{"id":6024,"date":"2010-03-29T22:29:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:29:02","slug":"help-texas-border-town-promote-itself-despite-violence-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/help-texas-border-town-promote-itself-despite-violence-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Texas border town promote itself despite violence nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/Dancers-outside-Quinta2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6025\" style=\"margin: 4px 10px;float: left\" title=\"Dancers outside Quinta2\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/Dancers-outside-Quinta2.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican dancers in colorful dresses\" width=\"275\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a>Nancy S. Millar, director of the convention and visitors bureau in McAllen, Texas, writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a doozy. Our great little city in the southernmost part of Texas is on the border with Mexico, which is having terrible problems now with violence, though we&#8217;re fine on this side of the border. But that\u2019s not what people are hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McAllen has a lot going for it. It was just ranked one of the top economies in the U.S. by the Brookings Institution. It&#8217;s right in the middle of the country&#8217;s Number One birding destination (the Rio Grande Valley). It&#8217;s a well-known winter destination because we&#8217;re so far south, and we have an active arts and entertainment culture with lots of Mexican influence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can I turn this situation into something more positive&#8212;and do it with no budget? Thanks for any ideas your Hounds can share.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy S. Millar, director of the convention and visitors bureau in McAllen, Texas, writes: &#8220;I have a doozy. Our great little city in the southernmost part of Texas is on the border with Mexico, which is having terrible problems now with violence, though we&#8217;re fine on this side of the border. But that\u2019s not what\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/help-texas-border-town-promote-itself-despite-violence-nearby\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":6,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[246,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-6024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-chamber-of-commerce","8":"tag-help-this-hound","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}