Seems like every week you discover another website that lists one of your local events, usually with some key piece of information wrong! And then there’s another directory listing your town, asking you to send them updated information monthly or yearly. And there’s the state tourism site, and the regional site, and your neighboring town…
You know you should be keeping an eye on what is said about you online. But most monitoring tools are too complex for the average person who doesn’t spend all day online. And you sure don’t want to share them with anyone who isn’t a techie. The simple monitoring tool: Addictomatic Yeah, Addictomatic is a…
My friend Cort Anderson has offered us this gift, some of what he is hearing in an agritourism workshop. The lessons are certainly useful for all types of tourism related business. Today was the first day of Agritourism: Your Next Cash Crop? a five day workshop put on by the Kansas Dept. of Commerce and…
What’s the best location for a new tourism visitor center? “Instead of mall location, a smartphone location.” My friend Scott Townsend pointed this out on Twitter. Why? “So much more info (maps, tours, photos, calendars, social media links, etc)” Have you started building your smartphone location? New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what…
Need some new small town tourism ideas? Borrow some. It’s the rural tradition: swipe from the best. The Rural Information Center at the USDA has links to tons of resources and ideas on rural tourism. It can take a while to figure out their menu structure, but trust me, there is great info linked from there. It…
“But where does it all end?” That was the plaintive question of a student in one of my workshops on social media tools for marketing tourism. Bad news: It doesn’t. Photo by cole24_ on Flickr There is no finish line in tourism. There’s no place where you get to stop and say, “Boy, I’m glad…
If you’re online for any length of time, you’re bound to get flamed. And in any group of people who are thinking about getting their small business or tourism destination online, there are always several who are seriously worried about being attacked online. I think this is a natural extension of our small town concerns….
Sheila and I are hosting an Open House at Tourism Currents this weekend (November 26 – 28, 2010). Sheila welcomes you! What is Tourism Currents? It is an online course on how to use social media tools for tourism projects. It’s all based around real life things you do every day in the tourism world….
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