Upcoming Tour Operator Conferences and Conventions The Travel and Tourism sector is readying for an exciting winter season along with growth in trips and tour bookings in 2026 as the US and global economies continue their growth. You’ve got some outstanding events planned for this fall, such as Tourpreneurs “TourWeek” in South Carolina, and US…
đ Why Canadians Still Make a Great Choice for Outsourcing The US is undergoing a fantastic economic, cultural and business transformation launched via tariffs, deregulation, tax reduction, cheaper energy and artificial intelligence. Growth will be phenomenal. In 2026, the FED rate will drop allowing small US businesses to enter the boom times. We’ll see burgeoning…
Fundamental Knowledge Foundation for Smart Crypto Trading The cryptocurrency market is an exciting one for many investors today, as many consider it the best place to become a millionaire. While investors are loving the returns they’re getting in the stock market, particularly the NASDAQ, the growth in price of Bitcoin is perhaps the biggest accelerant…
Coinbase – Gateway to the Crypto Economy Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) is one of the worldâs most recognized cryptoasset companies and one of the major cryptocurrency trading platforms. For many individual investors, it has served as the entry point into digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Since its founding in 2012, Coinbase has grown…
How to Invest in Cryptocurrencies & Crypto-Equities: A Sensible Guide 2025 appears to be a boom year for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Massive amounts of investment money is moving into this sector and inflating the prices of assets. Everyone is intrigued about how they might cash in on the boom. Some buy for the long…
Generative Engine Optimization Guide A slow shift to using AI search engines by consumers is underway. It means small business owners must create a different kind of content experience on their websites, this time organized for the needs of these AI-powered info sources. AI search engines offer a different experience for search users (your customers). …
Using Schema Markup for GEO As mentioned in the GEO post, AI search engines rely heavily on entities that AI LLMs can recognize. And that is described in the structured data schema created by schema.org. Schema, if you’ve never heard of it, is a set of structured data document categories that help define what content…
Hottest Topics in Residential Real Estate Realtors like yourself should be curious about the real estate-related topics thaat buyers and sellers are concerned with as we approach 2026. After all, these issues are what shape buyerâs perceptions of value, drive intent as well as affect sellers thoughts about when to sell. See the full list…
Top 10 Visibility Factors for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) A wave of experimentation and immersion in AI search engines is upon us now in 2025, and although growth is flattening, generative AI is increasingly important to what is shown on Google, Bing and elsewhere in the search engine marketplace. Experts aren’t sure how big AI…
Top 15 factors that Drive Clicks for Online Real Estate Sites Conversion rate optimization (CXO) has been a hot topic for at least a decade. For a variety of reasons, it’s become more difficult to entice consumers to keep clicking to fulfill their purpose. At some point, they stop clicking. By adopting a conversion path…
La Jolla: A Coastal Drive Toward Culinary Elegance The Pacific Coast Highway in southern California is renowned as one of the most beautiful drives in the world. For travelers over 50, the views, sunshine, and California ambiance is nothing short of marvelous. For those who revel in pleasant drives as part of a great travel…
Housing as Canadaâs Best Path to Growth and Affordability The Canadian economy is beginning to slouch significantly and the Liberal government appears to lack any solutions to save it from further harm. It’s a depressing scenario for all Canadians including those looking for a place to live, or a home to buy, or who need…
Toronto Housing Market Bubble Despite falling home prices in August, Toronto home buyers have that sinking feeling that accompanies a recession. As covered in the Toronto housing market report, sellers are listing their prices. They want their dream price, but as the market slides many of them are starting to give in and entertain some…
Toronto Housing Market Report TRREB in its September housing market reports a rise in home sales with a price drop in the GTA region. More sellers listed their homes, with many of them deciding to give up on their “dream price” to get their home sold. For home buyers, it’s an issue of affordability, down…
Real Estate Marketing Strategy After you’ve failed to convert your audience and spent a fortune on paid advertising, you might feel miffed at how to make digital marketing work. It’s a difficult job, however, if you choose the right systems with useful technology and have a dedicated marketer with you, you’re able to get the…
Real Estate Marketing for 2026 and the Next 5 Years While sales in the US and Canada are frustrating most Realtors, some are enjoying a good sales year. They’ve found paths to success and you can too. Your fundamental challenges are visibility, brand image/impact, engagement and persuasion. That’s why a more thorough digital marketing strategy…
Power Up Your Siteâs Internal Linking for Impressive Outcomes If your website is filled with awesome content yet suffers from low visibility on Google sarch, there might be a number of reasons including low-ranking power, few relevant backlinks from credible, authoritative websites, and poor internal linking. Linking has never gotten much respect, and Google has…
How To Optimize your Content for ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs As you’ve read in the Generative Experience/Engine Optimization post, AI search engines are creating more search engine users. They love what the AI LLMs give them — fast information and insight, even above quality. AI search engines are arriving with big impact on content…
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Itâs nothing short of a revolution in content marketing and search happening right now. A new type of search engine is growing in popularity and it’s presenting small business owners with a first-mover advantage. It’s always wise to get a jump on technology waves. Did you miss any of them in…
Search Generative Experience Optimization Google continues to lead the way in how it offers a hybrid search alternative to search engines. In its ranked search results, it may include a special search feature called AI overviews. It’s a special form of results where Google’s artificial intelligence system offers up a generalized overview of a topic,…
How You Can Beat AI Travel Agencies With OTA’s and new AI travel agencies impinging on your audience and customer base, you’re understandably concerned. Young travelers are open to AI-driven travel planning and services. Agency owners on the other hand appear to be resisting anything that carries that artificial intelligence tone to it. However, as…
Why is Real Estate SEO in such High Demand? SEO remains as perhaps the largest source of new leads for search-savvy Realtors. Whether it’s Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Google AI/Gemini, or just listings on Realtor.com or Zillow, ranking algorithms can be mastered to build more exposure for you and your client listings. Real Estate SEO arises…
Travel Business Social Media Strategy âđ Ą Iâve got two tickets to paradise â honey, two tickets to paradiseâŠđ Ą â Thatâs a catchy headline phrase from a great song and perhaps useable for an ad or social post for a travel agency. Yet would it align with your company’s travel marketing campaigns on social media? Too…
Tailored SEO, Content, PPC & Social Strategy for Travel Agencies Considering a new team member or to hire a versatile freelance marketer?  Your first task is to visualize what you need to accomplish and find the most efficient staffing solution. Iâm just a little biased, but we shouldnât underestimate what one single talent can do…
Google is Fading? It’s Actually Rising Oh, the AI hypesters. All of them so eager to push their new Agentic AI, Chatbots, AI apps, and AI-augmented services and infrastructure. And many of these AI followers lash out with rhetoric about Google being a digital Dinosaur, whose user traffic will suddenly disappear. Much of the rancor,…
Stock Market Forecast The S&P, NASDAQ, Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones continue on their bull rally trend as the market likes everything it’s seeing. And Friday’s FED-fueled jump is significant for the forecast. Interest rates are the number one factor, ahead of earnings, tariffs, inflation, etc. As each week brings its own news and…
Responsible Tourism Response to the Anti-Tourism Surge Anti-tourism rallies and sentiment are sweeping across Europe, combined with excessive immigration pushing Spaniards, Greeks, Italians, French, British and other nationals to reject mass tourism. Even in Mexico City, the chant âGringos Go Homeâ is catching media attention and adding to the growing rancor for tourists that locals…
A Glorious Day for Investors Markets rocketed with the Dow hitting an all-time high at 45,737 as J. Powell suggested a coming lowering of the FED rate. It doesnât matter what he said, as investors only look for signals of the trend and when it will happen. At Friday’s closing bell, the Dow Jones rose…
Russell Index Forecast Are Russell Small Caps a Wise Choice as we Approach 2026? Stock market analysts and market economists have been talking about a market broadening for some time. The gist of their forecasts revolved around investment flows into small caps, which are fundamental to what the Russell 2000 index is — an index…
Fight the Zero Click Universe with Zero Click Marketing! As a small business owner, youâre likely aware that your free organic web traffic and social media impressions and clicks have declined over the last 5 years. Unfortunately this increasing trend is being fortified by AI, making the big web platforms an air tight container for…
Consolidating your Marketing Team: Performance/Cost Benefits SMB owners have been reorganizing staffing and marketing spend for quite a while now. Costs, inflation, labor shortage, tariffs, and more have brought on big pressures to simplify. And now the AI revolution is necessitating more change. The problem is owner’s arenât sure how to create the ideal team…
Helping You Achieve Your Potential This year’s travel season is a little challenging, but we know it’s going to pick up as the economy strengthens and the tariff issues weaken. I aim to help improve your 2026 results and build your travel website content quality, along with your web and social outreach campaigns for some…
Small Business Marketing Report The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) says its latest Small Business Optimism Index in July, rose 1.7 points to 100.3, slightly above the 52-year average of 98. Uncertainty remains (fell 8 points from June to 97) and is a big factor in growth and hiring intentions. Yet, respondents feel the…
đ Content Strategy: Your Number One Marketing Asset Content strategy isn’t regarded highly enough by many business owners. Most don’t know what it is. Content strategy is how you design and use digital assets to make customers feel strongly about what you offer. Done well, it achieves many marketing objectives — producing customers with higher intent…
Trump and the Canadian Tariffs Now in August 2025, amidst President Trump’s 35% non-CUSMA tariffs on Canadian exports to the US, the country’s economy is getting closer to a precipice. Canada still has its CUSMA deal but it’s coming to its conclusion next year. This month, flows across the border will slow with Canadian exporters…
Next Week’s Market Forecast For the Week of August 11 to 15. Market experts are calling for a continuation of the bull market run. Yet, there are signs of frothiness and over-exuberance. For example, Palantir has rocketed, now approaching the stratospheric price of $190. But with a weak P/E ratio of 600 (historic market norm:…
Is There Hope for American Home Buyers? There has never been a time when the US housing market has been this stagnant, convoluted, uncertain for buyers, financially strained, and utterly unaffordable. Itâs frustrating for buyers and sellers, but more so because most Americans canât grasp its current state or when buying conditions will brighten. For…
đ„SEO Services Toronto It’s a new business environment for many Toronto companies in diverse industries ranging from travel to manufacturing to software development. A US business cultural trend to exclude Canada is afoot, and a good way to counter that threat is to employ effective digital marketing. A comprehensive marketing strategy that leverages high-quality content…
đWhat is Advanced SEO? Advanced Search Engine Optimization is the use of sophisticated techniques, frameworks, tactics and practices to gain an edge over competitors who only do “best practices” or general SEO work. This is a sophisticated strategy of maximizing/focusing the ranking resources your site possesses, while you promote your business to build on the…
Solving Your Company’s Digital Marketing Skills Gap The transition to AI-assisted business and marketing represents a key opportunity to save money and improve marketing performance. It’s about more than just automation using AI LLM GPTs. It’s a beautiful new jigsaw puzzle with fewer pieces and a better services structure. And AI really has brought us…