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Loading ...For a long time now, prospective travelers have had the ability to search, find and make their basic flight and hotel reservations on-line. Only recently has it been possible for these same travelers to book their destination products, such as sightseeing tours and attraction tickets on line as well. Despite this trend, however, there is still no primary distribution system; which means that most travelers have to visit many different individual websites in order to purchase their destination products. For a tour operator, one of the most important goals is to sell seats. The challenge is how... Read more »
Annoying Habit No. 1: Clinging to the Past
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I was reading through my Avantgo version of Business Week when I came across this Book Excerpt from Marshall Goldsmith entitled What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. What I like about Business Week is that the articles are really relevant, especially to small business. This book excerpt in particular really struck a chord with me. At the beginning of a new year, it is so easy to reflect back on the events of the past twelve, or more, months and look at what went well and what did not. I learned a long time ago that you can’t change the past, but you can take lessons from the past... Read more »
Evolving into a Web 2.0 company
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...So what is this Web 2.0 thing anyway? I’ve been trying to figure that out myself. Having gone through the Internet rise and fall, I am always skeptical of band wagons, buzz words, and hype. Call me cynical, but “Blogosphere” and all the other current terms associated with what amounts to basic guestbook (do you remember guestbooks?) mean nothing to me. So Web 2.0 seemed to me to be just another way of refering to “software as a service”. That said, we’ve made a dedicated push to migrate our transactional based products into hosted services. Why? Because... Read more »
