Insights
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Four Ways to Make Locals Key Players in Your Marketing Strategy
It's time to think about how locals can help build your brand. DMAI identifies community alignment as a vitally important ingredient to the branding and marketing success of destinations. Find the experts in your community and use their voices to elevate your destination. Read time: 5 minutes
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Destination Marketing Action Plan Cheat Sheet
We created a step-by-step guide to building a Marketing Action Plan that can work for your DMO and help you define and prioritize the Who, What, Why, and How that influences your marketing success. Take a shot at defining the Targets, Roles, Beliefs, and Processes for yourself or your organization. Read time: 2 minutes
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Creating Added Value for Meeting Planners with Custom Landing Pages
Stand out from your competition by offering an added-value, custom landing or event page for planners. Read time: under 5 minutes
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Tourism IS Economic Development
Do your stakeholders see the connection between tourism and economic development? Knowing the numbers, and sharing that with your tourism partners will help you share the story of your destination. Tourism is not just about fun leisure activities, it is also about the jobs it provides and the amount of money it saves taxpayers. 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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Stakeholder Collaboration: Foster Communication With Your Partners
Research is a valuable tool and can be used as a vehicle to further stakeholder collaboration. Collecting opinions, input and information from stakeholders can facilitate product development, help a DMO refine their message and provide important resources to stakeholders, all with the goal of providing visitors authentic experiences. Read time: 3 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
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Leverage Drive-Through Traffic
DMOs can leverage drive-through visitors by capitalizing on their spending power, converting them into repeat visitors, and creating ambassadors for their destination. Encouraging local retailers to stay open late and addressing potential negative experiences can turn these passersby into valuable guests. Read time: 3 minutes
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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Digital Marketing
Digital advertising is crucial for Destination Marketing Organizations because it reaches travelers where they spend most of their time—online. It's cost-effective, offers broad exposure, and delivers lasting results by targeting specific audiences through various digital channels. Read time: under 3 minutes