Expand Your Target Audiences to Grow Revenue The 2025 travel market and the 5-year travel market forecast tell the tale of an expanding consumer travel market and growing revenues for travel companies. It’s billions of dollars up for grabs and a chance to build a solid, sustainable travel business. Expanding your marketing reach, content, and…
Top Tour Marketplaces Online While traveling has traditionally been slightly passive and relaxing, there is a growing trend to pursue more engaged types of experiences. And some of the packaged experiences are truly amazing. You’ll see them in advertisements or when you visit the major tour marketplaces which I’ll introduce below including Toursbylocals, Viator, Collette…
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…
The Rise of Influencers in Travel Marketing Travel marketing companies have a challenge today. If they’re unable to draw enough qualified traffic and convert them to customers, then it could be the consumer market has changed. And keeping clients relevant, visible, and generating leads is becoming more difficult. With SMBs web traffic and social media…
The Power of Iconic Brand Symbols If you’re not up on branding or impressed that brands have any power, you might want to take another look at it. Because a brand is your biggest asset once you build it. Brands have many dimensions, promises, value points, and touchpoints with travel consumers. And your travel content…
Investing and Global Diversification If you scan the 5 year forecast or 10 year forecast for US stock markets, you might conclude that US price and earnings growth doesn’t look as inspiring versus China, Vietnam, Brazil, Germany or other markets. But those investors thinking of investing internationally in Mexico, Japan, Australia, Viet Nam, Germany, Korea,…
Bing Search Engine Optimization Any discussion of Advanced SEO and web traffic almost always dominated by Google, but we should pay more attention to Google and Duckduckgo. Although Google provides much more search traffic, with advanced techniques Bing.com can provide some excellent quality visitors and perhaps higher engagement rates. When Google pays out revenue on…
SpeedTest 5G Speed Report We’ve all been hearing a lot about 5G for a while now. The technology is so good, it’s created a surge in investment in 5G network technology, and consumer smartphones. In this post, we see how 5G fares against current bandwidth service in 4G, broadband and cellular services. You’ll be surprised…
Corona Virus Vaccine Stocks The search for a Covid 19 Vaccine for the world’s 6 billion inhabitants continues and we’ve got some great news as vaccine testing trial results are very positive. Hundreds of billions are being invested in vaccine development globally. A large number of BioTech companies are vying to win the world’s biggest…
US Economic Forecast Part 2 (Continued from Part 1) China’s manufacturing sector has been declining, particularly of late. The communist led country is suffering the worst economic forecast of the last 50 years. China’s in more trouble than anyone will admit even if they print more money to alleviate the losses. China’s propaganda mills are…
Property Management – An Intelligent Strategy for Realtors While market health varies across US, Canada, UK and Australia, there is one certainty in the world of real estate — there are too many real estate agents and brokers. This situation is being resolved as we speak. As mentioned in the post on the future of…
International Business: Showing Up on the US Radar There’s never been such a grand opportunity to export goods or services to the US. It should be one of your key goals. For the minimal amount of cost, the upside potential is huge. Stellar Canadian tech startups that have boomed recently in US or global markets include…
Housing Market 2020 – Best Time to Sell Your House The 2020 housing market is full of potential buyers. But do you and your Realtor know how to maximize your home’s availability and its value in the eyes of these eager buyers? Do you know the best time to sell your house? The House will sell…
Cool Mountain Bike Videos Just some way cool MTB videos to blow you away. These guys have just as much fun making the videos as they do with the stunts. So dangerous, yet they ignore the fear and that makes them very good. Enjoy some great videos with funky music! As you wait for the new…