social networking

Unfurl The Sails

January 31, 2009

A new blog is like a sailboat in the open waters – if you want to get anywhere, you have to unfurl the sails. As a sail catches the wind, your web strategies aim to catch visitors, or traffic. And, just as the angle, or presentation of the sail to the wind gives speed to [...]

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SEO On WordPress – Not in Kansas Anymore

January 28, 2009

Six of the first six most essential WordPress SEO tactics introduced here were new to me… make that seven out of seven. And they are so easy! I ran across this video on WordPress SEO within the dashboard of one of my wordpress blogs. I was going to run the video in the background while [...]

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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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Double Your Trade Show Results Guaranteed

December 29, 2008

Listen to Barry Siskind’s 60-minute Double Your Trade Show Results Guaranteed mini workshop. http://www.siskindtraining.com/product_free.php Double Your Trade Show Results Guaranteed Part I Double Your Trade Show Results Guaranteed Part II

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CanadianFishingBook.com Lodge Listings

November 30, 2008

Get YOUR Lodge Listing -TODAY!- Take advantage of our our new and expanded listings! EXCLUSIVE to Northwestern Ontario, this marketing plan is tailor-made to promote Tourism businesses from Fort Frances, Emo, Kenora, Red Lake, Dryden, Sioux Lookout, Nipigon, Armstrong, Thunder Bay, Quetico and Atikokan.   This advertising does not compete with your Destination Marketing Organizations: [...]

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Does everybody know what a blog is?

November 17, 2008

Does everybody know what a blog is? I will get into a definition of what it is, like I said, I’m not going to get technical on you, but I want to keep it as simple as possible about what a blog is. It is a huge topic. You could probably spend three days just [...]

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Tourism Marketing Via Web 2.0

September 3, 2008

You’ve likely heard it already. You already know that 2/3 of travelers ONLY use the Internet to plan their vacations. From mapping the driving route or booking the airline tickets, booking transportation, accommodations and event tickets, to browsing pictures and menus to find local restaurants before they start their vacation – today’s travelers are captivated [...]

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The Impact of Social Media on Tourism Marketing

August 26, 2008

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 – [...]

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How to Build Your Twitter Followers

August 19, 2008

Forecast says: More Social Spam is on it’s way. Social networking is about building your lists, building your groups and your lists of followers, so I started doing some research this evening while passively watching my Twitter stream updates through TwitterFox, a handy little Firefox addon. The first thing I came across was an article [...]

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