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Free Best Practice Guide

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This is a little bit technical in parts but this brief guide courtesy of Travolution is worth reading to see if you are missing out on some ideas to increase your bookings and boost your search traffic.

Cliff
traveljunkies

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Practical Tips For Small Businesses – Tip #4. Our Most Important And Valuable Tip

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My first three tips are all about your Facebook Fan Page.

1.   Why you must have a Facebook Fan Page
2.   How to use it to get more traffic
3.   How to create a Facebook Fan Page if you don’t already have one.

These have been invaluable tips for us and for thousands of other businesses who use the power of Facebook’s 800 miilion subscribers to advertise and promote their business. So why not you.

My next tip, TIP #4 is the most important and valuable tip of all and I make no apologies for pinching it from a company that really knows how to market their products – JUST DO IT!

Looking back, publishing these tips just before the holiday season may not have been the best choice when you have so many other things to do, but we are now starting a New Year and what better time to take a fresh approach to marketing and promoting your business.
So, as the man says – JUST DO IT!

I believe 2012 will be the year when Social Networking and especially Facebook takes off in a big way for small businesses worldwide, so don’t be left behind. Don’t wait until everything is perfect or the time seems right because you’ll never get started, just get on and DO IT NOW!
Do it yourself or give it to one of your team if you’re lucky enough to have someone, but DO IT!   Nothing will change until you do.

Spend a few minutes going back over our first three tips which you’ll find on our Facebook Page then sit down with a cup of coffee and write down your plan.  And remember a plan isn’t a plan unless it has dates.

LIKE our Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/traveljunkiesdotcom and post your Facebook Page so we can LIKE you back. That way our fans will see your Fan Page and so will their fans. That’s what Viral Marketing is all about and that’s what drives traffic.    

Best wishes for a great New Year

Cliff Chapman
www.traveljunkies.com

PS . . .   Always post your business comments from your Fan Page, not your Profile.

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Why social media matters for your business

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Ever wondered if Social Media is essential for your business?

Then wonder no more.

Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web.

So how important is Social Media to your business?

  • Today, more than 50% of Internet searches are made using mobile devices.
  • If it were a country, Facebook would be the third fourth largest country in the world after China, India and the United States.
  • Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months.
  • YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.
  • 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. Imagine what people are saying about your business.
  • Wikipedia has more than 13 million articles and 78% are non-English.
  • There are more than 200 million Blogs. What do they say about your brand?
  • 80% of companies are using LinkedIn to find employees.
  • And don’t forget hulu, QZone, DIGG, Stumbleupon, Delicious … and all the others.

Still unsure? Then watch this 4 minute video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&feature=player_embedded

Cliff Chapman
traveljunkies
Adventure travel & activities directory & search engine.
Like Google only smaller.

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Practical Tips For Small Businesses

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As all business owners know, traffic is the lifeblood of your website. Without it, you’re dead. So we are putting together TIPS which we’ve found to work and which cost you nothing.
Please leave a comment especially with stuff that’s worked for you that we can add to this list to help others.

Thank you
Cliff
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TIP #1  –  Your Facebook Fan Page

TIP #2  –  Use Your Facebook Fan Page To Get More Traffic

TIP #3  –  How To Create Your Facebook Fan Page

TIP #4  –  Our Most Important And Valuable Tip

TIP #5  –  Connect With Your Facebook Fans

www.traveljunkies.com
Starting in Australia in 2002 for scuba divers and skydivers, traveljunkies now includes accommodation, activities, vacations and lots of other things right around the world.

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You know that social media marketing is important for your business.

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You know that social media marketing is important for your business. Maybe you’re already doing it, or maybe you’re looking for the best way to get started.

Start here: http://www.socialquickstarter.com/

Start with the Social 101 video by clicking the image, or go ahead and jump right into any chapter you want.

What’s Inside:

Cliff Chapman

traveljunkies – adventure travel & activities directory & search engine.
Like Google only smaller.

www.traveljunkies.com
www.facebook.com/traveljunkiesdotcom
www.twitter.com/traveljunkies
www.traveljunkies.com/blog

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Great Marketing Ideas In A Free Book …

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I found this great idea on making money in a FREE BOOK.
Take a look, it costs you nothing & you don’t even have to sign up.
Download it immediately here . . .   http://bit.ly/j9CYEQ

Cliff.
www.traveljunkies.com
Adventure travel & activities directory & search engine.
Like Google only smaller.
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Your Free Listing in Traveljunkies

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Hey businesses, start by getting your free listing. You can get it here.
Then move on to your own advertisement.
You write your own advertisement and choose your picture, or we will do it for you at no extra charge.
AND . . . It’s the best value advertising on the Internet

This is how your advertisement will appear.

Best travel website worldwide – http://www.traveljunkies.com

Hi, we’re Cliff, Maureen & Alison and if you want to know more about us see our website, just click the headline. We think traveljunkies is the best place to find what you’re looking for whether it’s adventure travel, relaxing breaks, specialised tours or the adrenaline rush of extreme sports, you’ll find it here.

traveljunkies is a worldwide travel website organised by country and category and it’s very easy to find your way around.
You will find exactly what you are looking for by “choosing a country” or by using the Search Keywords box.

Try it. To find this advertisement go to the www.traveljunkies.com and enter any word that appears in this advert.

For example – Spain, Australia, Africa, India, Activity, Tours, Eco, Scuba Diving, Skydiving, Skiing, Cruise, Clothing Optional, Travel Agent etc. etc.
Searching for any one of these will find this traveljunkies advertisement.

What next?  … contact us here to get things moving!

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Hubspot Website Grader Ranks traveljunkies 96/100

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The website www.traveljunkies.com ranks 131,792 of the 3,488,412 websites that have been ranked so far.

A website grade of 96/100 for www.traveljunkies.com means that of the millions of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 96% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

Cliff Chapman
traveljunkies – worldwide adventure travel & activities directory & search engine, like Google only smaller.
www.traveljunkies.com

 

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