Overhead a great discussion on Twitter today. Cody Heitschmidt is on vacation in Texhoma, but his brain is still coming up with small town promotion ideas. @codyks:Small towns: when u have visitors, do u knock hospitality out the park? Its dirt cheap 2 do but leaves priceless memories. Take em coffee…what if someone from your…
Serving on a tourism board is fun and challenging. Sometimes we get a little set in our ways and need a good jolt to move on to new ideas. My recent trip with fellow bloggers to Hutchinson Kansas was the jolt I needed. These are some of the things I learned while I was having…
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…
We started the discussion of How NOT to use Twitter for tourism businesses. Now let’s discuss how TO use Twitter for tourism businesses. I’d love to hear your advice and experience, to these questions raised by a new visitor in the comments: So pleased I found this helpful blog post. I’m a tourism consultant and…
Businesses in the smallest of small towns are being reviewed online right now. Do you know what is being said about you? Here are two sites you need to take a look at. Yelp – offers reviews of all kinds of local businesses. It also gives you the business owner some tools to maintain your…
Melyn Johnson, Oklahoma Tourism Department, said this of women travelers: What do women always remember? Whether the bathroom was clean, and whether the food was good. I think it applies to all of us. Are we taking care of the basics? New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates….
This is just my opinion, but I wouldn’t choose to use Twitter to promote my tourism business the way @Gabriola007, Gabriola Gables Waterfront Estate in British Columbia is doing it. There are no rules for using Twitter, so I’m not saying that they are doing it “wrong” because they aren’t following my advice. They are…
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