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12 January 2012 ~ 5 Comments

Jump start your new tour and activity business through distribution.

Jump start your new tour and activity business through distribution.

5 Tips to starting a successful tours and activity travel business. This is Tip #3. In the first two articles I wrote about how to partner and package to help your start up get business in the early stages. This third article is about implementing a simple distribution system so at launch you have other [...]

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29 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Partner with travel suppliers in your destination to create a unique one-of-kind package for your tour and activity business.

Partner with travel suppliers in your destination to create a unique one-of-kind package for your tour and activity business.

5 Tips to starting a successful tours and activity travel business. This is a series of 5 articles to help tours and activity entrepreneurs start a new business. I’ll post one new article each week here at T4. Tip #2: Partner with other travel suppliers in your destination to create a unique one-of-kind package for [...]

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21 December 2011 ~ 3 Comments

5 Tips to starting a successful tours and activity travel business.

This is a series of 5 articles to help tours and activity entrepreneurs start a new business. I’ll post one new article each week here at T4. Tip #1: Introduce yourself and your company’s services to the established travel business owners and tour/activity operators in the destination you plan on starting your business. A simple [...]

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04 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Building On-line Social Habits

The underlying goal of any social media strategy is to build corporate social habits for your organization. In the same way that you and your staff interact with people in the “real world” you should be interacting with them in a similar manner in the social web. The philosophies and techniques that you use to [...]

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01 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Reviewing Your Social Media Plan

The plan you create based on the Listen, Engage, Articulate, and Demonstrate social media  strategy should be reviewed on a regular basis to make sure that the objectives for each phase are being met. I recommend you schedule the following reviews into your social media plan: Monthly review – This review should look at how [...]

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30 September 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Your Social Media Success Metrics

Your success metrics will be different for each step in your  L.E.A.D. social media strategy. To summarize, you can expect the following outcomes from each phase: Listening Where users are talking about you What users are saying about you and your brand Where users are talking about subjects that are important to your business What [...]

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29 September 2010 ~ 2 Comments

A Visual Summary of the L.E.A.D. Social Media Strategy

As you may be aware, I am now a big fan of Prezi, the web based zooming presentation tool.  I have started converting all of my presentations over to the Prezi platform and I may even upgrade to a pro account.  Those of you who know me, know that for me to consider paying for [...]

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28 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Simplifying Your Social Media Schedule

Being successful with your social media strategy means having a schedule that allows you to participate and actively engage with your various channels. I recommend you break up your tasks so that the work required to listen, engage, articulate, and demonstrate are staggered throughout the week. A sample calendar might look like this: Sunday – [...]

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27 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

When it comes to parties, it pays to go to right ones

Let’s face it, when it comes to getting attention, you’re better off going to one A-List party then going to 100 block parties.  You only have so much time on your hands and social media has a very real time cost associated with it.  Unless you have a team of social media people working for [...]

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24 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Social Tools for Demonstrating your Expertise

There are many tools available for demonstrating your involvement in social media and your comfort with customer engagement.  Many of these tools you are probably already using without even thinking about it.  Let’s take a look at a few of the the tools/sites that you can use to demonstrate your expertise: Facebook – Focus on [...]

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