How To Optimize your Content for ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs AI search engines are giving consumers an exciting new source of information. They provide not just links and info, but also act as an expert source engaging with the user. As you’ve read in the Generative Experience/Engine Optimization post, gaining visibility in them requires…
Website Persuasion Architecture Framework For decades, free traffic from search engines (and social media) was substantial. Unfortunately, most websites provided a poor user experience and they weren’t proficient generating conversions. The result? Lots of bounces – a sure sign the content has not captured its audience. Conversion rate optimization sprang up as the hottest trend…
🤩 The Essence of Stellar Travel Content Arguably, the biggest weakness of most small travel companies online is shallow, mundane content. Yet, the problem really is about what business owners and marketing managers believe what good content is. Everyone has their own conception and biases which may be holding their businesses back. After research, creative…
Real Estate Marketing for 2026 and the Next 5 Years While sales in the US and Canada are frustrating most Realtors, some Realtors appear to be enjoying a good sales year. They’ve found paths to success. They took their time and drew up a marketing plan — one that helped them reach new prospects and…
Toronto Travel Spending a Market Worth Fighting For Canadian travel to the US has plummeted and now your Toronto region travelers are searching on Google for other destinations in big numbers. That’s great news for all Toronto travel agencies. Not only are new customers in the GTA up for grabs, they’re shopping with an open…
What do Small Business Owners Want from Marketing? With all the uncertainty in the the economy and business sector, it’s difficult for small business owners and entrepreneurs to know what they need. A slowing economy, changing consumer base, lower margins, AI disruption and opportunity, talent shortages, and the trend to deglobalization is changing every aspect…
The Immediate Impact of Trend Style Content An interesting new report just published by Seige Media tells us a lot about the trends in content today. It relates to how fresh, relevant and immediately useful our content is. And in how we might use trending topics/info to raise search engine rankings, gain pre-eminence with visitors,…
Make your Realtor Brand an Irresistible One The power of branding. Do you take it seriously? Are you doing anything other than the usual, common tactics to establish your name and UVP to buyers and sellers? If your memory of branding has eroded over time, it’s wise to get reacquainted. Because improvements here can ramp…
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…
Power Up Your Site’s 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 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…
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 aren’t sure how to create the ideal team…
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…
🏅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…
It’s Not Complicated for a Pro If your first attempt at search engine optimization didn’t pan out, don’t fret about it. It’s all about strategy and hard work. You may have been duped by hype, doom talk, and “techy talk” that plagues authentic SEO. Just feel the disappointment of those poor results, so you can…
Sales Boost: Grab Your Low-Hanging Fruit Easy lead generation for travel companies! Yes, I’m not crazy. It’s like picking cherries. You know how I can help you generate significant visibility on ChatGPT or Google/Bing search engines, build brand recognition, and get your offer to new customers (and former customers who are online). You need to…
Are You Ready for 2026? With home sales sagging to record lows this year, some Realtors might have trouble visualizing sales success for themselves. But like it is in any industry, where the mind goes, performance flows. It’s time to get ready. There’s so much pessimism saturating the real estate sector (e.g., Florida) that Realtors…
Massive Global Market: Your International Content Strategy How nice would it be to relax and enjoy an amazing and massive flow of travel customers from across the globe, wowed by your brand and content, fully trusting that booking with you is a great decision sure to satisfy? Sometimes a wider audience is the solution to…
Visibility is Everything Whether you’re in the travel business or in real estate sales, being discovered and getting your message heard is paramount. And I’m reminded of what SparkToro’s well-known CEO and co-Founder, Rand Fishkin said recently — that discovery is the next big marketing objective, ahead of clicks. Because as he puts it, being…
🚀 Travel SEO: Capturing Motivated Travel Consumers Search engine optimization, when done really well can drive significant brand awareness and booking success. The image of SEO has fallen dramatically over 25 years. It once captivated marketing and business audiences then suffered when IT shops, web designers, and others tried to leverage its value to win…
✈️ 2025 US Travel Market Upheaval President Trump’s plan to revitalize and reindustrialize the US, and deploy high tariff barriers is inadvertently impacting the US travel market. It’s making global travel market and US travel forecasts and even accurate views of the actual market unfolding a challenge. Below you’ll find global travel statistics in relation…
📒 Travel Marketing Software Good travel marketing needs the right travel marketing software. Dedicated solutions help you gravitate from outdated legacy marketing processes that actually are threatening the viability of your travel business. If you’re piecing together 10 different marketing tools that require a lot of manual intervention, you might enjoy better integration/automation through these…
De-Risk + Ramp Up Revenue Plenty of small business owners have difficulty launching into digital marketing. The status quo seems more comfortable, until it isn’t. Sure, investing in marketing entails some risks, but what about the rewards? There are always hesitations about trying new content strategies, creating new creative content experiences, running promotional campaigns, hiring…
It’s Time to Reorganize your Travel Business It’s a fact of business life that the consumer market changes. And we need to adjust. Travel agencies, hotels, airlines, DMOs, and tour companies are seeing valued long-time customers disappear while new ones become available. This current tourism slowdown comes as technology is changing travelers choice and they…
The Lead Gen Problem You’ll Love to Solve Have you ever had guests you couldn’t get rid of? It’s like they’re taking advantage of your goodwill and time. That’s how it is for many travel agents who must suffer through travel shoppers who are poorly qualified leads for one reason or another. It’s hard to…
Web Design/Development Highly Underrated in Marketing Today A big trend in digital marketing has been the Facebook push of social media and Google’s enforcement of high priced search ads. They’ve been able to capture hundreds of billions in revenue, through this monopolistic engineering so they’re not disturbed that natural, authentic marketing processes have been short…
How to Attract Travel Better Advisors Being more proactive about recruiting quality, experienced, and successful travel agents might be the one of the productive efforts you make to succeed. Like all online companies, you need marketing techniques that attract competent, new and seasoned travel advisors. And the better ones of course, are business-builders, not order…
Help, Our Digital Marketing Strategy Isn’t Working! When sales and revenue begin to decline and you see competitors scoring big wins, you have to let go of the disappointment and launch into action! What’s worse than seeing your visitors, leads, sales and customer base diminish, is when you don’t have a plan to revive them….
Content Strategy for Property Management Companies There are substantial customer-capturing and revenue-generating opportunities for property management services and software firms in 2025. And to access them and harvest the opportunity, your online content experience needs expert love and care. Property management/investor customers are constantly looking for performance, reliability, care and value. A high-quality content strategy…
Los Angeles SEO Services 2025 is offering a variety of new and exciting opportunities for Los Angeles area businesses. Given California’s massive challenges (and opportunities), it’s time to expand your content strategy to reach new customers across California, North America and into Europe. It can be done affordably without hiring an LA marketing agency nor…
Tips for Better Real Estate Marketing in 2025 Hundreds of thousands of real estate agents are hopeful heading into 2025, given the experts predict a big jump in listings and sales. As interest rates ease and mortgage rates begin to fall, the economy grows, and small business flourishes once again across the country, we’ll see…
SEO Services for Travel Companies There’s often a lot of doubt and confusion about how SEO is done and delivered, so I’d like to present this series of steps that clarifies how I will work with your travel business. Google’s ranking algorithm looks for many strengths in content quality and relevance, and that clear signals…
Making Impact on Your Visitors is High Priority For a decade now, marketers have been focusing more on the visitor experience and user engagement. Yet the first part of experience and engagement is the impact your content and brand make on visitors. You may have some great product shots, a nice-looking webpage, and a…
How to Build Content Breadth to Capture High-Volume Leads Let’s use a simple analogy of a tall needle-like building vs Mount Everest to discuss content expansion. If the tall building represents a narrow niche-obsessed content marketing campaign, it means it can’t reach high enough or broadly enough to capture sufficient traffic volume and rankings, topic…
Freelance Marketer vs Digital Marketing Agency — Which Should You Hire? Are you considering further reorganization due to a budget squeeze? One area you can do it is not in marketing. Happily, if budget is an issue, a digital marketing freelancer may be a more cost-effective way to reach audiences and engage them. You’ll be…
Content Audits for Web Content Strategy A content audit is the foundation for a powerful, cohesive, content strategy — creating crucial insights for improvements and helping all stakeholders get on the same page. Because content doesn’t happen in a vacuum – it’s influenced by many people in a company, formally or informally. Since SEO/Content Strategy…
SEO Expertise vs AI SEO: Which is Best? Artificial intelligence software is making big waves in the marketing sector, part of what’s called Marketing AI. There’s big hope and hype, and yes, we will have to learn how to use these tools soon. AI SEO Content Creation tools are beginning to make a contribution, at…
How to Build Your Content Marketing Strategy In the travel sector, content is vitally important. Creative, helpful, trustworthy content pieces are a big part of travelers’ pre-purchase experience. Yet, what should those assets be, what topics do they want, and what messages should those articles/videos/graphics be communicating? A lot of marketing companies create a publishing…
Content That Brings High-Quality Customers Who is the bringer of high-quality customers? It might be a talented, spirited content stategist who just doesn’t seem to understand limits. But we know it’s really you, the business owner. You enable and launch the marketing project, grow it and nurture it to succeed. I’m here to help you…
More AI Junk and Slop from the Zombie Internet As AI was introduced to the mainstream business community, CEOs and SMB owners were delighted at the prospect of a robot computer program generating free online content and providing free, cheap customer service. It was a dream world of low cost, easy automation, zero-employee based pure…
Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness Have you wondered how a small travel company could ever compete with the big travel portals and brand names online? It is a challenge for sure, but still doable. I’ve been competing against Goliath companies for 26 years now and even today, there’s a chance to win. Google’s ranking algorithm…
DIY Low Risk, High Return Marketing Test Project If you’ve avoided digital marketing, it’s understandable given how competitive and challenging the channel is. There’s the risk, the investment, the time and expertise, and confidence needed too! But any challenge can be conquered with faith, determination and strategy. The first part of the strategy is to…
Attack Your Competitor’s Strengths A commencement speech from Roger Federer at Dartmouth College recently, offered one really important tip for entrepreneurs and future CEOs in the audience. He spoke about his challenges in becoming the greatest tennis player of all time. He mentioned having to work hard and shore up his weaknesses, become disciplined, managing…
Advanced Content Strategy: Power in the Creative Mix Every travel agency owner, travel management software manager, and tour company CEO has to decide what their blog content theme will be. Because a company blog creates the lion’s share (up to 90%) of web traffic. Which means content choices will decide how much traffic, rankings, impact…
What Makes your Audience Click? What really excites your customers? What does your target audience really want? There likely aren’t more important questions to ask because you can only sell what they want. If you crack these tough questions right, you’re liable to make a big impact on them and open up a big sales pipeline….
Empower Your Creative Content Team The travel agency CEO, DMO manager, or tour business owner is the key source of business success. Your understanding, strategy and decisions determine what your creative team believes, does and will achieve. I’m not the ultimate expert on travel business success, but I still want to give you a…
What is the Essence of a Great Travel Article? That is the question to ask or you’ll never create one. And the answer might surprise you because it has to achieve a lot, and can’t just “read nice.” We know travel content is the most lively, inspiring, and personal type of content. So the bar…
SEO/Content Strategy for the Travel Management Sector The global travel management sector is being powered up through unexpectedly high consumer and business travel demand. And the revenge travel movement is just a transition to a permanently mobile population who long to escape the confines of their local environment. Travel is more than an elixir for…
Going Wide with Your Keyword Strategy Is your SEO and content strategy stuck in the doldrums? Have you been gunning for the top industry keyword phrases and are coming up empty? It could be your keyword strategy is too limited. It might be time to build a new keyword net to capture better results all…
Keys to Affordable but Strong Travel Marketing Your travel agency, tour company, or travel management software won’t market itself. Instead, you’re going to need some creative ideas (like Red Cows) to grab the attention of travelers. Build your value proposition with some great promotional messages. Create and brilliant content and publish it via affordable yet…
Tools for Travel Management Companies The travel industry has been greatly impacted by the rise of SaaS travel management software. Why am I mentioning SaaS travel management platforms in a marketing post? Because they more than experience and financial management tools. They have marketing power too. Using them, your business looks more professional, offers better…
The Power of Links to Your Website 2024 is almost here, and a better economy is just ahead. You’re reading because looking for that one thing that will boost your business leads and sales prospect pipeline. Normally, we’d say there is no magic bullet. However, there is one thing that could power up traffic, leads,…
The Special Needs of Silicon Valley Companies Silicon Valley is that region in southwest San Francisco Bay where thousands of tech-related companies have established their primary business location. Entrepreneurs, financiers, and talent all come here to experience this haven for entrepreneurs. Yet the days of easy money are behind us. Yes, investment in AI and…
A Focus on the Core Essentials that Create ROI Every once in a while, marketers must review their performance and their tools, learning, channels, funding and resource selection. A review most always leads to the core essentials of successful digital marketing. Every year, digital marketing becomes more competitive and demanding. That’s due to the fact…
Find Content Angles to end Reader’s Suffering Readers today suffer a lot. They’re bored, confused, and dejected. Everything’s a copy of a copy. You’ve no doubt suspected, via a quick look at your engagement stats in your analytics app, that your content isn’t making the impact you need. It may not be attracting clicks, grabbing…
SEO Supports Marketing Campaigns Congrats if you’ve managed to build a huge volume of traffic to your site. It’s an underrated success today, since without traffic, there’s no leads, no revenue, and all elements of your marketing mix go unsupported. If your conversion rate hovers below 3%, then it’s time to do more with that…
Business Owner’s Guide to Assessing Web Content Quality You likely know just how important brilliant content is. You’ve visited websites and have likely found some fantastic material that you couldn’t pull away from. Maybe it was a video, a blog, or research report. Maybe it was the brand, message or topics within the website that…
Real Estate Agents Succeeding This Summer There’s no shortage of challenges this summer for Realtors. Yet there’s no shortage of opportunities to succeed and scale up your real estate sales business either. Mind over matter. Right off the bat, the challenge is about your mindset – that you won’t grow sales or become the market…
Which Real Estate Marketing Channel is Your Best? There are 10 key lead generators for Realtor internet marketing in 2021. And the question for you today is which of these platforms and channels could you not do without? The Internet has made it challenging for many real estate agents in the last ten years, and…
Ramping Up Realtor Digital Marketing Successful or not so successful, real estate agents must always be powering up their lead sources. That means building those marketing assets, promoting your offer, optimizing your lead funnel, and nurturing for more closed sales. Today, client prospects know you more from your online real estate marketing than they do…