Tag: palm beach

"Lessons From A Valet." Or, "Always Check the Expiration Date."

Posted on 01/26/10 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

I’m sitting in a hotel room in Jacksonville, FL going through my email listening to the person in the room next to me cough like someone who smokes a six-pack of Lucky Strikes a day. At the same time, I realize that the TV in my room has been on Lifetime for the past hour. [...]

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"A Good Lawyer Knows the Law. A Great Lawyer Knows the Judge."

Posted on 12/03/09 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

South Florida is quickly turning into the Ponzi Scheme capital of the world. First there was Bernie Madoff, now there’s Scott Rothstein. Rothstein is accused of running a $1.2 billion scheme as well as creating a web of business interests and investments that the feds are currently clawing their way through. In addition to screwing [...]

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"Black Friday, Green Parrots" Or, "Is That Your Bird Maam?"

Posted on 11/24/09 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

Just a little while ago, I’m sitting here at my Boca Raton, Florida “office” working on a bunch of different things while at the same time enjoying the warm sun, the ocean breeze and a frozen lemonade, when all of a sudden a flurry of green caught my eye. I grabbed my trusty Canon PowerShot [...]

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"My New Florida Car." Or, "Don't Smash This One Up."

Posted on 10/31/09 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

Those who follow my blog regularly will know that I was driving a 2010 Ford Mustang around south Florida. That was until one fateful afternoon when I was rear-ended on I-95. Following the accident, I made the insane decision to drive my 2007 BMW 335i convertible from Pennsylvania to Florida. Those of you who said, [...]

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We all need a Sugar Daddy. Or do we?

Posted on 10/29/09 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

One of my favorite newspaper columns besides the New York Post‘s Page Six is the Palm Beach Post‘s Page 2 Live by Jose Lambiet. Jose covers the shenanigans of the removed-from-reality Palm Beachers and their counterparts in Hollywood. Today Lambiet, who I’d like to sit down with over a martini at Taboo, introduces us to [...]

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A Very Moving Weekend

Posted on 10/25/09 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

What a wild weekend. I closed on my new townhouse in Delray Beach, FL on Tuesday and managed to move everything from my old condo in Palm Beach in just one day. Granted I felt like a gypsy driving a convertible overflowing with suitcases full of my belongings, but if it weren’t for a car [...]

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When did customer service become a four-letter word?

Posted on 10/21/09 by Scott Sanfilippo No Comments

Anyone who has done business with or worked with me knows that I take customer service very seriously. In business I don’t create policies that aren’t customer friendly and I don’t tolerate team members who don’t embrace my “above and beyond” philosophy for making a customer happy. I created the “above and beyond” concept of [...]

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