Insights
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The Power of Video for Your Destination
Video is the preferred modern medium and can summarize your destination succinctly. But be sure to ask yourself these questions so you can produce one appropriate for your DMO. Read time: 4 minutes
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Four Ways to Make Locals Key Players in Your Marketing Strategy
It's time to think about how locals can help build your brand. DMAI identifies community alignment as a vitally important ingredient to the branding and marketing success of destinations. Find the experts in your community and use their voices to elevate your destination. Read time: 5 minutes
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Destination Marketing Action Plan Cheat Sheet
We created a step-by-step guide to building a Marketing Action Plan that can work for your DMO and help you define and prioritize the Who, What, Why, and How that influences your marketing success. Take a shot at defining the Targets, Roles, Beliefs, and Processes for yourself or your organization. Read time: 2 minutes
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Instagram Strategy for Your DMO
Leverage Instagram’s high engagement by building a loyal audience through cross-promotion, competitor research, and community interaction. Share unique local content and use strategic hashtags to maximize reach. Read time: 5 minutes
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Creating Added Value for Meeting Planners with Custom Landing Pages
Stand out from your competition by offering an added-value, custom landing or event page for planners. Read time: under 5 minutes
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5 Advanced LinkedIn Tactics for CVB Sales Professionals
Want to take your LinkedIn presence to the next level? As a follow-up to The Value of LinkedIn for Sales Professionals, you’ll find five advanced tactics to take you beyond the basics of LinkedIn. Read time: under 5 minutes
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Tourism IS Economic Development
Do your stakeholders see the connection between tourism and economic development? Knowing the numbers, and sharing that with your tourism partners will help you share the story of your destination. Tourism is not just about fun leisure activities, it is also about the jobs it provides and the amount of money it saves taxpayers. Read time: 5 minutes
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How DMOs Can Measure the ROI of Digital Advertising
DMOs should be measuring the return on the investment to show stakeholders that their digital marketing strategy is working. Are you looking at the right metrics to determine the ROI of your digital strategy? Read time: under 4 minutes
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Make Your Content Go the Extra Mile
Remember all the precious time and valuable marketing budget you spent on creating the marketing theme, the copy, the visuals, the video, and all of the other assets in your marketing library? Take that content and get as much value from it as possible. Not sure where to start? Keep reading. Read time: under 4 minutes
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Stakeholder Collaboration: Foster Communication With Your Partners
Research is a valuable tool and can be used as a vehicle to further stakeholder collaboration. Collecting opinions, input and information from stakeholders can facilitate product development, help a DMO refine their message and provide important resources to stakeholders, all with the goal of providing visitors authentic experiences. Read time: 3 minutes