How I used Market Samurai from Challenge 2010 to select a domain, and the first things I did to prepare to gather an audience.

Starting with a self-hosted WordPress website, I created a few posts, then I created an account at Twitter and Youtube – with a username as close to my domain name as possible.

I registered a profile with Slideshare and registered my blog with Blogcatalog – where my site will be reviewed by a human before being listed.

Then I registered my site with Feedburner. Many people use iGoogle, and using feedburner makes it easy to get your information out to a lot of places more easily.

The next piece of marketing material I put together was a Fan Page on Facebook. Following that, I imported the RSS Feed from my WordPress blog into the Notes section of my Business Page on Facebook.

The last thing I did was to create an account on Friendfeed, and pulled together the RSS feeds from all of the different Social Media accounts I had just created.

Now, when ever I do a post, an entire network of social media services are updated.

One thing I like to be sure to do, is include a link back to my own website within the first 150 words of the post. This way all of the services that syndicate my content will automatically provide links back to me – with my ideal keywords… which I had found using Market Samurai.

Watch for my next report on Challenge 2010 as the event unfolds!

Many thanks to Ed Dale and associates at http://www.challenge.co

you guys rock!

How much is traffic to your website REALLY worth?

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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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They are actually rather addicting!

Watching Shoppers Shop

It’s like the manager’s view in a big department store. First they watched your shopping behaviour through a one-way mirror.  Now they have video cameras to track the patterns of where people walk, and ‘Club Cards’ to track the patterns of what people buy.

The One-Way Mirror

Google Analytics gives you a great view of your visitor stats and behaviour.  But it’s updated once each day, and only lets you watch what the visitor did.

Interactive, Real Time Visitor Stats

I’ve been spending hours today watching my website visitors in real time with Woopra

It’s very interesting to watch people click through my sites – to see the pages they read, and watch how long they remain on each page.

Geo-Targetted

My aim is to gather an audience from the Mid-West United States, and present them with information about vacation and travel opportunities within my back yard, Northwestern Ontario.

By watching the visitor behaviour in real-time with Woopra, I can really see the difference in how visitors from different areas of the world use the site:  people from Michigan go directly to pages with information about Michigan.  People from India, Russia and China leave without clicking another page.

Are we ready for interactive stats?

Woopra lets you send a real time chat request!

With Woopra, you can ‘see’ in real-time, when a visitor stalls at a certain point in the buying process – and you can send your visitor a chat request!  A small window pops up in the lower left corner of their screen, and you receive a confirmation if they receive the chat request!

While it *is* just like a helpful store clerk asking if they can help, I’m not sure my website visitors are quite ready for it yet.

I consider myself pretty web-savvy, and I’ve come to grips, mostly, with the idea of how Social Media can bare your life to the world… and even though, in the back of my mind, I know stats are taken when I visit a site – I’m not sure how I’m going to react when the first ‘Real Time Web Help’ is offered to me as I browse a site…

Even if you have Google Analytics on your website already, add Woopra too!

The much-anticipated 2009 Tourism Marketing is beginning and it looks much brighter than initially feared.

CanadianFishingBook.com is building connections between it’s Membership of Northwestern Ontario Fishing Lodges, Resorts and Outfitters, and audiences of families and hobby anglers in the Midwest US States.

First – CanadianFishingbook.com provides comprehensive business listings, individual photo galleries, links to Social Medial profiles and offers introductory video marketing to get the word out about Northwestern Ontario Tourism businesses.

Second – by  providing detailed reports on Sport Show Events occurring in the Midwest US States of Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, CanadianFishingBook.com gains website traffic from the ideal audience for Northwestern Ontario Tourism businesses.

The greatest benefit is – Tourism Businesses who are Featured Members of CanadianFishingBook.com gain exposure before this audience of potential sport show attendees, even if the web searcher doesn’t actually go to the show, and even if our Featured Members are not actually exhibiting at the sport show!  Featured Members *STILL* gain exposure!

Let’s Cover All Shows.

January 2009 Sport Show Directory

Here is the list of sport shows I know of for January, within MN, MI, WI and Il

January 2009 Sport Shows

NOTE:
Featured Members of CanadianFishingBook

If I have missed any shows in the Midwest US that you are attending, let me know and I’ll be sure to include that Sport Show so that you are promoted.  If I have missed any shows that your competitors are attending, let me know, and I’ll be sure you are promoted!!

Lets pool resources and cover all shows – if I’ve missed a show – leave a comment, let me know!!

Tight Lines!

Doug

Travel and Tourism is all about connections.

That’s why word-of-mouth is still the best advertising your Tourism business can get.

New Social Media tools make the most of testimonials and recommendations -
Set Your Word-Of-Mouth On FIRE!

In the Travel and Tourism Industry, Word-of-Mouth, or a recommendation from a trusted friend who shares their experience, is still the most powerful factor that helps people determine where they will go for a vacation.

With Social Media, it’s easy to share your life and experiences with dozens, even hundreds of your friends – all at once. In other words, 5 years ago, if a guest enjoyed their vacation with you, they told several of their buddies at work and on the golf course.

Today, if someone enjoys their trip, they can post a note, picture or video that ALL of their friends can see. More importantly, if one friend comments on the note, all of THEIR friends can also read the note.

Keep in mind that many of these notes, images and conversations will remain viewable for several years to come – and you can see how much more powerful the Social Media is, compared to simple word-of-mouth.

If you are in the Travel and Tourism Business and you already have a website – then you are ready to finally start using the Internet as more than a place to post your brochure. It’s not as hard as you might think, to start using the Internet as a Relationship Management tool, rather than a marketing tool.

Interested in learning more about using Social Media and Web 2.0 to grow your Tourism Business?

Looking for someone to bring a Web 2.0 Seminar or Workshop to your area?

See my 15 Minute Marketing Tips Newsletter!

Cheers.