Strategies to ensure your website is an effective marketing tool, captures your target market and converts the visits to sales. Having a website designed is only half the task of online marketing, you also need to make sure that your target market can find your website easily by ranking well in search engines and using effective online marketing strategies. Once they find your website it needs to then convert the visits to sales – websites can be so much more than just an online brochure.
Attract new and retain existing customers with planned direct marketing campaigns that work in conjunction with your website.
Customer database development and management
Customised email marketing design
Email marketing campaign development and implementation
Sending and tracking of bulk email campaigns
Direct mail campaign development and implementation
Tourism Marketing
Make use of the many tourism distribution channels and know how to use online marketing tools that help build your profile and manage online bookings. The power of internet marketing can provide small tourism operators with a cost effective way to compete with larger tourism organisations with larger budgets.
Strategies, plans and online marketing for the tourism industry
Recommendations for online booking systems
Implementation and management of online tourism & booking websites
Recommendations and strategies for effective tourism distribution channels to suit your business
Marketing Strategy & Planning
Think long term and plan about who you target, how to reach them, attract them and keep them coming back for more.
Understand your target market and their needs
Setting of marketing objectives
Strategies to achieve marketing objectives
Long term marketing planning and implementation
Marketing Communications
Plan effective and consistent communications across a variety of media to fit with your budget and market.
Planning & development of marketing communications
Management of marketing collateral to ensure professional design, branding and content
Communication plans to suit your budget
Content that targets your market effectively
Brand Management
Ensure representation of your business branding is effective, consistent and professional.
Recommendations on brand improvements and redesigns
Detailed reviews of all branded material to ensure appropriate designs and content
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This is a great summary by Karen Rubin from Hubspot about how to manage and plan content for your business blog so you can keep coming up with useful blog topics that attract targeted traffic. The video is 29 minutes long but definitely worth the time if you have ...
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There are plenty of choices out there in the market for accommodation operators in selecting an online booking system that suits them. You can view a list of New Zealand booking systems available on this article “Online Booking Strategy for Tourism Operators“. One notable change since that article was published ...
Once you’ve been in business for a while and created a successful tourism venture, you may be wondering what’s next? It’s very easy to sit back and keep doing the same old thing, however new and exciting tourism products can help to not only boost your business profile but also ...
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It’s been around for a while now (over 10 years) and quite possibly one of the most successful and unique tourism brands in the world that has stood the test of time. But is it time for something new? Would anything new just be a hard act to follow? ...
Click on the image to enlargeInteresting to see an article on the Mashable website yesterday about Google Testing Hotel Prices in Google Maps. This news, which was announced fairly casually on Monday on the Google Maps blog siting it as an “experiment”, will no doubt spark up interest among the ...
Viral marketing is essentially the “word of mouth” spread of a marketing message by an organisation through the use of some sort of media – typically it is shared through online social media such as You Tube, Facebook or Twitter, but it could also be text messages or email. ...
Hi, I'm Michelle Ackers and I own ADEPT Marketing based in Kerikeri, New Zealand. I offer marketing services for small to medium businesses and have a specialty in online marketing and tourism.