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2 | Page CHOCVB BOD Meeting August 19, 2020 <br /> <br />then the rest on administrative and operations. This year, we're a little bit upside down because this <br />year, for the first time, in addition to the pandemic, we have a ten year lease on a new building. <br />The County Manager, at the end of the day, wants to protect jobs. She wants to protect people, you <br />know, people before programs. We're very grateful for that. Our staff is in place. We have been <br />applying for grants for marketing. <br /> Advertising and marketing shift to focus more on local markets due to market demand changes. <br />With “Group” not being able to legally meet right now, even if we could we are limited to indoor <br />gatherings of 10 and outdoor gatherings of 25. Our “Group” market is historically where our revenue <br />is. Sunday through Thursday “Group” market, isn’t there now. We have to reorganize as a team to <br />see how we are going to focus more on transient marketing and sales. We are more concerned with <br />health first even more than tourism marketing. Safety is the number one investment in the future <br />economy. After that it is really about helping our independent businesses thrive and survive. Our <br />smaller, independent businesses and looking for new markets for our properties. <br /> <br />Presentations <br />Lee Davis, CEO of Clean Design, Inc. <br /> Presentation on new marketing strategy to focus on local markets, “staycations”, and travel in your <br />own backyard. <br />Right now it is how do we really focus on that local market? By local, how do we pull in the triangle? <br />How do we pull in Charlotte? How do we pull in other areas of people that do want to get away for <br />that “staycation”? To get to the point, it really is how do we really drive more local business and get <br />people to understand that there is a market in their backyard that they can go and investigate and <br />invest in and really try and help keep the local businesses going? These are two things that we have <br />right now. I do think there's an opportunity to expand on some of this work and leverage it to do a <br />variety of more jobs for us. It's all things that we just started thinking about yesterday when <br />everything happened at the university. While the campus is closing down and all the dorms are <br />going away, they're still going to be a number of kids that are staying in their apartments and really <br />living in the Chapel Hill area to expand the numbers of people in Chapel Hill. More so than they had <br />been in the past or over the summer, which is good. Is there an opportunity for us to really work <br />with them to try and help local businesses through some of the students because all their dining <br />options on campus are going to be shut down as well, so they're going to have to be really leveraging <br />that it's in the city. Let's look at this work and then we can have a conversation about it afterwards <br />and talk about some of the thoughts that we might have about expanding. This first part is about <br />local media plan, and this does come from a grant that the County is providing. How do we maximize <br />some of these dollars? The goals of this work are how do we raise awareness in the Triangle that <br />Chapel Hill, Orange County, and Hillsborough are a travel destination that's right here in our own <br />backyard? Backyard being if you're in Raleigh, if you're in Charlotte, if you're in Greensboro, <br />wherever it is, that Chapel Hill/Orange County is a destination that's in our own backyard. Then how <br />do we inspire the residents of the Chapel Hill area to really rediscover what's in their own backyard <br />as well? What more does Orange County have to offer that they may not know about? The market <br />that we're going into and, this is really just started now and is going through September, it is the <br />Triangle, so Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and then also a focus on Charlotte, because there are a lot <br />of people that do travel. There's a great alumni base in Charlotte. We're using that as another focus <br />market. The way we're going about doing that is really leveraging programatic, which is the ability to <br />buy digital space in places that's a lot less expensive than if you're going out and buying open market. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: A444BEDE-AA02-4EEC-B4D9-9471AF7E1380
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