Case Selections
CruiseCompete.com
The inspiration for CruiseCompete.com:
This site launched September 15, 2003. Revenues to date have exceeded $20M.
CruiseCompete.com has been described by Pauline Frommer, in a lead travel story on MSNBC.COM Fall 2003 , as, "A revolutionary new website that is going to change how you shop for cruises." USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Houston Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press, the Salt Lake City Tribune and many other major publications have also written about CruiseCompete.com’s ability to provide consumers with the best rates on their cruise vacations.
CareerBrain.com
Ms. Allison-Shane led the CareerBrain.com team, as interim CEO, through the entire business planning process. This resulted in an invitation to present new business concepts at The 1999 Growth Capital Symposium – University of Michigan, Graduate School of Business, Office for the Study of Private Equity Finance.
CruiseBrothers.com
CruiseBrothers.com has solidified its place in the online travel game. This site is ranked by MSNBC as a “Web Player” due to Ms. Allison-Shane’s efforts.
Miscellaneous
Ms. Allison-Shane effectively negotiated contracts and directed projects for numerous Fortune 1000 companies throughout Europe, The Caribbean, Canada, Mexico, The Orient, South America, Central America & Antarctica, consistently achieving significant profits.
Ms. Allison-Shane initiated, negotiated and closed more than 17 high profile, on-line marketing partnerships with numerous publicly held, top sites, including The Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine. This strategy was defining new ground in this space including a back-end revenue model, which resulted in more than $1 million in sales in 1999.
Ms. Allison-Shane developed and executed entire marketing strategies the resulted in the negotiation and acquisition of 25+ strategic partnerships, thus creating 12 new Content Channels for CoreComm, formerly Voyager.net, and FamilyPlace. FamilyPlace is poised to create a new revenue stream of 9.6M annually.