You may already be aware of pay to play auction sites like Swoopo and Swipe Auctions, now there is a new player in town who is hoping to be the bid-to-win auction site for luxury hotels. There is a lot of controversy around the legitimacy of these types of sites and the marketing/advertising strategies are [...]
For the last week or so I have been communicating with my friend Daniele Beccari from isango! He and his family are going through a terrible medical ordeal and he has reached out to his friends and colleagues for help in spreading the word and raising money to help cover the immense costs. I cannot [...]
One of the major benefits that small tourism companies have over larger competitors is that they tend to me more nimble and quick to respond to opportunities with technology. The other clear benefit is that the owner/operator or someone very close to the company can add a human face and element to the organizations social [...]
Scott Woodhouse, CMO of Travellr.com contacted me in early March to invite me and my readers to participate in a private beta test of Travellr.com, a new website he has launched. What I really liked was the fact that Scott was proactive and created a beta code “t4blog” before he contacted me. For all you [...]
If you are still sitting on the fence about whether you should be blogging or not, then take a look at this American Express OPEN video with Seth Godin and Tom Peters. I think the most important point that Seth makes in the 1 1/2 minute video is that it doesn’t matter if you are [...]
Last week I was interviewed by Elaine Yong from Global TV about finding travel bargains on-line. Although the interview lasted almost an hour, the final clip was about two and half minutes. Of course, only a couple of my tips actually made it on air, so I thought I would pass on all the tips [...]
In a recent post titled “Travel Agents Finding Relevance Amidst Web 2.0” I mentioned a site called Zicasso.com. In the post I misspelled the domain and within a day I received a message from the CEO Brian Tan informing me of the error. I corrected the mistake and thanked him for his attention to detail. [...]
Before I talk about the primary subject of this post, Travel Mob, let me first point out that Adam Smith, the CEO of Travel Mob contacted me about the site two weeks ago. The important part here is that he did it in a way that caught my attention and, from what I can tell, [...]
Occasionally I get the opportunity to participate in some very cool private betas. In this case, a friend and colleague of mine, Sean Rollinson from Escapes.ca has recently launched a new project called TripReviews.com. Besides being a lucky domain name score, the site itself has some strong potential in the travel review space. Some of [...]
Like many of my T-List colleagues I have begun to see my inbox grow steadily with emails from PR firms inviting me to interview Internet entrepreneurs or to check out the latest and greatest new website. Let me clarify that, to me, there is no difference between these messages and the ones I get for [...]
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