Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Holiday Party season is fast approaching. Be prepared to party like it was 1999.

The fast-approaching Holiday season is the perfect time to look back as we move forward. Remember when our biggest concern was Y2K? Would our computers still work at midnight and would our everyday lives survive that dramatic leap into the Great Unknown, the 21st Century?

Yes and yes. We survived the changing of the computer clocks and turning the big 50. Mercy me, sweet 60 is now on the not-too-distant horizon. So much has changed in America and all of us now know how we fortunate we were to live in a pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina world.

We certainly knew how to throw a great Holiday Party in 1999. Stock options were the social currency, not Facebook and living well was not a lost art. Now is the perfect time for Main Street to take back our economy. Spend some money this Holiday season spoiling yourself and changing America's Partitude. The surest path to a robust economy begins when you support local businesses. The hospitality industry is a great place to start. Host a great party, hire a new employee and just watch our consumer confidence level soar.