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Kurtis Durfey

Kurtis is a seasoned marketer and graphic designer with degrees in Advertising, Graphic Design, and Business Administration and eight years of experience in the travel and tourism space. He worked on the Simpleview XD team in Tucson for a spell before departing SV and rejoining the DTN Operations team remotely from beautiful Bend, Oregon, in 2017.

Kurtis heads up the DTN MarComm team and is a primary point of contact for DMO partners. The DTN MarComm team manages a variety of project types, including building DTN onto a new DMO website, planning DTN sales campaigns, and communications related to DTN's products and services.

The Move Towards Native Advertising

By Kurtis Durfey on Mar. 18, 2020

DTN + CMS integration is a winning sponsored content solution for DTN Publishers (and everybody else) In a blog post late last year, we mentioned DTN had collaborated with Simpleview’s CMS and product teams to develop a seamless integration between DTN and the CMS Collections Module. This…

Your Business Listings Images Really Take a Team

By Kurtis Durfey on Nov. 11, 2019

I think we’ve all been here before. Your new listings page looks gorgeous but then you scroll down to the listings widget and find a lackluster picture of a sign, another plain hotel bed photo or a really bad food shot. It goes without saying that listing imagery impacts user engagement rates and…

Nix Your Banner Ads and Embrace Paid Content

By Kurtis Durfey on Nov. 08, 2019

The Simpleview-owned ad network, Destination Travel Network(DTN), has collaborated with the Simpleview CMS and product teams to develop a seamless integration with the Simpleview CMS to deliver DTN paid content that actually looks and reads like content. The setup uses the Simpleview CMS widgets to…