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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.