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T-List Revisited

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Destination Marketing

T-ListIf you are interested in the travel blogging niche, then you must give the T-List a look.

There is something for everyone.

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Bad Apple Season in Saranac Lake

September 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Destination Marketing

Bad AppleIt’s apple season in the North Country.  Did you know that I live in the McIntosh Apple Capital?  Well, it’s true, I’m surrounded by apples.  At this time of year, cider and donuts RULE.

Funny thing though, I’ve always had this silly song in my head every time bunches of apples are mentioned.  I always thought that this was just a way to get a girl on the rebound.

One bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch girl.
Oh, I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what you heard.

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Disciples: Easy Come, Easy Go

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Destination Marketing

Brand marketing is really all about tribes.  I prefer the religious metaphor of priests and disciples, but it really is the same thing.  Who is your Witch Doctor?

Seth has two beautiful lists to help illustrate this point:

The power of lists

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UGC and Me

August 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Destination Marketing

A “shoddy” ranger shack? Scary ending? Bad PR? Huh?

These are some of the high level concerns I must consider when moderating our High Odds for Winning Video Contest. As of right now, there are a total of 8 submissions. Wheeeeeee!

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Stifling the Internets – AP

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments · News

Boycott - Associated Press

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Lake Placid on WordPress

June 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Destination Marketing

OK, I’m kinda sorta excited in a ho-hum “land n’ leave” sort of way. Looks like my pals at the Lake Placid/Essex County Convention and Visitors Bureau have decided to take off their Blogger/Blogspot training-wheels and get on a machine with real CMS power. Excellent move, but….

  • Why announce if you’re not ready? The default Meta and Blogroll items on the sidebar? Gone.
  • The About page. Gads, just delete it or hide it. Deleted.

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

  • Something about that “Search” bar continues to scream Splog!
  • Pretty Permalinks please.
  • 2.3.3 lacks tagging.
  • Question: Who’s doing this? In-house? Agency? The photographer guy?
  • Somebody probably told them that they were overloading the meta tags before, now there are none.
  • Whoever cares about SEO should call me.

MyLakePlacid

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Bow Down to the New King of Travel – Google

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Destination Marketing

Power users have always used Google for everything, including travel. Today the vast majority of all travelers are using the internet for every phase of their consumptive cycle and it is no surprise that Google’s market share continues to rise.

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