is the headline of this article in eTurboNews. It has this quote by Tom Parsons: The three biggest enemies to airlines today are fuel costs, the Internet and Southwest! and is an excellent follow-up to my previous post about the results of our never ending quest for the absolute lowest fare.
Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ August 7, 2008
As so often, I can’t but agree with Seth Godin on this comment about how we as customers are complicit in not improving marketing standards.
Especially his comment about the bottom feeding online travelers in permanent search of the cheapest product and then complaining about bad service!
It starts sounding like a broken record but “you’ll get what you pay for” is as true as ever in any industry I can think of.
Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ August 6, 2008
Marketing, Social Media, Tourism, Travel2.0
by Albert Barra of Tourismo 2.0 can be completed here for those who haven’t already read about it on his own blog, Facebook or another T-List blog.
It’s a topic of interest to me. I’ve been advocating for quite some time that not only hotels but any organization in travel & tourism should be actively engaged in the conversation about them that takes place in social media. There are a number of tools that are now available to keep track and stay on top of your reputation, a necessity in the marketplace today.
Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ July 21, 2008
Intelligent Web, Marketing, Social Media
it’s called 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing by Chris Brogan. You can’t go wrong trying to understand the subject and start using at least some, if not all, of these suggestions.
Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ July 16, 2008
Intelligent Web, Marketing, Web/Tech
might be a future reality according to this Real Time column in WSJ.com by Jason Fry. He raises a number of interesting points that will indeed make this a general reality as it is already for a fast increasing number of people who can easily be found on the web today. In the networked world we live in today, where radical transparency is another fact of life I can imagine this scenario.
I found this quote by Curt Monash particularly poignant: “The Internet WILL tell stories about you, true or otherwise. Make sure your own version is out there too.” It’s a necessity for companies today and might become one for everybody in future, who knows.
One thing seems obvious to me, this new reality will have a profound impact on how to market products and services effectively.
Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ July 14, 2008
is their entry into the virtual world until now the pretty much limited to Second Life. Although I’ve never been a fan of Second Life and their numbers haven’t shown strong growth lately, the Google effort might renew the interest.
How it will affect the way businesses are marketing themselves remains to be seen. Seems to me at least another medium competing for people’s already limited time and attention.
Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ July 8, 2008
reported in this latest survey revealing that Stressed Americans Leave 460 Million Vacation Days Unused. It used to be that the Japanese were the workaholics but now they seem to have been replaced by Americans. By international comparison the amount of vacation days in the U.S. is already very low and it seems many people don’t even take those in full.
It’s quite a loss to the travel industry as a whole when we imagine that at least a certain percentage of these people would spend their days away from home. Not a statistic of which we should be proud!
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Sphere: Related ContentJEB @ July 8, 2008
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