So, what do you think the Cruise Lines should be asking themselves when looking across the vast Social Media landscape? I believe their #1 question should be: How do we get more of this? This video is getting people pumped up on Youtube about going on the NCL Epic. This is a video created by [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Social Media’
August 26, 2010
Cruise Line’s #1 Social Media Question Should Be?
Filed under NCL Epic, Social Media, Video
Tags: Cruise Industry, NCL Epic, NCL Epic Videos, Social Media
August 20, 2010
Social Fresh Charlotte, Recap
I recently attended the Social Fresh Social Media Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina geared toward marketers with a great showing from big brands and agencies. One of the best parts of attending social media conferences is that when I get home I can experiment immediately with the few things that I learn. By far, my [...]
August 9, 2010
Top 10 things I learned about Twitter from #Cruise24
Last week, I conducted a Social Media Experiment that I hashtagged #Cruise24. As far as I know, I was the first person to tweet for 24 straight hours. I tweeted for 24 hours from @CruiseSource, without sleeping or communicating any other way. I wanted to focus on Twitter for an extended amount of [...]
Filed under Social Media, Twitter
Tags: Fundraising, How to, Social Media, Social Networking, Cruise Industry, Cruise4Haiti, #Cruise24, Tweet-a-thon, Twitter Experiment, Travel Tweets
August 1, 2010
#Cruise24 Social Media Experiment
On Monday, August 2nd, 2010 I will be on Twitter with my @cruisesource account for 24 straight hours to see how many people I can talk to about cruising. From 11AM ET on August 2nd – 11AMET on August 3rd, I will only communicate using Twitter and the CruiseSource.us Blog from my home office in [...]
May 20, 2010
#SilentClark Making Waves on the Internets
I met Clark Harris, aka @SilentClark, for the first time in person this evening. Clark has challenged himself to be silent for the entire month of May using only Social Media to communicate. His goal is leverage social media to raise $100,000 to fight Leukemia in the memory of his mother who passed last year [...]
Filed under Social Media, Social Networking, Uncategorized
Tags: #SilenceCancer, #SilentClark, Leukemia, Mashable, Social Good, Social Media Experiment, Social Networking, Twitter
May 7, 2010
Nation Ford High School Visit, Recap
Yesterday, I visited Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill, South Carolina to talk to the Virtual Enterprise class about the cruise industry and the ins and outs of running an online cruise agency. The Nations Ford Virtual Enterprise class, taught by Lou Anne Cornwell, chose to be an online Cruise Agency for their virtual [...]
March 31, 2010
Celebrity Solstice, Family Cruise
Life is better when you have a cruise vacation to look forward too. Over the past couple of weeks, while working long hours I kept pushing myself because in a few weeks I’ll be able to relax while cruising the Caribbean with my Family. Well those few weeks flew by and that time to relax [...]
Filed under Celebrity Solstice, Cruise, Family, Ship Reviews, Social Media, Travel, Travel Advice, Travel Agent, Travel Reviews, Twitter, Vacation
Tags: Spring Break, Celebrity Solstice, Celebrity Cruise Line, Celebrity Equinox, Twitter, Cruise Planning, Family Cruise, Family Cruising, Celebrity Solstice Reviews
March 26, 2010
Week Recap: WSJ, Twitterview, My Brother Walks
My Best Week Evar? Probably not… the week my daughter was born was pretty special. The Cruise to Italy on the Inaugural sailing of the Costa Deliziosa rocked… and I am pretty sure there are some others that rank up there. Life isn’t always roses! As a former Quizno’s Franchise owner/operator, I’ve had my share of miserable [...]
Filed under Internet, Life, News, Norwegian Cruise Line, Rich Tucker, Social Media, Social Networking, Travel, Twitter, business, in the news
Tags: #btynbiz, @93octane, @nclandy, Andy Stuart, Costa Deliziosa, Cruise, Norwegian Cruise Line, Rich Tucker, Social Media, Tweetup, Wall Street Journal
March 22, 2010
SportsAgentBlog.com Teams up with CruiseDeals.com
CruiseDeals.com has teamed up with Dynasty Athlete Representation, LLC to host a group cruise for the agents and their growing client list of Professional Baseball players. They will set sail on October 4th on the Monarch of the seas to the sunny Bahamas. This is an awesome opportunity for the players to get away, relax, [...]
Filed under 2010 Cruise, Beach, Blogs, Cruise, Cruise deals, Internet, Royal Caribbean, Social Media, Social Networking, Travel, Twitter, Vacation, in the news
Tags: Audience, BaseBall Cruises, Cruise Advice, Darren Heitner, Dynasty Athlete Representation, Group Cruise, Monarch of the Seas, Social Media Cruise, Sports Blogs, SportsAgentBlog.com, Themed cruises
March 11, 2010
CruiseSource.us representing at #SXSW
I’m flying out tomorrow, Friday March 12th to go to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest to attend sessions & panels about Interactive Media. South by Southwest is the yearly Film, Music, and Interactive Media Festival. The 1st week of the festival is focused on Interactive Media and is considered by many to be Geek [...]
Filed under Awards, Blogs, Cruise, Internet, Online, Rich Tucker, Shorty Awards, Social Media, Social Networking, Travel, Travel Plans, Twitter, Vacation, business
Tags: @cruisesource, Cruise, Cruise Industry, Cruisedeals.com, Interactive, Rich Tucker, Social Media, South by Southwest, SxSWi, Travel, Twitter
