How can we help give you the knowledge you need to be a confident user of the social media tools that can communicate your destination’s story online?
How can we make your social web interactions more effective?
How can we keep you up to speed on strategy, integration, trends and constantly-changing online services?
These are questions that we ask ourselves almost every day.
We ask people at tourism conferences to tell us what’s most frustrating for them in their work. We listen to discussions on LinkedIn, in Facebook Groups and on Twitter. We sit in on super-basic-101 social media workshops so that we can take notes on the kinds of questions that people ask when they’re first coming to grips with the topic.
It’s all to make better educational products that help fix those thorny communications problems.
Now, for many of you, this is a “well, DUH!” moment. You already know what we do, you already know that high-quality training and answers to problems are available 24/7 in our online Store.
We love y’all, of course, but that opener really isn’t for you.
It’s for the people we kept running into at conferences this past fall who told us that they honestly did not know about our online training offerings; they just figured we were plain vanilla consultants, and that was it.
So, we decided to bring in more cowbell….
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Choose The Real Deal
Who We Are & Why We’re Different
Shot in one of our relatively rare moments in the same location….Sheila lives in Texas and Becky lives in Oklahoma….who we are and why we’re different, in less than 60 seconds….
(Direct link to the video on its YouTube page, in case you can’t see the embed box below.)
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Chat Us Up
Open Comments
Want to see us live and in person?
Well, while it’s true that Becky is a speaker and Sheila’s a speaker, too, we can’t personally teleport to you right this minute, so instead….
Come join us for an online chat during our next Open Comments night, Wednesday, December 7, 2011.
Show up at this post for Open Comments at 7 pm Central (CST) and you’ll find us both in conversations down in the Comments.
Bring us some problems that are driving you crazy in social communications, and for about an hour we’ll see if we can get at least a few solutions rolling for you.
Pssst – sometimes we get off topic, but that’s OK. A little conversational wandering makes things interesting!
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Check Us Out
Open House
This is for those who don’t know what our online course is all about, or who may be wondering whether there’s enough value in a six-week course specifically focused on social media for tourism, with us as your guides (um, we’d say there sure is, but maybe we’re biased….)
We’re holding a course Open House Wednesday and Thursday, December 7 and 8, so you can (temporarily) poke around in our online course for free.
Yep, free.
We think you’ll like it THAT much.
Start here to see how the course works, and navigate through whichever multi-part lesson catches your fancy.
Want a little help? Have questions? We’ll be offering guided tours through the course using Google Hangouts, on the hour and half-hour, from 1 to 4 pm CST on Thursday, Dec 8. You will need a public Google account to join our Hangout.
Better make it snappy, though, because the pay wall goes back up after December 8.
Don’t miss your opportunity to check out what we can offer you, or someone in your office or even your tourism partners/members.
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Cheaper By 20%
Our Sale
The final, irresistible offer….
Take 20% off of the cost of any item in our online Store, Wednesday night through Friday, December 7-9. Everything’s included: two-page downloads, on-demand webinars, individual lessons or the full course.
If you’re sitting around after the Open House on Friday thinking, “Wow, that was good stuff, but I couldn’t get through it all….” then we invite you to take the six-week course or an individual lesson a bit less frenetically, at a lower price.
The discount code is “Sheila” – hey, we keep it simple.
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Really nice video, great speaking skills!