travel blogging today (january 2015)
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Travel Blogging Today
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Who am I?
Michael Hodson@GoSeeWrite
Immediate Past President, PTBA
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Why Work with Travel Bloggers?
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Advantages
• Dedicated followers• Living in Social Media• Evangelists, not just content sources• Timing of content• Duration of online content• Can also be content creators for you• Co-marketing campaign possibilities• Developing relationships with bloggers as a
future knowledge resource
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Big, or Possible Little, Advantage
• Almost infinite variety of options• Niche• Language• Target Audience• Style of Content• Multiplicity of content types
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Finding and Evaluating Bloggers
You want to work with us…..
How do you find the exact ones you want to work with?
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Qualitative Analysis
• Design• Self-hosted• Niche• Age of site• Frequency of posting• Appropriate content• Photo vs. video vs. text• Informational vs. narrative• Comments and interaction with readers
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Trust Your Gut
Work relationship – you need to feel comfortable with who you are working with
You can tell a lot about most bloggers (not all), by simply reading their site for a while
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Navigating Quantitative Analytics
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The Big Issue
• Numbers alone are NOT the key
– What social media platforms do they use– Who are their followers– Are they contributing regularly– Are people interacting – is there conversation
or just broadcasting?
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Starting Point: Google Analytics
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Twitter Focus – Too Much Here
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Twitter Focus – Not Enough Here
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Big Numbers, but…
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Facebook interaction?
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Facebook interaction….The other side
How many FB fans do you think this page has?
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Answer
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Before working with a blogger ask
• Statistics– Who reads them?
• Demographics now on Google Analytics
– Google Analytics only
• References of people they have worked with in the past
• Example of previous press trip posts, photos, or videos
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Deeper Looks: Twitter Stats
analytics.twitter.com
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Facebook Insights
#tbdi2014
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Facebook Insights
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The PTBA
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The PTBA
• Formed to help develop travel blogging into Formed to help develop travel blogging into profession with a set of professional profession with a set of professional standardsstandards
• 50 bloggers and 10 industry members worked 50 bloggers and 10 industry members worked for 12 months to develop structurefor 12 months to develop structure
• Over 200 international blogging members Over 200 international blogging members right now and growingright now and growing
• travelbloggersassociation.comtravelbloggersassociation.com
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Customized search
• Search by location, language and nearly 40 niches
• Industry standard statistics for site evaluation• Metrics for all social media platforms• RSS subscribers and newsletter subscribers• Outside evaluation included (Klout,
PeerIndex, Kred)• Unlimited number of searches, using any and
all criteria you want
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Search Engine
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Blogger Profiles
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Interesting Campaigns
Tons of interesting things going on out there
• Trover working with bloggers on their launch of their photo sharing site
• Yonderbound doing the same with their travel booking site
• Visit Britain having bloggers curate content for a new dedicated site
… and tons more
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Australia -- Crowdsourcing
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Australia
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Campaign Examples -- Instagram
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#inCostaBrava and #inPyrenees
2013 edition:•Total number of towns: 30•Total number of participants: 2,968•Total number of photos: 33,831•Total number of likes: 1,044,108•Total number of impacts: 1.450.348 2014 edition:•Total number of towns: 32 (41 in total by end of year)•Total number of participants: 1,935•Total number of photos: 15,235•Total number of likes: 648,196•Total number of impacts: 1,088,463
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Campaign Examples -- Hostelworld
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Big Rewards -- Hostelworld
• 16,000+ interactions using hashtag #EscapeNow• 120,332 social shares of landing page• Facebook reached 1 million people+ via posts/ads
Final success – 750,000 sign ups across 9 languages
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Thank you
Michael [email protected]
Craig Martin, current PTBA [email protected]
Laurence Norah, President [email protected]
For PTBA [email protected]
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Questions
Hopefully, lots of them