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The Opportunity Of Social Media in General Aviation
Paraphrased from an excellent article in the Wichita Business Journal by Emily Behlmann:
With all the attention social media is getting these days, (the results) of a recent survey shows that 45 percent said social media was a low priority. Deanna Harms, executive vice president at the Greteman Group , a Wichita branding agency who lists aviation brands to be a specialty, says business aviation companies, some of the most major brands in Wichita, have hung back on [Social Media] even more than other B2B firms.
Harms says she thinks one reason could be related to recent criticism of business jets as unnecessary luxuries. “Even in newsletters, it’s difficult to get aircraft owners to agree to being profiled,” Harms says. “You’ve heard the campaign ‘No plane. No gain.’ Aircraft owners, unfortunately, often think, ‘No ink. No criticism.’ The minute you start talking about your use of business aviation, the naysayers attack.”
Let’s rethink this:
Social Flights uses social media tools to fill empty legs and sell primary charter “by the seat”. We also provide limited calendar air service (FAA Part 380 Public Charter). In addition to marketing, we use these tools to aggregate private airplane operators and their inventory so we can “systemize” a large virtual fleet.
These innovations are a far cry from the domain of the demonized elitist corporate jet owner. In fact, we are hearing from dozens of small communities who are functionally stranded without access to commercial aviation with very few other practical travel modes. Communities passionately ask us for air- service into a hub like Atlanta instead of bouncing around several regional airports and enduring a 3-hour drive to anywhere. Millions of American need access to each other and global markets beyond their parochial economies. People need opportunities – that’s what social media is all about.
You can’t Globalize until you Regionalize
Regionalization is where small communities want direct service to other small communities. Social Flights is introducing air service between Branson MO, Nashville, Tri-cities TN, Austin, and Milwaukee. It almost takes less time to drive between some of these places than to fly commercial. The same holds true for Wichita.
It Boils down to Supply and Demand
Meanwhile, hundreds of commuter jets are coming into the market. Utilization of corporate jets is 1/20 of a commercial jet. Corporations are looking for increased revenue from their jet assets. Manufacturers can deliver white tails into a new air-service system to keep production lines steady. Airlines can off load volatility (overbooking and low yield flights) to private carriers, Next Gen air traffic control will open thousands of smaller airports to air service, ironically, this includes Wichita.
This boils down to huge inventory, huge need, greater efficiency, and nobody to serve the market. Our prediction is that Social media is the glue that will hold this thing together. People travel across their social graph (Facebook, linkedin, and g+ connections) not to the hub airports, period. People want to work where they live and play, not just surviving in 1 of 28 U.S. hub cities. People want to go to where they are going.
There is profound opportunity in private aviation and Social Flights is the pioneer.
101 Things To Do in Austin
Social Flights is now offering air service to Austin from Nashville and Milwaukee via Branson. This marks a new age in air transportation called “regionalization” – when smaller cities can conne3ct directly with other smaller cities without having to fly through a major hub airport.
In celebration of these new routes, we are pulling together the communities in these cities to find out what is happening in town. Use these blog posts to combine business with pleasure or family life the next time you need to go to Austin.
List Compiled by
1. Polar Bear Plunge at Barton Springs
3 Circle C Ranch Metropolitan Park
8 Tribute to the King at the Continental Club
9. Saturday Night Live Brunch at Alamo Drafthouse
10 Bouldin Creek Coffee House & Cafe
11. Franklin BBQ
12. Walnut Creek Metropolitian Park
14. Mariachi Band at El Sol y La Luna
15. The Soup Peddler
16. Grand Opening of Austinville 78704
17. Martin Luther King March & Celebration
20. Thursday Night Social Ride
21. Get Fit Austin! Open House
22. Chili Cook Off For Charity
23. Free Cooking Class at Williams Sonoma
26. Volunteer at a Homeless Shelter
28. Yappy Hour
29. Jester King Brewery Grand Opening Celebration
30. Matt’s El Rancho
31. El Greco
32. All City Subs
33. Armadillo Day at the West Pole
34. Braise Austin
35. The Matchmaker Band at Speakeasy
36. Mock Surgery Day at Seton Hospital
37. The Doggie Bowl at The Highball
38. Dominican Joe
40. Hoffbrau Steaks
41. 2011 Bobby Bones Singles Mingle
42. Jerry Jeff Walker at One World Theatre
43. Saturday Night Fever Dance Party at The Iron Cactus
45. Love Bites: The Power Ballad Sing-A-Long at Alamo Drafthouse
46. Vounteer/Donate/Get Involved With Austin’s Yellow Bike Project
47. Terra Burger
48. Paco’s Tacos
49. Paradise Bingo
51. Livestrong Post Marathon Party at the Hyatt
53. Vino Vino
54. Rooftop Architecture Film Series at Arthouse
55. Goldilocks at Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre
57. 2nd Street Soundcheck Party
58. North American Handmade Bike Show
59. Mariachi Ensemble at The St. Edwards Music Festival
60. East Side Kings
61. Texas The Big Picture at The Bob Bullock Museum
63. Uncorked Tasting Room & Wine Bar
64. Explore UT
66. 13th Annual Townes Van Zandt Birthday Salute at Cactus Cafe
67. Celebrate Fat Tuesday with Cypress Grill
68. Phara’s
70. SXSW
71. Rodeo Austin
72. Bacon Takedown
76. BD Riley’s Irish Pub St. Patrick’s Day Party
77. Japan Nite 2011
78. “365 Things Austin Live Music Extravaganza” Unofficial SXSW Party
79. Austin Dog Fair
81. Free “Country Current” Concert at City Hall
83. Flash Mob: A Tribute to Japan
84. Guy Forsyth at Central Market Cafe
85. 54th Annual Zilker Garden Festival
86. Austin Jazz Society 3rd Annual Tribute Concert
88 Cooking/Baking Classes at Silver Whisk Cooking School
90. Texas Hill Country Food & Wine Festival
92. Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up
93. Art City Austin
94. Bikini’s Sports Bar & Grill
95. Coreanos
96. Grand Opening of Torchy’s Tacos on South Lamar
97. Beatles Tribute at Threadgill’s
98. Austin International Poetry Festival
100. Steiner Ranch Farmer’s Market
101. Fly Social Flights to Branson, Milwaukee or Nashville!!
102 Things To Do In Nashville Tennessee
Social Flights is introducing air service between Nashville Tennessee, Austin Texas, Milwaukee Wisconsin and Branson Missouri beginning in May 2012. The opportunities for travelers to access business opportunities, recreational experiences, family connections, and entertainment value has never been better.
Say Goodbye to the Hassle
The social experience of travel has finally been liberated from the boardrooms of the airlines and no longer subject to the fragile and abusive hub and spoke system. No more long lines, luggage searches or irradiation machines. Social Flights takes you where you want to go.
Visit all the Capitals
Nashville is the music capital of the world – without rival. For publishing, recording, and production Nashville has few peers. Nashville is located in the population center of the United States and perfectly accessible to many locations of magnificent beauty, culture, and business opportunities.
Your way, not the highway
There are many great things to do in Nashville and dozens of websites that will help you find the getaway of your dreams. Social Flights now makes these opportunities to a wider market of people than ever before. Fly to Nashville today with Social Flights – lose the hassle. (list compiled by: 365Nashville.com)
7. The Melrose Spring Beer Tasting
9. Glass Night at Flying Saucer
10. Train for the Country Music Marathon or 1/2 Marathon
11. Mulligan’s Pub and Restaurant
12. Frist Center For the Visual Arts
13. Radnor Lake
14. Art By the Glass
16. NashVegas Casino Night at Cannery Ballroom
17. Nuvo Burrito
18. Bluebird Café
19. Warner Parks
21. “8 off 8th” at Mercy Lounge
22. Two for Tuesdays
23. Climb Nashville
24. Nashville Lawn & Garden Show
25. Nashville Haunted Pub Crawl
27. Las Paletas
29. The Billy Block Show from 12th and Porter
30. The Pie Wagon
32. Belmont Mansion
35. Jacks BBQ
36. Volunteer at 2nd Harvest Food Bank
38. Disc Golf at Seven Oaks Park
40. Zumi Sushi
41. Musica Sculpture
42. Bongo Java Roasting Company
43. The Station Inn
45. Crow’s Nest
49. Hatch Show Print
50. Nashville Predators
51. Whiskey Kitchen
52. Love Circle
53. Dozen – A Nashville Sweet Shop
54. Laser Quest
55. Dragon Park
57. Eco-Adventure Canopy Zip Tour
58. Loveless Café
59. Commodore Grille
61. Nashville Zoo
62. Brunch at the Copper Kettle
63. Sweet CeCe’s
64. All Fired Up
65. Downtown Nashville Home Tour
65. Rajin’ Cajun Crawfish Boil
66. Taco Mamacita
67. Nashville Sounds
71. Donut Den
72. Dove Awards
74. South Street
75. Country Music Hall of Fame
79. Exit/In
80. Allium
83. Southern Bred
84. Franklin Rodeo
87. Tuesdays at the French Quarters
88. Music City Roots
89. Burger Up
90. We ART Nashville
91. Nashville Shores
92. Fido
95. Brown Bag Lunch Concert Series
96. Tennessee Renaissance Festival
99. Grassmere Bicentennial Picnic Celebration
100. Memorial Day Blues Festival
101. Movies in the Park
Social Flights Beats Airlines; Case Study
Few people realize the extraordinary opportunity that exists for some communities to literally fly under the radar of the commercial airlines. Far too often, people are trained to believe that the airlines are the only game in town and if they quote a price, flight time, and wait time, then that must be the best deal out there. Nothing gives us more pleasure than to demonstrate quite the opposite.
Branson and Nashville
There are no nonstop flights between Nashville and Branson Missouri. Frontier charges $507.00 and the flight – with connections – takes 8 hours. Social Flights can fulfill this route for around 260 dollars for a non-stop flight that lasts only one hour – this is an astonishing 50% cheaper and 80% faster that flying commercial.
Branson and Milwaukee
There are no nonstop flights between these cities. Commercial carriers can provide access but it cost you $335.00 to travel 6 hours. Social Flights provides non-stop service for $290 dollars in only 2 hours.
Branson and Austin
There are no non-stop flights between Branson and Austin. However, Frontier will charge you $523 dollars to leave you in Denver and take an amazing 23 hours! Clearly, it would be faster to drive. Social Flights provides this flight for $290.00 non-stop and will have you there is 2 hours.
The Functionally Stranded
Thousands of communities across the United States are functionally stranded when they need to pay more in real cost than twice the airfare to reach their destination. This creates a substantial friction to a local economy since both outbound and inbound passengers suffer the friction loss.
Keeping it Real
OK, so who cares about places like Branson MO, Tri-Cities TN, Somerset KY, Arlington WA, and Danbury CT? The answer is that millions of people are functionally and economically stranded without global air transportation options – they care deeply.
It does not take long to realize that there are thousands upon thousands of routes and millions of people in our great country where Social Flights can thoroughly and without question outperform the major airlines in the simple task of connecting real people to the real places that they really want to go.
102 Things To Do in Branson Missouri
Social Flights is excited to bring Branson Missouri right to your doorstep in Nashville, Austin, and Milwaukee. Social Flights offeres the only non-stop air service to Branson from these cities. Branson has established attracts over 6 million people per year due to it’s family friendly recreation, mild climate, and stunning geographic beauty.
Check our website and book your tickets today.
Many people may have never heard about Branson, so we have provided the following links to 102 things to do in Branson. Of course there are many more, but spend a little time cruising these links and you’ll see a world of fun and excitement come alive. Consider Branson for your next family vacation and let Social Flights take you their in comfort and style.
101 Things To Do In Branson
1. Silver Dollar City
2. Swim at White Water
3. Ride The Ducks
4. Shop at Branson Landing
5. Watch the fountain show at the Landing
6. Ride the trolley downtown
7. Zip lining
8. See The Legend of Kung Fu
9. Watch the planes come in at the Branson Airport flight deck
10. Watch the Liverpool Legends
11. Watch an IMAX movie
12. Ride the Go Karts
13. Watch SIX
14. Visit the Titanic
15. Take pictures at the Wax Museum
16. Feed the fish at Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery
17. Visit the dam
18. Swim at Moonshine Beach
19. Watch the Cat’s Pajamas
20. Watch Jim Stafford
21. Visit Shepherd of the Hills
22. Rent a boat at State Park Marina
23. Go fishing!
24. See Kirby Van Burch
25. Go parasailing
26. Get stuffed at the Dixie Stampede
27. Golf-professional or mini!
28. Tour the wineries
29. Visit the Butterfly Palace
30. Tour the Auto Museum
31. Watch Todd Oliver’s talking dogs
32. Watch the Acrobats of China
33. Laugh with Paul Harris and The Cleverly’s
34. Laugh your Yakov with Yakov Smirnoff
35. Ride the Showboat Branson Belle
36. See the largest performing family, the Hughes Brothers
37. Watch the Baldknobbers
38. Ride the train at Branson Scenic Railway
39. Take an Old Time Photo
40. Visit the Shrine of the Holy Spirit
41. Visit the Veterans Memorial Museum
42. Visit the Worlds Largest Toy Museum
43. Tour and shop historic downtown Branson
44. Tour College of the Ozarks
45. Experience the Branson Ballknockers
46. Take a cave tour at Talking Rocks Cavern
47. Rent a canoe or kayak on Lake Taneycomo
48. Get scared at the Castle of Chaos
49. Go horseback riding in the Ozarks and at Shepherd of the Hills
50. Ride a segway
52. Take a ride up Inspiration Tower
53. Take a dam tour
54. Watch the stars at Legends in Concert
55. Eat Branson’s largest banana split at the Starlite Diner
56. Have the time of your life at Bill Medley’s show
57. Walk the red carpet to see Horray for Hollywood
58. See the brotherly love with the Rankin Brothers
59. Hear the smooth sounds of the Texas Tenors
60. Enjoy savings at the Outlet Malls
61. Go crafting
62. Start Your Christmas List early by shopping at the Grand Village Shops
63. Get your fix with the 3 Redneck Tenors
64. See the only dueling piano show in Branson at Ernie Biggs Piano Bar and Restaurant
65. Learn about Table Rock lake at the Dewey Short Visitor Center
66. Visit Shoji Tabuchi’s Theatre to see his world famous bathrooms
67. Learn something new at Ripley’s Believe It or Not
68. Eat at the Candlestick Inn
69. Take a helicopter tour
70. Eat at the Hard Luck Diner—the only diner where the waiters sing!
71. Mountain Bike and Cabin Rentals at Park Trails
72. Eat at Lamberts-home of the thrown rolls
73. Go to Bass Pro Shop for the fish feeding
74. Take a hydro-limo ride on Table Rock Lake
75. Visit Chateau on the Lake
76. Visit Big Cedar
77. Cakes and Cream
78. Take a carriage ride downtown
79. Dinosaur Museum
80. Eat ice cream at Andy’s Frozen Custard
81. Go Rock Climbing
82. Ride the Bumper Boats
83. Experience the thrill of the Ejection Seat
84. Pull the Rip Cord at The Tracks
85. Camp at Table Rock State Park
86. View the Trail of Lights November through January
87. Visit the spa at Chateau on the Lake
88. Enjoy the atmosphere at Level 2 Steakhouse
89. Eat on the lake front patios at the Landing
90. Build a car at Ridemakerz
91. Make a new friend at Build-a-bear
92. Learn about Our Body- The Universe Within
93. Go to the circus with Yakov’s Dinner Adventure
94. Get lost at Hannah’s Maze of Mirrors
95. Visit Grand Country Square for laser tag, mini golf, and of course the worlds largest banjo!
96. Eat at the Keeter Center
97. Eat Dino’s 24 Karrot Cake
98. Go souvenir shopping !
99. Walk the famous 76 strip
100. Take pictures at the scenic overlooks
101. Learn to scuba dive in Table Rock Lake
102. Fly Social Flights direct from Nashville, Austin, and Milwaukee!!!
Social Flights Now Booking Into Seattle
Seattle has consistently shown it’s world class creativity strength across the music, technology, and industrial spectrum from the grunge movement, Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing – Seattle holds it’s place in the world as a creativity powerhouse – and it all comes calling down on Seattle Center during Bumbershoot.
Seattle Summers offer some of the best weather you have ever experienced; dark blue sky over 75-80 degrees with a slight ocean breeze, you’ll see why so many people keep this best secret about Seattle weather.
Almost every surrounding city has a fair on one of the weekends in the summer from the Freemont parade to the Issaquah salmon festival, you can’t fly into seattle and not find something happening. The famous Seattle Center hosts cultural and music festivals all summer long culminating in one of the most famous music events in America.
Bumbershoot is an amazing music festivals. Every year, Seattle turns into a music mecca for one of the most intriguing events in the US.
via TOP 20 EVENTS USA top 20 of the best events and festivals in America.
The 3-day urban event, Seattle’s premier music and art festival, takes place on Labor Day Weekend. The Festival stretches across the 74-acre Seattle Center, located beneath the city’s iconic Space Needle, and programs 20 indoor and unique outdoor venues. This progressive Festival features a diverse array of arts including live music, comedy, theatre, dance, film, urban crafts, and literary and visual arts.
Bumbershoot is raw
Don’t expect any assigned seating, VIP bandstand, Valet Parking, or concierge tours of Bumbershoot – you will not find it. Tens of thousands of people show up, rain or shine to see hundreds of local and national bands play. Street artists, performers and the wildest and weirdest that the Pacific Northwest has to offer show up in full regalia of blue jeans and head bands.
But among all of the chaos, there is a certain peacefulness as people just drop their preconceptions and inhibitions and dance deep into the night to every type of music that one can imagine. There is little question that Bumbershoot is one of the top 20 events in America.
Now is the time to start planning your Seattle experience with Social Flights.com. For more information visit: www.bumbershoot.org or leave a comment here and we’ll contact you as flights form.
Social Flights Features Tri Cities Tennessee
At Social Flights, we are continually amazed at the communities that we work with looking for an opportunity to bypass commercial airline service. Communities know what they want and they know where they want to go – most importantly, in the great American Tradition, they are not waiting for someone else to do it for them. Tri-Cities Tennessee is one such community.
In Tennessee and Virginia the name “Tri-Cities” refers to the region comprising the cities of Kingsport, Johnson City and Bristol and the surrounding smaller towns and communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. All three of the principal cities are located in the extreme northeastern corner of Tennessee, while Bristol has a Twin city of the same name on the Virginia side.
Tri Cities is one of those great places that few people know about. They represent a vibrant American community of over 500,000 located in a beautiful part of the country with mild temperate weather yet in close proximity to many economically important places such as Nashville, Washington, DC, New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, etc. When airlines cut service to a community like Tri-Cities, they cut off a half million people from the vast economic opportunity.
Similarly, the deprive many people of a wonderful place to visit, vacation, or relocate to. By all accounts, Tri-Cities is a magnificent place to raise a family. Tri-Cities has an abundance of recreational opportunities in nearby Lake Boone, the Blue Ridge Mountains, rivers and forest. Real estate is still reasonably priced.
Social Flights is looking forward to an opportunity to provide air service to Tri-Cities and the remarkable people who make up that community. It is our sincere desire to create an air service plan that meets the needs of so many 500K population communities across the United States. With Tri-Cities, we all get there together!
Tri-cities Events
Airline Social Media A Mixed Bag
Debbie Miller is a social media and hospitality blogger who recently outlined some social media efforts of airlines. Her analysis is important for two reasons; first, it demonstrates how the industry can use social media to communicate with travelers and their network of friends and family.
Second, it demonstrates how communities respond to social media inputs; what works and what does not.
Luggage Tracking
Delta Airlines implemented a system for travelers to track their checked baggage. Via the airline carrier’s iPhone app, guests are able to monitor the whereabouts of their luggage at all times. [response unknown]
Influencer Events
In the fall, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s leading airline carrier, announced that its “Inspiration of Japan” service brand would be introduced to the Los Angeles-Narita (Tokyo) route beginning in January. [ANA is threw a big party through social media resulting in 5.4 Million brand impressions]
Choose Your Seat Mate
Recently, Royal Dutch airline KLM announced a new program called “Meat and Seat,” allowing people to choose who they might sit next to on a flight by viewing other travelers’ social media profiles. [Reaction remains mixed]
15 Minute Flights
Last summer, a bridge over LA’s popular 405 Freeway was set to be demolished, leaving a significant portion of highly-trafficked highway to be closed for a weekend in July. As a result, JetBlue Airlines decided to offer $4 flights from Long Beach to Burbank and vice versa on Saturday. [surpassed all expectations and all flights sold out in 3 hours.]
Building a company on Social Media:
Meanwhile, Social Flights is building the company on Social Media – and we are learning many new things. Today we have over 14,000 registered users, over 90 private operators representing 500 aircraft. We have dozens of partners who want to service our travelers.
Social Flights has opened flights between Branson, Milwaukee, Austin, and Nashville. We have flown Football, NASCAR, and Corporate passengers as well as VIPs, Celebrities, and politicians. Apparently, our social media design is working well.
Lessons learned
Ideally, we would like to have a person on the ground in each location to interpret data related to that location to proactively match supply and demand. This person would be able to nudge a community toward the private air service option and educate them to the value proposition.
Now comparing our experience with the airline experience cited above, there are several similarities;
- Each seeks to distinguish themselves by introducing a scalable service
- They operate in a hyper-local domain.
In other words, they seek to improve the travel experience and they have someone on the ground meeting a local need. Those are the activities that work best.
The use of social media in air service industry is still very new, but already we can see important trends for social media usage in air service industries
Social Flights Offers Air Service Between Branson and Milwaukee
Social Flights, in coordination with Branson Air Express and Corporate Flight Management, Inc. announce air service between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Branson, Missouri.
Near-daily public charter service begins on May 12, 2012. The flight time is approximately 2 hours and the current one-way price is $144.00. By comparison, a commercial flight on the same route would take 7 hours (+TSA) with a stop in Denver and a cost of $210.00 dollars each way.
This is important because Social Flights represents the regionalization of air service by providing the right sized aircraft to meet the needs of the smaller communities without hub airports. These are the type of routes that the commercial carriers would never fly direct. As such, traveling is far more time consuming and expensive than it otherwise needs to be. Now, Social Flight filling the void.
The Milwaukee metropolitan area has an estimated population of over 2 million people and ranks fifth in the United States in terms of the number of Fortune 500 company headquarters as a share of the population. Milwaukee has one of the highest per capita student populations in North America, ranking 6th among U.S. and Canadian cities in number of college students per 100 residents, according to a January 2000 study from McGill University
Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. Branson has long been a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and neighboring areas. The construction of music theaters by nationally-known performers along Highway 76 has increased Branson’s popularity as a tourist destination. Branson draws tourists from all over the World.
The 44 Best Event Planner Industry Blogs
I first discovered Keith Johnson’s blog, PlannerWire.net starting with his article 13 Event Industry Blogs and Sites That You Should Check Out. Last July he updated the list to 44 event industry blogs that are important. It it just too hard to resist not publishing the list he compiled. Below (after a few of my comments) please find the best event planner blogs on the Internet, by Keith Johnson.
Why is an aviation company like Social Flights interested in event planners?
Nobody ever suggests that UAL or Alaska Airlines would ever ask anyone who intends to stay on the ground that day what their opinion is regarding airline service. Airlines are too busy to worry about what happens before and after their clients board their planes. The airlines are in the business of filling seats so why would they care about the communities whose collective posteriors occupy the spaces in between the lines on their balance sheets?
Maybe that’s the problem with airlines.
Social Flights has every intention to understand the needs of the travelers for whom we provide air service. We exist because the communities we serve tell us to exist. Communities of travelers tell us where to fly and when to fly. They tell us how many people they need to arrive at any geographic point in North America and how many people to depart from any point. Without event planners, there is no reason to travel. Think about that for a moment.
To our esteemed readership
There is some incredible information in these links. Reach out to these bloggers ask how you can help. Send them your best Routes and ask them what’s going on between any two points. They’ll know better than you – they’ll know who wants to share a jet. If you are a charter jet firm, you can either take out a full page ad in the New York Times or you can send these bloggers your empty leg schedule and let them talk about it.
That being said, here are 44 Event Industry Blogs That You Should be Reading, checking out, or know exist. Compiled by By Keith Johnson
Jeff Hurt – Midcourse Corrections
Michael McCurry – McCurry’s Corner
William Thomson – Gallus Events Blog
Peter Straube – Events for Change
Traci Brown – Trade Show Institute
Adrian Segar – Conferences that Work
Janet Rudolph – Team Building Unlimited
Lara McCulloch-Carter – Ready 2 Spark
Michelle Bruno – A Fork in the Road
Christian W. Frei – Meetings Industry Blog
Heather DeLoach – Constellation Communication
Keith Johnston and Teresa Nelson – FamIt!
Heidi Thorn – Promo With Purpose
Alison Smith Jenks – The TBA Global Blog
Rob Hard – Business Travel Destinations
Rob Hard – About.com Event Planning
Emilie Barta – Professional Tradeshow Presenter
Emilie Barta – Virtual Event Host
Thomas H Hallin – THe HTH Business Solutions Blog
Bonuses (Suggestions from readers)
Hotel Desk (this one is interesting, connects event planners and hotels)