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Ski Resorts’ Key To Millennials: Micromarketing Micromarketing used to mean tightly defined geographic targeting at the zip-code level. But we’re changing that definition as of this blog. Micromarketing in our view is also small-batch marketing, qualitative in focus, still tightly targeted but focused on small experiences – and it’s a great way for ski resorts […]
Think small picture: The migration to mobile Even though desktop and laptop sessions still account for the majority of actual travel bookings, mobile bookings are constantly on the rise. So yes, of course, mobile access to brand content should still be front and center in any destination marketing brand discussion of next year’s budget. Here […]
Say hello to the 800 lb primate Leaders at DMOs have a TripAdvisor problem. Namely, What To Do About TripAdvisor. Strong annual growth and $1.25+ billion in revenue commands our attention, as does TripAdvisor’s 455 million average monthly unique visitors and its $620+ million annual ad spend. But perhaps the most telling stat about the […]
Marketers wake up to the pain of misspent resources A really disturbing recent study of 1000+ EU marketers reported that, on average, they waste 26% of their annual budget on “the wrong channels or strategies.” In other words, more than a quarter of their budget is gone and unrecoverable. In four years time, an entire […]
Note to marketers who have been investing in Facebook: Fasten your safety belts.
It’s as if Facebook listened to a focus group of marketers complaining about ad targeting: “It’s getting brutal….social makes it harder, not easier….my dollars are already stretched too thin….how can I be sure I’m reaching the right people….and how do I know I’m spending in the right places?” And then, Facebook looked deeply into its […]
When Google says something is the next big thing, we tend to listen. And Progressive Web Apps (or PWAs) are, in a word, it. If you missed this news and were absent the day they had the PWA meeting at work, here’s what you should know. The nutshell version. PWAs can be summed up as […]