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Calling All Skiers & Riders :: Win a Trip to Jackson Hole!


Friday, October 9th, 2009

Vibram Grip Your World Giveaway - An integrated 10-week promotion developed in partnership with Jackson Hole.

This week we launched a new,  integrated winter campaign for Vibram whose high-performance soles can be found on the world’s best ski and snowboard boot brands.  At the center of the campaign is the Vibram “Grip Your World Giveaway” sweepstakes - a 10-week co-promotion that we conceived and developed in partnership with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to help drive email acquisition.  Grand Prize is a 5 day ski and stay vacation to Jackson Hole including airfare, weekly prize giveaways include top-of-the-line ski/snowboard boots with Vibram soles and Vibram Five Fingers

The sweepstakes runs through December 10th and is being promoted in the United States and Europe via rich media banners, Twitter, Facebook, digital PR outreach and multi-wave email.  

After just one week, sign-ups have already exceeded the goal for the entire promotion proving once again the power of a great offer and engaged brand following.  Enter for your chance to win at gripyourworld.com.

2008/2009 Eastern Ski Resort Marketing - Competitive Data


Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

skiingThis past winter season, we tracked the marketing activity for 22 of the top ski resorts in New England.  We subscribed to each resort’s enewsletters and visited each resort’s web site every day during the season to record conditions, operational information, lead offers and other messaging.

While we’re still compiling our report, some interesting tid bits have emerged…

1. Wednesday was the most popular day for ski resorts to send eNewsletters (27% of all sent) followed by Thursday (26%).  This is not surprising as we know most people plan their ski weekend in the middle of the week.  What is a bit surprising is that Sunday ran a very close third at 24%.

2. The breakdown of eNewsletter subject line content was as follows: 42% general information or news focused, 34% deal focused, 22% weather focused, 2% other.

3. Ski resorts big and small are using social media tactics: 21 of 22 resorts have Facebook pages (avg. 913 fans). 19 of 22 are on Twitter (avg. 318 followers). 18 of 22 have YouTube channels (avg. 45 videos per channel). 12 of 22 have blogs. 8 of 22 resort web sites feature user generated content.

Our final eastern ski resort competitive report should be available in a few weeks, if you are interested in obtaining a copy please contact us.