Mostly, it’s because I’m just too darn busy!

Seriously though, I haven’t taken on a new client since June of 09; and have been referring leads and customers to my trusted colleagues.

Marketing for Tourism Businesses, specifically, Hunting and Fishing Lodges in Canada, have been my core clientele since I started my business in 2001. As a web design architect, I’m constantly finding and testing new marketing strategies and technologies with the aim of bringing them back and increasing the effectiveness of Tourism Internet Marketing.

In my research, I’ve created dozens of websites in niches that are unrelated to Tourism. Over the years, have become more and more successful at creating websites that are online businesses. Virtual businesses that starts and establishes a relationship with new people, builds an audience and converts visitors into happy, paying customers – with minimal maintenance.

As a result, I have stopped marketing my web design services and reduced my client load.

Over the past two years, my business has specialized, and became exclusively focused on coaching business owners and entrepreneurs who run and update their own website or blog. I have a deeper relationship with fewer clients – and it’s been very good for all of us.

I’m very grateful to work with the people I do.

Giving Something Back

The success, the free time, and the fantastic clients I’m fortunate to work with – have helped to inspire and create something of fantastic value that I hope gives something substantial back to the Tourism Industry – and is helpful to entrepreneurs and bloggers everywhere.

Over a year in the making, we are finally down to the last few weeks of production!  We  expect to have everything ready for release by the beginning of March, but I’ll be blogging here to drop some hints and start raising awareness as we complete the last details.

I’ve Been A Bad Blogger

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Today I start on the complete rebuild of blog.canadianfishingbook.com to make it easier incorporate the latest RSS technology.

The upgrade consists of dumping the old K2 Theme for Wordpress and upgrading to my own custom skin for the Thesis Theme.

Although it amounts to a complete rebuild of the graphic design of the site, this upgrade is necessary in order to benefit from a powerful set of wordpress plugins, combined with the amazing flexibility of the Thesis Wordpress Theme, to provide a QUANTUM IMPROVEMENT in our marketing effectiveness for Fishing Lodge Owners who blog.

By the end of today, the site will look almost like it did before – it’s easy to make a skin for the thesis theme to mimic almost any design.

Complete Website Rebuild

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How Much Is Your Traffic Worth?

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There is nothing else in web marketing that can compare to the long term advantages of building links.

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Building Traffic Trough Article Marketing

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Almost anything you want to do is one click away. Editing a page? One click. Getting help? One click. Adding formatting to your text? One click.

More time is spent making web site builder quick and easy to use than on any other part of Dynamic Site Builder.

Ease of use features include:

Click here to see a video on editing your site.

Smart Help

The most relevant help document is always displayed with the feature you are working on. It is one click away.

For example, if you are editing a standard web page, the one-click help will bring you directly to the help document “Getting Started”, because it is the most relevant to a web page.

Ease of use goals

These are some of the stated Ease of Use Goals:

The last one, while humorous, is the leading force of innovation in ease of use.

Dynamic Site Builder Is Easy To Use

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It’s Not A Mystery

There is no quick fix for getting traffic – unless you pay for it. However, there is a clear and repeatable process to increase your website traffic that will work in any subject area or market.

Great Example

Here’s a FANTASTIC article on How To Improve Your Website Traffic. It covers all the the marketing processes you should know about it you own a business with a website. Even if you outsource the actual work to your webmaster, it’s important that you understand the work you are hiring and the results you should expect.

Lodge Owners – How To Improve Your Website Traffic

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I’d like to introduce you to the Zero-Cost Blogging Service created especially for Fishing Lodges:

Benefits

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3. Complementary Help Desk with Personal Blog Coaching Available!

Exclusively for Blogs about Fishing!

July is traditionally a bit slower for Lodges in Northern Ontario, but we are still in the season, so this might be the ideal time to fill up the quiet days with some work that will keep promoting your business for years to come!

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(It’s easier than you think – and we are here to help!)

Tight Lines,

Doug Lampi,

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Research And Development

In order to answer the question “Do These Social Media Strategies Work?”, Quetico Internet Marketing has invested heavily in research and development over the past few months, setting up several variations of nearly identical social media strategies in several unrelated niches.

Learning From The Best

One of the greatest personal benefits I experienced from working with Social Media sites was the ability to learn from the Gurus. Twitter and Facebook let you get upclose and real-time with the people you follow – it almost seems personal.

I didn’t use Twitter as a means to chat with people, instead, I used it as a way to monitor the people and topics I was interested in learning about.

Right off the start I met and followed @marismith, and I’ve been creeping her profiles ever since – often gaining a boost by her sheer energy and enthusiasm – then a great social media tip to ride the wave with – and to create something productive out of!

Work At Your Own Pace

For Tourism Operators who must learn about Blogging:

Learn about Social Media from Mari Smith. Mari offers a number of outstanding course options that I’d like to pass along:

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Social Media Coaching for Blog Owners

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Now that I’ve had time to upgrade a few blogs and do some preliminary testing, I can assure you that you’ll want to upgrade as soon as possible for AT LEAST two reasons:

1. The WordPress team has radically improved the code that runs the administration panel, and this means faster admin page loads, smoother interface behavior, and even faster page loads on your live site (due to some database query improvements).

2. The new Widgets panel is flat out awesome. From the design to the controlling JavaScript, the WordPress team has really outdone itself here, and many experts agree, this is the highlight of the 2.8 release.

Wordpress 2.8 Release Review

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What is Google Wave?

Was that an eMail? Was that an instant message? Is that a Blog? Or is it a team document production tool?

It is all of those things – and much more. Created by the developers of Google Maps, Waves WILL provide a fundamental change in the way communications are organized – in your very near future.

Will The Web Ever Stop Changing?

eMail was invented some 40 years ago, and remains the most common means of communicating online. That’s a fantastic product life-span, but we have all experienced the limitations and difficulties of a long conversation via email, especially when new people are added to the conversation. Instant Message services and Twitter have become a Killer App because of the new way you can communicate – but soon, we will forget about Gmail, Google Docs and we will ALL be speaking about Waves.

Ideal For Working With Organizations

Finally, we will all have a central place where a Board of Directors can all be kept abreast of the development stages of a project – without ballooning the project costs in endless meetings and time-consuming email trails.

Google Wave will be a Tsunami

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