‘War and Piste’ – the best ski season book so far?
Could it really be ‘Wickedly funny’? A couple of weeks ago, I read a new book called ‘War and Piste’. I’ll be honest with you, I was expecting the worst from this ‘wickedly funny diary of a ski season’. When I ran Natives, I used to receive regular emails from season workers who had written...
5 Simple Tips To Improve Your Facebook Fan Page
Hopefully you already have a fan page on Facebook for your business. Ideally you have links to it from your website, your email signature and have the address printed on your business card. So if you’re making all that effort to direct people there, you’d better make sure it looks good, right? After all, you...
The Top Scottish Ski Resorts on Facebook
Back in the summer, we looked at how Scotland’s ski resorts were working with Facebook. With the first snow on the floor in Scotland, and the Scottish Ski and Snowboard Show coming up this weekend, we thought it was time to follow up and see how the situation had changed. The Top 5 Scottish Ski...
5 Simple Tips For Using Twitter Effectively
At first glance, Twitter seems much more complicated to use than Facebook. After all, your nephew and your mum are probably both on Facebook, but it’s unlikely they Tweet. But while there are many more users of Facebook, there are still over 200 million active users on Twitter. So if you’re not already using Twitter...
Le Derby du Roc Merlet – going downhill fast
The Roc Merlet Derby in Courchevel 1650 has been one of the classic season worker events since…well, no one seems to be exactly sure when it started. But it was definitely going on in 1995, as shown in this poster. This end of season event sees competitors take a rare chance to hoon from the...
The first TV advert for a Ski Show…?
We were very impressed to see that the Scottish Ski and Snowboard Show is running a TV advert for the show. As far as we know this is the only time a UK show has been promoted via television (please feel free to correct us), so it’s great to see some bullish activity promoting the...