Since it would be fair for us to tell you to check out Secret Entourage and all of its different channels, we figured we would ask our fans on our social networks to tell you why they love Secret Entourage and why it needs to be part of your daily morning routine. Here are the best 52 responses by our…
Secret to Success – Braydon Batungbacal
As the app industry continues to grow, more and more people are jumping into app development. Unfortunately, most people that do create apps, often fall short of their goals and expectations and call it quits after one try. As you’ll learn with our latest success story, Braydon Batungbaca has created well over 50 apps but it was not without its challenges. His first app only had 2,000 total downloads but through constant refinement, he has built an app portfolio that has surpassed 30 million downloads and over $500,000 in revenue for 2013. A very impressive feat for anyone but especially for Braydon since he is only 21 years old.
10 Truths on Why Working in Corporate America Sucks
A lot of entrepreneurs can claim they’ve never had a ‘job’ but many of us do for the sake of stability and comfort while building our ventures. I have no shame in admitting I’ve worked for a corporation but it was for the experience and knowledge I was able to extract from it. It was an opportunity for me to…
Secret Academy Episode – Alex Farrington
Alex Farrington was born in NYC and graduated from Beverly Hills HS and Cambridge University in England. He moved to Atlanta to continue his education at Morehouse with a dual degree in Corporate finance and Japanese. He then started Prestige Valet Services in 1997 and still operates that today. He started Prestige Auto Salon (detailing salons in office building) in 2001 and sold it in 2005 for $80k. He started Auto Storhaus (High Line car storage) in 2008 and sold it in 2011. He then purchased his first commercial building with that money and sub-divided it to rent it out to attorney firms. In 2010, he purchased a foreclosure for $300k and today it is worth close to a million. This is now his primary residence. It is 10k sq ft and has a 5 car garage that sits on 2 acres. He currently has 7 cars including a 2001 Honda NSX Turbo (600+hp) 1995 BMW M3 track car, 2001 M5 daily driver, 2013 BMW X3, 2003 Lifted Ford Excursion Diesel, 2004 Mercedes ML430, 1995 Jaguar XJS Convertible, Motorcycles, ATV and a boat.
The Secret Entourage Academy is Now Live
When we launched Secret Entourage, we knew our goal was to provide an educational platform to help teach but more importantly, inspire others to take action. Too many times did we witness the existing educational system lacking engagement and substance. We wanted people to have a supplement that could take them to the next level. We wanted people to learn…
36 Lessons I Learned Over 36 Years
I am a big believer that we are all built for greatness and that we are all authors and storytellers. Some of us write fantasies, while others more serious non fiction, and some even focus on family books instead. We ultimately decide what type of book we want our life to be, and what story we want to live and…
Secret Academy Episode – Ricardo Poupada
As Co-Founder and VP of AskMen.com, the largest men’s lifestyle website in the world, he is responsible for managing the strategic direction and growth. In this leadership role, Poupada supports and guides a talented management team that includes editorial, sales development, business development, marketing, and engineering departments. Together with his team he seeks to increase AskMen.com’s content coverage and define its voice, work with advertisers on correctly targeting the male demographic, increase its readership, and generate new revenue streams. International expansion has been a key part of AskMen’s growing footprint and in the past years localized editions have been launched AskMen.com in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Turkey.
Since co-founding AskMen.com in 1999, Poupada has led the site to become the largest lifestyle portal for men online, reaching worldwide audiences of over 20 million readers a month. He has been a frequent writer on the site, interviewing famous faces like David Beckham and Hugh Hefner. Additionally, Poupada saw through the sale of AskMen.com to IGN Entertainment (now part of Fox Interactive Media) in 2005 for $13 million, and was a key component in integrating the site within IGN’s network, which led to its impressive subsequent sales and monthly audience growth.