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HUGE opportunity for us . . .

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I realize we're riding someone else's fastlane on this, but we were just featured in the "Top 20 Deals" on TravelZoo:

Napa Hotels: $99 -- Weekends at Charming Napa B&B (Reg. $269) | Travelzoo

They mail anywhere from 1 million to 8 milion of their VIP subscribers this deal.

Our phones have been going nuts since 8:50 (when the deal hit).

Looks like we're gonna be busy the next few days!

-Russ H.
 
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Congrats!
 

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Suhweet! Wish we were in the area to take advantage of it!!

As DavidLa asked, I too would be interested to know if you did anything that brought you to their attention.
 

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Thats amazing, on your way to make another mill in no time. I'm as curious as the others, did you do anything unique to get their attention?
 
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Great news Russ!

Did they find you? or did you do something to get their attention?

I've been using various internet tools to see what other competitors are doing to improve their SEO.

Found something that lead us to a site where we could post "deals".

Posted that deal, which was then found by the editors of TravelZoo.

So they found us.

-Russ H.
 

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And, all that attention without giving away 50% of the deal to Groupon?

Sweeeet!

I want to be like you when I grow up!!!!
 

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Andres, you always make me laugh. :)

What a day-- not nearly as much action as we had anticipated.

I gave them the wrong dates (D'oh!)-- told them it was midweek, and used a 2012 calendar (I was emailing from the airport, just as the plane was boarding).

They addressed that, but it meant pulling our ad-- which didn't get back on the site until late today.

Lots of other stuff- they're sending people to an offsite booking engine (ours), not the trackable link we gave them-- so NO analytics. That sucks, big time-- I can't figure out what biz we're getting from them. Boo.

Other small things-- all of which would have been eliminated if we would have been able to review the ad in advance.

But you know what?

Their follow through is amazing-- they're very on top of things, and did numerous corrections/changes throughout the day.

So all in all, yeah, I was going a bit bonkers today. But I was totally impressed w/the folks at TravelZoo.

-Russ H.
 
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Russ,

Either way. Your doing it right. Jen and I will likely be stopping in again this year. The experience was beyond even our high expectations. Congrats on the feature.

Jason
 

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Russ,

Either way. Your doing it right. Jen and I will likely be stopping in again this year. The experience was beyond even our high expectations. Congrats on the feature.

Jason

Wow, Jason, you just made my day!

We'd love to see you guys again.
Sharon will love hearin' this. :banana:

-Russ H.
 

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