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Monday, January 16th, 2012 Smarter Travel No Comments

101 Words that will make You Sound Smarter Right Away!

A few smarter travel products I can recommend:

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A membership site teaching travelers how to build, optimize, and monetize travel blogs. 2 membership levels (Basic/Premium), include 27 lessons, 12 audio interviews, forum, monthly coaching calls and more. Created by a popular travel blogger.
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 Smarter Travel No Comments

Discount Travel Club: The 3 Extraordinary Features to Look For in a Club

What is it about a discount travel club that gives people hope? Perhaps it’s the fact that you can save a lot of money on one of your biggest expenses – your accommodations, by becoming a member of a travel club.

Not to mention you’ll save a bunch of time when planning your vacation if you use a travel club than if you plan your vacation without one. In fact, you may be similar to a lot of other travelers who’ve spent numerous hours online going from one travel site to the next hoping to score a great deal…and then coming up empty-handed.

What’s even worse it that you most likely go through this entire procedure year after year! Designing your yearly family getaway then turns into a headache and a job. You almost wind up needing a vacation after mapping out your vacation!

This is the place where a discount travel club becomes the knight in shinning armor coming to your rescue…a relief from the difficult system of wasting hours trying to discover the perfect offer.

After you enroll as a member of a good travel club not only are you acquiring a nice bargain but you’re preserving a whole lot of your precious time. The key here is to find a decent club. Here are a few basic things to seek out in your travel club:

1. Pricing – You want to find a discount travel club that offers either a per year fee or better yet a one-time fee for subscribing as a member. And you want it to be less than five thousand dollars. Anything more that and you may possibly be forking over way too much for what you’re receiving in return.

Stay away from travel vouchers that need to be activated by fees. You also want to stay away from companies that lure you in with small subscriber fees only to fleece you later by making you pay higher than average accommodation fees.

2. Value – You want your travel membership to not only offer you deals on accommodations, but on flights, cruises, and car rentals too. You want the maximum advantages for your membership. Any association that can’t offer you these types of discounts is one you want to cross off your list.

3. Modern – Today’s average family is on the go and has hectic busy lives. It’s not that easy to plan a vacation with a travel club that is not flexible and versatile with today’s family. Any club that doesn’t offer you lots of choices with the types of accommodations, or has too many black out dates, is a club you can put a big “x” to mark it off your list.

To add on to that, you want to make sure that your travel club is not a timeshare. Timeshares were quite popular decades ago when there weren’t too many travel options. Today, the savvy traveler has discovered the timeshare alternatives….travel clubs.

When you know you have other options you can make smarter travel decisions. There are a large number of families just like yours who are now taking dream vacations that were thought to be unattainable.

Now with the support of a discount travel club it’s now a reality for families all over the globe. Will your loved ones be next?

Need a vacation from your job? See how affordable it is to plan a luxurious getaway with a vacation travel club. Visit http://travelmembershipclubs.blogspot.com/2010/11/vacation-travel-club-4-simple-rules-to.html to learn more.


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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Smarter Travel No Comments

Ask Arthur Frommer: And Travel Better, Cheaper, Smarter

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Smarter Travel No Comments

InsideFlyer, USATODAY.com, Nextel, Points.com, Smarter Living and Executive Travel SkyGuide ask Frequent Travelers to Speak their Minds

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (PRWEB) February 23, 2004

Frequent travelers from around the world are invited to cast a vote in the 16th Annual Freddie Awards, which are designed to award excellence among frequent travel programs in the airline, hotel and credit card industries.

Since 1989, InsideFlyer magazine has served as the primary sponsor of the Freddie Awards, and has partnered this year with USATODAY.com, Nextel, Points.com, Smarter Living and Executive Travel SkyGuide to present the event for the 16th consecutive year.

“The Freddies are the most recognized awards for frequent travel programs because they give frequent travelers a chance to pick the best programs,” said InsideFlyer Editor and Publisher Randy Petersen. “The Freddies continue to grow in popularity. Last year, over 232,000 frequent flyers cast ballots. This year, we expect over a quarter of a million frequent travelers will vote.”

Voters rate hotel, airline and credit card programs in nine categories: Program of the Year, Best Award, Best Bonus Promotion, Best Affinity Credit Card, Best Newsletter, Best Award Redemption, Best Elite-Level Program, Best Customer Service and Best Web Site.

The Freddie Awards are determined by value voting, a system in which voters rate the value of their program choices on a scale of one to 10. Programs with the highest average score and at least one percent of the popular vote in each category are awarded Freddies. In essence, Freddies are awarded for quality, not quantity.

The awards are named after Sir Freddie Laker who attracted fame (and a knighthood in the United Kingdom) for his pioneering marketing ideas within the travel industry in the 1970s.

Freddie Award balloting is conducted entirely online at www.freddieawards.com. Voting concludes on March 15, 2004 at 11:59 p.m. MT. Winners will be announced in the May issue of InsideFlyer magazine and online at www.freddieawards.com.

SPONSOR INFORMATION:

InsideFlyer, a monthly magazine dedicated to the coverage of frequent travel programs around the world, helps its readers optimize their mileage and point earning potential by providing in-depth news on the programs, their partners and special bonuses and promotions. A one-year subscription is available for $ 45 by calling (800) 767-8896. For more information go to InsideFlyer.com.

USATODAY.com is an award-winning news and information site on the Internet. More than 35 million monthly visitors experience comprehensive, convenient USA TODAY news and information through interactive features, information graphics and multimedia functions including audio, video and live Webcasts. USATODAY.com has more than 200,000 pages of breaking stories in News, Money, Sports, Life, Travel, Technology and Weather – updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Nextel Communications, a FORTUNE 300 company based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country covering thousands of communities across the United States. Today 95 percent of FORTUNE 500(R) companies are Nextel customers. Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc. currently serve 293 of the top 300 U.S. markets where approximately 248 million people live or work.

Points International Ltd. (TSXV: PTS), operates The Points Exchange, the only independent loyalty program currency exchange – at www.points.com. The online exchange allows customers to instantly combine points and miles from their favorite loyalty programs. Points.com has partnered with industry leaders like The AAdvantage Program®, eBay Anything Points, Aeroplan and Priority Club Rewards to bring consumers over 3,600 Exchange Options.

Smarter Living is an online travel publisher that serves more than 1 million subscribers each week, through SmarterLiving.com and its free e-mail newsletters, with objective information on travel deals. Its sister sites are BookingBuddy.com, a free service that helps consumers compare fares and rates with fewer clicks, and SmarterLivingTravelClassifieds.com, an online marketplace for travel deals.

Executive Travel SkyGuide, from American Express Publishing, is the only resource of its kind – making business travel more productive, more efficient and more rewarding for the affluent executive traveler. Executive Travel SkyGuide products are available in several formats: SkyGuide monthly flight schedule directory, Executive Travel quarterly lifestyle magazine, and ExecutiveTravelOnline.com including PDA downloadable flight schedules. For more information call 1-800-295-5527.

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Smarter Travel No Comments

Smarter Security Systems Releases Next-Generation Mobile Surveillance System

Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 26, 2008

Smarter Security Systems, provider of intelligent entrance control and outdoor security solutions, today announced the release of its second-generation SmarterSentry mobile surveillance system. The changes made enhance the video coverage and increase ruggedness to improve security at remote or temporary locations. The first of the new units is shipping to a customer this week.

“SmarterSentry uniquely addresses the needs many organizations have for surveillance to protect either mobile or remote outdoor assets,” said Mark Ellsworth, Vice President of Sales for Smarter Security Systems. “With the powerful cameras, the on-board SmarterDVR™ delivering real-time video and threat assessment, and a highly reliable, 30-day power supply based on propane, SmarterSentry is a compelling mobile solution to organizations not willing or able to invest fixed security resources at a location.”

Many changes were made to SmarterSentry to enhance its surveillance capabilities. The mast height was extended to 33 feet, putting the Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) cameras about 35 feet off the ground. Instead of one PTZ camera, there are now two mounted atop this mast (to go along with two fixed cameras lower on the mast), and the improved cameras have a 27x optical/12x digital zoom and an active infrared range of 300 feet for night vision. These changes enable the PTZ cameras to see greater detail at much longer distances. For stability of the camera images at this height, four guy wires were added that connect the top of the mast to four outriggers on each corner of the trailer.

The SmarterDVR is now secured by two locks in a steel cabinet and is mounted atop vibration isolators to protect the computer while SmarterSentry is being towed. A lockable cabinet was added to the trailer to enable secure storage of the cameras and other equipment when not in use. The new trailer body is completely made of heavy-guage steel with welded construction for long-term durability. With the option for a re-moveable trailer hitch and a new spare tire, SmarterSentry is more secure when parked and more safe when traveling down the road.

SmarterSentry is ideal for law enforcement and border patrol efforts where areas without power or easy internet connections need to be watched for often short periods of time. This might include large outdoor events, disaster sites, or public investigation work. Industries with expensive equipment at risk outdoors for short-term operations, such as construction and oil and gas, would also benefit from the protection of SmarterSentry. For more information, please visit http://www.smartersecurity.com/outdoor/smartersentry/index.html

About Smarter Security Systems, Ltd.:

Smarter Security Systems provides extremely intelligent entrance control and outdoor security products to help organizations protect their people and assets in a world of increasing threats. Since 1992, Smarter Security has offered Fastlane turnstiles, the most elegant and intelligent optical turnstiles available, which protect thousands of commercial and governmental lobbies on 6 continents. Smarter Security’s comprehensive line of outdoor security products consists of remote surveillance and perimeter protection solutions, including SmarterSentry, a complete mobile surveillance system. For more information, please visit www.smartersecurity.com.

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Smarter Travel No Comments

David Krauter, SD, Smarter Travel Media at PhoCusWright 2008

David Krauter, SD, Smarter Travel Media part of the Trip Advisor Group talks about the new Deal Buddy product and future strategy at PhoCusWright 2008.
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