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Sony VAIO has launched a new marketing campaign which uses Facebook to encourage Latin American shoppers to buy their products. The campaign called "Go Around the World With the S Series" was created for Sony by the Ignited marketing agency to promote the S Series of laptops.

The campaign uses banner ads and Facebook ads to drive consumer traffic to a contest app where visitors can sign up to win a trip around the world and other prizes including S Series laptops. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness about the new products and generate increased sales. The campaign is specifically targeted to Latin American shoppers because this group is still lagging in terms of online purchases. They are discouraged by factors like online taxes and lack of trust, so Sony has faced challenges in marketing online to this region.

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Julia Taylor and Dave Goss realized their dream of a world trip by sailboat which began on May 1, 2004 and ended exactly seven years to the day back in Jamestown, Rhode Island. They traveled aboard the 40 foot wooden sailboat Macy via the "milk route", traveling west through the Panama Canal. Taylor had dreamed of going around the world in a sailboat since she was a child, and took a job at the Conanicut Yacht Club in order to work around the boats.

The father of a childhood friend helped her to custom build Macy, which took about two years. Complications arose at various times during the trip, which involved a lot of time at sea. The longest passage was 24 days from the Galapagos islands to the Marquesas, but they were fortunate to have good passages most of the time. Taylor said that New Zealand was her favorite stop on the trip, and she also enjoyed the Galapagos, Tahiti and the Marquesas.

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