{"id":24534,"date":"2013-08-06T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=24534"},"modified":"2013-08-08T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:25:27","slug":"tourism-looking-at-new-branding-marketing-for-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=24534","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Looking At New Branding &#038; Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitebuffalo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7620\" alt=\"whitebuffaloTHUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitebuffalo.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; The Buffalo City Tourism Foundation\u00a0 Board has selected\u00a0 Jamestown advertsing agency, Redplum to develop a branding process, and update its marketing strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The Board approved 10-1, with member Mitzi Hager opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Searle Swedlund says requests for proposals went out and two firms made presentations last week.<\/p>\n<p>The BCTF has $90,000 for advertising and marketing.\u00a0\u00a0 Redplum&#8217;s cost for\u00a0 the branding process is $25,652.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The agreement with the Redplum agency \u00a0allows the BCTF to use as much or as little of the agency&#8217;s work as it wants in the branding process.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility exists that the organizations name and the board\u2019s name may be changed from &#8220;Buffalo City&#8221; to &#8220;Jamestown&#8221; to better reflect that Jamestown is the destination of information promoted by the BCTF.<\/p>\n<p>He says the foundation board is also discussing &#8220;who is the best visitor&#8221; to Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Swedlund said that he recently visited Keystone, Colorado, where in the winter, snow skiing is the tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that in the summer the ski trails are used for down hill biking events and activities.<\/p>\n<p>Swedlund suggested that the Jamestown area may be able to offer more biking opportunities for visitors, and maybe establish a bike shop in town.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Jamestown area has much to offer, to tourists, plus even more untapped ideas, that residents can bring to the table, perhaps organizations partnering with other groups to develop and bring new attractions to Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>He says his office and the BCTF Board are always interested in hearing about new tourism ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; The Buffalo City Tourism Foundation\u00a0 Board has selected\u00a0 Jamestown advertsing agency, Redplum to develop a branding process, and update its marketing strategy. The Board approved 10-1, with member Mitzi Hager opposed. Executive Director Searle Swedlund says requests for proposals went out and two firms made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24537,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534\/revisions\/24537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}