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Marketing Via Social Media Groups

January 22, 2009

Recently, I joined a new Group on Facebook.  I’m very excited about this business, so I invited all my (220) friends to check out the Group. Several of my Clients are also my Friends on Facebook.  One Client asked me Why would I want to join the Souris River Canoe Group? After I replied to [...]

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Tourism Marketing Videos

January 17, 2009

Pre-Announcing: www.TourismMarketingVideos.com A Glaring Need Tourism Marketing Videos came to being in phases, as all good ideas do: First, I saw a glaring need: Lodge Owners need help learning how to manage their websites. Recently I’ve upgraded many of my clients’ websites to WordPress 2.7 Although their website is ten years old, many Lodge owners [...]

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Australian Tourism e-kit

October 11, 2008

Check out these new tutorials about online marketing for tourism operators. The e-kit is a complete suite of tutorials that covers everything from the basics of developing a good web site to the more complex issues of Google ad words, search engine marketing and online product distribution. As a tourism operator you can access a [...]

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Calling Travel & Tourism Businesses

August 15, 2008

Over the past few days I’ve had the delight of speaking with over 100 Travel & Tourism Business Owners in “My Backyard”, Northwestern Ontario, Canada. I’ve come to realize that Tourism entrepreneurs are some of the most Web Savvy business owners in our region. Almost all of them have been through the experience of creating [...]

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Google Insites To Fine Tune Your Tourism Marketing

August 8, 2008

I’m always following the online updates of the best internet marketers I know. Today, the Tourism Keys Blog “Internet Marketing for Tourism”, featured a post on How to get deeper insights into google search results In this article, Todd Lucier points out the power of the detailed location information on where the volume of searches [...]

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2009 Sport Show Marketing

July 30, 2008

July is hardly finished, but I’m already planning for the January Boat & Sport Show Season! My personal mission is to connect Tourism services in Northwestern Ontario with people who are planning a fishing vacation. Get Started Today! Here’s Some History: While I’ve been building websites as a business since 2001, I’m always researching the [...]

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Diversify Your Traffic Sources

July 26, 2008

Where does your website get most of it’s traffic from? Most of us still focus on getting search traffic, and most of us focus on Google, because, frankly, that’s where everyone gets the most search traffic from. It will always be important to have a search-engine-friendly website – but if you are relying on search [...]

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Social Networking vs Traditional SEO

July 8, 2008

I’ve been pleasantly surprized while experimenting with a few of the better know social networking sites and Web 2.0 style services recently. After listening to the Internet Marketing Secrets podcasts, getting new ideas, and then finding some new referral traffic, I’ve invested a few more long, tedious days to build a larger presence on Blogcatalog. [...]

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Stumble Upon

June 10, 2008

I’ve been hearing from a number of Internet Marketers that they are getting a lot of traffic from www.stumbleupon.com, so I thought I would sign up and give it a try. Now I’ll take 30 minutes each day to Stumble all the important pages of my websites and even news releases and articles about my [...]

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