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 makes on visitors. You may have some great product shots, a nice-looking webpage, and a couple…
The Essence of Stellar Travel Content What is the essence of stellar, emotionally engaging, confidence building and activating content for travel companies? It’s ability to reach audiences, impact visitors, engage them, and build your brand image as the only travel company for them. Ultimately, for long-term value, it’s this “only one for me” exclusivity that…
How to Build Your Content Marketing Strategy In the travel sector, content is vitally important. It is the medium of their pre-purchase experience. If travelers aren’t investigating or booking, then your current content strategy isn’t working. It’s time for a change! Building the Travel Experience They Yearn to Have Travel is visual, immersive, personal and…
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…
How to Create Your Realtor Brand Differentiation The power of branding. Do you take it seriously? Are you doing anything than the usual, common tactics to establish your name and offer to buyers and sellers? I reiterate frequently in my blog posts and conversations that a brand image is your value proposition. It’s your promise,…
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…
Don’t Use Generative AI Content for Marketing The big story of the past year was AI technology and the thing that’s driving it — Generative AI. We’ve all endured the hype about the potential of generative AI, a euphoric period that drove the stock market to new heights and took Nvidia and AMD to…
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…
Tips for Better Real Estate Marketing in 2024/2025 Hundreds of thousands of real estate agents are hopeful heading into 2024, given the experts predict a big jump in listings and sales. The sales number forecast is fine, but the listing numbers are the big opportunity. You didn’t have listings, but it looks like sellers are…
Travel Marketing Software Do large travel companies have better, more knowledgable, creative, inspired and capable marketing talent than small firms? Or do they have bigger budgets, more contributors and helpful software? Many small travel companies manage their marketing themselves creating content with a strategy and using a big portion of their budget for pay per…
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…
21 SEO Mistakes You Should Avoid Everyone wants to think positive about their digital marketing strategy. Yet even advanced SEO strategists can’t be perfect in all SEO tasks. Finding SEO errors or performance destroyers can be the source of great joy, and a turnaround in your search engine optimization strategy. Rankings will rise, traffic will…
How to Rebrand your Content The phrase “content rebranding” is being discussed more online now due to the economic recovery. If your content is your face to customers and the brand they consume, then it must change too. And your content is vital to your company’s success. Some businesses (e.g., restaurants) have already gone through this…
Consistently Promote Yourself and Your Business If you’re like me, you’ve probably had to sign a number of non-compete agreements or worse had to take your website down while you worked for a company. Logically and from first hand experience, I know taking a site down is unwise. Whether for you or your business, it’s…
Solve a Problem and Win a Customer Of all your digital content, your copywriting is the one that moves the needle for business. It orchestrates and choreographs a persuasive process to grow leads and sales. I can’t think of a more powerful aid to new business development and customer loyalty than great copywriting. Relevant, interesting…
Personal Branding for Real Estate Agents Competition in real estate sales is intense. There’s one sale for every agent. So how do you separate yourself from the hoards and avoid anything that pushes you back into the pool of unknown agents – the realty clones? If you think it’s sexy to be one of the…
Original Content is the Core of Digital Marketing One of the biggest problems of content on the Web, when using Google, or even Social Media, is that it’s a regurgitation of someone else’s stuff. Been there, done that. Think of how much time we spend seeing all the same boring search results from Google. Where’s the real…