Camera Memory Cards: Discover What The Pros Wish They’d Known
By Rob Dunsford
Baffled by the jargon surrounding camera memory cards?
Confused about what format, capacity and speed you need?
In the next ten minutes, you’ll discover what the pros took years to learn.
https://photographypro.com/camera-memory-cards/
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40 Useful Tools to Manage and Grow Your WordPress Blog
Direct from WordPress so check it out to see how it can help you
https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-useful-tools-to-manage-and-grow-your-wordpress-blog
New Partner
Having watched many presentations by Chris Cardell of Cardell Media, a global digital marketing agency who provide web design and management services, we’ve just partnered up with them to bring our www.traveljunkies.com website up to date and help our marketing for the next two years.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Cliff
Traveljunkies
14 Jan 2021
Marketing For Free
Many Businesses Won’t Survive The Crisis. Don’t Be One Of Them
The biggest mistake a business can make is to stop marketing, especially in difficult times.
Marketing can be a cost, but it doesn’t have to be.
Remember your customers are your greatest asset. Don’t ignore them.
Many businesses that survived recessions in the past have gone on to thrive because they were well placed to take advantage when the hard times were over, and that is particularly true in the leisure industry.
When people have struggled and had to cut back, booking a holiday is often high on their list. Will you be ready to serve them? If they’ve booked with you before, will they remember you?
I have followed Chris Cardell for many years. He is a world renowned authority on entrepreneur success and has run a webinar showing 10 ways to do marketing for free.
I would urge you to watch it.
His presentation included:
1. Online Videos. Video marketing is one of the most effective ways to market your business, and it’s free and easy to do, even if you’ve never done it before.
2. Email Marketing. Send emails regularly, talk to your customers like they are your friends and don’t ignore the current situation. And use your lists.
3. Events. Do an event such as a webinar, an online meeting or a video call etc. There are several ways to keep in touch.
4. Referrals. Don’t just let them happen, ask for them. People love to connect and comment. This is why TripAdvisor and Social Media channels like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are so popular.
5. Joint Ventures. Look for joint ventures not only in the leisure and travel sectors but elsewhere where other businesses could have access to people you want to target.
6. Telephone Marketing. When was the last time you called your customers and asked them how things are going? They will remember your call when they start looking for holidays.
7. Social Media. This might seem obvious, but how effectively do you use it? How often do you post on Facebook,. How many groups do you belong to? Do you have a Blog and post regularly? You have the time now that you’ve never had before.
8. Upsells and Affiliate Marketing. What can you add to increase the value of your product or service? Can you add or include other people’s products and services in your offerings?
9. PR. Articles or interviews in the media are great ways to get free marketing often to people you wouldn’t normally target. It doesn’t need to be selling but passing on your knowledge about things and places that would be interesting to others.
10. Split Testing. What is working and how can you improve it? Testing is something everybody talks about but we never have the time to do it. Well you do now.
Travellers Guide To The Best Philippines Diving
With more than 7,000 islands scattered across the Pacific Ocean and some of the best beaches in Asia, it’s no surprise that the Philippines is on the bucket list for many divers. It lies at the epicenter of global marine biodiversity, with everything from quirky critters to huge schools of fish and migrating whales among the underwater highlights.
Exceptional muck diving, manta and thresher shark cleaning stations are among the “must visit” dive sites, with shore dives, daily boat dives and multi-day liveaboard trips available. As this island nation encountered significant action during World War II, the seafloor is also littered with exceptional wrecks to discover.
So, here is the Best Philippines Diving to inspire your adventures
10 most romantic destinations for solo travellers
Exploring the world on your own can be exciting. You have the freedom to go where you want, when you want, and no one can tell you otherwise.
That said, solo travel can also be challenging, and at times can certainly get lonely.
Here are the top 10 most romantic destinations for solo travellers to help connect you with other wanderlust-filled explorers as you travel the world, and maybe even find romance along the way.
For the full article go to https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/romantic-destinations-for-solo-travellers
Thanks to LonelyPlanet
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Kia ora
This is something I get asked about ALL THE TIME (especially on my Instagram). Liz, how are you always flying in business class? How did you nab that flight upgrade? You must be rich.
Well let me tell you, I’m not.
The past few years, I switched from being miserable cramped up in coach to stretching out and enjoying all of the comforts of flying premium WITHOUT paying full fares. Yes, you read that right. I almost always fly in business or first class but I only pay for economy fares, if at all.
And it only took me 10 years to learn how. Show me the champagne. Let me spill all the tea.
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Traveljunkies – About Us
Why we do what we do.
So what do we do?
We connect travellers with small travel and activities businesses around the world displaying Free Adverts in our Traveljunkies website.
Why do we do it and why small businesses?
Having lost our business to Larry, we were helped by local small businesses who were also suffering, so we decided to show our gratitude by advertising their businesses for free in our traveljunkies newsletter and we continue to promote small travel and tourism businesses on this website today.
Through popular demand, this has now grown to more than 3,000 small businesses in most countries around the world and you can see them by searching Traveljunkies.
We know what it’s like to struggle after a setback and we are always happy when we can help others.
Our Story
I’m Cliff and Alison is my daughter. I live on Hayling Island in the UK and Ali lives in Cairns in QLD Australia, and we’ve been running Traveljunkies promoting small travel & tourism business since 2002.
Alison at Crystal Cascades in Cairns, QLD, Australia
In the early 2000’s we owned Dunk Jet Sports in the small town of Mission Beach, QLD, Australia, running jet ski tours around Dunk Island, one of the group of Family Islands lying 4km off Australia’s east coast in the Great Barrier Reef Heritage Area.
On 20 March 2006, Category 4 Cyclone Larry paid us a visit.
Cyclone Larry 20 March 2006
Larry came ashore right over us. Dunk Island was in its path and Larry completely demolished the holiday resort that supplied our customers.
With some help from local small businesses we struggled on for a while trying to rely on beach trade waiting for the resort to re-open which it did several months later, but it included its own jet skis and we were forced to close.
In 24 hours on that fateful day, we went from a profitable lifestyle business to having no business at all.
A big company had closed us down and from comments we’ve received over the years we aren’t the only ones.
Last year I got this email from one of our dear clients with their bad news.
Hello Cliff
The information is correct although we have sad news. Tyll’s Dive will close down begin may this year.
Our small business could just not survive and compete against new dive businesses with a good money back up.
As of now we have no one interested in buying the name and the permit owner of building is not interested in new tenents, which makes it difficult to sell the business as a whole package.
After we close down we will take a couple of weeks to relax and enjoy the island again, then most likely going back to Denmark for a while and find out what will happen from there and what options we have.
Thank you for your support over the years.
Dorte
Tyll’s Dive
Roatan
Honduras
So check us out to see if you are on our website. If not and would like more information, get in touch here and we would be delighted to include you for free.
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With very best wishes
Cliff & Alison
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60 Popular Social Networking Sites
Social media sites have grown rapidly in numbers in the past few years.
Statistics revealed on Statista show there are approximately 2 billion users who regularly use social networking sites and apps.
And, with the increased use of mobile devices, this number is likely to cross the 2.6 billion mark very soon.
This article shows some of the most popular social media sites that are being used around the world today.
You can find out if your favourite social media platform is a part of this list and even learn about some really good online social platforms that you can start using today.