Preparing Realtors for 2026’s Market Breakout
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Preparing Realtors for 2026’s Market Breakout

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…

Reach Unique Niche Customers Across the Globe
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Reach Unique Niche Customers Across the Globe

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…

hotel marketing
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Bulletproof Hotel Marketing

🛡️ Bulletproof Hotel Marketing While the leisure travel market has returned to surpass pre-pandemic levels and B2B travel continues to recover, there remains significant headwinds for small to mid-sized US hotels. While hotel businesses spend fortunes on physical assets and advertising, it’s wise for CEOs and marketing managers to reconsider the power of digital marketing…

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…

Your Professional Real Estate Marketer
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Your Professional Real Estate Marketer

Real Estate Marketing Excellence! The best place to connect to buyers and sellers today is online. If you’re not there where the conversations are happening, you can’t expect to develop new clients. You’re reading now because you want to move forward with your sales career. You’ve learned that invisibility doesn’t generate many leads. There are…

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 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…

Prioritizing Off Site SEO for Real Results
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Prioritizing Off Site SEO for Real Results

Offsite SEO and Brand Promotion As a small business owner, you’re hoping for great rankings and strong lead generation performance with your SEO-optimized content. There’s an issue though. Typcially, owners aren’t prioritizing promotion of their business and this makes it tough to build ranking power within search engine algorithms.  Without the ranking power of backlinks,…

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…

The Best Travel Agencies
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The Best Travel Agencies

Empowering Travel Agencies The 2025 travel market is suddenly looking a little more challenging with the introduction of the Trump tariffs. International travelers are adjusting their trip decisions based on worsening economic outlooks, rising US dollar, and rising costs due to inflation. And Canadian and US travelers are are hanging their travel plans given costs…

Blogging Strategy – The Core of Your Content Strategy
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Blogging Strategy – The Core of Your Content Strategy

Blogs Drive Engagement, Leads & Revenue Today, with the competitive noise, spam and AI-generated material on social media, blogs, websites, customers need travel agencies or Realtors that are relevant, authentic and trustworthy. Your blog is ideally suited to communicate the values they respect and the offer that matches their intent. When a blog is designed…

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….

Switch to a Marketing ROI Focus?
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Switch to a Marketing ROI Focus?

How You can Power up your SMB Marketing ROI Small business owners tiring of ineffective marketing and sales initiatives are switching the dial to the Marketing ROI channel. It’s a good thing. Because when they immerse themselves in ROI analytics, they’ll capture the insights needed to improve their content marketing strategy. Below you’ll discover insights…

Property Management Content Strategy Guide
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Property Management Content Strategy Guide

Property Management Content Strategy Guide If you’ve considered improving your content strategy for property management, you might be asking who will do it, how to do it, or what will it take to become competitive. Your content is very important, since regardless of how prospects arrive at your site to be introduced to your brand,…

KPIs for Travel Company Marketing
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KPIs for Travel Company Marketing

Travel Marketing KPI Performance Framework Great marketing needs great analytics tools and the right kpis to measure. Given the cost of marketing and challenge of being competitive in advertising, SEO, social media and content marketing, we need to learn fast. Key Performance Indicators are those vital metrics that indicate what aspects of your ads, bogs,…

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…

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…

Google Visibility for Travel Agencies
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Google Visibility for Travel Agencies

Why Search Engines Are Essential for Your Travel Business Success Given the promise of the incoming Trump 2.0 government with its pro-business agenda, both personal travel and business travel will see a big boost in 2025. And with travelers using digital tools such as Google to plan their trips, its absolutely necessary to build visibility…

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…

Add UGC to Your Travel Content Strategy
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Add UGC to Your Travel Content Strategy

The Rise of User-Generated Content in Travel Marketing Any serious travel company needs to produce authentic content to draw traffic, engage customers, and build its brand. In terms of authenticity, helpfulness, and immersion, it’s a tough task for most travel companies to produce affordably and genuinely. That’s why augmenting your current content strategy with the…

Hiring for Travel Marketing

Hiring for Travel Marketing

Hiring Smartly for a Digital Travel Marketing Role As a travel agency owner, DMO CEO, hotel owner, tour operator or SaaS travel software entrepreneur, you’re tasked with the challenge of hiring the right marketing people. Can a single person have real impact on a small travel company? That would depend on their skills, drive, and…

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…

Be the Market Leader
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Be the Market Leader

Market Leader is the Best Positioning When business owners think about the phrase “market leader,” they often envision everyone but themselves. Many North American business entrepreneurs are too modest, not realizing that they could actually become the market leader in their sector.  And those who lead the market last longer — and earn more profit….

Build Trust with Travelers

Build Trust with Travelers

Building Trust in Travel Web Marketing Trust is a big factor in business. From job interviews to lending to word of mouth, trust is an important consideration in everything we do. Even when travel consumers like what you offer, trustworthiness is a decision that will come into play, especially in the moment just before they…

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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…

Travel SEO Strategist Job/Role Description

Travel SEO Strategist Job/Role Description

Travel SEO/Content Strategist Role Role: Responsible for developing and executing effective SEO strategies and content plans to increase traffic, brand awareness, lead quality, engagement, and revenue. Travel company managers know SEO strategy and content development are critically important to marketing performance. Basic SEO isn’t competitive. Reaching consumers online is the best, most cost-effective driver of…

Link Building for Travel Companies

Link Building for Travel Companies

Link Building Strategy for Travel Companies Acquiring links to your travel website is the most difficult marketing challenge you face.  Yet backlinks are absolutely essential for rankings on Google search. Even AI LLMs use links to find resources and places travelers might book. Given the challenge of capturing backlinks, many business owners avoid the link-building…

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…