Advanced SEO for Travel Businesses
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Advanced SEO for Travel Businesses

🚀 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 Travel Market Outlook
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2025 Travel Market Outlook

✈️ 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…

The 2025 Guide to Travel Marketing Software

The 2025 Guide to Travel Marketing Software

📒 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 Dedicated solutions help you gravitate from outdated legacy marketing processes that actually are threatening the viability of your travel business.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…

Affordable Dedicated Marketing Services
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Affordable Dedicated Marketing Services

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…

Reorganize your Travel Business for a Better Future
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Reorganize your Travel Business for a Better Future

It’s Time to Reorganize your Travel Business It’s a fact of business life that the market changes along with our target audience. Travel agencies, hotels, airlines, DMOs, and tour companies are seeing valued long-time customers disappear while new ones become available. Will we be resigned to our fate, or adjust? As your profits slide and…

How to Discourage Low Quality Leads
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How to Discourage Low Quality Leads

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…

Commit to High Quality Website Design
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Commit to High Quality Website Design

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…

Use Marketing to Recruit Travel Advisors
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Use Marketing to Recruit Travel Advisors

How to Attract Travel 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. The value proposition of individual, successful agents is high.  They have…

Winning Content Strategy: Creates Reach, Builds Brand, Generates Sales
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Winning Content Strategy: Creates Reach, Builds Brand, Generates Sales

Do you Know the Real Reason your Content Marketing Campaign Failed? If you’re like many SMB owners today, you’ve wasted thousands of dollars on ads, time spent on social media, and hastily built some landing pages which resulted in no real leads, no real sales. And to add insult to injury, it’s likely that your…

How to Jumpstart your Business Digital Marketing Plan
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How to Jumpstart your Business Digital Marketing Plan

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
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Content Strategy for Property Management Companies

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…

Retry SEO with a Brand New Approach
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Retry SEO with a Brand New Approach

Get an Edge with Advanced Level Search Engine Optimization What is the most affordable path to building and capturing big value in digital marketing this year? That would be advanced search engine optimization. Professional search engine optimization taps into the largest online audiences who are actively searching for your product/service.  It’s played a dominant role…

SEO Services Los Angeles
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SEO Services Los Angeles

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…

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Core Essentials of your 2025 Marketing Strategy

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…

Travel SEO Services
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Travel SEO Services

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…

Create Impact and Become Unforgettable
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Create Impact and Become Unforgettable

  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…

What Should Small Business Owners be Doing Right Now?
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What Should Small Business Owners be Doing Right Now?

Small Business Marketing Report The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) says its latest Small Business Optimism Index jumped 8.0 points to 101.7 last month, the highest level since June 2021. They report the percentage of owners expecting the economy to improve rose 41 points from October to a net 36%, the highest since June…

Building Lead Quality through Content Expansion
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Building Lead Quality through Content Expansion

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
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Freelance Marketer vs Digital Marketing Agency

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…

Marketing Content Audits
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Marketing Content Audits

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…

Create Your Real Estate Marketing Powerhouse for 2025

Create Your Real Estate Marketing Powerhouse for 2025

Real Estate Marketing for 2025 Boom The election of Donald Trump as US president is expected to generate a booming US economy, and the housing market will definitely benefit. You can feel the enthusiasm already, and I’m looking forward to working in the real estate sector again. As a real estate agent or broker, you’re…

Travel Content Marketing Strategy

Travel Content Marketing Strategy

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 Creates Great Customers
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Content that Creates Great Customers

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…

AI Junk from The Zombie Internet
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AI Junk from The Zombie Internet

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…

Google Ranking Algorithm -- EEAT
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How to Grow Respect for Your Content

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…

Your Travel Marketing Pilot Project

Your Travel Marketing Pilot Project

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…

Do You Have the Courage to Attack your Competitor’s Strengths?

Do You Have the Courage to Attack your Competitor’s Strengths?

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…

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SEO/Content Strategy for the Travel Management Sector

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…

Power Up Your Travel Marketing & Promotion

Power Up Your Travel Marketing & Promotion

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…

Travel Business Marketing

Travel Business Marketing

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…

Links as Your 2024 Business Accelerator — Google

Links as Your 2024 Business Accelerator — Google

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,…

What Silicon Valley Companies Need

What Silicon Valley Companies Need

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…