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Sundance Vacations Hires Online Marketing Manager

Written by Sundance Admin

Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:08

Sundance Vacations (www.sundancevacations.com), a leading provider of discount travel, is proud to announce the appointment of Todd Butcher, a lifelong resident of northeastern Pennsylvania, to its new online marketing manager position.

Butcher will be responsible for all aspects of online marketing for Sundance Vacations. These include search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click paid advertising, lead generation, and social media public relations.

A graduate of Wilkes University, Butcher brings more than five years of experience to Sundance Vacations. He previously worked for Pepperjam, one of the largest Internet marketing and technology firms in the United States, where he directed SEO and turned the company into an industry leader before it was acquired by GSI Commerce and then eBay. He went on to found public relations and Internet marketing services provider TEB Media, for which he serves as an Internet marketing consultant.

Online marketing is a rapidly growing phenomenon as more people rely on the Internet as their main source of information. Butcher knows that creating an effective online marketing campaign requires tracking website visitor behavior and adjusting online offerings as needed to better reach those visitors. The Internet is a living, changing organism, and a company’s online presence should be living and changing as well to be in the best position to provide what customers want and need.

Butcher will help Sundance Vacations stay fresh and relevant online to fulfill the company’s mission of enriching the lives of its customers through offering quality vacations and professional, caring service. This appointment will also move Sundance Vacations closer to achieving its goal of "turning vacations into a part of everyday lifestyle."

About Sundance Vacations
Sundance Vacations has been specializing in wholesale vacation accommodations since its founding in 1991. Based in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., the national travel company also has offices in Harrisburg, Penn., King of Prussia, Penn., Dublin, Ohio, Downers Grove, Ill., Brookfield, Wis., and Rockaway, N.J. Sundance Vacations has been named to Inc. Magazine’s 500/5000 list of fastest growing companies for the past three years as the "fastest growing travel company in Pennsylvania."

Official Press Release: Sundance Vacations Appoints New Online Marketing Manager

Sundance Vacations Partners With The Chicago Whitesox

Written by Sundance Admin
Monday, 16 April 2012 16:34
Sundance Vacations is pleased to announce that it will partner with the Chicago White Sox to provide an exciting season-long giveaway promotion for visitors to U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. One winner will choose either a vehicle valued at $70,000 or $50,000 in cash as the grand prize. The 2012 baseball season represents the third consecutive season Sundance Vacations has partnered with the team for this special promotion. "We are delighted to return to U.S. Cellular Field for this promotional event," says John Dowd, owner of Sundance Vacations. "We’ve had a tremendous response from White Sox fans and visitors to our previous giveaways, and we’re looking forward to delivering another exciting game-day experience at each home game in 2012 for baseball fans in Chicago." Dowd says that fans can enter to win other promotional prizes like a fantasy trip to Hawaii, Orlando or Pebble Beach that includes airfare, hotel accommodations and spending cash; a high-definition LCD television; a prepaid credit-card worth $1,000; a winner’s choice Sports/Music package that includes four tickets worth up to $1,000 to a sporting or music event, or one of three different Sundance Vacation packages worth $15,000 each. "For more than 20 years, Sundance Vacations has provided affordable, discount vacation services and wholesale travel options for vacation travelers throughout the United States," says Dowd. "Our corporate mission is to enhance the lives of our customers by providing high quality vacation services at very affordable prices. Through our partnership with the Chicago White Sox, we can share the exceptional vacation opportunities that Sundance Vacations is well-known for." Dowd says that visitors to U.S. Cellular Field can find the Sundance Vacations booths outside the park’s main gates during every Chicago White Sox home game in the 2012 baseball season. Fans can also find complete contest rules and entry materials there, as well as information about vacation and travel packages available through Sundance Vacations. About Sundance Vacations Sundance Vacations, headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, PA, is a family-owned discount vacation and wholesale travel firm specializing in vacation packages at destination golf, ski, beach, and mountain resorts throughout North America. The company also maintains offices in Rockaway, NJ; Princeton, NJ; King of Prussia, PA; Harrisburg, PA; Downers Grove, IL, and Brookfield, WI. Sundance Vacations has been named to the Inc. 5000 for two consecutive years, and has been named the fastest-growing travel company in Pennsylvania. For more information about Sundance Vacations, please visit the company’s website at www.sundancevacations.com. Official Press Release: Sundance Vacations Partners With Chiciago White Sox
Last Updated on Monday, 16 April 2012 16:37

Sundance Vacations Named to Best Places to Work List in New Jersey

Written by Sundance Admin
Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:38
Sundance Vacations has earned the distinction of being named one of the 2012 Best Places to Work in New Jersey! Best Companies Group will release the official ranking on April 25. "Whether we ultimately rank #1 or #50 we’re incredibly proud of our employees and the jobs they perform for the company each day. Our New Jersey colleagues are the epitome of what it means to be a Sundance Vacations employee. They are professional, honest, fun loving people who all share the common goal of enriching the lives of our customers (and each other) by helping people to experience quality vacations through caring, professional service. In this way, they actually live the Sundance Vacations mission. We thank our New Jersey colleagues for placing their careers in our hands and for the loud, vote of confidence they have cast for the company through the Best Places to Work in New Jersey program," shared Sundance Vacations founder, Tina Dowd. The Best Places to Work program provides a very valuable service to the companies that participate. Best Companies Group administers a 72 question anonymous survey to employees to collect data about each participating company as an employer. Tina Dowd explains, "We receive amazing feedback about our leadership, culture, and areas where we need to improve." Sundance Vacations participates in the Best Places to Work process in several states. Sundance Vacations' reputation as a top employer is evidenced by the company's appearance on the Best Places to Work list in Illinois, New Jersey and many times in Pennsylvania. Sundance Vacations also won an American Business Award for the “Best Overall Company” in 2007 and “Employer of the Year” in 2010 for Women in Business. Read about all of the accolades and awards at our website.

Sundance Vacations Lands on the Inc.500/5000 list with a 72% Growth Rate

Written by Sundance Admin
Friday, 30 September 2011 18:27
Wilkes-Barre, PA (September 30, 2011) – Inc. magazine Sundance Vacations, a Pennsylvania based wholesale travel company, ranked 2,917 on the Inc. 500/5000 list. Sundance Vacations has appeared on the list for the past three years. This year’s national ranking is a large jump over the 2009 slot of 4,718 on the list. The company ranked as the “fastest growing travel company in Pennsylvania” for all three of the years in which they submitted revenue information. “This is a bittersweet honor,” says Sundance Vacations’ President John Dowd. “We’re not satisfied with our business performance this past year. We made the list of fastest growing companies with a three year average growth rate of 72%. Unfortunately, our jump in the ranking is like a health check-up for the business climate. Very few companies were able to grow at all so what we would call a very mediocre performance was still able to propel us up the ranking,” concludes Dowd. published its list of the fastest growing private companies in America. The Inc. 500/5000 companies are the engines of the economy. According to the Inc.com website “the list” companies created 370,592 jobs in the last three years. “We want to create jobs,” explains Dowd. “We’ve got plans. We’ve got ideas. We’ve got our eyes on some new markets but we need consumers with job security and access to credit to execute on our plans.” Sundance Vacations employees are optimistic about the future. “A rising tide lifts all boats,” explains Customer Service Manager Ed Coppinger. “We’re perfectly positioned to grow the company.” Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including the Sundance Vacations company profile and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com. About Inc. 500/5000 The Inc. 5000 companies are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2007 through 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2007, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent -- not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies. The top 10 percent of companies on the list comprise the Inc. 500.

Sundance Vacations Honored As Corporate Good Citizen

Written by Sundance Admin
Monday, 01 August 2011 20:47
Sundance Vacations was honored by Wyoming Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross during their annual Heroes Breakfast held at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs on June 1, 2011. Sundance Vacations and Guard Insurance both received a Corporate Good Citizens Award for their support of the American Red Cross. Staying true to their core value of responding to charity, Sundance Vacations employees were moved to raise money for the victims of the Haitian earthquake. Employees were lead in generosity by the Assistant VP of Sales, Shane Lewis. Shane raised awareness of the problems in Haiti by going shoeless on January 29^th. Employees were able to utilize an easy payroll deduction in order to make contributions which would be matched dollar for dollar by the company. Several community organizations agree on Sundance Vacations reputation as a corporate good citizen. Earlier in May, Sundance Vacations founders were also honored by the Volunteers of America organization for their generosity in supporting the important work of VOA in the community. Sundance Vacations also responds to charity by supporting the Wyoming Valley Children’s Association annual 5Kwalk/run.