3. SWOT = Be Honest Strengths: Unique value proposition Weaknesses: Name & solve Opportunities: Name & market Threats: Prospect’s time & budget
4. Strengths Media Mentions TripAdvisor Promotions & Discounts Unlimited Photos Competitive Pricing EASY & FUN
5. Weaknesses Start-up: new, need to spread brand, create voice, stand out. Website Traffic Revenue & Cash flow?
6. Opportunities To Spread Brand (Tripadvisor!) Help with cost-effective vacations If economy tanks, discounts look better and renters are desperate to rent If economy gets better, people have more money to spend on vacations Appeal to Businesses and Owners and Vacationers
7. Threats Vacation Time – Consider Seasons Budget – How much money does the company have to spend? Budget – Competitive payment plans? Free trial then $299/month?
9. Consider INBOUND Marketing Helps to warm clients to company, voice of company bring clients to sales Relationships loyalty People are ONLINE Reach more people at once Remember AudienceS Vacationers Businesses (management?) Rent-by-owner Prospective renters Prospective vacationers
14. TWEET YOUR HEART AWAY Goals: Increase followers Bring traffic to website/sales Plan: Put all content on Twitter: questions, blogs, news, vacations, questions, links to website etc. Measure: RT, @Mentions, who is doing what you’re asking them to do? Sentiments Word clouds Observational Notes – Rebrand, Relaunch
15. EMAIL MARKETING Segment customers Monitor website behavior – Google Analytics– “Lead Scoring” Lead Nuturing Use that monitoring to further segment customers according to where they are in the process of taking action A/B Testing Create email schedule
16. Blog & Website SEO strategy: SEO Moz or 2-4% keyword volume Inbound links (reputation) Word cloud Topics ideas from Twitter, FB, LinkedIn Measure traffic and source of traffic Research competitive companiesaccess what’s working and what’s not working
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18. Build Database of Clients and access where they are in the process of purchase.
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20. Additional Ideas and Considerations Time differences – contacts will be in different time zone. Schedule tweets, updates, etc. to sync with their zones Research European sites/ competition Communicate cultural standards and expectations