Win $100 at Kool Barbados

We’re still waiting for a Baruba web entrepreneur to construct a social networking site for all Barubans and visitors to post their memories of the island online. So that we too can run fun promotions like this one started by KoolBarbados.

Unfortunately the current global economic crisis is hitting traditional print newspapers hard and the otherwise risk-taking adventurous Baruba Post editorial board members have declined the chance to finance such an endeavor.

Citing drastically reduced advertising revenues as the reason. “We’d rather keep staff than fire them and use the money for non-proven ventures.”

That’s fair enough but it doesn’t stop us admiring the sponsors and creators of the KoolBarbados website. Communicating like this on social networking sites is clearly the future and we at the Baruba Post will have to adjust our strategy to meet these cataclysmic changes.

Why is KoolBarbados offering a BDS$100 prize?

Let them say it in their own owrds;

Times are tough. Tourism is down. So how can we attract more tourists to Barbados? With a great slogan! Not a generic statement that can be used by any tropical island. And has probably been used somewhere already.

A brilliant slogan – “Barbados. Floss Your Brain” – was already sent by Cool Barbados new members “crop_over_KIDZ” a couple of days ago which started the idea for a slogan search.

So write a really cool slogan best describing Barbados in 12 words or less. The winner gets a Barbados $100 Gift Voucher from Cave Shepherd. Entries close 31 January 2009.

How can you win?

Join up as a member at KoolBarbados. It’s completely free. Then go to the Most Popular Groups section and you’ll see where to submit your entry.

If you have questions you can always email the KoolBarbados site organisers here.

We don’t expect many Barubans to enter. That’s not the point.

It’s to kick our own people into action and get with the modern communication techniques before it’s too late.