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. sem SERVICES

  • 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.

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  • 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.tourismmarketing SERVICES

  • 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.

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  • 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. marketingcommunications SERVICES

  • 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
The Challenge of Mobile Travel and Bookings

The Challenge of Mobile Travel and Bookings

The advent of mobile travel applications for smart phones and iPhone apps is obviously an exciting new direction for travellers and the tourism industry.  But how far off is it before it becomes a key way to book and pay for travel?At present, like the early days of the internet, ...

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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 ...

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Foursquare and Tourism: Another New Social Media Tool

Foursquare and Tourism: Another New Social Media Tool

Foursquare, the latest new and free location-based social media tool based on mobile device use that is taking off.What is it?Using a mobile device with GPS, it’s a way to explore a city and find people, places and things to do.  The users “check-in” to their current locations and can ...

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The Online Booking System Game – Which One to Choose?

The Online Booking System Game – Which One to Choose?

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 ...

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Developing New Tourism Products as a Joint Venture

Developing New Tourism Products as a Joint Venture

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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Adventure Tourism Safety in New Zealand – A Leap of Faith?

Adventure Tourism Safety in New Zealand – A Leap of Faith?

New Zealand is well positioned in the world of Adventure Tourism – we are the innovators and leaders of bungy, and have the perfect setting and natural resources to offer a comprehensive range of tourist activities that are land, water and air based.But every so often we are reminded of ...

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Why A Blog Can Improve Your Website Ranking

Why A Blog Can Improve Your Website Ranking

Search engines love regular fresh content and links to a website, the more you have of both the better your website will rank in search results and your website visitors will have more reason to visit your website regularly to see what’s new.  So a blog function on your website ...

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100% Pure New Zealand Brand – Is it Time to Change?

100% Pure New Zealand Brand – Is it Time to Change?

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? ...

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Google Launching into the Online Travel Market?

Google Launching into the Online Travel Market?

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 ...

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Viral Marketing for Tourism

Viral Marketing for Tourism

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. ...

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