I love getting resort marketing perspectives from talented marketers who swim in circles other than ours. They’ve inherited their own generational strategies, they have their own constraints, and some combination of those (and more) always make for an interesting angle when they look at what we do.

Let me give you a quick example.

A couple weeks back I saw a tweet about Jackson Hole’s new video about the men and women who run their famous tram. I watched a few seconds, realized it was legit, and saved it to watch with the fam later that night.

As I watched (and rewatched) this 10-minute masterpiece all sorts of things stood out.

• It pulled the certain back on something that folks think they understand
• That thing was not just a part of the resort, but a central piece of their brand
• It humanized the tram by putting this team’s experiences front and center

But more than anything, I just couldn’t get over how good of a story it was. Again, my definition of story is simply:

Stories give moments meaning.

And that applies beautifully here to the new appreciation skiers will have the next time they board this tram after watching this video.

But to circle back where I started, I wasn’t the only one who thought this way.

this is, no joke, some of the best branded content I've ever seen. https://t.co/xM6LLKDSRv cc @slopefillers @liftblog @jhski

— Chris Lavigne (@crlvideo) December 8, 2022

Chris is someone I’ve followed for a long time, but especially since he released what I consider to be the best, most effective example of marketing storytelling I’ve ever seen. A campaign Wistia created called One. Ten. One Hundred..

In other words, while Chris is a skier and follows many resorts, he’s not a resort marketer…he’s a video marketer. And his work is some of the best I’ve seen. An opinion that is shared by many.

Forgot how great this series from @wistia is:

One, Ten, One Hundredhttps://t.co/CHMdR48DWN

— Jeff Sheldon (@ugmonk) October 16, 2019

Yes, Jackson Hole should be incredibly proud because people in our industry are blown away by their latest video.

But they should also be proud of the fact that super talented people in other industries are looking at the same video and are just as impressed with the combination of brand and storytelling they produced.

Fantastic work, JHMR team.

About Gregg & SlopeFillers
I've had more first-time visitors lately, so adding a quick "about" section. I started SlopeFillers in 2010 with the simple goal of sharing great resort marketing strategies. Today I run marketing for resort ecommerce and CRM provider Inntopia, my home mountain is the lovely Nordic Valley, and my favorite marketing campaign remains the Ski Utah TV show that sold me on skiing as a kid in the 90s.