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Buy local podcast
July 29, 2008Buy local-online seminar scheduled
July 17, 2008
Photo by Keith Pomakis
This conference call is free and open to the public. Please share your thoughts about buy-local campaigns. Hear from experts. Ask questions. Smallwander.com offers free seminars about small town tourism and economic development. Calls are held on the last Monday of every month at 10 am. The seminars are later posted as podcasts.
Smallwander.com showcases locally-owned merchants, attractions, restaurants, and lodging to travelers seeking authentic small town experiences.
EVENT: Buy local
DATE & TIME: Monday, July 28th at 10:00am Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3630342
Mainstreet podcast
June 30, 2008
Freddie Killough, Executive Director of the Marion Downtown Business Association and Bob Bamberg, Executive Director of the Alleghany County Chamber of Commerce, discussed the Main Street program of North Carolina in today’s monthly conference call. Listen here: Main street managers.
Main Street Managers
June 12, 2008
Have you ever wondered what Main Street managers do? Is your town considering applying to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to become a Main Street community?
Our next smallwander.com teleseminar will invite Main Street managers to share their stories with us. It’s free for you to call in and talk, or just listen in, and type you question in to us. We have a new discussion on the last Monday of every month at 10 am. Here are the dial-in details for June’s talk:
EVENT: Mainstreet Managers
DATE & TIME: Monday, June 30th at 10:00am Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3219519
Upgrades to website
May 26, 2008
Our upgrades to the website are complete! Thanks to all of you who have helped it take shape.
Our regularly-scheduled seminar on the last Monday of every month is postponed due to Memorial Day to tomorrow, May 26, at 10 am. We’ll take a little time to tell you what’s new with the site.
Our conference provider, Xiosoft, has upgraded their interface. They are beta-testing a slideshow feature and a chat-room. I might put some slides together for tomorrow, we’ll see.
Hope you can tune in!
EVENT: Smallwander.com site upgrade
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, May 27th at 10:00am Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://xiosoftpresenter.com/?eventid=3051057
NOTE: If the link above does not work for you use the classic version…
http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3051057
Smallwander.com seminar podcast
May 25, 2008
This is the first podcast of our monthly teleseminar series. This seminar was held on January 28, 2008. Our guest was Carol Wiersma of the Mississippi Valley Partnership. We discussed the value of creating travel partnerships among communities.
A Strategy for Attracting Tourists to Small Towns
April 24, 2008
The next Smallwander phone/webinar guest will be Tom Magnuson, President of the Trading Path Association. Tom will talk with us about how trails and other historical infrastructure can be used as a tool to attract tourists to small towns.
EVENT: A Strategy for Attracting Tourists to Small Towns
DATE & TIME: Monday, April 28th at 10:00am Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2696430
Blogging in small towns
March 26, 2008
The next Smallwander.com web/phone seminar will be next Monday, March 31, at 10 am. It’s going to be all about blogging, and other social networking tools. Our featured guest will be Anne-Marie Dany, publisher of the blog MyWeaverville.com. Anne-Marie also happens to be our Smallwander representative from Weaverville, NC.
Blogs, or web logs, are online electronic journals. Businesses are using blogs to build a personal relationship with their clients. Towns as a whole can do the same to attract tourists. As you might know, smallwander.com has two blogs, one to help towns communicate with one another (http://smalltowns.wordpress.com/), and one to communicate with travelers (http://smallwanderer.wordpress.com/). Right now, smallwander.com members are welcome to post on both blogs.
If you had ever thought blogging but wanted to learn more about it, now is your chance.
EVENT: Blogging for small towns
DATE & TIME: Monday, March 31st at 10:00am Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2356167
Smallwander towns able to post on Small Towns Blog
March 3, 2008
We are inviting all of our featured towns on smallwander.com the ability to post on this blog. They’ll be able to post and edit their own messages directly, without any review on our part. We currently use a WordPress blog hosted on WordPress.com. Eventually, we’ll migrate the blog over to our upgraded site.
To our member towns–if you are new to blogging, experiment with it! It’s not much harder than sending out an email, except that it’s posted out there for the internet world to see. You’ll be able to add pictures, video, and audio, too. This might be your first step in setting up your own blog for your town. In fact, our next phone/web seminar, on March 31, 10 am, will be all about blogging. More details to follow.
I’m learning about this at the same time as you, so, we’re always open to suggestions. Please contact us at any time if you have any problems.
John (john@smallwander.com)
Taxes and tourism
February 19, 2008
How retail, hotel, and food and beverage taxes can spur economic development
Phone/web seminar
February 25, 2008
10:00 am to 11:00 am
We have invited small town and county representatives to discuss how retail, hotel, and food and beverage taxes have been put to use in their communities. We’ll have about 4-8 panelists, and I’ll try to field questions from the people on the call. Elizabeth Read, Executive Director of the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough (NC) will tell us about Hillsborough’s 1% meals and beverage tax that goes to Hillsborough’s Tourism Board. Laurie Paolicelli, Executive Director of the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Orange County (NC) will tell us how hotel taxes go toward tourism in her neck of the woods. We also hope to discuss how retail sales taxes can be linked to a buy local campaign. We have a $1 promotion going on. Click here to go to our registration page.
