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,...
Getting the most out of LinkedIn in 7 easy steps
I’ve used LinkedIn for about 4 years, but most of the activity on it happened in the past 1 year. As people are getting more and more connected online, LinkedIn shows up as number one tool for searching for a job (the increase in unemployment rate probably helped), getting your professional network in one place and staying on top of your contacts’ latest moves. How to get the most out of...
Lessons from SMG Technology and Marketing workshop
I had the pleasure to present to the Strategic Marketing Group in South Lake Tahoe yesterday. Here’s a short recap of the sessions I attended and a copy of my presentation.
I enjoyed David LaPlante’s presentation.His passion for technology, social sharing, video, content and skiing is addictive and make a big impact on everyone who’s ever seen him speak. On the forefront of technology,...
Is your business on Facebook?
Back in March I wrote a blog post discussing social media stats for social networks including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Delicious, YouTube and Flickr. If you are interested in knowing who visits these social media sites and how much traffic they are getting, please, go back and read the original post first. I pulled the data from Quantcast.com and it’s one of the most read blog posts so far.
Today,...
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, ...
5 reasons a business needs a blog?
Social media is changing they way businesses do business and people are demanding this change. Companies no longer have complete control over their brand. Some very savvy companies and CEOs are turning to blogs as a way to create online communities, communicate with their customers and employees and bring transparency to their business. Below are 5 reasons why a blog is a good idea:
Listening tool:...
Out&About Marketing Goes Live
Hello and welcome to my website and blog!
I’m very excited to announce that Out&About Marketing is now live. I created this website and blog to help people in the travel and tourism industry learn about successful marketing strategies and tactics, social media and Web 2.0. New media emerged and changed marketing forever. Customers expect companies to communicate with them on a whole new...
Free E-kit to help you understand Web Marketing for Tourism
Leave it to my Australian friends to create a useful and practical free resource for tourism web marketing. Funded by the Australian State and Territory Tourism offices and created by the National Online Strategy Committee in Australia this comprehensive online marketing ekit is for the tourism industry and covers off a variety of basic and advanced topics. The free web marketing for tourism eKit...
Milena Regos, Marketing Director for IVGID & Diamond Peak Ski Resort, is an experienced and innovative marketing and Internet professional and social media practitioner who builds award winning marketing campaigns with proven return on investment. Milena Regos specializes in creating digital marketing campaigns enabling travel&tourism brands communicate effectively with customers. More on the About page. This is her personal blog and the thoughts and opinions expressed here are hers alone and do not necessarily represent the views of her employer or anyone else. 
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