The Top ATR Places: How Swede It Is!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Country and capital are our #1 foreign visitors
We hope all will pardon the horrible pun in our headline. Our facility with the language of this beautiful land is non-existent and we didn't want to try to get too fancy with humor and (as is often the case when meaning doesn't quite translate accurately) risk offense. However, from the web site InterTran, we got this rough translation of an expression of gratitude (and, gosh, we hope that's how it reads):
Tack själv och välkomnande, Sverige.
Sweden was again our top overseas visitor last week - just edging out the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany. France, the Philippines, Japan, the Netherlands and Italy were also near the top of the list of countries visiting ATR last week.
Though San Francisco just got past San Diego as the top Auction Talk Radio town (and we love having the support of both cities), our visits from New York and our town, L.A., have grown steadily in the past few weeks.
We remain intrigued by our growing audience in smaller municipalities. Tech towns love us. Besides Sunnyvale and Mountain View, Calif., our presence in Silicon Valley has grown to encompass Redwood City, the home to such technology giants as Oracle, Electronic Arts (E.A.) and the venerable Ampex. Meanwhile, Herndon, Virginia and Plano, Texas, have emerged as hot spots for ATR.
In 2006, CNN Money named Plano as one of the best places to live in the U.S. It's qualitative demographics are amazing (affluent, educated) and this suburb of Dallas is home to such companies as Perot Systems, Electronic Data Systems and UGS.
Herndon is known as the Netplex because of the presence of the headquarters of such companies as AOL, Verizon Business (formerly MCI, formerly WorldCom, originally UUNET), and Network Solutions, which began as the INTERNIC - the registry where every domain name was once administered.
With our little bit of quid for their pro quo, we hope to continue our budding relationship with each these fine cities, though we're pretty sure their respective chambers of commerce will quickly move to disavow such an endorsement from the likes of us. That kind of smart public relations management is, we have no doubt, one of the reasons these cities are so successful.
We hope all will pardon the horrible pun in our headline. Our facility with the language of this beautiful land is non-existent and we didn't want to try to get too fancy with humor and (as is often the case when meaning doesn't quite translate accurately) risk offense. However, from the web site InterTran, we got this rough translation of an expression of gratitude (and, gosh, we hope that's how it reads):
Tack själv och välkomnande, Sverige.
Sweden was again our top overseas visitor last week - just edging out the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany. France, the Philippines, Japan, the Netherlands and Italy were also near the top of the list of countries visiting ATR last week.
Though San Francisco just got past San Diego as the top Auction Talk Radio town (and we love having the support of both cities), our visits from New York and our town, L.A., have grown steadily in the past few weeks.
We remain intrigued by our growing audience in smaller municipalities. Tech towns love us. Besides Sunnyvale and Mountain View, Calif., our presence in Silicon Valley has grown to encompass Redwood City, the home to such technology giants as Oracle, Electronic Arts (E.A.) and the venerable Ampex. Meanwhile, Herndon, Virginia and Plano, Texas, have emerged as hot spots for ATR.
In 2006, CNN Money named Plano as one of the best places to live in the U.S. It's qualitative demographics are amazing (affluent, educated) and this suburb of Dallas is home to such companies as Perot Systems, Electronic Data Systems and UGS.
Herndon is known as the Netplex because of the presence of the headquarters of such companies as AOL, Verizon Business (formerly MCI, formerly WorldCom, originally UUNET), and Network Solutions, which began as the INTERNIC - the registry where every domain name was once administered.
With our little bit of quid for their pro quo, we hope to continue our budding relationship with each these fine cities, though we're pretty sure their respective chambers of commerce will quickly move to disavow such an endorsement from the likes of us. That kind of smart public relations management is, we have no doubt, one of the reasons these cities are so successful.
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