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Kamini Ramsaran

The evolution of the gourmet food truck trend | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte O... - 0 views

  • people have been buying what's known as street food for generations.
  • Food carts were already a fixture in many cities back in the 1800s.
  • Food trucks are just starting to become popular in cities like Dallas,
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  • Good Humor ice cream says the company's first trucks hit the road in 1920. And trucks selling breakfast and lunch items have been feeding workers at factories and other commercial sites for decades.
  • Chicago is behind the rest of the country because it has ordinances that restrict trucks from parking within 200 feet of a restaurant.
  • people in their 20s and 30s who are interested in a career in the food industry, but rather than work for someone else, "they want to be able to express themselves and do it in their own way," Higar says.
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    While food trucks have become extremely popular these days, they have been around as early as the 1800's! Before the gourmet food trucks started to pop up, street vendors selling hot dogs, pretzels and lunch food for office workers have been around for decades. Now with more and more people out of work or people who want the ability to be more creative with their own food with a small budget, food trucks have become more popular.  However some cities have restrictions such as Chicago, where a food truck cannot be parked within 200 feet of a restaurant.  LA, the government limits the number of permits issued for mobile food vendors because of the street congestion it produces.  Permits are also limited because traditional restaurants don't want to compete with the low priced street vendors. 
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Delivering Better Internet Marketing Tools to the Tourism Industry is More Fun in the P... - 0 views

  • Hotel Link Solutions, a new company that provides easy-to-understand and comprehensive digital-marketing solutions to accommodation providers, is poised to extend its reach into the Philippines.
  • Hotel Link Solutions services are specifically designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses harness the power and reach of the internet to boost a hotel's visibility and facilitate effortless online booking.
  • 5.53 percent increase in inbound tourists between 2012 and2016.
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  • Hotel Link Solutions expects more than 1,000 hotels in the Philippines will have access to digital-marketing packages by 2015, following in the footsteps of a handful of websites already live and operational in the Philippines.
  • “Our own Department of Tourism considers that the major problem facing the Philippines is a lack of awareness,”
  • “I am excited to see the long-term effect of enabling hundreds of hotels to become visible online for the independent travel market.
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    Hotel Link Solutions a company that provides user friendly digital marketing solutions has taken a presence in the Philippines targeting small and medium sized hotel businesses.  There is a huge lack of awareness in the Philippines and Hotel Link Solutions plans to make online services such a hotel-website services, booking widgets, channel management and social media services available and easy to use for hotel managers and owners. By 2015 Hotel Link Solutions expects more than 1,000 hotels to have the digital marketing packages with their help.  
Kamini Ramsaran

China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and Sabre Sign New Long-term, Full Content Ag... - 1 views

  • China Eastern Airlines, a leading commercial airline in China, together with its subsidiary Shanghai Airlines, have reached a new full content agreement awarding Sabre Travel Network with preferred provider status.
  • irlines' fares and inventory will be made available to all Sabre travel agents worldwide through the Sabre Global Distribution System (GDS).
  • This new agreement will not only meet our distribution needs, but will also bring about immediate benefits to us as part of our distribution strategy in our global expansion, especially in the North America region.
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  • "Sabre continues to be committed to helping the China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines maximize their reach and revenue potential,
  • China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines also use Market Intelligence solutions and decision-support technology from Sabre Airline Solutions to optimize its flight scheduling, resource management and daily flight operations.
  • More than 300 million people purchase airline tickets through this channel annually.
  • Sabre Travel Network is part of Sabre Holdings, a global travel technology company serving the world's largest industry- travel and tourism.
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    China's Eastern Airlines & Sabre, a Global Distribution System, just signed an agreement allowing Sabre to use the airlines inventory and airfares to market to the travel agencies associated with Sabra.  This will help increase their North American expansion.  Sabre's technology and resources will help enhance the expansion for for China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines.  Marketing intelligence from Sabre has helped the airlines cater to the flight schedules and operations for their customers.  Sabre's network reaches more than 300 million people! 
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St. Mary's Launches New Tourism Website - Southern Maryland News, Charles County, Calve... - 0 views

  • new site includes many new features, such as an interactive map, trip planner and searchable events calendar
  • The site also offers continuously updated listings of county restaurants, accommodations, shops, events and attractions.
  • Local tourism and hospitality businesses and attractions are invited to provide and update their own listings through an interactive feature on the website.
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  • Tourism partners can edit their businesses’ information; allowing them to add content, photos, events and special deals.
  • he site enhances the County’s web presence as a travel destination, with the objective of attracting more visitors and generating greater economic returns.
  • This website is designed to appeal to that market through highlighting the people and places that make St. Mary's County special.”
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    The county of St. Mary's has just launched their new website that now has features such as an interactive map, trip planner,& events calendar. By making these changes in their website potential tourists can find out what's going on in this town.  Local business owners and attractions are able to upload and edit their own information on the website, this helps to keep their events and pictures all current. With this website change, St. Mary's hopes to drive a lot of new and repeat business to their area.
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Revel Systems Releases New Version Of Point-Of-Sale System That Transforms iPad Into Ca... - 0 views

  • Atlas features software innovations that include unprecedented levels of analytics that allow users to see trends in sales to increase or decrease staff at certain times of the day and an enhanced kiosk mode that increases usability for customer ordering
  • This version also allows the ability to create icons or descriptive images for items for purchase by taking photographs using the iPad to allow a more personalized user interface for brands to position themselves to customers.
  • Revel Systems now charges just 2 percent per swipe for all major credit cards, versus almost three percent of other payment options.
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  • Revel Systems' POS solution eliminates the need for back-office servers, combining the power of the cloud and the security of a local iPad application.
  • It's easily customizable for payroll, inventory tracking, web ordering, email receipts and more, and manages everything from menu and ingredients to order-taking, secure payment processing and real-time reporting.
  • now being deployed by Geek Squad®, the leading national tech support service owned by Best Buy, i
  • Multi-location support delivers location-specific support for pricing and taxes
  • does not store credit card information in the iPad, and customer data is encrypted
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    With the new version of Revel Systems POS, Atlas, vendors are only charged 2 % for credit card charges while other systems charge almost 3 %, giving Atlas an advantage to their users.  Atlas replaces all back office work, with the power of the cloud and security of the iPad app, vendors can see all their information in real time.  The system manages, time scheduling, inventory, kitchen checks, allows customers to sign for their cc receipts right on the iPad.  This technology also helps reduce the cost of paper and ink for the vendors.  
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Microsoft Teams Bing With Yelp to Enhance Search Results - Search Engines - News & Revi... - 0 views

  • Microsoft has announced a deal with the community review site Yelp to add its reviews of restaurants, stores and other businesses to Bing search results.
  • Microsoft has partnered with Yelp to integrate its reviews into Bing search results.
  • Bing and other search engines have struggled to grow in comparison to the dominant Google
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  • Google acquired Zagat in September 2011 for $151 million as a way to compete against Yelp in the ad-supported review business.
  • Google in May rolled out the Google Knowledge Graph, which helps a user refine their search results.
  • In the Bing redesign that added the Facebook integration, Microsoft also added a middle column to the results page called “Snapshot.”
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    Microsoft announced that they have partnered with Yelp to enhance their search results.  Google being the number 1 search engine, others are always looking for new ways to compete and possibly take over the number 1 spot.  Yelp is a website that provides users with reviews on businesses such as restaurants, hotels, bars, etc., like most free search engines, Yelp makes their money based off of advertising on their page. Aside from the addition to Yelp, Bing also added a Facebook connection to their search results.  If someone looks up a certain company that has a Facebook page, that page and user reviews will also come up in their search.  Recently Google added a feature called "The Knowledge Graph".  This feature can help distinguish the difference amongst your search if the topic you are researching has various meanings.  Bing came up with doing a "Snapshot" of the pages you search for to help you see more information about what you are searching for.    
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E-mail based tax scam targets military members - 0 views

  • The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for a new, email-based phishing scam that targets Department of Defense military members, retirees and civilian employees.
  • The e-mail appears to come from Defense Finance and Accounting Services and displays a .mil e-mail address.
  • “The IRS does not send unsolicited e-mail to taxpayers and never asks for personal and financial information such as PIN numbers, passwords or similar secret information for financial accounts,
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    There is a new email phishing scam that is currently targeting military members, retirees and civilian employees.  The emails are asking the targeted audience to send copies of their IRS documents and various VA award letters so they can receive additional benefits.  However, this is a scam that identity thieves are using to seal the identity of these individuals and possibly clean out their financials and ruin their credit.  People are being warned and noted that the IRS will never ask for personal information in an email.   
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Reflecting on the Future for B2B Email | ClickZ - 0 views

  • email certainly remains the king of the digital channels, with an installed base of email accounts growing to 3.1 billion in 2011 and expected to grow to nearly 4.1 billion accounts by 2015.
  • corporate email accounts will increase faster than consumer email accounts because of the growth of affordable cloud-based email services.
  • Subscribers have begun to expect you to keep the conversation going via social media and mobile channels. Witness the increased activity for B2B users on LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social networks and likely on your own corporate blog, too.
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  • Emailing without permission can taint their impression of your brand. They can slam you and your brand in social media channels even if you meet legal minimum standards.
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    It is clear that email is one of the most effective and efficient ways of reaching out to your consumers directly, however there are always the ups and downs to this form of marketing. It is predicted that by 2015 there will be an increase of nearly 4.1 billion email accounts compared to the 3.1 billion email accounts as of 2011.   The most common form businesses used email marketing was to send out newsletters, coupons, ads, alerts, etc., now consumers also are looking for more interaction with the business through social media. They want instant responses through Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and other social networks.  With using all the social networking sites in relation to the business, consumers can also see other consumer reviews.  Using these forms of communication for the business and client, helps to build their customer relationship with each other. As businesses track the movement of their website and emails by monitoring what the consumer clicks on, they gather information on what the consumer is looking for and can then cater to their needs. As positive as social media can be for a company, it can also be negative with bad user reviews and complaints.  Word of mouth is the fastest marketing tool for consumers when they have a bad review.  
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Priceline takes on HotelTonight threat at global scale with last-minute service for Boo... - 0 views

  • Buoyed perhaps by the launch of a same-day hotel booking service on its mobile app, Priceline has launched a similar service for its global hotel service Booking.com.
  • Booking.com Tonight with initially be available only for Apple devices via the iTunes appstore
  • and will use last-minute inventory from its portfolio of 200,000 properties in 165 countries.
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  • The app works by giving the user a list of all available hotels in the immediate area of the device which have same-day availability, with a two-step process if the user wishes to book from the handset.
  • Booking.com says it secured $1 billion in transactions via mobile devices in 2011
  • Validation of the marketplace for same-day bookings via mobile devices was illustrated again last November when HotelTonight secured Series B funding to the tune of $9 million in a round led by Battery Ventures.
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    Priceline has launched their online same day booking application for iPhone users.  The app will soon be available for Android users as well. Travelers are able to search for last minute inventory from 165 countries and 200,000 properties, the app shows a list of available hotels in the area of the device the user is using to search for hotels.  The quick 2 step process to booking a hotel is easy to use and user friendly, guests also get a map with directions on their display to help them find their hotel.  This technology was introduced last year and had secured $1 billion in transactions 40% of the mobile bookings were for the same day reservations. Today's travelers and consumers are looking for instant deals, bookings, and conformation, with the technology of this app and the continued improvements consumers continue to be in their favor. 
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Hotel Transitions Social Browsers to Buyers | News | Hospitality Magazine (HT) - 0 views

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    Roger Smith Hotel in New York is now accepting online reservations through their Facebook page, coining the term, "Facebookings". Guests can now use their mobile devices such as any smart phone, tablet or operating system to do so. Pegasus Solutions, a company that provides technology and corporate services to hospitality industry, uses OpenView to do the "Facebookings". Roger Smith hopes that with using the power of Facebook and mobile devices, his revenues will increase.
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