Our team of experts manage diverse clients in the following industries:

  • Travel & Tourism
  • Cruise Lines

Case Selections

CruiseCompete LLC

We were the nspiration for CruiseCompete which was launched in September of 2003. Since that time more than 500,000 registered users have received over 4 million quotes from the site’s 300+ travel-agency members. Kiplinger’s named CruiseCompete one of its “Top 25 Travel Sites”, and The Washington Post labeled it one of “36 Web Sites You Should Know due to our Public Relations efforts.

ResortCompete, LLC

ResortCompete is a competitive marketplace for all-inclusive resort vacations, was launched in June of 2008. The ResortCompete web site is the first site delivered on Compete Ventures’ new web 2.0 platform for competitive marketplaces.

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.

Other
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.