International Travelers: Keep ‘em Coming Through Traditional Public Relations and Social Media June 23, 2009 - Peggy Bendel
Let’s hope this is not the summer of tourism’s discontent. With the economy in a tailspin, a majority of Americans — some 56 percent — recently told Roper pollsters they had no plans for a summer vacation this year. That’s up from previous years. Worse, a third of Americans surveyed said they had already canceled at least one trip this year
Five Rules of Successful Place Branding June 4, 2009 - Andy Levine
On Friday morning I will be participating in a “Branding the City” Panel at the World Investment Conference in La Baule, France. Here’s a link to the conference webpage (www.labaulewic.org). A very interesting line-up of speakers will be presenting. I’m interested to see how this largely European audience reacts to “five rules” detailed in my presentation: 1. Be
How many places do you see actively moving from slogans or taglines to more comprehensive branding? What seems clear is that places are "branded" with or without effort on their part, and not often as they would choose.
Putting the Face of a 266-Year-Old Man on National Tourism Week May 18, 2009 - Andy Levine
On May 11th, more than two dozen Sonoma County businesses celebrated National Tourism Week by “making change” with a total of $25,000 in $2 bills. Trust me, that’s a lot of two-dollar bills. As the rarely-seen bills, bearing the portrait of Thomas Jefferson (hence the “SpendTom.com” tag), make their way through the community and beyond, they will act as
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross Discusses Approach to Economic Development and Tourism in New Global Economy April 6, 2009 - Tara Morrill
Newsweek Senior Editor Daniel Gross, one of the most widely read financial and economic writers working today, led a straight-forward discussion at DCI offices recently attended by economic developers representing more than thirty five countries in which he tackled how we slipped into this global economic crisis, when the US might start to recover and how foreign direct investment
Medical Tourism: A "Cure" for Destinations, Travel Agents and Consumers? - Peggy Bendel
As the cost of American health care continues to rise, it is no surprise that patients are seeking the most affordable location to receive quality care. What is raising eyebrows is the response of insurance companies nation-wide who are offering to cover both the travel and medical costs for patients seeking medical care abroad. According to a study released
Can "Community Capitalism" Help Your Community Seize Control of Its Economic Future? February 17, 2009 - Dariel Curren
With our nation's loss of nearly 600,000 jobs last month and pink slips now being doled out at the rate of 20,000 per day according to a recent front-page headline in The New York Times, communities across America have good reason to think "the sky is falling." Few occupations or corners of the country are being spared. So what
Hello!
We can post your ad to forums and Blogs related to your website. We can bring hundreds of new visitors to your
site as well as see your site jump in pagerank.
Your website will be in the top of the search engine result pages.
Our practical service is a proven service that works.
We will post your ad as per your specifications and send you a log file with all the URL links to your ads we
posted so that you can click on any of them and make sure that we did our work.
Your ads wil
Trail Mix: The Right Path to Visitor Arrivals... February 4, 2009 - Brittani Wood
With people increasingly busy and the economy on the fritz, many Convention and Visitor’s Bureaus (CVB) and Tourism Associations are finding success in offering “trails” to their visitors. Whether it is a wine trail, an ale trail, an art walk or a wilderness adventure trail, travelers have become more and more responsive to the offering of a variety of experiences
How To “SLASH PROOF” Your Development Budget November 3, 2008 - Ted Levine
The budget axe to swing…very possibly in your direction. The current Business Week notes that 32 (or about 2/3 of the US states) are facing budget shortfalls all the way from California (22.2%) to Vermont (0.1%), and an analogous study suggests a similar fate for private or private/public partnership economic development organizations. Yet deep down you know
Second Post Card From Atlanta: How To Communicate With Site Selection Advisors: October 27, 2008 - Ted Levine
On the last day of the IEDC Atlanta Conference (Wednesday, 10/22) a phalanx of 20 professional site consultants had at it with close to 700 development practitioners answering a couple of dozen queries seldom unanimously. But on one point the location advisors agreed: how to and how not to contact them walking a tight rope between apathy on the
Postcard from IEDC’s Atlanta Conference: “Three Moments of Truth” in Place Marketing October 23, 2008 - Andy Levine
One of the highlights of IEDC’s recent Atlanta Conference was a “Branding for Economic Development Success” presentation by Ed Burghard, Executive Director of the Ohio Business Development Coalition. Ed’s not your typical economic development professional. He comes with 30+ years of experience from Procter and Gamble, a company that knows a thing or two about product branding.
