boldhorizon.co.nz www.twitter.com/WayneAttwell www.facebook.com/BoldHorizon Growing Your Tourism Business Through an Online Presence Wayne Attwell Online Brand Strategist - Bold Horizon
May 15, 2015
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Growing Your Tourism Business Through an Online Presence
Wayne AttwellOnline Brand Strategist - Bold Horizon
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The World is Changing
• 70% - 80% of pre-purchase research via search engines – Google, Bing, Yahoo
• A fundamental shift…– Prospects find you. You don’t find them
• How can we help them to find us?
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Help! I Need to be Found
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It’s All About Your Website (well, most of it)
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Tracking Online Performance
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Tracking Online Performance
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Using Search Engines
• #1 - 80% of all online searches
• 2nd largest search engine– Global audience of 400m– As a country, would be the 3rd
largest in the world
P.S. Google owns YouTube…hmm
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Content is King
• Website pages - organic search• Blogs - 51% say most valuable business tool• Articles – syndication• Comments – indexed• Videos – Google favours it (hmm…wonder why?)
CREATE, PUBLISH, BE FOUND
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What’s Hot & What’s Not
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Marketing Your Content
• If it isn’t keyword targeted, it’s of nominal value
• Use your networks to spread the ‘word’ i.e. content
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Start Spreading the Word
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Use all of the Channels
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There is No Free Lunch
• Social media has a cost (manpower)• Organic search (expert advice)• Video marketing (production)• Content (copywriters)• Budget for direct and indirect costs
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Paying For All This Stuff
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The Best Job in the World
Tourism Queensland – Hamilton Island
• All content was user generated• 34,000 video entries• Award-winning campaign• Email marketing to 100,000 names delivered
highest ROI• AU$1.75m budget blown apart
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A Quick History Lesson
Get on board or be left behind