Men, women, and travel

Exploring how gender affects where people like to go

Does travel make you a better leader?

Tracking where the Republican Presidential candidates have been

The Best Update Ever from Hitlist (#15)

Last month’s focus was fundraising. The most valuable part of this process is, well, the money, but also the feedback from people who have been around the block a few more times than we. Some things we learned:

• In one investor’s…

The Best Update Ever from Hitlist (#19)

Last week I learned that a major hotel chain* uses Hitlist for some of its corporate travel. They send people to all their properties periodically and instead of just booking whenever, they now tend to book when they get Hitlist alerts.

Hitlist update — March Madness edition

When you’re building something that is truly new, it’s kind of impossible to measure success. However good your metrics are, they could always be better. There’s no competitor to measure yourself against. I often wonder: how the hell are we really doing?

The best update ever from Hitlist (#16)

Last month’s focus was growth. Our ‘key metric’ — exits from partners — was 3765 in May, compared to 4233 in April. The fall is attributable to the fact that we neglected to send ANY automated deal alerts in the latter half of the month due to a back end…

The Best Update Ever from Hitlist (#20)

A few weeks ago at the PhoCusWright conference (= annual gathering of travel industry bigwigs), Lorraine Sileo asked a panel of travel CEOs whether they prioritize growth or retaining users. A friend pointed out: ‘Um — is this one of those size versus staying…

The latest and greatest from Hitlist

How are your 2015 workout plans going? Yes, we gave up on ours already too. Otherwise, it’s been a spectacular start to the year and we’re excited to share some of our next steps with you. Highlights:

• favorite fares we found for our users…

The best update ever from Hitlist (#17)

July has been a good month in Hitlist land: our new user registrations and click through to partners both up close to 50% over June numbers, and we passed 200k registered users (approaching 300k total). Moreover, Craig of Craigslist named us two (?) out of the…