ARE YOU READY FOR SOME AWESOME? A slew of print ads is about to hit the Seattle area, in a variety of visitor guides and hotel area to-do magazines. Through a mutual acquaintance, the über unique Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame was referred to me for some ideas on [...]
Is your website mobile-friendly?
Let’s say you are visiting an unfamiliar city, looking for a local wine bar, or are thinking of cramming one more site into your traveling itinerary. You’re standing at the airport tourist kiosk, or a Visitor Center or big attraction. Before you is a daunting rack of brochures, maps, coupons and mini-mags hawking the [...]
Twitter before and after
Shortly after I posted my Twitter for Restaurants Guide, I received an email from Mike Fitzharris in Holland, Michigan. Mike owns 3 restaurants and had just gotten on board with Twitter. Busy trying to run his restaurants, he signed up for Twitter in a hurry and quickly slapped in a couple of logos and followees. [...]
Twitter for Restaurants
This guide is for restaurants just starting out on Twitter. After getting a few of my own client’s restaurants set up with Twitter, I discovered they really didn’t know what it was all about and how to use it to increase patronage – let alone what on earth to tweet about. After all, they had [...]
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Les Otten, a Republican candidate for governor of Maine is (ironically) using an extremely similar website layout created by the Obama creative team for the 2008 election and beyond. Otten’s website starts with a logo that looks like it was ripped from the Obama campaign style guide. From there the site continues to expand on [...]
