• Rules from the BABY’s Book on Becoming a Billionaire
  
  

  • Rule #112: It only takes one.

  • Rule #82: you can wish all you want --- but only purpose will bring real results…..Ouija boards, channeling, psychics and The Secret can never replace the other big four --- Discovery, Excellence, Altruism, and Heroism.

• Beauty that’s skin deep: Chief tattoo artist Mario Barth followed his passion and created a booming business of designer art on human canvas.

• Just a minute... Authors John E. Johnson and Anne Marie Smith, describe how to draft a strategic plan in minutes to provide vision, direction, and focus to your business.

• Corporate mumbo-jumbo: In our Ask the Expert segment, Attorney Joe Davidson, de-mystifies corporate structuring issues to prevent you from making costly mistakes when forming your company.

Joe M. Davidson, Partner, Allen Matkins is also chair of the firm’s corporate practice group in the Del Mar Heights office. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions in the representation of emerging technology companies in such fields as medical devices, healthcare services, computer software, consumer products, Internet, e-commerce and telecommunications. In addition, he has represented venture capital firms and underwriters in both public and private financings. He graduated from the University of Southern California and received his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Mario Barth is the owner and chief tattoo artist at Starlight Tattoo, which owns four high-end tattoo studios and the online tattoo supply company, The Tattoo Super Store. Starlight Tattoo, a multimillion dollar revenue generating company, sells merchandise in 28 countries on six continents. Barth is presently working on the construction of two more U.S. studios, four European studios and one in Asia. Barth began his career over 20 years ago as a teenager in Austria. After training for several years, the Austrian native opened his first tattoo studio in 1989. He opened three stores before moving to the United States. Barth opened the first of its kind upscale tattoo studios in Detroit and Miami Beach, before settling down in New Jersey. In 1999, he opened Starlight Tattoos in Fair Lawn, N.J. That same year he opened a store in Paterson, N.J., followed by a store in Belleville, N.J. in 2001 and in Rochelle Park, NJ in 2005.

John Johnson and Anne Marie Smith are the authors of The 60 Minute Strategic Plan which helps businesses create strategic plans easily and quickly using an innovative one-page process that has a short learning curve and helps individuals and teams make better decisions faster. Together they own 60 Minute Strategic Plan, Inc., a strategic planning, training and consulting company.

Johnson, who is the creator of the process, has been professionally associated with strategic planning for 48 years. At Unilever, he was brand manager responsible for planning and nationally marketing world famous brands such as Dove, Lux Toilet Soap, Lifebuoy and Sunlight. After eight years, he was recruited by Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco where for 20 years he managed the advertising and marketing activity, on behalf of Foote, Cone & Belding, for all of Levi’s U.S. apparel brands. Next he served as Chair of a CEO group for Vistage International, the largest CEO membership organization with more than 12,000 members in 15 countries.

Smith has more than 22 years experience as a consultant, manager and business owner. Before joining 60 Minute Strategic Plan, she was the co-founder and president of a Northern California business communications company which she sold in 2004. The company was on Inc. magazine’s 100 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies for two years during her tenure. She is a past president of several professional organizations in the Sacramento area including the Society for Technical Communication, American Marketing Association and the National Association of Women Business Owners.