by Rick Eriksen | Jul 24, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, All Aircraft Sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
A New Beginning! Business aviation, by nature, is expensive, complicated, and highly regulated, which by default leaves most investors wary and unapproachable when it comes to any dialogue regarding aviation investments. I fully understand these issues, which is why...
by Rick Eriksen | Jul 17, 2023 | Aircraft Owners, All Aircraft Sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
And it was not pretty IF your Game is Fractional Recently, Aviation International News did a story detailing Time Sharing, oops, I meant Fractional operations. The story revealed what I have been saying since the term ‘Fractional’ was substituted for Time Share, which...
by Rick Eriksen | Jun 16, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
Yes, it Can Be Done! It Just Hasn’t Been Done YET! The Real and actual market for the business of business aviation goes far beyond what anyone in Business aviation thinks it is or can even imagine it to be. More importantly, all the infrastructure is already in place...
by Rick Eriksen | Jun 8, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
Believe it… Historically, Krakens originated in Scandinavian folklore, usually depicted as an aggressive cephalopod-like creature capable of destroying entire ships and dragging sailors to their doom. Today there is a Kraken category of creature that is not folklore...
by Rick Eriksen | May 30, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
“No Way,” you say. “Way,” I say! Mimetic desire in the world of business aviation always goes wrong. It goes wrong as it is almost entirely based on the Dunning Kruger effect, the paradox where you do not know what you do not know. And when...
by Rick Eriksen | May 16, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
Let’s take a Look! When a statement is made by Mr. X in the context of a fact that is knowingly inaccurate, is there any truth to the statement at all? Why, yes. There is. The fact that Mr. X did make the statement is a fact that is true. The fact that the...
by Rick Eriksen | May 2, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
Chapter 5, Damn – The Invisible Factor: SOM is an investor term for the Serviceable Obtainable Market which is information that investors are looking for to know and understand the problems and the profit potential with any business, especially the business of...
by Rick Eriksen | May 1, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
Chapter four…Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM). When discussing the SAM of any market, it is typically discussed relating to that part of the market it is servicing. Typically, when discussing aviation, it is broken into areas of regard such as charter,...
by Rick Eriksen | Apr 30, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors
Chapter Three…How the Dunning Kruger Effect is and has been destroying the Business of Business Aviation? In chapters one and two I mention the “Dunning Kruger specimen” or the “Dunning Kruger Effect” (a lot). So why am I so obsessed with the Dunning...
by Rick Eriksen | Apr 27, 2023 | Air Craft Owners, Aircraft sales, Aviation Businesses, Investors, Uncategorized
Chapter TWO…Total Available Market or TAM. TAM is an investor term used when trying to establish the “Total Available Market” in each sector of any business they may be interested in investing in. The specific reason to establish the market is to...
