web 2.0

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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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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Good Upgrade Gone Bad

November 8, 2008

I’ll bet you’ve heard this saying before: “If all else fails, read the directions.” You really shouldn’t be driving a car with this attitude – and, well, – I should have known, it’s also the wrong attitude to have when approaching massive updates to websites! This picture represents what I did to one of my [...]

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Personal Privacy vs Online Connectedness

August 27, 2008

It’s true. Social Media really works. The results have been fast! As soon as I moved away from the strategy of creating ‘Made For Adsense’ websites, and toward the Relationship Marketing with Social Media, I started makin’ lots of new friends, followers, subscribers and fans! Backed by seven eleven years of webdesign experience, I jumped [...]

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Tourism Marketing Using Social Media

August 25, 2008

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, [...]

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Publish To All Social Media Sites From One eMail

August 20, 2008

Here's a great example of technology bringing solutions to you.   http://www.posterous.com   Especially helpful if you are a remote Tourism Operator where only dail-up internet or satelite internet service is available.     If you don't have access to high speed internet, this new service can make it easy to build a community presence on the [...]

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Social Marketing or Search Engine Markeitng?

August 19, 2008

Search Engine Marketing is going to be around for a while yet, but I’ve never gotten these kind of conversion rates from traffic generated from search. Search Engine Marketing is passive. Do the updates and wait for the results… Social Marketing is better. Social Marketing is proactive, extremely targetted, and much more often, leaves you [...]

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Create a Feed Aggregator Strategy

August 14, 2008

Today’s web gives you the power to create a detailed array of relevant links to your website thru the use of Blogging sites, Social Bookmarking sites, Social Networking sites, Photo Sharing sites, File Sharing Sites, Video Sharing Sites… and the list goes on. In fact, the list is so huge, a host of new services [...]

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