Let's Get You Noticed With Adventure Travel Marketing...
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Big World Made Small Adventure Travel Marketing Is...
For best-in-market adventure tour operators who want more bookings so they can impact more lives, we offer customized solutions to generate quality leads and then turn them into raving fans.
Unlike other marketing agencies, we are also passionate adventure travel experts that understand the unique challenges you may be facing in your tour operation business. We are committed to helping our partners grow in alignment with our mission.to change the lives of adventurous travelers, the tour operators they hire, and the communities that host them, creating profound cross-cultural experiences that make the world feel just a bit smaller.
Unlike most marketing agencies, we work month-to-month and never force our clients to sign a long-term contract. That means that if we aren't getting results, clients are free to change directions, or even FIRE us, at any time. That also means that we will set realistic goals and expectations, come up with a budget that is sustainable, and work our butts off to earn our renewal each month.
This page highlights just some of the services we offer. Every one of our clients is in a different stage of their business journey, and we'll customize a marketing plan that takes your unique situation into account, and since I know you're curious, most of our clients invest between $500-$10,000 month in our services and start seeing results within the first month.
Take a look at the services below, and let's jump on a quick call to see how my team and I may be able to help you get where you want to go. This call is an important step and will help us both determine the following:
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Are we generally the right fit with a shared mission, standards, and expectations. If I don't believe we can help you achieve your goals, I'll let you know right away.
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Which of our services will best help you reach your goals while providing a great return on your investment.
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Most importantly, what results should you expect to see, and what the timeline should look like, before you commit to investing anything with us.
If you have an exciting life-changing tour or service, and getting it in front of more potential guests will change your world and benefit the community you work in, we need to talk.
This is a FREE call and is an informational conversation only. We will learn about each other's businesses, and figure out how we might best collaborate.
Marketing Services For Tour Operators
Website Design & Management
The first step to any digital marking plan is making sure you have a great website that fully conveys how wonderful your tour programs are. Adventure travel clients, outbound tour operators, and travel agents will judge your program based on what they see on your website, before anything else. We'll start by evaluating your website from the perspective of your customers and make some recommendations to make it better. If you already have a great website, we'll move onto the next step.
Search Engine Optimization (Google)
There are two parts to a great website, the part users experience, and then the part that search engines like Google will see. A well optimized website is easier for Google to evaluate, making it more likely that your site will come up in the search results when your ideal client is looking for what you have to offer. Unlike paid advertisements, search engine optimization (SEO) is slower to take effect, but the benefits last much longer. We use a combination of on-page and off-page strategies, then monitor the results and make adjustments as necessary with the goal of getting you to come up high in the organic (unpaid) search results so potential clients will be more likely to find you.
Social Media Management
Social media management is a critical part of most tour operator's digital marketing strategies, and can take many different shapes, depending on the type of programs you offer. Social media is a great way to connect with both future and past guests, other tour operators, travel agents, and potentially even future team members, so it's important to have a plan. We typically recommend taking a very focused approach with your social media strategy, so you don't get distracted by all of the available choices. It's better to have a great presence on one or two platforms than a lackluster profile on every social media channel. We'll help you figure out what makes the most sense for your business, and help you make it easy with our done-for-you social media management programs, if that's what makes the most sense.
Paid Ad Campaign Management
Where search engine optimization may take weeks or months to start seeing results, paid advertising is the quickest way to make sure your website and offerings get in front of potential clients when they are looking and ready to book a trip. Most of our clients choose either paid Google advertising, also known as pay-per-click, or paid social media advertising on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube or even TikTok. Paid ads give the benefit of targeting your message to the right people at the right time, while also giving you precise control of your advertising budget. We'll discuss your situation and help you decide what may be the best approach for you. It's all about getting a great return on investment with paid ads, and that's always at the forefront of everything we do.
Email Marketing and List Management
Email marketing and automation is, without a doubt, one your best ways to get more bookings, and it's typically the part that most tour operators aren't taking full advantage of. Did you know that when you post something on Facebook only about 5% of your page followers even see the post, much less engage with it? And, as you already know, Facebook owns and controls your use of the platform and therefore your ability to connect with YOUR followers. With a well managed email strategy, we will help you build and control your own list, with a goal of getting five times more engagement. We'll show you how to grow a great list, provide effective emails, to generate both direct and agent/partner bookings, without spending a ton of money to do it.
Sales Process Improvement
The best marketing in the world won't help you grow your business if you don't have a way to effectively convert your inquiries into bookings, and then convert the bookings into raving fans. Most of our clients do a great job with this part of their business, and work with us because they want more opportunities (leads), and that's great. However, we've also heard from tour operators that would like help handling their inbound sales processes for a variety of reasons. Some struggle with time-zone differences, staffing challenges, or they are just so busy with their current clients that they don't have time to get back to prospects as quickly as they know they should. If this sounds like you, let's come up with a plan to handle your leads effectively before we do anything to generate more leads. There's no sense paying for marketing if you don't have an effective sales process.
Online Booking Systems
Not necessarily the first step of your journey to get more bookings, this is definitely a goal for many of our clients. When you are getting so many inquiries that you're having a hard time keeping up, we're going to start discussing ways to take the reservation process completely online. Whether you only offer one tour, or have a whole catalog of options, across a wide geographic area, an online tour reservation system can make your life much easier, provide a better client experience, and do a better job getting those super valuable reviews that you may not be capturing now. Let's discuss where you are in your business, and if it makes sense we'll be happy to discuss what we've learned about online reservations systems along the way, and how we may be able to help you make the leap as smoothly as possible.
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