Location-based services help you to reach more potential tourism visitors. Two services to add to your tool box are Twitter Places and Whrrl. (See How do you make Foursquare relevant in small towns for an overview of how location-based services help you reach more potential visitors.) Twitter PlacesBy using Twitter Places, users can tie their…
My friend Scott Townsend from United Linen took time out after the Get Social Conference in Oklahoma City to share some of the online techniques they use to stand out from other linen services. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates.
Here are four ways that I am using Twitter itself to attract interesting and interested people on Twitter. 1. Live tweet from events. Include the event hashtag. (If there isn’t one, make one.) 2. Participate in tweet chats. Find one that interests you on this list of Twitter Chats on Google Docs. 3. Create lists of…
Lots of local tourism groups and chambers of commerce send out excellent email blasts to their members. If you send an email newsletter, I’ll bet you routinely talk to people who didn’t know about it. It’s like the best kept secret. Did you know you could be multiplying your reach with social tools?You can use…
I was disappointed I couldn’t find more info about a small town I wrote about in http://eldergeneration.net. Even small towns need websites. @Miss_Dazey I don’t care how small your town is, you have visitors and tourists. If you aren’t online, you are ignoring them. Some of them could be writing about you, promoting you to…
On Twitter, when we see something interesting, we retweet it, or pass it along to others. A quick look at any Twitter page will reveal a whole bunch of items marked RT, or using Twitter’s built in retweet function. Clearly, we like to pass along what we find. A retweet has been described as saying…
Let’s start with your existing tours. Seems like every destination has a paper brochure for a walking tour or something similar. Here are eight ways to post that same content, reach new potential visitors, and make your site easier to find in searches. See, different types of people visit different places online. So every different…
How could your blog know everything about your business? You could tell it, as part of capturing and sharing the valuable knowledge in your small business. Whenever your small business brings on a new person, there is a period of adjustment and training. You have to teach them what to do, how it’s done here,…
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