In the previous article, titled “Listening for your brand online“, I mentioned a few monitoring tools that you can use to listen for mentions of your brand or keywords. I will now go into a bit more detail about each of these tools. Google Alerts If you only use one monitoring tool, Google Alerts is […]
The Listening phase is the first and, I would argue, the most important step in the L.E.A.D. ™ social media strategy. Like any conversation, listening affords the listener the luxury of understanding the nature of the conversation, the individuals involved, the subject matter, and the direction of the conversation. Listening also provides the listener with […]
Coupons and promotions have been around for a long time and are commonly used to drive business by providing price incentives. As a tour or activity operator, there are a lot of ways you can use a promotional coupon to drive new or repeat business to your website. In the traditional model, a customer would […]
Every in-destination tourism company (whether it is an attraction, tour operator, or activity provider) prints brochures and rack cards for distribution to tourists. It doesn’t matter what market you are in, you will find these brochures in the lobbies of hotels, store fronts, and tourist offices. Hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of dollars are […]
PPC or pay per click can be a very effective way of driving traffic to your website especially if your website does not rank well on Google search results because of high competition for your keywords. As part of any Google PPC campaign, you will have access to using Google analytics to track your campaign […]
This guest post is written by Graham Robertson who worked as an operations Team Leader for a global online travel company and devotes an obsessive amount of time to following current travel news and trends. Its hard to go online these days without seeing someone talking about social media, or more specifically, how it can […]