Lake Tahoe marketing and social media super stars
Tahoe Thursday Series
I like it when I see a local Lake Tahoe business doing a good job with their social media marketing efforts. In addition to our Once a Month Who’s Doing it Best in Lake Tahoe in Social Media and Digital Marketing Series, I’m going to feature a local Lake Tahoe business in our Tahoe Thursday series. If you can think of any, let me know in the comments section or send...
IMAGINE 2011 AIFD- Recap, Presentations and Survey
The National Symposium of the American Industry of Floral Designers ends today. I had the pleasure to speak at their event, met many fantastic people and truly enjoyed the creativity, imagination and energy at the event.
Thank you to everyone who came to listen to me. You are absolutely wonderful people and a great audience. As promised, below are my 3 presentations from the event.
The Power of Social...
Prana- remarkable products with remarkable marketing
Prana is a clothing manufacturer I have fallen in love with for the past few months. They provide good quality clothes at decent prices and stand by their values. Below are ten good reasons I like Prana. These are excellent ideas a business can implement to stand out, create advocates while staying true to their beliefs and still make a profit.
1. Influencer program – every company needs to...
Chrysler Makes Good
I’m very happy to write this post and report that Chrysler Corporation offered us unheard of customer service complimented by a brand new truck to make up for their defective truck. It’s not every day that you see a big corporation like Chrysler be so receptive to a customer’s need and step up to the plate by doing the right thing in any customer’s mind, i.e replacing a defective...
Ralph Lauren “Gets It”. Do you?
Case Study: Ralph Lauren
This blog post is way overdue. It happened two winters ago and I just haven’t gotten around to write about it. It absolutely impressed me as a situation where clearly a company “Gets It”.
The company: The company is Ralph Lauren and more specifically their Polo Blue Cologne Fragrance. They created a brand new campaign to help launch their Red, White and Blue...
Superb customer service at the dentist office
If you are like most people you probably dislike going to the dentist. I have to agree with you. Except that this dentist is very special.
I’ve been seeing him for over 15 years now despite of changes in dental insurances and 45 min drive to the office one way. He’s one of these older, nice gentleman who can make you feel very comfortable.Even in the dentist chair.
What I like most about...
Social Media Workshop coming to Lake Tahoe
It’s 2010 – Is your business social?
Do you need help figuring out how to best use social media marketing for your business? Do you want to understand how to use word-of-mouth online to compliment your traditional and online marketing efforts. Are you new to social media? Do you need justification for yourself or to your boss that social media is not just playing on Facebook? Do you think...
Adrift Tahoe Paddleboarding and Social Media
Photo credit: PeterSpain.com
This is one of two posts on how small businesses can use social media to their advantage. I got particularly interested in paddleboarding and decided to track the entire process of how social media is affecting the bottom line of a small business.
Adrift Tahoe is located in Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe, CA and they offer rentals, sales, fun special events and merchandise. It’s...
Out&About Marketing turns 1 year old- 10 Lessons Learned
Happy Birthday Out&About Marketing! It turned one year old today! Yipee!
A year ago I embarked on a new journey with Out&About Marketing. The results have been very,very positive. I accomplished many of the goals I set for myself and learned a few lessons along the way. Overall, I have no regrets and I’m proud of the accomplishments.
Thank you to all of my clients who keep me on my toes,...
One Happy Customer – Case Study
Overnight success with social media
Sliding on The Cheap turned to Out&About Marketing for help with social media. Kevin Tinto, a great businessman and founder of Sliding on The Cheap could see the potential for using social media for his business. His website, http://slidingonthecheap.com offers discounted skiing and snowboarding lift tickets, ski&stay packages, ski deals, ski shop sales, ...
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