Travel & The Global Financial Crisis

Posted on October 21, 2008 11:30 by: Vik Kachoria - Advertising

It has been quite some time since our last blog post and I hope everyone is doing well in spite of the global financial crisis.
Earlier this year, when fuel prices and airline fares went up drastically, I expected visitors to the site to drop off dramatically. I also expected to see the number of [...]

Blog, IM, Forum, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Email…

Posted on June 20, 2008 18:10 by: Vik Kachoria - Marketing

There are so many different places you can spend your time online. You can easily spend hours bouncing between blogging, posting to forums, twittering, flickring, updating Facebook, MySpace & LinkedIn pages and responding to customer emails. All of this is just the work stuff. Then you can spend more time playing games, looking for movie [...]

RealAdventures Travel Newsletter

Posted on October 25, 2007 13:16 by: Vik Kachoria - General

Its been quite sometime, but we have finally released our latest travel newsletter. The delay was due to the site conversion that we started in July and implemented early September. Unfortunately, some aspects of the site were not fully converted by September and putting them in place took a bit longer than I had hoped.
Going [...]

Don’t Buy Or Sell Text Links

Posted on October 25, 2007 12:46 by: Vik Kachoria - Marketing

Lots of articles, blogs and forum discussion on the very harsh penalty Google is imposing on websites that buy or sell text links. See the following article on how it has affected major sites like Forbes, Washington Post and others: http://searchengineland.com/071024-093938.php
I haven’t been checking the SEO forums lately and missed out on this development. Catching [...]

RealAdventures Affiliate Program Now Multi-Tiered

Posted on September 22, 2007 16:45 by: Vik Kachoria - Affiliate Program

We’ve just upgraded our affiliate program and created a new way for affiliates to earn commissions. We have added a very exciting ”Multi-Tiered Commission Structure”.
Affiliates will still earn 25% on all new travel advertisements, plus commissions on travel arrangements made by visitors they refer. We still track their visitors with a cookie for 14 days.
But now, [...]

Rolling Out RealAdventures 2.0

Posted on September 21, 2007 14:09 by: Vik Kachoria - General

Starting August 28, 2007, we quietly started rolling out the new RealAdventures. Day by day we have been refining the system, addressing the inevitable bugs and continuing to work on some very nice tools & services for our visitors & clients.
The rollout has been fairly smooth but for the first couple of weeks, we did [...]

Beware of Requests For Cashiers Checks Or Western Union Payments

Posted on September 16, 2007 16:58 by: Vik Kachoria - Spam Alerts

Here’s the latest fraud being perpetrated on this and other travel & vacation websites. Please beware of any requests for payment by Cashiers Check or Western Union payments. Basically, don’t send money this way, it almost definitely is fraud. 
Here is what happens:
Someone in Nigeria obtains stolen credit card information. They then use these credit cards to sign-up [...]

RealAdventures v2.0 Coming Soon…

Posted on August 22, 2007 23:34 by: Vik Kachoria - General

In between Marc’s programming-in-Hebrew lessons and my challenges with the short supply of Coke cans (bottled in Atlanta), we have been feverishly working on Version 2.0 of the RealAdventures website. This has been long over due, but we finally got the immense project started the beginning of this summer and are hoping to launch it [...]

RealAdventures Launches Company Blog

Posted on August 13, 2007 15:20 by: Vik Kachoria - General

Over a lunch discussion of various topics including the untimely demise of Coke cans, Marc Hanlon, RealAdventures super-star developer, suggested that we add a company blog. Instead of writing code, he’s been drawing odd looking geeky boxes on a white board and scheming up great ideas for RealAdventures to connect with visitors & advertisers.
I think there [...]