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Sunday, June 13th, 2010Fast Track To Cash Flow Featured in The ST ALBERT GAZETTE
Sunday, June 6th, 2010Newspaper Story: Our Client Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the company placing 67th overall in Profit magazine’s annual “PROFIT 100 RANKINGS”
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A St. Albert-based financial planning educator earned a spot on PROFIT Magazine’s top 100 fastest growing companies.
The Fast Track Group snagged the 67th spot on the entrepreneurship magazine’s 22nd annual ranking.
“Feels pretty good. It’s a pretty big honour, I guess,” said Fast Track founder and CEO Darren Weeks.
The ranking compares Canada’s fastest-growing companies by five-year revenue growth. It’s published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at PROFIT100.com.
Fast Track increased its revenue by 929 per cent between 2004 and 2009. Weeks said one key decision was spending more on marketing and hiring during the recession when many businesses were doing the opposite.
“I think it’s just pure recognition to say all the hard work that the entire staff has put forward the last nine y
Fast Track To Cash Flow Featured in The SAINT CITY NEWS
Saturday, June 5th, 2010Newspaper Story: Our Client Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the company placing 67th overall in Profit magazine’s annual “PROFIT 100 RANKINGS”
Fast Track To Cash Flow Featured in THE PINCHER CREEK ECHO
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Newspaper Story: Our Client Jim Sand, President of The Fast Track Group was interviewed about the new Terra Vista Project
By Debbie Houghtaling
A new housing project has been announced in Pincher Creek. The Fast Track Group and Fast Track Capital, is promising a new Terra Vista project in Pincher Creek, Alberta.
Fast Track Capital is partnering with Greenfield Development Corp (GDC), formally Pinchme Corp,
Now that the announcement has been made, fund-raising will shift into high gear.
The new project will cover 148 acres at the cross roads of Highway 6 and Highway 507, and will consist of 231 single-family lots, 27 duplex and 20 fourplex lots, a child care centre, a seniors complex, a multi-family condominium site and 60 acres of highway commercial frontage.
Pincher Creek Town Council has reviewed the Area Structure Plan for Terra Vista and the initial concept plan has been accepted, the physical phase of the project will now begin.
“We have looked at several communities in Alberta and Pincher Creek had the most opportunity,” According to Jim Sand, President of the Fast Track Group,
“The development will sit adjacent to two major highways (6 and 507) and will be located directly across from Walmart. It’s an ideal site and we’re certain future tenants and residents of Terra Vista and nearby communities will agree.”
The next step towards development will be the final permits, which they hope to receive from council in the next few months.
Fast Track To Cash Flow Interviewed on CBC RADIO EDMONTON
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Radio Interview: Our Client, Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the Canadian Luge Team $1,000.000 performance bonus they can possibly win at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Fast Track To Cash Flow Interviewed on CBC RADIO EDMONTON
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Radio Interview: Our Client, Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the Canadian Luge Team $1,000.000 performance bonus they can possibly win at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Fast Track To Cash Flow Interviewed on CBC RADIO OTTAWA
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Radio Interview: Our Client, Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the Canadian Luge Team $1,000.000 performance bonus they can possibly win at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Fast Track To Cash Flow Featured in The ST ALBERT GAZETTE
Saturday, February 13th, 2010Newspaper Story: Our Client Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the Canadian Luge Team $1,000,000 performance bonus they can possibly win at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Luge Prize Not A Stunt
Feb 13, 2010 By Cory Hare | St. Albert Gazette
Promising a $1 million payday for any Canadian luger who snags a gold medal may be garnering international publicity but it’s not a silly publicity stunt, said Darren Weeks, the owner of St. Albert-based Fast Track Group.
The organization has pledged a million-dollar prize if a Canadian luger wins an Olympic gold medal. Canada has never medalled in luge at the Olympics but this year’s team has had a number of top-10 finishes and is a threat to medal, Weeks said.
The $1 million would be split between the athlete and the Canadian Luge Association. If Canada produces more than one gold, the athletes would share the prize money.
His company is also offering $50,000 for each silver and bronze medal. There will be a $5,000 reward for the top Canadian in men’s and women’s singles and doubles. The athletes can pocket all the cash.
The offer applies to the Vancouver 2010 games or the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia.
Weeks said he came up with the idea about 10 days ago.
“Just trying to do something different,” he said.
“More than just financially, I wanted to make sure they got a lot of exposure.”
“I thought, if we put a million dollars on the line, I think that might get some publicity and then more people will know what the luge sport is all about, because very few people even know what it is.”
The story has been picked up by media all over the world.
Weeks insists it’s not a publicity stunt aimed at generating interest in his financial education company. He noted that his Fast Track Group began sponsoring the luge team last year after noticing the team was putting “For Sale” signs on their helmets in an attempt to attract sponsors.
“When I found out that they were for sale, I was kind of embarrassed as a Canadian that we had the Olympics coming up in 2010 and they didn’t have a corporate sponsor,” Weeks said. “I thought what the heck, let’s support a little guy, an underdog.”
There were several things he had in common with the team: both are Alberta-based and both use a fast track. His sponsorship is worth more than $1 million over five years.
Weeks has heard the snickers that this million dollar prize is just a publicity stunt with zero chance of the prize being claimed.
“I made sure we did a five-year sponsorship and also for those skeptics out there if they think this is just publicity because, they’re not going to win, one of the ladies came in fourth, one of the guys came in fifth,” Weeks said.
“If it happens to be a gold medal in Russia, I’ll still pay.”
Canadian Olympians who medal will receive bonuses of $20,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze from the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Fast Track To Cash Flow Featured in the VANCOUVER SUN
Friday, February 12th, 2010Newspaper Story: Our Client, Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the Canadian Luge Team $1,000.000 performance bonus they can possibly win at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Rewards Are Large For Medal Finishes
Canadian Luge Federation’s title sponsor, Fast Track Group of Calgary, has offered $1 million if a Canadian luger captures the gold medal.
By Terry Bell, Vancouver Sun February 12, 2010
Tony Gentile / Canada’s Samuel Edney speeds down the track during a practice run for the men’s singles luge Thursday. The members of the Canadian luge team could collect a cheque from the team sponsor if they collect a medal.
Canada’s lugers begin the ‘Great Canadian 2010 Olympic Million Dollar Slide Off’ on Saturday with the first two of four runs in the men’s event at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
The odds may not be very good, but if any among the Calgary trio of Sam Edney, Ian Cockerline or Jeff Christie should happen to win the gold medal here, they’ll be rewarded with a $1,000,000 cheque from the Canadian Luge Federation’s title sponsor, Fast Track Group of Calgary. The money will be split between the athlete and the CLF. Canada has never won an Olympic gold medal in luge. The same is true for silver and bronze, which, if it were to happen here, would be worth $50,000 from Fast Track. The top Canadian man, woman and doubles team will earn $5,000. So what are their chances?
Well, Edney, 25, is the early favourite to leave here with the $5,000 from the men’s event, which ends with two runs on Sunday. The fastest total time wins. Edney has stepped up during the 2009-10 World Cup season, earning a personal best-ever fifth place finish in Calgary and then coming seventh at a World Cup in Cesana, Italy. He’s ranked 15th in the World Cup standings after placing 19th in his Olympic debut four years ago in Turin.
“My confidence in my sliding has grown in the past couple of years and we’ve had some amazing training at Whistler this year that has really helped in building consistency,” Edney was quoted as saying on the CTV website.
Christie, who was born in Vancouver and raised in Calgary, is ranked 25th on this year’s World Cup circuit. Cockerline is ranked 35th.
Christie finished 14th at the 2006 Olympics in Turin. Cockerline crashed in his Olympic debut.
Italy’s Armin Zoeggeler is one pre-race favourite. The two time Olympic gold medallist had the second fastest first training run Wednesday and the fastest time on the second run. Russia’s Albert Demtschenko had the fastest first time and the second fastest time in the second run. Through the first eight races on this season’s World Cup, Zoeggeler has four wins and three second place finishes. Demtschenko has two wins, with Germans Felix Loch and Andi Langenhan each have a win. Despite an improved Canadian program that’s come since the hiring of German coach Wolfgang Staudinger three years ago, the Canadian men still trail the Zoeggelers of the luge world by a considerable margin. But if they have a chance here, it rests with advantage they should have on the Whistler track, a challenging test for even the most skilled lugers. The Canadians have had more time on the track than sliders from the other countries.
“It’s great, this is my second home,” Cockerline said of the track. “I’ve been struggling with the top 20 (on World Cup). I want to have four consistent runs and finally put them down. If I get that it will make me happy.”
As for the money — it’s unlikely to be a distraction. “We have been doing this for so long that the financial motivation is an afterthought,” said Cockerline. “Our cake is the Olympics and throwing down four of the best runs of our careers.”
Fast Track To Cash Flow Featured in the SAINT CITY NEWS
Friday, February 12th, 2010Newspaper Story: Our Client Darren Weeks, Founder & CEO of Fast Track To Cash Flow was interviewed about the Canadian Luge Team $1,000,000 performance bonus they can possibly win at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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