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How to Successfully Market Your Next Event

Smart Meetings

Creative event marketing is the easiest way to increase the number of people who eventually attend your meeting—directly contributing to the bottom line. Marketing content can be divided into three types: earned media, owned media and paid media. Paid media refers to marketing content you purchase, such as online ads.

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9 Huge Benefits of User-Generated Content for Marketing (and Where to Start)

Advanced Travel and Tourism

If you’re not already using user-generated content for your marketing strategy, the time to start is now. Travelers are wary of overly-produced marketing messages. The tourism industry is one of the best places to utilize UGC for marketing. Marketing strategies depend on the people you’re trying to reach. In 2020, over 3.6

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A Digital Marketers’ Survival Guide for This Election Year

Advanced Travel and Tourism

Every year in digital marketing presents unique challenges and trends, but an election year takes the complexity to a whole new level. In this survival guide, we explore the nuances of digital marketing in an election year, specifically focusing on the landscape of 2024. Experts forecast that this election cycle will amass $10.2

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How to Leverage SEM to Better Understand Your Audience

Advanced Travel and Tourism

Destination marketers should take advantage of the moments when potential travelers are searching for things to do, places to stay etc. SEM stands for “search engine marketing.” Those ads come from companies using search engine marketing, or SEM, to show up first. SEO vs. SEM: Important Differences. in their destination.

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Why and How to Audit Your Website

The Abbi Agency

Performing a website audit is a critical step when it comes to understanding a critical piece of your marketing funnel, whether you’re seeing tons of traffic and conversions or none at all. Content should be well-organized and structured according to SEO best practices. A schema helps SEO crawlers index your pages. SEMRush Moz.

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Budget Increases Are on the Rise in 2019

Smart Meetings

Marketing and promotion. A solid majority (63 percent) of respondents said that word of mouth was the best way to reach potential attendees, while social media marketing came in second place, at 49 percent. Despite some labeling it old school, email marketing accounts for 38 percent of marketing. percent used video.

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5 Proven Strategies to Maximize Your Hotel’s Outdoor Space Bookings This Spring and Summer

Smart Meetings

Sign up for the monthly Behind the Bookings newsletter here But how do you stand out in a competitive market and position your outdoor spaces as the go-to choice for clients this spring and summer? Here are five proven strategies to help you market your outdoor spaces, attract bookings, and elevate your revenue potential for the 2025 season.

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