Over this past year, I’ve broken ALL THREE Cardinal Rules of Blogging.

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.

How much is traffic to your website REALLY worth?

Dynamic Site Builder

Web page design software to help you build a web page.

How to make a website

Complete full instructions with screenshots and videos to help you build your own web page. 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 how easy it is to create a web page

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 want to make a web page or you are just starting your own web page, the one-click help will bring you directly to the help document “Getting Started”, because it is the most relevant to build 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.

People who have found this page have also searched for the following terms:

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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.

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Click To Play

Purchasing traffic for your website is only a good idea if you already know that your website converts visitors into buyers.

Traffic Is Not Your Priority

The fastest way to go broke online, is to consider high traffic as your priority.

Your priority is to create a simple message with a ‘call to action’, and to convert your visitors into subscribers, fans, or paying clients.

This means the most important thing to measure on your website is not your Traffic Stats, instead, the most important thing to measure in your website – is your Conversion Rates.

Once you are confident that your website sells – then it makes sense to consider buying traffic from Google Ads, Yahoo or MSN.

Lodge Owners and PPC Google Ads

Recently I’ve been searching Google for fishing trip related keyword phrases, and I notice a growing number of Lodge Owners who are buying Google Ads instead of competing for the top placements in the organic search results.

Been considering Pay Per Click advertising?

Before you start paying for traffic – a little research goes a long way.  These days, it’s easy to find out everything about your competitors PPC ad budget and keywords!

Keyword Spy Pro

With Keyword Spy Pro, you can find out ALL the keywords that are used by your competitors.

For instance, you can search Google for ‘Canada Fishing Trip’, find the advertiser details by reviewing the Google Ads along side the search results, and enter the details into Keyword Spy Pro – and find out details on all the other keyword phrases they are paying for, how much they are paying per click, and tonnes of other useful information about your competitors.

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Social Media is about connections between people.

Travel & Tourism is also about connections between people.

Social Media and Tourism can work together like hand in glove, but only a few of the early adopters are really starting to seriously consider the exciting future impact of Social Media on Tourism Marketing.

Enter Douglas Lampi – Presenting next week at the Northwestern Ontario Tourism Association (NWOTA) Annual General meeting for the second time in as many years.

Douglas will give a brief lecture on how Social Media can help Tourism Businesses build their connections, brand recognition and word-of-mouth recommendations.

Watch here for more details.

The rules of marketing are changing for the better.

My forthcoming Podcast, “How I Made 30K As A Spammer – And Why I Stopped” echos the very idea that is presented so well over at http://www.tribalseduction.com

My Social Media education started about a year ago when my 11 year-old daughter introduced me to Facebook, but I didn’t start serious consideration of it for marketing until I was preparing for the Tourism Keys seminar about eight months ago when I created MyWeb20List.com and InternetGuruWatch.com.

More recently I joined Twitter, and started to follow some of the Top Online Marketers and Marketing Instructors in Canada and abroad.

One particular favorite is @coachdeb, who is one of the opening speakers at Blog World Expo in September.

CoachDeb runs the site TribalSeduction.com, and teaches her subscribers Why Marketing Without Selling Is So Effective.

She is also the co-author of www.twitterhandbook.com

I recommend you follow @coachdeb and subscribe to her lists. If you can attend the Blog World Expo – register today and arrive early for a front-row seat on Day One!

I’m not attending in person, but I’ll be following tweets, twitpics and blog posts about all the speakers and workshops and presentations thoughout the event.

Looks like Saturday and Sunday will require a planned strategy in order to follow all the various presenters who are speaking in different rooms throughout the conference!

Cheers all

In the never-ending search to bring my web visitors the latest and the best, I’ve been joining and learning about the various forms of Social Media Sites.

After joining groups and communities, learning what they do to build their memberships, I started creating groups and communities within the Social Media sites too.

Though my journey of registering at

• the sites listed with Profilactic.com,
• all the video sites fed through Tubemogul.com,
• all the blogging sites supported by flickr.com and YouTube.com,
• all the micro-blogging sites that Ping.fm distributes to and
• all the additional social media sites compiled by SecondBrain.com and lifestream.fm -

I’ve come to understand that I’m not in Kansas anymore.

Even as a full time web-nerd, I’m shocked at how different things have become.

Now for The Search
Given #1: I can install software and build websites on Linux and Windows servers.
Given #2: Open Source software exists for running a social media website.

I’ll start my search on Sourceforge.net – a great place for any Open Source software you may need, and I’ll work my way through testing out the demo software that I find.

Here are three systems I’m reviewing:

Truthfully social networking platforms, A SOA system for lover and friends.provide a reliable, fast, social networking package.Easy to install,use,manage,and have web service api raise your business to the next level.

IB Social Network System – Complete social networking system for school clubs, small in-school programs, and even entire schools.

Elgg – Elgg is an open source social networking platform developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more.

Another great place I search is HotScripts.com

With a quick search in the php area, I found a nice list of Social Networking software, but I don’t think these are Open Source, and they are not likely free. However, you do get to save a lot of headaches by surfing through some example sites that are already running on the software.

Many of these systems offer similar features to Myspace and Facebook, but, as I’m reading through, I don’t see one that also includes feed aggregation from other social media sources…

Many include features like social bookmarking, tag clouds, profiles, image voting, classifieds, events and calendar, clubs, e-cards, forum, polls, bulletins, flash chat and instant messenger.

Some of the better scripts also included audio and video blogging, voice and video messaging, audio and video comments, video chat, music and videos, FLV and MP3 players!

My favorite features -

• address book import (supports Yahoo!, GMail, AOL, Hotmail, MSN, MySpace)
• PayPal IPN support

Missing Features -

• Feed Aggregation from other sources
• Widget tool for users to share their content
• Clear mention of RSS Feeds created

I’ll let you know more as I experiment with different software and scripts -

but, if you have your own social networking website, and you are happy with how the site is working for you, please recommend the software here through your affiliate link.