Toronto, ON – Only three years young, Canada’s leading online marketing company for the hospitality industry A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing has been awarded the coveted Supplier of the Year Pinnacle Award from Hotelier magazine to be awarded at a gala lunch celebration on Friday, December 5, 2008 at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto.

The Pinnacles have become the Academy Awards of the dynamic $51.1 billion foodservice and hospitality industry. Each year, Foodservice and Hospitality and Hotelier magazine solicit nominations from the industries, and then add their own list of nominations to the field. After much scrutiny and deliberation, judging panels chosen from the magazines own Editorial Advisory Boards select the winners. A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing joins the ranks of other high profile industry leaders such as AVW Tel Av, Royal Bank of Canada and the Hotel Association of Canada who are past recipients of the award.

“To say we are overwhelmed would be understated,” comments Patricia Brusha, Co-Founder of A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing and Online Revealed, the education division of the firm. “To receive this honour for our small co-op of entrepreneurs who are the heart and soul of our young company is incredibly rewarding.”

Pinnacle Awards are awarded on a company’s impact on the industry, significant innovations and accomplishments and community spirit. A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing’s simplistic, straight forward results driven approach to marketing tourism online for its over 30 clients who include Tourism Nova Scotia, Niagara Falls Tourism, Travelzoo, Marriott International and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts have served the company well as the business has grown over 300% over the past three years.

“We have a passion for educating tourism professionals about marketing on-line through our Web strategy audits and support programs, as well as our annual Tourism Internet Marketing Conference, Online Revealed, having hosted over 700 tourism industry leaders since 2005,” says Alicia Whalen, Co-Founder of A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing and Online Revealed. “The recognition we are receiving as the recipient of the Pinnacle Award for Supplier of the Year is an accolade we are very proud of and one we share wholeheartedly with our entire team.”

This year's prestigious awards are to be presented during a gala awards luncheon on Friday, December 5, 2008 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing is a leading online marketing firm specializing in Web Strategy, search engine optimization, paid search marketing, social media marketing and online PR. The “Chicks” have published over 30 articles, produce a successful online marketing Blog;www.ideahatching.com , co-founded and produce the Online Revealed Conference series for the past 3 years, and have worked with such notable brands as Marriott International, Ottawa Tourism, and Yahoo! Their popular e-marketing workshops have also lead to the upcoming book to be released in January 2009 focussed around the “Chicks” non-intimidating approach to marketing online.

Sandie Currie
Director of Media Relations and Communications
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A Couple of Chicks

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