Clark Twiddy of Twiddy & Co. – Digitizing Southern Hospitality with Data Science Key to Surviving the Pandemic
11/20/20
“If you boiled our business down two words, the first word is trust, and the second word is listening. That's our core competency. So when the pandemic hit, we trusted the information we had, and we trusted our ability to listen to our stakeholders.”
Small Business Trends
3 Reasons Your Family Should Spend the Offseason on the Outer Banks
11/17/20
“This time of year is all about gathering together with those you love, and there’s no better place to do that than the Outer Banks.”
The Outer Banks of North Carolina
Five Top Gun Moves For New Vacation Homeowners To Make The Most Of Their Investment
11/10/20
“The sharpest investors, as always, will seek to make the expert moves early that lead to superior results and also avoid the common traps that frustratingly lead to common outcomes.”
Forbes
16 Things Every Prospective Commercial Real Estate Investor Should Consider
11/2/20
“Like any other asset class, your investment in commercial real estate will carry risk congruent with a return. There are few, if any, ways to separate that relationship.”
Forbes
Clark Twiddy of Twiddy & Company: 5 Ways That Businesses Can Help Promote The Mental Wellness Of Their Employees
10/6/20
“The emotional well being of our people has never been more important in recent history. For our company in the travel and tourism domain, as we sailed into this economic steel curtain we first made it clear that no matter what our people were going to be our first priority.”
Authority Magazine
Are unemployment numbers really a good indicator any more?
9/22/20
“The unemployment measure, in an increasingly knowledge-worker economy, has outlived its usefulness as a reliable economic indicator because it doesn’t reflect an embedded skill. It’s simply linked to hours of work done as opposed to the kinds of work needed.”
The Virginian Pilot
10 Key Things Investors Ought To Know About Green Building
9/22/20
“I think one particular way in which a green building becomes commercially sustainable is through an understanding of potential federal or state tax credits for various projects.”
Forbes
How a Vacation Rental Company Used Data Analytics to Decrease Vacancies by Twice the Rate of Its Competitors During COVID-19
9/17/20
“We decided to avoid the temptation to completely cut off marketing based on what we had learned from 2008. Instead we stayed engaged with our guests and asked our data analytics team to help us make every last dollar count.”
Hospitality Technology
Three Considerations When Deciding To Jump Into The New Residential Real Estate Market
9/15/20
“One challenge to avoiding the inevitable common traps of new opportunities is the ability of decision-makers to make expert moves early.”
Forbes
16 Common Mistakes Brokers Make When Opening Their Own Firms
8/26/20
“One common mistake is trying to compete on all things all the time as it's tempting to do the same things other firms are doing.”
Forbes
Economic Vibrancy Still Very Much a Long Game
8/21/20
“In short, the Outer Banks has always been resilient in the face of larger economic adversity because our elected officials, on behalf of our citizens, have made far-sighted strategic decisions with scarce resources to invest in the surest possible insulation against the ebbs and flows of economic turbulence — infrastructure.”
The Outer Banks Voice
Is This The Golden Age Of The American Family Vacation?
8/18/20
“In fact, rural vacation rentals in general have seen a surge across virtually every continental market this summer season.”
Forbes
