Maybe it's just that many of us don't really think we're all that and a bag of chips. That's not saying we don’t know people who do think that they are. I just don’t think that’s most of us.  read more...

Times change. It’s nastier than ever this week out there in the world of Destination Marketing. And the attacks are coming from every direction.  read more...

Arizona has been the target de jour this month after passing a bill to step up efforts to curb illegal immigration. Whether this measure simply codifies federal law or shows the State’s lawmakers to be a pack of seething racists isn’t the issue. That’s just how each side wants to spin the situation in this graceless age.  read more...

Most Organizational Charts start at the top with the Board of Directors...which connects to the President/CEO...which connects to management and staff. Fairly typical.  read more...

Destination Marketers are storytellers. Whether we are in sales, marketing, services, administration or management, our job is to tell a story.  read more...

At this month’s Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Tourism, futurist Dan Burrus ripped off a couple great one-liners that have been bouncing around in my head, begging to be shared on my blog, in my Tweets or here in the Z-News.  read more...

For Destination Marketing Organizations to rely on Governmental Funding as the sole source of their funding is playing a dangerous game with fate.  read more...

Ten years ago, we were breathing a sigh of relief that Y2K was a non-event, we were catching ourselves writing “19” instead of “20” as we scribbled the year on our checks...and we were blissfully ignorant of plans of pure evil that would change our world the following year.  read more...

 I understand the initial concept...thin the herd. But, now that I'm out in the real world, I see that it is often just a way to make the decision easier...not to land the best possible person.  read more...

As Destination Marketing Organization budgets continue to shrink while public sector scrutiny of our work increases, the concept of a private sector, for-profit DMO is increasingly making an appearance in my “what if” debates with myself and my friends.  read more...