Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:25:20 GMT By Geist
We suggested yesterday that there are those in the Knoxville media that really should find something else to do. When not playing class warfare with a... ...read more...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:17:00 GMT By Geist
The Class Warfare that has gripped this country will be its downfall. What people earn has nothing to do with what needs to be done.Gloria Ray, former... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:33:24 GMT By Geist
My friends at the Southeast Tourism Society have launched a great new way to recognize the best and brightest in thetravel and tourism industry...and ... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:32:00 GMT By Geist
This weekend's big story might have been the Stupor Bowl (yawn)...but the most interesting came out of South Florida where the wealthy founder of the ... ...read more...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:36:00 GMT By Geist
After a year of Music Fridays, I think you know I like it loud and chunky. Thus, Shannon Curfman should be no surprise. That is...if you know her.Like... ...read more...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:38:00 GMT By Geist
After a Trillion Dollars poured into the rat hole that is TSA, it still can't buy a clue.Don't get me wrong, the vast majority of TSA agents I have me... ...read more...
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:05:00 GMT By Geist
It is the soundtrack of our lives. And, those that have been in my audiences when I talk about destination marketing know that I think our industry is... ...read more...
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:07:00 GMT By Geist
Last week, we noted that new JC Penny CEO Ron Johnson discovered that his company had sent 590 e-mail sales announcements last year. Yeah...that means... ...read more...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:45:00 GMT By Geist
As I noted last week...I'm discovering a bunch of artists that don't get much play in America by switching from satellite to internet radio.While she'... ...read more...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:32:56 GMT By Geist
The teaser spots have begun. And, JC Penny is about to reinvent itself.As the story goes, part of the impetus for new CEO Ron Johnson came when he sub... ...read more...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:32:35 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Are you a virus? Let me rephrase that. Do you see yourself as an innovator, a change agent, one that pushes the envelope? If you do, you may very well... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:16:14 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Ruts. We all have them. A rut is a settled or established habit or course of action, especially a boring one. It is usually a boring, predictable, sta... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:34:11 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Many people believe that PowerPoint (PPT) presentations are a leading killer of learning. We even call it “Death by PPT.” Actually, the typical 45-, 6... ...read more...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:58:31 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Most nonprofit associations find it difficult to abandon anything. Everything is a cause or “God’s work.” Yet performance and results are extremely im... ...read more...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:19:35 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Laptop, netbook or tablet? How do you choose which device to buy and use? Take a look at this infographic which shows the rise of tablet adoption at w... ...read more...
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:57:41 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Unless your conference is growing, you are on the road to decline. All conference attendance plateaus eventually erode. Unless you are taking conferen... ...read more...
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:11:23 GMT By Jeff Hurt
If you play cards you know the importance of a trump. No, not the Donald with the bad red hair. A trump is a card which ranks higher than the played c... ...read more...
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:24:12 GMT By Jeff Hurt
Social. It’s a word that strikes fear in some and excites others. Today it seems that everything is social. From social media to social networking to ... ...read more...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:18:03 GMT By Jeff Hurt
As an adult, what drives you to learn? Enjoyment? Fun? Growth? Developing new skills? Seeking a new career? Job promotion? Professional certification ... ...read more...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:43:32 GMT By Jeff Hurt
The Conference Innovators DNA View more presentations from Jeff Hurt Innovation. It’s the heartbeat of today’s economy. It’s also where meeting profes... ...read more...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:53:34 GMT By Travel 2.0
The contest. Is there a more ubiquitous and often uninspiring campaign tactic in use by our tourism peers? Luckily, we have found 3 brilliant contest... ...read more...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:46:39 GMT By Travel 2.0
As part of our Forecast 2012 series, we turned to our always opinionated Twitter fans for their thoughts on the biggest tech. trend for tourism desti... ...read more...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:30 GMT By Travel 2.0
Social influence is reshaping destination marketing. From Facebook to FAM tours, CVBs are struggling to promote their tourism assets to the right aud... ...read more...
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:47:14 GMT By Travel 2.0
I knew it was an issue. A feeling shared by many of my peers within the tourism industry. A deep, dark secret that few will admit to. The painful gui... ...read more...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:40:43 GMT By Travel 2.0
Pinterest has got me thinking. And, specifically, Joe Vargo has got me thinking. Considering the implications of this new content curation site. A vi... ...read more...
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:27:45 GMT By Travel 2.0
Facebook and Twitter dominate our social lives, both personally and professionally. But as we move into 2012 an odd pattern is developing. More and m... ...read more...
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:52:15 GMT By Travel 2.0
2012 will be a critical first year for Brand USA. While promoting a nation as diverse in tourism product as the U.S. will be a challenge, Brand USA’s... ...read more...
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:10:28 GMT By Travel 2.0
Destinations have always stretched the truth. The mountains are just a bit taller, the air slightly cleaner and nightlife is always so much more vibr... ...read more...
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:21:19 GMT By Travel 2.0
Look, let’s be honest, the whole .travel idea did not really go over that well. And it looks like ICANN is repeating the mistake with the new TLD pol... ...read more...
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:10:05 GMT By Travel 2.0
Apparently, this year really is the year of mobile. As so many of our DMO and CVB peers scramble to get anything, and in most cases everything, into ... ...read more...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:37:17 GMT By Baker
Tampa Bay FL seems to be finding its way onto the national stage more and more in recent years. In 2009 it hosted the Super Bowl (it has hosted the ev... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:47:01 GMT By Baker
Wayfinding systems serve vital roles for cities and can be an important element in developing a place brand. They inform, guide, and motivate visitors... ...read more...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:30:48 GMT By Baker
There are two elements of a place brand that can add greatly to its competitive edge and distinctiveness. These are authenticity and storytelling. Mar... ...read more...
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:29:40 GMT By Baker
Walt Disney said, “You can dream and create the most wonderful place in the world, but it takes passionate people to make the dream a reality.” Walt r... ...read more...
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:48:05 GMT By Baker
When I first went to live and work in New York City, I quickly became aware of the branding of buildings and their addresses. I learned that the addre... ...read more...
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:16:55 GMT By Baker
One of the great bonuses I am receiving while updating my book, Destination Branding for Small Cities, is seeing some of the fascinating brand strateg... ...read more...
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:29:21 GMT By Baker
One of the first things that I learned in researching tourism strategies in conjunction with the Sydney 2000 Olympics is that the world’s biggest spor... ...read more...
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:11:21 GMT By Baker
Often during our brand workshops for a community someone will say, “this is the best place to live, work and play” or “we’re the center of everything”... ...read more...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:34:14 GMT By Baker
I just read that President Obama will be visiting Disney World in Florida today to announce an important tourism strategy. For me, this is good and no... ...read more...
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:04 GMT By Baker
We receive many emails from city leaders, practitioners and students around the world. I have decided to start sharing some of the responses with read... ...read more...
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:46:23 GMT By Bowden
When using flip charts, don’t interrupt the flow of your presentation by taking time out to flip pages on the easel. Instead, position each separate p... ...read more...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:38:41 GMT By Bowden
We just finished up our monthly Board Meeting. This is where we report to the Board how the CVB is doing and what’s happened since the last time we go... ...read more...
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:24:38 GMT By Bowden
Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare… social media consultant Just Ramers advises not to set up a social network page for your event just because it’s what e... ...read more...
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:03:45 GMT By Bowden
The 60-second Marketer, Jamie Turner advises, don’t go straight for the kill when it comes to selling : It’s a mistake to try to sell someone somethin... ...read more...
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:52:13 GMT By Bowden
Is there really a silver bullet to measuring the results of Social Media? I think we’re getting closer. I know we’ve begun to make a more deliberate s... ...read more...
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:39 GMT By Bowden
We recently received our annual tourism analysis from Columbus State University — a great partner and resource for helping measure performance — and d... ...read more...
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:45:05 GMT By Bowden
As we wind down this first week of the New Year, I ran across these trends on how to be better at marketing through email. As most of us try to find t... ...read more...
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:42:06 GMT By Bowden
The key to success in Social Media is to speak WITH your audience. Social Media is a conversation… There are many benefits to having your audience spe... ...read more...
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:06:07 GMT By Bowden
We’ve gotten a reputation at our Convention & Visitors Bureau of not just embracing technology, but sometimes pushing it to its limits. We’ve started ... ...read more...
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:06:23 GMT By Bowden
Here we are — 2012 — and a friend of mine asked if I had made any New Year’s resolutions? I hadn’t given it much thought until then, although I’m sure... ...read more...
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:56:41 GMT By Bowman
Communities such as Durham, with innovation intertwined deep in their DNA, can, like humans, also suffer from attention deficit. When I observe this,... ...read more...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:09:05 GMT By Bowman
It will be exciting to see how entrepreneurs and local and state governments will soon make use of the drones, if the timelines stick as outlined in ... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:11:14 GMT By Bowman
Corporate spin-offs are complex so at first I wondered if Time Warner Cable had shed the core value for sustainability held by its former parent comp... ...read more...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:11:56 GMT By Bowman
Understanding how viewers of the Super Bowl perceive those incredibly expensive television advertisements that run during each game may provide a glim... ...read more...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:37:40 GMT By Bowman
I'm not part of the 68% of adults in the US who are overweight or obese, but in the past, members of my family have struggled with weight. I probably ... ...read more...
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:44:59 GMT By Bowman
The adjustment I made a few weeks ago so that my mortgage payment would be sure to reflect a modest increase in local property taxes made me think ba... ...read more...
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:06:55 GMT By Bowman
You know that, as a now retired community/destination marketing executive, I thoroughly loved reading the part of the description below given for my ... ...read more...
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:31:42 GMT By Bowman
People like Clyde Harris and his family up in Franklin County, northeast of Durham, North Carolina, where I live, privately own nearly 60% of forest ... ...read more...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:22:50 GMT By Bowman
With a 56-pound English Bulldog as my companion, I can't really say that I live alone or in solitude. As my youngest sister said recently, Mugsy is t... ...read more...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:21:27 GMT By Bowman
According to a study, conducted in 2009, newborns cry with an accent learned from the language patterns heard while in utero even though the full art... ...read more...
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:04:04 GMT By Hornyak
It’s 4:30am and I’ve been up for nearly two hours trying to fall back asleep. Welcome to my new life. I’m 34 and I have mono. Again. And the symptoms ... ...read more...
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:32:41 GMT By Hornyak
How do you know when a CVB is doing a FANTASTIC job on twitter? When they get a review like this from a travel professional: Amy Brock is the epitome ... ...read more...
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:48:35 GMT By Hornyak
A recent post at Business Insider states that Facebook accounts for 95% of social networking time on the web in the U.S. according to an analysis of c... ...read more...
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:54:16 GMT By Hornyak
Our latest #tourismchat (December 1, 2011) focused on social media contests. A lot of the chat participants have managed contests in Facebook but not ... ...read more...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:13:30 GMT By Hornyak
The October 13 #tourismchat discussed QR Codes and their use in the tourism industry. Take a few minutes to read the entire chat transcript. For a con... ...read more...
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:03:14 GMT By Hornyak
Our #tourismchat on November 17 focused on location-based networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Places, Yelp and Foodspotting. Check out the entir... ...read more...
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:29:01 GMT By Hornyak
I’ve been to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park twice before but it’s been many, many years since then and I wanted this trip to focus on photogra... ...read more...
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:12:48 GMT By Hornyak
Chicago is a diverse and exciting city. There are a million spots that are great to photograph but my favorite view is of the skyline from the hill ju... ...read more...
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:00:23 GMT By Hornyak
If you’re on twitter, you already know that “RT” stands for retweet — forwarding or re-posting someone’s tweet to your followers. Well I’ve been notic... ...read more...
Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:42:12 GMT By Hornyak
There are several ways to lose respect on twitter but the fastest two ways are scheduling tweets without checking mentions and spamming hashtags. Some... ...read more...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:09 GMT By T. O. P.
What is the one thing that gets overlooked in nearly 99% of the websites we look at in our comprehensive website evaluation? The website menu. Your w... ...read more...
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:10:01 GMT By T. O. P.
I’ve had a lot of thanks for the tips in our email marketing jargon explained piece, so I thought I’d dive right in with some explanations of typical... ...read more...
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:56:27 GMT By T. O. P.
Before I get started with this review of Online Community Management for Dummies, I have to provide a hearty disclosure. That’s because one of my bes... ...read more...
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:12:21 GMT By T. O. P.
Here’s a question I get a lot – I thought I’d just answer Joline’s email today via the blog (thanks Joline!): So, we’re doing the Facebook thing, and... ...read more...
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:32:55 GMT By T. O. P.
My good friend Becky McCray from Tourism Currents always is a pithy tweeter, and this weekend was no exception, especially when I saw this gem pop up... ...read more...
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:30:06 GMT By T. O. P.
Yup, it’s that time again. It’s time for myself and the TOP team to take some of our own advice. One of my personal pet peeves is when someone tells ... ...read more...
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:36:24 GMT By T. O. P.
Kimpton Hotels is willing to go all out in the name of hospitality and customer satisfaction. This email chain a customer posted online is proof. Tha... ...read more...
Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:06:14 GMT By T. O. P.
I loved Amber’s recent post about boosting your sales with an off season travel campaign. Working on your systems and planning so you hammer the high... ...read more...
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:54:31 GMT By T. O. P.
Google+, the new social network by Google, launched with great fanfare just a few months ago, but it seems a lot of the shine has worn off. At least ... ...read more...
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT By T. O. P.
I recently got not one, but three emails, in the same day, all nearly identical. Their contents, summarized: Andy, I have seen some of the larger hot... ...read more...
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:59:59 GMT By Buzzmaster
By buzzmaster on January 5, 2012 | Edit Happy New Year!! Okay, crystal ball in one hand, bottle of Whisky close by, I am ready for my 2012 annual prog... ...read more...
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:01:56 GMT By Buzzmaster
Sometimes the past can be a very comforting place. Marketing experts are even finding that in today's crazy world 20 somethings are as nostalgic as th... ...read more...
Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:15:58 GMT By Buzzmaster
A look at how Google+ is fitting into the social marketing arena by looking at the present users of the platform. ...read more...
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:30:37 GMT By Buzzmaster
Social Media Marketing must be part of an integrated marketing stragegy and NOT a bolt on. It must fall under the top individual in the marketing depa... ...read more...
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:42:51 GMT By Buzzmaster
Permission based Text Marketing is a new kid on the block, but a newbie with lots of potential to fill restaurants, bars, hotels and attractions quick... ...read more...
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:22:26 GMT By Buzzmaster
Does Social Media Marketing really work? It's a big elephant in the room that must be addressed. The answere is YES, but only if it is integrated into... ...read more...
Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:24:46 GMT By Buzzmaster
A close look at the role of social media and the Arab Spring uprisings and the recent riots in Great Britain. ...read more...
Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:34:55 GMT By Buzzmaster
Do social media marketing promotions really work? This blog will help you decide on whether or not social media marketing promotions are right for you... ...read more...
Sun, 22 May 2011 16:08:53 GMT By Buzzmaster
Insights into trust and validation as a reason that social media and the Internet have become such an incredible phenom in the 21st Century. ...read more...
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:08:45 GMT By Buzzmaster
A brief look at how all the data and information provided by the Internet can be categorized and turned to knowledge. ...read more...
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