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Local Area Regional Transportation Plan (LARTP)

Browsing Posts published in August, 2009

Let’s set things straight. There is absolutely NO way you can learn how to swim or cook from just reading a book or attending a seminar unless you are a genius. Yes?

And there’s a reason why there are still a gazillion number of people who are not rich in spite of the number of books on how to get rich. Yes?

If you have realized by now, the fastest and most effective way in mastering a skill is by DOING it. As the saying goes:

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A travel website is meant to give you valuable information related to your travel planning and inform you of your options. It is meant to help you make a decision when it comes to choosing a destination, fixing a budget and making important choices like where to stay and what to see. But even such basic information is hard to get these days because most of the big sites are so very commercialized; it is simply not worth losing your mind over the overflow of data that they provide.

Most of that information is promotional material for which the sites get paid. What do I mean by that? Well, here’s an example – you build a large travel website and people start visiting it for information and advice. Soon, local businesses at the destinations mentioned on the website want to advertise through your website. If they do it via the usual way, i.e., banners on the website, block ads on the side panels, then it is all fine and dandy. But what these people are really looking for are what the people of advertising calls ‘plugging’. Plugging is a cleverly designed piece of advertisement that is blended in to content that is not advertisement or does not look like advertisement.

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