
Winter resorts. That’s what you are. Protect Our Winters is trying to keep the first word in that description from disappearing. A worthwhile goal, don’t you think? I’ve been following the climate change debate for a while. So when I had the chance to shake hands with POW’s Executive Director, Chris Steinkamp, recently, I jumped [...]
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About a month ago, I made the commitment to get back into the habit of doing more interviews with smart people but in and outside of skiing. With community manager extraordinaire Adam Hawes recently leaving Northstar for a position at HTC, he was kind enough to let me pick his brain to glean a few [...]
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As I mentioned last week, I’ve been impressed with Cannonsburg’s design work. After digging around for a while, I finally found the man behind the mask: Marc Moline. Looking for his view on Cannonsburg’s success, I reached out and he was kind enough to answer a few questions. – Gregg: Marc, in a short paragraph, [...]
Read the Full Post »The recent news that Milena Regos, Marketing Director at Diamond Peak, was stepping down to move on to her next adventure was a bit surprising. While I haven’t had the chance to meet her in person, I’ve heard only good things about her decade-long tenure in Tahoe. Interested in the highlights and takeaways from Milena’s [...]
Read the Full Post »Even being 2,000 miles removed from the situation when the uproar around Sunshine Village began this last winter, I felt like it was happening just down the road thanks to one thing: social media. Voices from both sides wanted to be heard and smack dab in the middle of this blizzard of opinion was Doug [...]
Read the Full Post »One of my personal favorite perks of blogging is having the excuse to get in touch with talented people and pick their brains. My latest victim was Dan Carr, an uber-talented ski photographer whose work first came up on my radar after I featured the awesome print ads that Whistler put out last season. With [...]
Read the Full Post »James Niehues is not a professional resort marketer. He isn’t even a marketer. But honestly, he probably doesn’t even need an introduction. His name is the one carefully painted in the corner of countless trail maps all over the country and world. Hand painting these works of ski art, James has left an indelible mark [...]
Read the Full Post »This is part 3 of a 3 part series in which acclaimed resort website designer Joe Myers answers the question that many resorts face every single year: Ok, our resort marketing team has decided its time for our website to be redesigned. Now what? What can I do NOW to make the process with the [...]
Read the Full Post »| total fols | new yest | mo grwth |
| 262,768 | -771,906 | -73.95% |
| total fans | new yest | mo grwth |
| 5,187,610 | 3,274 | 0.98% |
| total views | new yest | mo grwth |
| 39,939,983 | 12,260 | 1.21% |
| total fols/+1 | new yest | mo grwth |
| 37,569 | 52 | 3.33% |
| avg score | was yest | 7-day |
| 43.90 | 43.93 | -0.26 |
| total fols | new yest | mo grwth |
| 340,324 | 298 | 2.62% |
| total page likes | new yest | mo grwth |
| 257,640 | 51 | 0.53% |
SlopeFillers is run by marketer and skier / snowboarder, Gregg Blanchard. He loves writing in 3rd person, meeting the talented people who read this blog, pretending to be a web developer, and eating reuben sandwiches. Need more dirt on Southern Edwards, Colorado's most famous ski marketing blogger taller than 6'?