Marketing & Internet Marketing Services

Website, Internet & Online Marketing

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.   search engine marketing

  • Website critiques & recommendations
  • Online marketing
  • Website design and development (see more here)
  • Social media marketing
  • Website management
  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Blog set up, design and management
  • Google AdWords campaign management  social media marketing
  • Online Booking System expertise for tourism
  • Website content recommendations and writing
  • Website redesign recommendations
  • New website project management
  • e-Commerce

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Email & Database Marketing

Attract new and retain existing customers with planned direct marketing campaigns that work in conjunction with your website.

email marketing

  • 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


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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.tourism marketing

  • 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


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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.Marketing Strategy

  • Understand your target market and their needs
  • Setting of marketing objectives
  • Strategies to achieve marketing objectives
  • Long term marketing planning and implementation


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Marketing Communications

Plan effective and consistent communications across a variety of media to fit with your budget and market.  marketing communications

  • 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


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Brand Management

Ensure representation of your business branding is effective, consistent and professional.

  • Recommendations on brand improvements and redesigns brand management
  • Detailed reviews of all branded material to ensure appropriate designs and content
  • Brands that match your business and target market
  • Brand strategy


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Latest Marketing Tips
How to Manage Your Business Blog

How to Manage Your Business Blog

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 your ...

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New Zealand Tourism Industry Blog Launched

New Zealand Tourism Industry Blog Launched

I've been working away on a new initiative for the New Zealand tourism industry to connect together online, sharing business articles, ideas and comments related to all sectors of tourism.  A great way to network online and help each tourism business or organisation to succeed in tourism. This is an ...

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Writing Persuasive Website Content

Writing Persuasive Website Content

So you've got a website and hopefully your customers and target market find it easily (a whole other topic), but once they do find it what sort of experience do they have?  Does it project a positive image of your business or turn them off?  Does it engage them or ...

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Tourism Operators Should Offer Free Wireless Internet

Tourism Operators Should Offer Free Wireless Internet

One of the most frustrating things for travellers in New Zealand is the lack of accessible free wireless internet.  I think it is an obvious opportunity  for tourism operators, particularly accommodation, to turn this around and make it easy for their customers to be online.  It is actually quite embarrassing ...

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How to Build Your Brand Online

How to Build Your Brand Online

Branding in any media in not just about visual representation of your logo and colours, it's also about the personality of your business and it's people.  Online media provides some unique ways to effectively share and reflect your brand image that allows engaging and interacting with your customers at a ...

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Tips for an effective website domain name

Tips for an effective website domain name

For the bulk of businesses they do the obvious thing when establishing their website domain name and register the name of their business with a URL like www.acmeindustries.co.nz.  Which by and large is not necessarily a bad thing, but unless you have "keywords" in your business name like "Auckland Lawyers ...

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The Benefits of a Blog on Your Website

The Benefits of a Blog on Your Website

You may think that having a blog on your website is just for professional bloggers or people who are experts in something, but in reality the functionality of a blog opens the door for your business to easily add fresh content to your website and allow online interaction with your ...

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What's Your Favourite NZ Accommodation Booking Website?

What's Your Favourite NZ Accommodation Booking Website?

I'm interested to know what website/s you like the best for booking and paying for accommodation in New Zealand and why. I regularly advise accommodation operators about what websites to list on and what booking systems to use so I am aware of the most popular websites in terms of rankings ...

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eTourism: How to Avoid Bad Online Experiences for Travellers

eTourism: How to Avoid Bad Online Experiences for Travellers

When researching online for travel destinations, transport, accommodation and tourism activities travellers have to sift through a huge amount of information.  Chances are before they book with you they have looked at several other competitor websites in your area plus many more in other destinations. Making your website stand out and ...

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Does your Tourism Website Work on a Mobile Device?

Does your Tourism Website Work on a Mobile Device?

Existing websites designed for desktop computers are simply not easy to use on a mobile device.  So if you want to cleverly target the increasingly sophisticated FIT traveller then start work now on a "mobile" version of your website or an application for mobile and touch screen devices like the ...

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