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Internet Marketing. And The Participation Age (Web 2.0) Dan Roberts. Web 2.0 Killed the Brochure Site. Travellers are suffering info overload Travellers lack trust in traditional media Reliance on interpersonal communication Seeking connoisseurship Connecting more.
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Internet Marketing • And The Participation Age (Web 2.0) • Dan Roberts
Web 2.0 Killed the Brochure Site • Travellers are suffering info overload • Travellers lack trust in traditional media • Reliance on interpersonal communication • Seeking connoisseurship • Connecting more • Brochure sites
SEO and Internet Marketing • One goal: • NOT to generate more traffic to your site • Rather to attract more of the RIGHT traffic to your site • Importance of analytics
Internet Marketing and Web 2.0 • Social networking • Forums, reviews/ratings, blogs, bookmarking - facilitate info flow • RSS feeds, IM, meta-aggregators accelerate info flow • RISK!!
Get Involved With Social Media • Forum and review sites • Mainstream: Google Groups, Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Travel • MySpace et al. • Flickr and You Tube
User Generated Content • Inbound RSS Feeds! • Photos and videos • Your customer involvement • In-house resources
Technology You Already Know • Confirmation page and email • Reminder emails • Viral elements • Surveys