I’m heading out to the wilds L.A. next month to attend my second BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Last year, in Las Vegas, I was thrilled to meet face to face some of my favorite tourism influencers, like Sheila Scarborough, Becky McCray (the inimitable Tourism Currents team), and other blogosphere and marketing royalty like Mari [...]
Simple SEO tips for designers (and everyone else)
Yesterday I attended an SEO 101 class, Designing with Search Engines in Mind presented by the local Vermont chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists.) The A-list panel doling out SEO tips and tricks included web teams from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Gardeners Supply, and Union Street Media, a local web design firm. The [...]
Thinking outside the CVB blog box
While I was hunting and gathering a collection of attractive destination blogs, I nearly included two of my favorite hyper-local blogs – which aren’t managed by CVBs or DMOs. Alas, they deserve their own shout outs. After all, these commendable blogs are the efforts of tourism-dependent businesses: a big city hotel and a small town [...]
6 Tourism blogs that rock
On the hunt for some great looking and useful destination blogs, the criteria to narrow down this collection included design, organization, types of content, and minimal pitching – membership, revenue ads or otherwise. The spirit of these blogs ideally encompasses interesting content, images, videos and all-around fun for their respective audiences. Get inspired with a [...]
Create online content by blogging
Have you Googled your hospitality or tourism business lately? If you have a small business in the restaurant, lodging or other tourism-dependent industry, you know its not easy rising above travel industry juggernauts like the Expedias, regional membership or review sites. But by building good, keyword-rich content on a regular basis, you’ll be prompting search [...]
