http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog Thoughts from the CEO of VirginiaBeach.com. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:57:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those that have requested information on Virginia Beach Parasailing, we are now sending your requests to David with Adventure Parasailing.  I for one hope to give this a try this year.  It ought to be super fun.  Hopefully David will email everyone more information daily. We look forward to having ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/25/adventure-parasail-in-virginia-beach/ Well, what have we done lately (besides help a ton of people reserve hotels)?  We've been quite busy (the fact it's past 1AM and I'm trying to blog should tell you a little about the schedule). I merged the old attraction page with the new attractions we've put online.  We're adding ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/19/virginia-beach-on-the-move/ Finally, a decent night of bowling for me.  I rolled a 590 set tonight.  Top game was 222.  Now that is more like it! It's really late and time for me to put on some new Virginia Beach announcements. http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/19/bowling-2/ We have a few new clients coming on board!  You'll see their sponsorships later this weekend.  We know we're going to bring them an amazing amount of business.  There is no other site that can bring the same return on Virginia Beach advertising.  Our existing clients tell us no one ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/14/new-clients/ We're proud to announce that the Virginia Air & Space Museum has added us as a media contact.  They were thrilled to see our write-up.  That information will soon go live for millions of tourists to see. Our ability to match Virginia Beach tourists with local businesses and attractions is second ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/13/air-space-museum/ Well, tonight was no better than last Tuesday.  In fact, I was one pin down (534 series tonight).  My high game was a 201.  I said it last Tuesday, I'll say it again, "Ewwwwww." Guess I should stick to being a CEO. http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/13/another-ewwww-night-of-bowling/ We're proud to announce we have an upcoming meeting with the Virginia Aquarium.  We want to do a series of web articles on why tourists should make this one of their top ten things to do while visiting Virginia Beach. Rachel has written two more articles and they are fantastic.  She ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/12/virginia-aquarium/ I bowled horribly last night.  My first game was a 217.  I was feeling like I could do no wrong.  My second and third games were terrible.  Overall, across three games, I shot a 535 series.  Ewwww.  I'm not sure what happened.  At least our team won two games and ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/12/bowling/ Since we'll be emailing all of our travel guide readers once new stories come out, we need to test the ability of the software to work.  This is that test. http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/11/testing-subscription/ We really have some amazing tools here that nobody knows about to help companies advertise in Virginia Beach.  2008 will turn things around as we push to make the local companies aware of our abilities. Tourists already know.  Millions of dollars in hotel revenues go through our site yearly.  We have ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/10/some-amazing-tools-for-virginia-beach-advertising/ Well, I've spent some time getting the new Virginia Beach Guide on-line.  I decided not to use the www.virginiabeach.com/1000 link.  The name didn't convey what we were trying to do.  It's something new. We already have our first attraction on the guide.  After a few more are put in there, we'll ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/10/guide-is-up/ This is a test of the blog software to see how it will handle an image to the left hand side of these words. How will our Freelance writers be able to submit "pretty pictures" with their thoughts, comments and insight? Will they also be able to handle pictures and ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/08/testing-picture-upload-function/ Part of running a good website is adding content.  That's what's driving our 2008 campaign to add more things about Virginia Beach for our viewers.  Content should drive us higher in the search engine rankings. By having more content, one can expect (or hope/pray) that other sites will link to that ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/08/looking-for-article-software/ By visiting www.virginiabeach.com, you've already come to expect this site to give you the very best deals on Virginia Beach Hotels (http://www.virginiabeach.com/hotels). You've even praised us for having the best list of Virginia Beach Attractions (http://www.virginiabeach.com/attractions). We can't wait to start up our new project. 1000 things to do when you ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/06/1000-things-to-do-in-virginia-beach/ Working with Google is definitely a love/hate relationship. While you want to have the traffic they can bring to a website, you certainly want to write them a very stern letter about their inability to help diagnose problems. I'm very glad that our web site doesn't depend on them for ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/05/fighting-google/ Congratulations to Kathy of Phelps, NY. She is our first winner of "Tell us your vacation story"! She wins $50 in cold hard check money as the post office doesn't like it when we send cash through the mail. While her story of losing their money with a strong tide was ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/05/kathy-wins-50/ As the CEO of VirginiaBeach.Com, Inc (yes, we're a real corporation), I thought it might be nice to write about some of my experiences running one of the best GeoDomains in the industry. While it won't be as exciting as watching an episode of American Chopper, it might be kind of ... http://www.virginiabeach.com/blog/2008/03/05/virginia-beach-blog/