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Tourism Best Practices – Week of March 12

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Tourism professionals at Convention and Visitors Bureaus – CVBs (or Destination Marketing Organizations – DMOs) are implementing some innovative programs to increase visitation in their destinations. We call them Tourism Best Practices. Popular Summit Brew Path Returns The Akron/Summit County Convention and Visitors Bureau organizes the popular passport program. And that’s not all from Akron… Akron/Summit CVB Promotes “Wear Your 330 Shirt to Work Day” on March 30 The day promotes the area and takes advantage of dress down day. Discount Cards Lure Fishermen Into Local Businesses The Sandusky County Convention and Visitors Bureau offers Anglers Savings Cards to visitors who… 

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Email Marketing – Best Reads Week of March 5

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Each week, we read a number of articles on email marketing from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: Why email marketing in the first place? Message To Marketers: Emailing Millennials Works Email remained the top selection by 62% of millennial respondents, noting that “nothing else came close.” Now for 41 tips and hacks… 3 Creative Email Campaign Hacks to Boost Your Open Rates In a crowded inbox, uninspiring emails will be tossed into the trash without a second thought. 9 Email Marketing Habits It Pays to Break A number of commonly overlooked email habits you should… 

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Social Media – Best Reads Week of March 5

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Each week, we read a number of articles regarding social media from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: Which Social Media Platform Wins? The Pew Research Center recently released the results of its latest survey on the use of the internet and social media among Americans. How To Implement A Social Media Strategy That Engages Your Team Three best practices to improve your communications and engage your employees in a company-wide social media strategy. Instagram Stories: How Businesses Can Make the Most of Stories Do you want to create more engaging and effective Instagram stories? Are you using all… 

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Email Marketing – Best Reads Week of February 26

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Each week, we read a number of articles on email marketing from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: Why email marketing in the first place? Email The Top Channel In Event Marketing Survey and Email Marketing Supports Your Content Marketing And SEO Campaigns But Do Email Blasts Actually Work? (our accompanying article is “E-Newsletter” Boring! Re-name It!) Now to the tips to improve your blasts campaigns: 6 Keys to Email Marketing Success 4 Principles To Increase Your Email Campaign Response 7 Practical Building Blocks of a Strong Email Deliverability Strategy The 1-2-3 To Creating A Marketing Email That People… 

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Social Media – Best Reads Week of February 26

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Each week, we read a number of articles regarding social media from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: You Won’t Get Anywhere by Just Posting on Social Media “Build it (or post it) and they will come” is not accurate anymore. We said this years ago with our two blog posts; Social (verb) People Engaging With Each Other and Social (verb) People Engaging With Each Other Part 2 7 Ways to Engage Your Social Media Audience Seven ways to effectively use your social media platforms and craft content that engages your audience and gets them excited about… 

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Email Marketing – Best Reads Week of February 19

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Each week, we read a number of articles on email marketing from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: Why email marketing in the first place? Why Email Marketing is Real Secret Weapon to Grow Market Trend Why could email marketing potentially be the ace up on your sleeve? Five reasons… How To Get Started With Email Marketing There are many good reasons for your business to do email marketing. Once you decide to add this to your marketing mix, do these three things next. More on not using your using a personal email account — like Gmail, Outlook,… 

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Social Media – Best Reads Week of February 19

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Each week, we read a number of articles regarding social media from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: How To Give Your Business A Social Media Makeover For The Year Ahead If your social media presence has been inconsistent recently or has just fallen off your radar altogether, the above has five tips to refresh your company’s social media for the new year. Up Your Social Media Game with These Top 20 Tips To up your social media game and gain a competitive advantage against the vast amounts of content out there, implement the top 20… 

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Email Marketing – Best Reads Week of February 12

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Each week, we read a number of articles on email marketing from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: Why Your Business Should Use Email Marketing Email has several advantages over other types of online marketing. The article above looks at a few of them. A Simple Guide To Setting Up Your First Email Campaign If you’re new to email campaigns, the article gives you a simple tutorial on how to get the important things right, and from here you can improvise further as much as you wish. How to Increase Open Rates with These 7 Email… 

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Social Media – Best Reads Week of February 12

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Each week, we read a number of articles regarding social media from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: Your Facebook Page Organic Reach is Dropping (But Not Really) Jon Loomer shares how nothing is really changing with the popular social media outlet. Facebook Page Posts Not Being Seen? Show Followers How to See First Our friends at Tourism Currents shows how to ask your followers to adjust their settings to select See First, so that when you post on Facebook, it appears at the top of their News Feed. How to Use Instagram Hashtags for More Exposure… 

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