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…
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…
🥬 Google Loves Fresh Content – So Do Your Visitors How do you feel about eating that 4 day old salad you left in the fridge? How about that salmon that’s still in the garbage bin after a few days? Then you understand freshness so well. And that’s not all. How about the hypnotizing aroma…
Ready Your Travel Company for the 2026 Boom! The latest travel stats are reflecting an unsettling trend of travelers avoiding the US and consumers spending less. Travel experts feel this will extend into more revenue and booking losses for the years ahead. While the economy has flagged amidst the Trump tariffs, there are many positive…
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…
ðŸ§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….
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…
Social Media Engagement Strategy Social media channels are essential digital marketing channels, part of your digital marketing flywheel. It’s easy to say most companies, real estate agents, software companies and travel agencies aren’t getting social media right. In their defense, it is challenging far beyond the common posts, chatter and scheduling. It can be fun…
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…
Solving the Challenge of Converting Leads to Sales In every business sector, in real estate, travel, or SaaS software, visitors abandon their shopping carts for many reasons. So let’s use that as our metaphor for losing leads — abandonment. Because if they don’t become qualified prospects in your pool — you were abandoned. At any…
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…
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 their imagination and resonates with balloon festival spirit? Would you have that…
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…
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…
Realtor Prepping for Better Home Showing Results A home showing is a key event for a home seller offering their property to the market. And it’s a key part of a selling strategy for progressive, commission-minded Realtors. And when other sellers see how you sell firsthand at a showing and visit your social page/website, it’s…
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…
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…
Make Money Blogging Who doesn’t like earning more money? And money doesn’t grow on trees which is why you need to create a business to produce value to sell to others for a healthy income stream. A blog is a great business! This “value” I speak of is expanded upon below. Believe it or not,…