The second round of speakers at TBEX North America 2023 is a collection of 8 highly skilled professionals who will provide travel media – including tourism brands, content creators, influencers and vloggers – with constructive information, tools, and innovative strategies for success in the current travel and tourism space. TBEX’s 26th travel blogger conference in Eau Claire, Wisconsin will also provide a wealth of information for industry travel and tourism providers on how to develop an effective online presence and work effectively with content creators.
Dannelle Gay, aka The Traveling Cheesehead, is a serial entrepreneur who loves to talk about travel, partnerships with destinations, and teach bloggers how to make money. She has cracked the code to making 7 figures a year through passive income, products, and syndication.
Danelle will explain how to earn on income that goes beyond content.
Christine Lozada is a drone pilot, award-winning travel creator, and podcast host. In less than 2 years, millions have seen her drone work and she has helped thousands of people to learn to fly. She makes drones fun and simple to learn.
Christine will discuss how to win with drones to differentiate your content from the masses.
Gerald Gruenig is a dynamic social media influencer and local TV personality in South Louisiana. He has a following of more than 500,000 people – 320,000 followers on TikTok, 80,000 followers on Facebook, and 110,000 followers on Instagram. He successfully brings his television experience to his Social Media audience.
Gerald will demonstrate how traditional media impacts on Social Media platforms.
John Weatherall III is a native of Lafayette, Louisiana and has built a following around his high energy, fun videos of parade goers dancing and enjoying the moment. His videos have taken off online, especially on TikTok with an audience of more than 750,000 followers and more than 36 million likes on his videos.
John will explain how to grow your Social Media through video.
Jennifer Broome is a freelance multimedia travel and environmental journalist for broadcast, digital and print outlets including The Weather Channel, AAA, and Local Now. Jennifer is a TV meteorologist and an on-camera travel, weather, and outdoors expert. She films, reports, produces, hosts, writes, and photographs for live and taped segments for TV.
Jennifer will discuss multimedia storytelling and how to use your phone to tell your story.
Christopher Joe is a native of Greensboro, Alabama. He diversified his family’s Black Angus cattle farm to offer bird and nature tours. He is a leading example on how to diversify private land to incorporate ecotourism and different activities to generate additional income.
Christopher will explain how to build tourism through small ecotourism projects.
TaKenya Hampton is a life and business strategist who also runs a systems and website agency for solopreneurs and small businesses. She helps to put systems in place for efficiency, build functional and affordable websites, and to stop clients from saying, ‘I’m not tech savvy.’
TaKenya will explain the options of building your business through outsourcing or internal systems.
Ron B. Wilson is a specialist in an award-winning documentary style of photography with an emphasis on environmental portraits. Ron’s primary goals are to tell stories with images and to bring out the very best in each subject he photographs.
Ron will show how to tell compelling stories through photographs.
With such a variety of topics and experience to share, this incredible group of professionals are bound to provide an arsenal full of actionable takeaways for all those who join us for TBEX North America in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, July 17th – 20th, 2023.
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