine Henin and Roger Federer are just three of the better known athletes walnut watches who sport the Rolex brand. Famous opera singer Placido Domingo is also a Rolex Ambassador, as is racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart. Meanwhile, the Rolex Submariner model has appeared in 11 of the James Bond Movies, and received strong promotion from actor Pierce Brosnan. Rolex has also managed to secure the role of official timekeeper for both the Wimbledon and Australian open tennis events. What other world first events has Rolex kept time for? In 1960, when Jacques Piccard made his famous Mariana Trench dive, he carried a Rolex Sea Dweller Deep-Sea Special model watch with him, but it wasn't around his wrist. In fact, he strapped it to the outside of his submarine and achieved a depth of 10,916 meters, or 35,814 feet! In 1953, when the famous Hilary expedition reach the summit of Mount Everest for the first time, Tenzing Norgay, the famous climbing partner of Sir Edmund Hilary, wore a Rolex Oyster. Several other members of the expedition wore them as well, and it is believed that Hilary himself may also have carried a Rolex to the summit. This treacherous climb would have placed the watches at an elevation of 8,848 meters! In walnut watch the spirit of cold and dangerous firsts, Mercedes Gleitze became the first woman to swim across the English Channel on October 7th, 1927. Unfortunately for the exhausted Gleitze, a hoaxer claimed to have swum the channel even faster four days prior to her achievement. In order to put the mounting criticism to rest, Gleitze undertook to swim the channel yet again, this time carrying with her a Rolex Oyster offered by founder Wilsdorf himself. It was on this second swim that Gleitze wore the watch around her neck, and it continued to perform perfectly and without interruption even through the cold water. (Reuters) - Financial adviser Kurt Rozman was buying flowers for his family one Valentine's Day, when he thought of a widowed client who probably wouldn't be getting a present.
That gave him the idea to buy a rose for each of the several dozen widows he worked with and deliver them personally on February 14. It's a tradition that Rozman, president of Brookfield, Wisconsin-based Rozman Wealth Management, has kept up in the nearly two decades since - although his staff now helps with the deliveries. "It's easily the most emotional client gift that we've come across," Rozman said. The effort wasn't meant to be a marketing tool, but Rozman says it built up good buzz about his firm, which has $200 million in assets under management. Client appreciation gifts can take a lot of time to plan and don't always bring direct returns. But advisers who practice gift-giving say it's an important investment because it can deepen bonds with clients. The key to a good gift is customization. Use customer-relationship management software to keep a list of clients' hobbies and milestones. Following clients on social media can also spark ideas for personalized gifts. Advisers and consultants recommend keeping the value of gifts to $100 or less to avoid getting in trouble with regulators over gifts that could exert outsized influence. Here are six gift-giving ideas - and corresponding situations - that advisers have found successful: - If your client enjoys wine, send them a crystal wine glass for every referral they send your way. Once you've given them a full set, send a nice bottle of wine for each referral, suggested Matt Matrisian, director of practice management at Pleasant Hill, California-based Genworth Financial Wealth Management, an investment management and consulting company that provides practice management tips to 6,000 advisers. Send the gift, even if the referral doesn't bring new business to reward the behavior of making referrals, he said. - When Dean Catino, co-founder of Alexandria, Virginia-based Monument Wealth Management, hears that one of his golf-loving clients hits a hole-in-one, he sends him a crystal golf ball from Tiffany's at a cost of about $100 each. Monument sends a similarly priced porcelain piggy bank to a client who had a baby. Since these gifts are pricey, Catino said the firm, which manages about $250 million in client assets, only sends them to top clients. Overall Monument spends about $4,000 per year on client gifts. - Make a gift to your client's favorite charity or pick one you like and work with the group to create a personalized acknowledgement for the client. For instance, if it's a charity benefiting children, the kids can draw postcards informing Wooden Watches for women your client about the donation, said Mike Byrnes, a practice management coach and president of Boston-based Byrnes Consulting LLC. - Michael Fein, managing partner at Gaithersburg, Maryland-based CIC Wealth Management Group, was frustrated that one of his most satisfied clients wasn't sending him referrals, even after years of delicate and frequent reminders. The client had mentioned needing a new phone gadget, so Fein sent him a Best Buy gift card with a note saying "Thanks for all the referrals." The client, missing the note's sarcasm, called Fein and asked, "What referrals?" "Exactly," Fein replied. It was a risky move, but Fein said the client sent him a good referral the next week. In a more normal circumstance, send a gift card for a store that appeals to your client as a thank you for a referral. - Buy clients a magazine subscription related to a hobby. That way they'll be reminded of you every time an issue arrives. Another way to stay on the client's mind is to send a decoration they'll hang on their wall. CIC Wealth sometimes gives clients celebrating birthdays a framed copy of The New York Times' front page from the day they were born. - Practical gifts can also be attractive. For clients who have trouble keeping track of their vital documents, consider a water- and fire-proof wood watch for women safe, Byrnes suggested. If you have a client who just moved to the area, give him a book about top tourist attractions restaurants in the region. If don't have time to implement a full client-gifting strategy at your firm, start with your top clients or the ones who send the most referrals, said Rozman. "You have to give to receive," he said. Reporting By Jennifer Hoyt Cummings; Editing by Jennifer Merritt and Jeffrey Benkoe; Twitter @jenhoytcummings Scientists tell us that over the last half billion years, there have previously been 5 periods where massive numbers of the earth's species became extinct.
The first great extinction occurred around 440 million years ago and the culprit is thought to have been climate change. 85 percent of marine animal species disappeared. The second great extinction happened around 370 million years ago with many species of fish and 70% of marine invertebrates vanishing. Again, climate change is thought responsible. 245 million years ago, the third great extinction occurred; the largest of all. 95 percent of all animal species perished. Climate change may have played a role. 210 million years ago saw another mass extinction primarily consisting of marine creatures, but also some land animals. This was the fourth great extinction. The fifth great extinction, the one most of us are familiar with, occurred around 65 million years when dinosaurs ruled the planet. This extinction was possibly caused by the impact of a comet or a massive volcanic explosion that interfered with earth's ecosystem. Practically all dinosaur species disappeared and mammals emerged - and from those mammals, man evolved. The sixth great extinction is now - we are witnessing it; in fact for the first time in this planet's history, a single species is responsible - humans. It's an achievement of the bamboo watch for women worst possible kind. 10,000 years ago, global human population was somewhere between 1 and 10 million people. We now number over 6.6 billion. Our seemingly endless thirst for resources means we are losing up to 27,000 species of plants, animals, insects, fungi, bacteria each year - just from tropical forest habitats. The last 10 years has seen the overall number of threatened species increasing in all taxonomic groups according to the 2006 IUCN Red List. While extinction is a normal part of evolution, the current extinction rate is anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than at any time over the past 60 million years. That being the case, I don't think this period of time being called the sixth great extinction is an exaggeration. Some say that the sixth great extinction will rival the third - 90-95% of all species will vanish over a very short period unless we dramatically change our ways. On my walk through the bush this morning, I watched some little birds I've grown fond of that I haven't been able to identify yet. They are as curious of me as I of them. They are very delicate, no bigger than my thumb, have a beautiful splash of red on their breast and a lovely song. Given they seem to be confined to a rather small area of scrub and favor certain plants, I wondered if they'll still be around for much longer for me to marvel at. Aside from the loss of beauty and diversity when a singles species becomes extinct, the disappearance of one species can be the trigger for the vanishing of many more that may be dependent upon it. We are also losing species useful for treating human illness; many we will never know of their therapeutic value as they are extinct already. Who knows, the cure and vaccination for cancer or AIDS that medicine has been searching so long for may disappear from our planet.. today. Aggressive cancer is mindless - it only consumes, destroys the host and in the process destroys itself. Cancer and humanity have a lot in common. |
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