Insights
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Make Live Streaming Video Work for Your Destination
With live streaming video, your destination can showcase local highlights in an engaging, personable manner. To maximize your results, follow these tips. Read time: 5 minutes
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Effective Pay Per Click Strategies to Drive Tourism
Pay Per Click is the primary way to “get noticed” online using sponsored link ads. Get a basic understanding of this Search Engine Marketing Strategy, and put PPC to work for your DMO. Read time: 6 minutes
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Secrets to Creating a Successful Content Marketing Strategy
The secret recipe for a successful content marketing strategy can be summarized in four steps—Attract, Convert, Close, and Delight. Read on as we discuss how each step can help determine the best custom-tailored plan for your DMO. Read time: 5 minutes
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Millennials vs Boomers. Shake up your marketing strategies.
Smart DMOs know they must use carefully targeted messaging and strategically chosen channels to reach different demographics. But what about their habits and preferences? Let's take a look at Millennials vs Boomers. Explore these generational visitors and decide if you need to shake up your marketing strategies. Read time: 3 minutes
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Talent Release Form, a Photoshoot Must Have
A talent release form is an important tool used to protect from liability and licensing issues by allowing you the right to use subject’s imagery for advertising purposes. Read time 4 minutes
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Instagram Strategy for Your DMO
Does your Instagram strategy position your DMO as the visual ambassador for your location? If the old adage “a picture is worth a thousands words” still holds true, then a platform like Instagram is one of the most valuable marketing tools in your arsenal. It boasts the highest brand engagement rate of all the big social media platforms. Read time: 5 minutes
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How DMOs Can Measure the ROI of Digital Advertising
DMOs should be measuring the return on the investment to show stakeholders that their digital marketing strategy is working. Are you looking at the right metrics to determine the ROI of your digital strategy? Read time: under 4 minutes
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Make Your Content Go the Extra Mile
Remember all the precious time and valuable marketing budget you spent on creating the marketing theme, the copy, the visuals, the video, and all of the other assets in your marketing library? Take that content and get as much value from it as possible. Not sure where to start? Keep reading. Read time: under 4 minutes
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Harnessing Social Media for Millennials
What do millennials want? In thinking about millennials, one strategy for a destination marketing organization (DMO) to consider is to think about what the target audience cares about, what their habits are and what the destination offers at the intersection of these two generational attributes. Read time: under 3 minutes