Insights
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Using Google Ads to Promote Your Destination
Search engines are crowded and competitive, social channels are monetizing and the internet is overflowing with content. These factors and several others are making it ever harder to organically drive potential visitors to your website to learn more about your destination, and are making Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising an increasingly important component of DMO marketing strategies to maintain and grow visitation to their destinations. Read time: four minutes
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Maximize Your DMO’s Potential with an Outsourced Marketing Team
With the increased importance of multiple specialists working on your DMO marketing team, Stamp’s outsourced marketing program can be customized to supplement and support your DMO’s marketing efforts with trained tourism and travel marketing professionals who deliver consistent, tangible, and measurable results. Read time: three minutes
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Get Granular With Your Marketing.
Getting granular with your marketing efforts can help drive occupancy growth by effectively engaging your target markets in highly specific, personalized, relevant and timely ways. Read time: under three minutes
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Know Where You’re Going?
Whether you’re new around here or have been reading our blog since we started it a few years ago, you know (or will soon enough) that we are committed to Marketing Action Planning. A MAP is a proven, step-by-step process document to help guide your short- and long-term plans of work to achieve the defined mission of your destination. Read time: 3 minutes
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Universal Studios’ Advice on Attracting Visitors
We were recently invited to attend a lecture by Daniel Pacchioni, Creative Content Strategist with Universal Orlando's marketing department. Daniel provided timely, insightful advice on how to engage in the creative process when branding your destination. Here are 6 key takeaways from his presentation. Read time: four minutes
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6 Pitfalls of Social Media Management
Regardless of your team size or budget, there are ways to make social media work for you without cutting corners. Here, we've summarized 6 common social media management mistakes, how they can affect your brand credibility, and what you can do to avoid them. Read time: under 3 minutes
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Structure is the Key to an Effective Creative Brief
Whether you're working with an in-house marketing team or have chosen to outsource your marketing support, a structured creative brief is essential for keeping everyone on track. While every creative brief is different, there are 3 standard phases of development and a handful of pertinent questions every brief should answer. Read time: four minutes
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5 Themes For Tourism and Travel Success
Attending tourism and travel industry conferences is a great way to network with your peers and take in new perspectives on destination marketing and management trends. Stamp team members attended several tourism and travel conferences in the last year, and at a recent conference, many of the themes we have been hearing in the last year came together under one roof. So, we put our heads together to summarize what seems to be resonating in the times we live in. Read time: 4 minutes
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5 Digital Marketing Tips for Small DMOs
Evolving digital trends affect how travelers learn about new destinations, gather inspiration for their next trip and make decisions. To ensure that your destination is not overshadowed by bigger DMOs with budgets to match, it’s imperative to understand technical capabilities across the digital landscape and make smart decisions about how to deploy your marketing dollars for maximum impact. The following digital marketing tips can help you maximize your reach and make the most of your budget. Read time: six minutes
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Megatrends in Travel 2019
Skift has released its Megatrends Report for 2019, and we have combed through it to present the top 5 travel and tourism trends that your DMO should be tapping into if it's not doing so already. Read time: five minutes