Tag Archive: marketing

Can Travel Bloggers such as myself connect with brands? YES WE CAN!

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One of the biggest headaches regarding monetizing my blog has been trying to reach out and establish new relationships with brands or PR firms in the travel industry. I can’t tell you how many emails I’ve sent out that have never received a response, either because they flat out ignored it, or because it got…

I think Hyundai’s Marketing Department Needs to be Cluebatted

Hyundai Reimbursement Check

So I get my mail today and I notice I received a letter from Hyundai: “Hyundai USA has recently implemented a quality benchmark for all it’s [sic] vehicles. Part of this initiative is to reimburse customers for the amount spent on servicing their Hyundai. Lincoln, on 1/11/10, you spent $56.48 servicing your Hyundai Santa Fe….

I have had an epiphany (which I can’t do ZIP about now)

While I’ve been thinking about ways to get more traffic and links to my site here, something occurred to me: there was one particular way that I could have easily gotten a huge spike in traffic and finally put my blog on the map. I could have gone to Massachusetts and volunteered for Scott Brown’s…

Off to Beantown in February?

Maybe. Depends on whether Scott Brown wins the election or not. If he does, I’ll not only visit, I’ll disavow the Yankees as the work of Satan that they are and don a Red Sox cap and shirt. If he loses, then I might simply decorate my car with New York Yankees – 2009 World…

Yawn.

Having one of those blah days (or is it a blah life)? Did get a whole bunch of errands done though, went on a spending spree on Amazon for some new toys I can use for geocaching and babe watching, got my car washed, the oil changed, the tires rotated, and bought some more winter…

It’s time to bring the pain, so that I may experience the gain! Maybe.

One of my resolutions for this year was to make a major marketing push to bring my blog out of it Grade C status and into the ever enviable elite circle of… Grade B bloggers. Personally, I give my blog a B+. The simple truth here can’t be avoided though. Just as you would in…

Getting a Christian Buzz

Well this is an interesting concept: a new media network called ChatterJam.com is offering word of mouth services for companies who want to sell goods to a Christian demographic, and who are also looking for valuable feedback on their products. Members of ChatterJam (called Jammers) would receive and test sample products before they are released…

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