Shane Eubanks - Internet Marketing Specialist » Travel http://www.shaneeubanks.com Home of Shane Eubanks - Internet Marketing Specialist - Design, Development, and Marketing of Successful Businesses. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:19:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Vacation Destination Coupons http://www.shaneeubanks.com/travel/vacation-destination-coupons/ http://www.shaneeubanks.com/travel/vacation-destination-coupons/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:22:16 +0000 shane http://www.shaneeubanks.com/?p=167 I was raised in the tourist town Pigeon Forge, TN and was often asked where to get coupons, deals, discounts, etc for the various restaurants, attractions, lodging, and such in the area. As I figured out the best ways to get deals, I started applying what I learned to my own vacations so that I could save money the exact same way I was sharing with others about my hometown. In the process of figuring out the best websites to get printable coupons for various vacation destinations, I decided to put up some websites for each to share with others who may be interested in visiting those destinations. The list below has the coupons and discounts I found for some popular vacation spots. So if you plan on visiting any of these areas in the near future, I definitely suggest checking out the links below to help you save some money!!

  • Myrtle Beach Coupons
  • Hilton Head Island Coupons
  • Panama City Beach Coupons
  • Destin Coupons
  • Breckenridge Coupons
  • Branson Coupons
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    Well, this post will show you why twitter rocks.

    I’ve been looking to take a trip back to Hawaii with my bride since there have been some great deals on hotels and such down there with the down economy. The only thing there hasn’t been great deals on is airfare. From Atlanta, the tickets usually hover around $850 per person roundtrip. So that would be about $1,700 just in airfare! Ouch!

    That’s where twitter came in…and boy did it pay off! Here’s how I snagged 2 roundtrip tickets to Hawaii for LESS than the cost of a single ticket!


    First of all, I use a desktop app called Seesmic to track twitter and facebook status updates from people I follow. The cool thing about Seesmic is that you can creates “groups” of people that you want to track. So I have a group called “travel” as you can see below, which contains only the twitter users that post travel deals and updates. This allows me to see the best deals as soon as they are announced (deals almost always show up on twitter before any website has time to make a post about it). Trust me…twitter is the fastest way to find out about deals and jump on them!

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    So one night I was about to go to bed, when I noticed a tweet from beatofhawaii (a twitter user who also has a great website about Hawaii) that said United Airlines was having a crazy sale for $250 roundtrip to Honolulu. Well, we had been planning to go to Kauai and Maui, but I figured I’d see if the deal worked for those…and it did! The price jumped to $376 a person since an extra flight was required (from Honolulu to Kauai and then from Maui to Honolulu), but I jumped on the deal and snagged 2 roundtrip tickets for a total of $752! That’s less than it normally costs for 1 ticket! So with taxes and fees I ended up saving right at $1,000! Within 24 hours the entire deal disappeared. If I hadn’t seen the post on twitter I would have completely missed the deal.

    So…why do I use twitter? Well, for many reasons, but this is a big part of it! If you have an interest in just about anything then there are people “tweeting” about it on twitter. You don’t even have to be following them to see their posts…I use the search feature in Seesmic to search for a word and it automatically updates any time someone posts a tweet with that word included. For example, if I was interested in smoothie recipes, I could do a search for “smoothie recipe” and it would show me anyone tweeting about smoothie recipes…very nifty.

    So getting back to how I setup a travel group, I actually follow a specific set of people…here are the twitter users I currently follow in my “travel” group…some of them are specific to Hawaii. If you’re looking for great travel deals (especially to Hawaii) then this is a great list of people to follow on twitter:

    Conclusion
    So basically, you can dive deep into just about anything that interests you using twitter (in this case, I was looking for the best deals for a trip to Hawaii). To do this, here’s what I suggest:

    1. Signup for twitter.
    2. Download Seesmic Desktop and set it up using your twitter account info
    3. Setup groups of people you want to follow or do a “search” for a keyword or phrase in Seesmic and leave that window pane open to see live updates as people post about what you’re looking for

    It really is that simple.

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