Attracting and Working With Travel Writers and Bloggers

Do you really want to?

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Are you ready for tourists?Do you have thingsfor bloggers to share?

http://www.youngdigitallab.net/social-media/between-facebook-and-farmers-switzerland-gets-ready-for-tourist-invasion/

Sebi and Paul do whatever it takes to make your visit to Switzerland perfect

Are you connected?

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What will they write about?Walking and driving toursSmall business eventsHistorical facts and infoAgritourism

Harvest Tour 2011

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PartnershipsTownsEnd WineryMaynes Grove/County ConservationLocal musiciansLocal church women’s groupFarm BureauLatham Hi-Tech SeedsSukup Manufacturing CompanyHistorical SocietyChamber of CommerceABCM CorporationFranklin County Arts CouncilPublic LibraryOrange PossumWindsor Theatre

Return on Investment http://amomfirst.wordpress.com/tag/harvest-tour/

http://allinaniowamomsday.blogspot.com/2011/10/harvest-tour-2011-hampton-iowa.html

http://hamptonchronicle.com/harvest-tour-to-give-insight-into-farm-life-p4204-1.htm

http://www.thefieldposition.com/2011/10/field-fare-family-fun-abound-in-franklin-county/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jocelynwallace/6204846732/in/photostream/

http://300wordsaday.com/

http://allinaniowamomsday.blogspot.com/2011/10/country-heritage-bed-breakfast-hampton.html

http://needalittleadvice.com/2011/10/02/community/

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2341501770810.2126175.1047905483&type=1 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnswanson/sets/72157627667134359/

http://www.publicrelationsprincess.com/2011/10/social-media-tourism-in-hampton-iowa.html  

http://precag.blogspot.com/2011/10/agriculturecommunitynew-friendsgreat.html

http://www.thefieldposition.com/tag/harvest-tour/

http://harvestcountybloggerstour.tumblr.com/

http://needalittleadvice.com/2011/10/05/bloggers-over-moon/  

Long Tail

Bloggers Tour

Does it work?

http://www.drewsmarketingminute.com/2012/07/twitter-and-facebook-roi.html

Value of ROI

Always Think Local First

Who’s talking to you already online?

Facebook

Twitter

It’s about outreach --- you want those people to visit you, but first you have to find them!

Create your own Tourism twitter account and start looking for people to talk to.

Twellow

Local Tweeps

Bloggers and Blogs

Google Blog Search

Twitter Search

Tourism Currents

http://www.tourismcurrents.com/january-2010-find-your-online-champions

Mashable

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New? Print these cheat sheets out before you begin

http://mashable.com/2012/07/09/social-media-cheatsheets/

http://thetravelbite.com/travelchatsontwitter/

Twitter Apps and Directories

TWITTER APPS & DIRECTORIES that will help get more Followers There are a lot of Twitter Apps out there that claim to get you more followers.  Well, they actually help you

find followers with similar interests to you or show you who you follow that doesn’t follow you, etc. Whichever ones you do use, only proceed if you feel comfortable with how they use your information, only login with Twitter Auth (which brings you to Twitter to login and then takes you back to the app) so you don’t need to give them your logins and, if they autofollow or send direct messages for you, ensure that you have control as Twitter now restricts the number of automatic actions that can be taken at a time.

http://friendorfollow.com – shows you who you are following that is not following you. http://tweeteffect.com – shows you what tweets caused you to gain or lose followers http://wefollow.com – directory of Twitter users tagged by topic http://www.tweriod – tells you when your followers are online http://klout.com – popular app that measure a user’s influence based on a number of Twitter metrics http://refollow.com – an app that helps you manage follows/followers http://www.twellow.com – a ‘Yellow Pages’ for Twitter users http://twitaholic.com – ranks Twitter users by number of followers and also provides statistics on your

followers if you sign up. http://twiends.com – find users with similar interests http://paper.li – generate a daily or weekly online ‘paper’ showing links posted by the people you follow or a

Twitter list you have created. I find that many of the people included really appreciate being included and retweet the link that comes out under my account so it has brought a number of new followers with relevant interests.

http://tweetpdif.com – compare follows/followers of two or more users http://twtrfrnd.com/ – another app to compare follows and followers between two users. http://twidiumapp.com – $45 after a 7 day trial for app that will send follow requests to related accounts. http://socialnewswatch.com/top-twitter-users/ – top Twitter accounts that will follow you back (from 2009, but

still useful if you want to try getting more followers by following a good few that auto follow back.) Most of these are free apps, some have premium versions, so remember you get what you pay for!

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-get-twitter-followers/29960/

Pinterest

Pinterest Directory

Websites to Visit

Midwest Travel Writershttp://www.mtwa.org/ Travel Iowa http://www.traveliowa.com/Greater Franklin County Iowawww.buyoneproductlocal.com

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