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Host a blogger invasion of your town

By Becky McCray

Hutch 189

Ready to spread the word about your town or tourism attraction? Maybe you want to run a “fam” or familiarization tour. That’s what Hutchinson, Kansas, is doing today.

The usual fam tour targets travel agents, tourism consultants, tour operators, or others who can send direct customers to your town. But Hutch is targeting bloggers.We may not book any tours, but we sure talk, a lot.  They aren’t the first town to try it, but they may be one of the smaller towns to pull it off successfully.

Cody Heitschmidt was one of the instigators of the idea, then helped recruit the group of bloggers. You can read a bit more about who’s here, and what’s on our agenda at “Bloggers Invade Hutchinson.”

Any small town tourism business could spearhead a similar event for their own area. You could band together with other towns to generate a truly memorable couple of days for some influential online leaders.

My travel reports will be posted at Out Standing in My Field . So far, it is way, way, way cool.

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Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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April 16, 2009 Filed Under: ideas, marketing, tourism Tagged With: events

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  1. kare anderson says

    April 20, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Becky and colleagues,
    As a longtime lurker/fan I am finally commenting. This is such a cost-effective, authentic way to shine spotlights on the reasons to visit a town or region I wrote about it in two blogs, citing yours on FB +…

    http://sausalitolovesyou.ning.com/profiles/blogs/attract-more-visitors-and

    http://howwepartner.com/2009/04/launch-a-visitor-attracting-blogger-invasion-of-your-town/

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  2. Becky McCray says

    April 20, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Kare, thank you for sharing these ideas with your communities! You’ve added a lot to the discussion with your posts. Thank you!

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  3. Anonymous says

    April 22, 2009 at 11:54 pm

    Thank you so much for coming to Hutchinson! We try hard to be welcoming to visitors and are thrilled that you and others in your group took the time to come and visit!

    Thanks again!
    Julie Steen
    Hutchinson

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  4. Becky McCray says

    April 24, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Thank you, Julie. It was absolutely our pleasure.

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