Tourism has more to gain from social media marketing than any other industry. That’s my opinion. It’s also why Sheila Scarborough and I created Tourism Currents. Two quick updates from Tourism Currents: We’re getting close to reopening the courses to a new round of students. If you want to know more about how to use […]
Archives for May 2010
Small businesses should promote tourism
Last week, a simple Facebook post about tourism turned into an impromptu brainstorming session. Let’s add to it. Here’s the original post, a tweet I borrowed from @Miss_Dazey: from @Miss_Dazey: “Personal opinion: Small businesses should promote tourism. Tourists like neat local places, don’t always know about them.” Becky McCray Karen Hoeltzel Payne and Deb During […]
What is your success rate
Seen at the Kansas Cosmosphere: Up to the day of President Kennedy’s speech [announcing the plan to go to the moon within the decade], NASA and the US military had attempted 80 satellite launches, and 49 had been failures. Success rate 39% What is your success rate? Would setting an audacious goal help you improve? […]
Shop Local idea for small business
A local merchant had a radio ad where at the end… they mentioned their local competition and asked us to keep $$ local. Very cool. @codyks on Twitter Now that is a commitment to shop local. Also particularly good for small towns. If you’re promoting shop local in your town, take a look at our […]