Tourism Marketing in Northwestern Ontario is dominated by Ontario’s Sunset Country. I just received my Membership Renewal Package, and I open it here on video – with a few brief comments and my review.

If you are a Hunting or Fishing Lodge, a travel destination or even a local retail service that serves tourists in Northwestern Ontario – you should become a member of Ontario’s Sunset Country.

Introducing…

A new Twitter Marketing Experiment designed to promote Canadian Fishing Lodges.

Twitter has been getting a great deal of attention within the Marketing Circles so I’ve been researching the Twitter methodology of the most successful Twitter accounts online, and using their strategies for Tourism Marketing, specifically, for fishing and hunting trips.

Growth of Twitter

The exponential growth in the uptake of Twitter is partly because Twitter works so well with texting to and from a mobile phone.

Mobile phones now outnumber land-line subscriptions four to one – and represents a fundamental change in the way people are accessing the Internet.

WHO

WHAT

If fishing in Canada interests you, then so would these Twitter accounts! Because all that these Twitter accounts talk about is fishing! Fishing News, Fishing stuff on eBay and real Fishing Reports from actual, real, Fishing Lodges in Canada!

I’d love to hear your feedback — good or bad!

Twitter has become one of my top referring traffic sources, and I’m excited to send new, targeted traffic – directly to your websites and blogs!!

Join The Experiment

Contact Me for all the details!

Building Momentum

New Partnerships

The CanadianFishingBook Project is very excited to have formed new partnerships with some of the biggest Destination Marketing and Tourism-Related organizations in Northwestern Ontario!

We’d like to welcome Ontario’s Sunset Country and NOTO as our most recent Featured Members!

And a GREAT BIG Welcome to Jennifer Young and All Canada Sport Shows – the 12th of the Twelve Master Investors in the CanadianFishingBook Network!

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Back on High-Speed!

After 17 months of serving clients through a dail-up connection, and with great thanks to Quetico North for your wireless internet hotspot, I’m now back on my own highspeed connection!!

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You may experience downtime across many of my business websites over the next week as I upgrade software, update databases and replace old content with 301 redirects.

(client sites will not be effected)

Projects of Note:

CanadianFishingBook Network – This is my Flagship Project, and the first to undergo wholescale massive updates.  This project entails two components:

• The first component provides members with increased exposure across more than 20 pieces of Internet Real Estate, including an inter-connected network of tourism marketing blogs, social media sites, Canadian Fishing ebooks and fishing lodge business directories.
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• The second component serves to draw the ideal audience into our network of promotional sites by featuring articles and information about the Sport Shows occuring through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan.
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1. Blogging As An Effective Marketing Tool
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   • Brad Greaves of Ignace Outposts gave a fantastic talk at the NOTO 2008 Conference, Blogging As An Effective Marketing Tool.  I was given permission to record the presentation – and it was sooo good, sooo packed full of useful tips on Blogging, that I’ve taken seven hours to transcribe everything he said – so I can share it with you!!
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   • Put good advice into action – I’m following Brad’s Blogging advice.  I learned a lot from him, and I know you will too. I’m creating a series of several blog posts to share Brad’s presentation over the next couple weeks. My newsletter subscribers with gain exclusive access to the full transcript in one pdf document!
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2. Fishi.ca – Blogs for Fishing Lodges
   
   • Just starting to Blog?  Been Blogging for a while but want some help?  Just want to gain some search-engine-friendly links to your main site?  JOIN FISHI.CA

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 latest developments in the industry. In December 2007 I experimented with some new Internet Marketing strategies I was learning.

As a means of helping my clients gain a better response to their Trade Show Marketing, I started writing articles about popular boat an sport shows that my tourism clients were attending.

I quickly took over many of the top search rankings in Google, and my websites gained a strong surge of traffic from people who were searching for Sport and Boat Show information.

Frankly, the instant success of this new marketing strategy was a big surprise to me.

In fact, one event organizer contacted me because I had taken over eight of the top twenty placements on Google for searches on his event!

Back then, I thought this fast success would be a flash-in-the-pan.

However, seven months later, I’m very excited to see that I still hold many top rankings in Google for searches on many different popular Boat and Sport Shows in the USA.

This success has given me a very exciting Goal for Tourism Marketing!

What’s my Goal?

If someone is even THINKING of attending a Sport Show… If they are searching the internet for details about a Show in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan or Missouri…

I want them to find information about that Event on our Directory that promotes Canadian Tourism Services.

If this is your audience, don’t miss out!

http://canadianfishingbook.com/compare.php

Doug

While marketing on the internet will always change and evolve, links will always be the currency.

Links are the DNA of the Internet.

Currently, many search engines rank web pages based on the links pointing to them, and what those links are saying about them.

With this basic tenant in mind, I have found new and lasting success in marketing new content and new offers by turning to the proliferation of Web 2.0 sites where I can set up social profiles and publish themed articles.

To promote this new content, I created a short article that introduced the new fishing videos linked back into the new video section. I posted the new article to a popular document sharing website and to a blog I had previously created.

These Web 2.0 site placements are very powerful for themeing the links that are pointing to my new content, which is important for my search engine rankings, but more than that, these Web 2.0 placements bring REAL traffic of visitors who subscribe and purchase.

Once I spread the marketing article around, and integrated into, to as many of these big Web 2.0 properties as I can, then I start bookmarking.

I entrench the new content into the ‘fishing video niche’ with an account on StumbleUpon that has a list of friends who also stumble fishing websites. Again – this is great for the search engines – BUT it also brings REAL traffic of people who subscribe, download, sign up and purchase.

Another layer of Web 2.0 Marketing involves posting to the Video Sharing sites. The same benefits of additional search engine ranking for your main site – and the same opportunity to have real people visit your offer and start building a relationship with your business…

Want to learn more?
Tourism Marketing How-To Videos – sign up for the pre-launch list!

These instructional videos are organized to help a small business owner learn in small steps. Created specifically for Tourism and Travel Marketing by small, family-run Lodges, Camps, B&B, Tour Providers and Outfitters.

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