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The bus to Hawaii: Marriott boosts Hawaii Bookings 40% with event.

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The campaign, a road tour, dubbed the “Spirit of Aloha” includes Hawaiian travel and tourism executives, 3 dancers & 2 musicians on loan from the Polynesian Cultural Center as well as Maui’s Camile Velasco of American Idol fame. The entire program generated much interest in tourism circles. The result?

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Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

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Prediction: tomorrow’s event, event marketing and sponsorship opportunity is with “Tweet-ups” where like-minded Twitter-peeps meet up to meet each other in person. Here’s the great thing: by their very nature, Twitter-peeps share something in common, making it a very powerful marketing tool. Everyone is doing it. Ah, events.

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

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Festivals make your marketing dollars go farther. We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. How many of our tourism, PR, communications, and advertising execs blog or podcast or twitter? Internet spend increased over 18% from 06 to 07.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

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I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. All Rights Reserved.

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What's your social currency?

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Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. Lurkers turn the tables a bit on marketers. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube.

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LIVE: podcamp+wordcamp Hawaii 2008

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Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed. Read more about what’s going on here under the chat window below. In addition to being the founder and main organizer for PodCamp+WordCamp Hawaii, Roxanne will be speaking both days in several sessions.

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Jack Welch supports events and their business uses.

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Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , events No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! By taracoomans – March 9, 2009 Posted in: economy Jack Welch supports events and their business uses. All Rights Reserved.

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