5 steps to develop a strategic email campaign

In a world with ever-expanding digital marketing options, it’s not uncommon to ask if email marketing is still important – the short answer: an emphatic yes. More than 70% of marketers believe email is the top form of digital marketing for return on investment. Email ranks higher than paid search…

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Engaging with your Audience through Email Marketing

Last week on The Layover Live, we focused on the importance of sharing informational and engaging content through social media marketing. This week, our focus was email marketing, as email should also play an important role in your content strategy. Over the course of COVID-19, we’ve shared the…

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Shifting Your Content Marketing in Response to COVID-19

As a destination marketer, the last few weeks have likely been tumultuous and unpredictable. You may have had to overhaul your entire social media content calendar, or work quickly to build and publish new landing pages for your website. Perhaps you’ve even launched a new campaign (one that you…

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Visit Dorset’s Email Program Gets the Royal Treatment

Perched along the coast of the English Channel, Dorset offers visitors the perfect combination of a whimsical countryside and winsome coastline. With enchanting castles and ancient, fossil-rich beaches, Visit Dorset should have no trouble at all drawing visitors to explore and stay a while. There…

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Where Marketing Automation Fits in the DMO’s DX Journey

Marketing automation platforms can help businesses, including destination marketing organizations, deliver memorable, personalized digital experiences for their customers. It all starts with your content—whether web pages, emails, or social media posts. Marketing automation helps you track your…

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Ask the Expert: Answers to Common Email Complaints

You work hard to garner email subscribers and send them relevant content that keeps your destination and DMO top of mind. A little dedicated maintenance on your part will help you keep those subscribers and stay out of SPAM folders. We turned to our resident expert, Veronica Williams, Senior Email…

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Case Study: Pocono Mountains

SITUATION After launching a new website and URL in August 2015, the Pocono Mountains Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) wanted to increase their e-newsletter database. With a new change in direction, they wanted to have a "clean" database and sought strategic ways to increase their subscription…

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