Moat Management for Travel Businesses: Advanced Techniques Even for small travel agencies, it is essential to build your own brand and engagement channels which acts as a moat that your competitors can’t access. Because, in this Generative Ai era, it’s so simple for another agency or a travel company startup to copy your agency, from…
How to Profit from this Goldilocks + Innovation Supercycle Coming Stock market bull runs happen. They’ve happened many times and some investors have become wealthy from them. They weren’t Warren Buffet or Tom Lee. They just invested at the right time. Stats show that much of investors’ actual, real wealth gains occur during these periods…
How to Get Travelers Calling You Again As with most small travel companies (i.e., travel agencies), you’re likely seeing a drop in calls and leads. It’s a worrying trend haunting even the major OTAs. The data shows the attrition but what to do about it is the big challenge. And while invisibility to travel audiences…
Your Content Performance – A Problem with Psychology Is this your content problem? — “Most travel agency content isn’t bad — it’s just unhelpful at the exact moment travelers need help most.” Travel business owners problem is their content fails because it does not line up with how people actually think, feel, and decide in…
🏆 What is Advanced SEO? Advanced Search Engine Optimization is the use of sophisticated techniques, frameworks, tactics and practices in designing content, choosing topics and copywriting strategy, to create strong ranking signals for search engines. It’s done under a cohesive strategy that focuses ranking power and channels that through linking structures. Advanced SEO identifies critical…
The Power of New Ideas How would you win a best design competition at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival? Would you show up with the usual round balloon with a different color scheme? Or would you brainstorm a brilliant unique design that evokes judge’s imagination and resonates with the balloon festival spirit? Would you go…
Blogs Drive Engagement, Leads & Revenue With the glut of AI slop, automation, and the noise of global competition, you’re faced with a big challenge to create content that will be seen and heard. The apparent downgrade of organic content and SEO has led to many marketers withdrawing from creating organic content. The demand for…
How to Surmount the Major, Current Travel Business Challenges Small travel company owners and managers today face a marketing landscape that’s more fragmented and demanding than ever. Your travel audience isn’t a single audience anymore — they’re seniors, empty nesters, Gen X planners, multigenerational families, solo travelers, luxury buyers, affinity groups, and experience-hungry Millennials and…
🤗 How to Take Good Care of Your Self-Esteem During Unemployment US and Canadian jobs are shrinking and are expected to worsen for a variety of reasons. There’s a lot of negativity and fear about the long winter ahead and economic reports are making many Americans and Canadians uneasy. Imports tariffs, AI unemployment, small business…
Fight the Zero Click Universe with Zero Click Marketing! As a small business owner, you’re 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…
Have you Given Up On SEO? SEO has been in vogue in digital marketing for over 30 years, before I started in 1998. And for the last 15 years, the rumors of SEO is dead were part of the buzzword narrative, to sell more SEO. In reality, the doomsday phrase should have been “SEO is…
🧭Navigating the US Travel Landscape for 2025-2026 The US travel industry is already navigating some choppy waters this year for a number of reasons. There’s the vascillating and painful import tariffs along with immigration rules that deter inbound international travel. And many are holding off until the fledgling Trump economy begins to accelerate in 2026….
Empowering Travel Agencies The 2026 travel market is suddenly looking a little more challenging with inflation, fuel price hikes, and increased flight security checks and illegal immigration prevention. 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…
Become a Travel Writer? A massive audience, growing travel market, global traveler affluence, and the desirability of travel lifestyles is attracting more content creators into this segment. Writers with a flair for expression and connecting with travelers via words, a desire to travel, and expertise in constructing powerful articles and social media posts is quite…
Grow Your Travel Business Online How many ways are there to grow? Let us count the ways: expand your target market geographically refocus entirely on the USA market (or Canada if you’re in Canada) expand your range of travel products and packages design niche packages (e.g., eco-travel, culinary tours, or wellness retreats). grow your marketing…
Mastering the Art of the Offer No matter what business you’re in, whether travel, property management, real estate sales, SaaS software, financial services, or retail sales, the selling offer you present to prospects communicates everything about your brand. And as we’ll discuss here, if you build your brand magic into your sales promos, then even…
Make the Transition to 2025 Thinking Now We’re likely at the dawn of a new era in small business. You should be excited about 2025 given there is a chance for great changes. And on Nov 8th, you yourself will have an opportunity to tell everyone what you believe and want for your business in…
Tips to Modernize your Travel Business There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t rest on their laurels. It’s human nature to rely on our strengths, expertise and experience. You’ve likely developed some excellent capacities that power your agency. Unfortunately, at some point, our strengths can become our biggest weakness. Because such rallying around our strengths…
Make Impact, Sell More Tours After you’ve built a massive source of traffic and presented a compelling, significant trusted brand, and perked up tourists’ interest, you have the final challenge of selling your tours. If your tour involves riding camels in 120-degree desert heat, you’re going to need to be really good at tour page…
Improve Your Travel Lead Conversions and Grow Bookings/Sales Today’s post is likely the most important reading of all. We’re exploring how to increase bookings and revenue from all the traffic you generate through content marketing and PPC advertising. Wouldn’t it be nice to double or triple those bookings/subscriptions? My experience with clients is they need…
How to Promote Your Travel Blog in 2024 It’s never been more difficult for bloggers in any sector to succeed than right now. As the housing, stock market or travel blogger yourself or for a client, you face stiff competition online. You’ll need to step it up to become more creative, resourceful and promotional. Because…
Strategy for Buying a Home in 2024/2025 Time passes so quickly. Do you remember when you first thought of buying a home and didn’t? Were you smart and avoided a disaster? Or did lose because you could have been building equity and enjoyed other advantages. The point is that in 2024’s market involving bidding on…
The Fundamentals of Self-Directed Investing Tens of millions of people have no investment accounts and that’s a shame because it’s vital to have money set aside for retirement or for emergencies. Times will not always be booming and given how our governments manage our economy, there is sure to be pain inflicted on the general…
A Guide to more Affordable Powerful SaaS Marketing Software as a Service (SaaS) has opened a prolific source of online revenue that’s made most other online business models seem pale in comparison. It’s the golden child of the software industry and endless new businesses and startups are being built on this cloud-based system. However, too…
Building Your Dream in Real Estate With the locked-in, unaffordable state of the North America real estate market, and an economic recovery when the FED rate stops punishing builders and businesses, it’s easy to foresee a coming turnaround in the housing market. There are many catalysts for a return of home sales, and one of…
Improve your Google SEO during a Recession? When an economy is roaring during a bull market run, with GDP rising nicely and consumer demand continuously ramping skyward, marketing can deliver a big impact on company earnings. But it was easy. B2B managers and consumers were shopping with abandon as price and funds/income ceased to be…
Be Smart, Sell your House Soon It’s taken a long time, but experts are finally calling for a recession. And the housing market? Well, they’re talking crash now. It’s not hard to understand, given there is no way home buyers can qualify for mortgages, which look like they could be headed very high. New loans…
Winning Real Estate Marketing Strategy Organic real estate marketing and lead generation are the core or foundation of your sales success. While local advertising and word of mouth help your efforts, they’re not going to establish you as the top Realtor in your region. Admittedly, it takes confidence and the help of a good digital…
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…
Winning in the Post Pandemic Market What can you do when the economy sucks and sales are slow? Work harder? How about preparing to be the market leader when the economy has its turnaround? Crises are actually opportunities to prepare for the next growth wave where consumers have a different mood and the competitive playing…
Searching for a Home 2025 is not far away with its promise of a big release of homes which have been lockedin for the past two years. More will flood onto the market resulting in some price depreciation. Yet buyers should still stick to a plan to acquire the home they want in the ideal…
How Sell Your Home for the Best Price in 2020 The market is heating up again this spring of 2020. Like so many homeowners, you’re wondering if this is the right time to sell? Perhaps you’ll be forced to sell if you’ve lost your job. The Corona Virus recession might be ending in a few…
A Talented SEO Expert Delivers While CEOs and marketing managers struggle impatiently with their paid marketing campaigns, they could be generating higher quality leads using an experienced SEO expert for free, organic search engine results. Instead of becoming an expert at chasing prospects around with weak banner advertising, email pushes, and social media advertising, relax and…
Google and Facebook Want to Host Your Business and Life but Your Blog is your GoTo Resource One of the things I respected about the companies I’ve worked for is their protection of that company’s brand and source of income. You should protect your businesses future. My managers never wavered in avoiding risk, vulnerability to problems, or unwise…
Successful Real Estate Sales To serve my realtor clients as best I can, I needed to know what successful agents do and what unsuccessful agents don’t do. What I’ve learned about agents, I can apply to my own real estate marketing service. You can never be too good. As the realtor in the video below…
Are Condo Buyers Different than House Buyers? Now in Spring 2017 we’ve seen house and condo prices in Toronto jump and should keep on rising The era of the condo is upon us and they may represent the best capital gain and rental income for investors and new deals for most realtors. With respect to your own…
Redesign Your Unique Value Proposition What one business statement makes everything you’re doing make perfect sense? It’s your UVP. Creating this statement can be a fun and illuminating experience, if you’re passionate about your business. I hope you are. Most businesses fail or succeed due to this one factor: their unique value proposition. This statement…