Dan over at Adam Webster’s Aviation Marketing Intelligence blog summed it u p perfectly today… summed up what my mission in aviation marketing is. Aviation NEEDS the web to survive… it needs people who know the web to survive.

See his post at: http://adamwebster.com/2008/06/09/the-good-ole-days

Here’s a perfect quote: “Net-phobia causing the hands on business geniuses to give into fear of the unknown and quit the race long before it is run”

Everyday I work with clients and friends that are still stuck in the “Trade-a-plane” model of aviation marketing. Basically they think that a little ad in that big yellow newspaper will SELL their product… the same folks that think flight school ads in the Atlantic Flyer will give them more students.

(archive ad at left via Courtesy Aircraft archives)

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Well, what’s a good way to spend a Saturday afternoon?  Some might say “lounging at the pool” or “taking in a movie.”

For me, it was sitting in a stuffy, non-air conditioned WWII bomber with dark paint, baking in the late-day sun as a passenger as we flew around in circles following an AT-6 bumping along over mountain passes as the guy in the back of the AT-6 tried to take photos.

And it was a GREAT time!  Read more!

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