The QR code – disappearing from tourism or coming back with a vengeance? About 5 years ago, QR codes seemed like the newest and coolest technology. Take a picture and your phone would take you to a website (which was kind of boring) or a video ( better). DMOs (Destination Marketing Organizations) thought this […]
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Welcome to 2018! By now you have started that back to work routine, and if you are like me, a more sensible eating plan! To get your creative juices flowing this year, I thought I would help by sharing my top blog posts for 2017. (There are affiliate links in the blog posts and I
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Not every marketing campaign has to involve print and digital ads, lots of meetings and big payments. Sometimes you can get your message across in very simple and easy to implement tactics. This mini marketing tip only takes a few minutes to implement. Your business signature is a perfect example. You can set up your
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Most of my readers are small business owners or employees, so you should know about using Upwork and Fiverr for your tourism businesses. Every heard of them? They are online job boards for freelancers who can do anything from graphic design to writing to accounting. I have been using their services in various capacities for years.
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The whole goal of working in the sales department ( or being the sales department if you are a smaller attraction!) is to increase your attraction ticket sales. Whether that includes strategies on selling to groups, social media initiatives or making tickets available from the home page of your website ( which I discuss in
Increase your attraction ticket sales by letting others do the work! Read More »
I am a big believer in goals. Every year around my birthday in December, I start thinking about what I want to accomplish in the following year. Believe me, I don’t attain all my goals each year. In 2016, I had set nine goals for myself and only accomplished four of them. But I know
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There has never been a better time to be a small business owner. The development of new businesses such as Fivver and Vistaprint have made expensive and time consuming tasks easy to accomplish. That should leave you more time to market and sell your attraction. Here are some tools I use. Fivver. This website connects
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