Everyone wants to know how to effectively market their travel business. It’s a competitive environment out there in the world of online travel and you need these travellers to find and purchase your travel product or service rather than your competitors As the owner of a web based travel business Europe a la Carte I [...]
I received an email this morning from Kango informing me that they are changing their name to Uptake. The new name is deemed to be more relevant to the business’ aim of gathering, organising and delivering the collective travel wisdom from the internet. It’s a big step to change your name and I’m sure that [...]
I read Neala’s comment that there should be a category for travel information sites in the Travelmole 2008 Web Awards. I was curious about her site called OffbeatTravel as I thought Neala must be thinking along similar lines to me about getting off the beaten track during your trips. 1 What is the aim of [...]
I wrote an assessment of the HotelsCombined affiliate scheme for other blog, Business Blog Boost. I rate the HotelsCombined affiliate scheme highly because it makes money for me whilst being a great resource for my site visitors, enabling them to quickly and easily find a great deal on hotels through a price comparison facility. Finding [...]
Well according to PhocusWright who’ve invited me to attend the PhocusWright Bloggers Summit in Berlin 5 – 6 March as a qualified travel industry blogger. The Summit is a wonderful opportunity for me to meet other travel bloggers, exchange ideas and examine the influence of blogging on travel businesses. Berlin: Haus der Kultur der Weld [...]
Jens of the Tourism Internet Marketing blog has put out a call for travel marketing secrets and tips. He’s looking for your best kept marketing secret to add to Tips from the T List ebook. This set me thinking about my marketing efforts in my UK based online travel business Europe a la Carte. What [...]
I’m sure most of us have thought about doing some online writing but been put off by lack of IT knowledge or not wanting to spend money buying domains or reliable hosts for websites. Hubpages offers you a way to start writing and publishing articles about topics that you are passionate or knowledgeable. It’s easy [...]
Today, the 22 October 2007, is the first birthday of my travel busines blog. So what’s the first year in the blogosphere been like for me? 1st Birthday Cake by PinkCakeBox I looked back at the my second post, “Novice Blogger” where I stated that the aim of the blog was to increase awareness of [...]
There’ s a new widget in the right hand margin of the blog with links to posts on other travel blogs. I hope that the Blogrush widget will introduce you to some other interesting travel blogs. It will also allow me to publicise my blog to more readers. If you have a blog it’s free [...]
I read about the social network aggregator Wink last week and decided to join. It sounded like a good idea to have my websites, blogs and input to other sites like Flickr and Stumbleupon in one place. I set up a profile adding the urls of all my “places”. Then I made a widget which [...]
