It is with the greatest disbelief and heaviest heart that I share these arrangement details with you. The funeral service will take place this coming Tuesday, March 20th beginning at 12:00 pm. The service will take place at Betts and West Funeral Home. The location is: 404 North Main Street Nickolasville, Kentucky 40356 859-885-4173...
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Adam Mesinger
Adam graduated from NYU’s TISCH School of the Arts in 2002. Since graduating, Adam has been working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, CA. He worked in Post Production to help produce over 100hrs of television on shows such as Entourage and Ghost Whisperer. He also worked as an independent producer, developing movie projects with various writers, creating budgets and marketing materials and developing strategic relationships with other producers and production companies in the industry. This background is already benefitting J. Mesinger Corporate Jet Sales, Inc., as Adam applies what he learned and his expertise to our industry.
He will be conducting bottom up reviews of our company’s communication processes, creating a more comprehensive outreach to our industry and prospective clients through direct marketing and communication tools via our corporate blog, LinkedIn network, twitter feed and email distribution. His goal is to help J. Mesinger Corporate Jet Sales develop more targeted and specific information to distribute to our aviation community. Adam will also be working to enhance our market research and valuation information for various aircraft.
In Memory of Dean Welch
Our Industry Got Smaller Today
I am tragically sad to announce the death of a wonderful friend and co-worker, Dean Welch. Dean died after an accidental fall last night in Savannah, Ga. Dean has worked with our company for almost 20 years. He has been a friend for over 30 years. Anyone who ever had the privilege to sit...
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Part 8: Looking at the Records
This post is the 8th in a continuing series A Career Change: Learning the Aircraft Brokerage Business part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part6, part 7 I went with Dean Welch, our technical director, to Pontiac, MI to review the log books and records for a 1989 Challenger 601-3A S/N...
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Part 7: Showing an Airplane
This article is the 7th in a continuing series A Career Change: Learning the Aircraft Brokerage Business part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 It’s been a little while since my last writing about the newness of my job and the challenges and successes of learning a new industry,...
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Conklin & de Decker Aircraft Acquisition Planning Seminar
Last week I attended the Conklin & de Decker Aircraft Acquisition Planning seminar in Scottsdale, Arizona with my father, Jay Mesinger. This was the 11th annual conference and I would recommend it to anyone thinking about aircraft ownership for themselves or their corporation. The complexities of owning such a high dollar asset are not...
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Important Information From the NBAA 2010 Tax and Regulatory Conference
NBAA 2010 was a great experience for me. This having been my first show, I was able to learn so much about our industry and the people who are involved with it. Several of us from our organization participated in the Tax and Regulatory conference during the convention to stay on top of issues...
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Part 6: It’s All Coming Together
This article is the sixth in a continuing series. A Career Change: Learning the Aircraft Brokerage Business part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 As I sit at my desk, every day, in a new city at a new job, I realize I really did change careers! It is a complete...
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Part 5: Aviation Community Outreach
This article is the fifth in a continuing series. A Career Change: Learning the Aircraft Brokerage Business part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 Part of my job, which is very interesting, is finding aviation blogs and other discussions happening online, that we here at J. Mesinger can become involved in. We want to either...
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Part 4: Database Housekeeping
This article is the fourth in a continuing series A Career Change: Learning the Aircraft Brokerage Business part 1, part 2, part 3 Marketing and communication with clients and prospects is such a comprehensive endeavor. Our goals include, among other things, advertising our aircraft listings to communicate the competitive advantages of our listings and most quickly...
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Part 3: The Playing Field
This article is the third in a continuing series A Career Change: Learning the Aircraft Brokerage Business-Part 1 , Part 2 To win at the game of sales you have to understand the playing field, meaning you have to constantly research your market. We have been doing some significant market analysis this past week...
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