This document provides an overview of blogging and working with bloggers. It defines what a blog is and how blogging has evolved from personal websites to distribution on multiple platforms including writing, photos, audio, and video. Bloggers, also called influencers, create content to influence audiences. They work as independent publishing entrepreneurs using various mediums. Blogging is valuable for businesses as most travelers use online resources for planning and blogging earns a high return on investment. The document outlines best practices for working with bloggers, including aligning on values and skills, clear communication, and using a contract to define expectations and deliverables.
5. Travel Photographer & Social Media
Specialist
Known for taking The Road Less Travelled
Founding Member of Google+ Create
Shane Dallas
6. • What a blog is
• What blogging is
• What bloggers do
• Why blogging is valuable to your business
• How you can work with bloggers
What We’re Going To Talk About
8. Q: What’s the difference
between a blog and a website?
9. Q: What’s the difference
between a blog and a website?
A: There isn’t one
10. • One person
• A personal website
• Writing
• Photos
What A Blog Used To Be
11. WHAT A BLOG USED TO BE
• One person
• A personal website
• Writing
• Photos
WHAT A BLOG IS NOW
• Any number of people
• Multiple distribution
platforms
• Writing
• Photography
• Audio
• Video
13. Influencers
The repeated creation of content for distribution
on one or more online platforms with the
intention of influencing a specified audience.
34. 65% of leisure travelers are inspired by
online sources
Source: Google Travel Study, June 2014, Ipsos MediaCT
Why Blogging Is Valuable To You
35. About 80% of travelers use online
resources to plan their trips and search
is the most common starting point
Source: Google Travel Study, June 2014, Ipsos MediaCT
Why Blogging Is Valuable To You
36. Why Blogging Is Valuable To You
Tourist destinations & travel earned $7.04
in earned media for every dollar spent in
2014 on influencer marketing
Source: Burst Media
37. • Brand Alignment
• Knowledge and skill alignment
• Budgeting Overlap
• Clear Communication, Expectations, Deliverables
• Payment
• Professional Travel Bloggers Association
How To Work With Bloggers
38. Brand Alignment
– Is the influencer passionate about your product?
– Do the influencer’s values match your brand values?
– Does the influencer’s audience match your desired
customer?
How To Work With Bloggers
39. Knowledge and skill alignment
– Does the influencer understand your product?
– Does the influencer have the skills to help you
accomplish your goals?
How To Work With Bloggers
40. Budgeting Overlap
– Influencers can often offer more than promotion
– Opportunity for affordable service bundling and
overdelivery
How To Work With Bloggers
41. Clear Communication, Expectations, Deliverables
– Poor communication is responsible for most bad
experiences
– This usually arises from lack of clear goals
– A clear contract will prevent 99% of misunderstandings
How To Work With Bloggers
42. Payment
– Proven to achieve better value for investment
– Required by professional influencers
– Enables the employer to guarantee delivery on deadline
How To Work With Bloggers
43. Professional Travel Bloggers Association
– Membership of vetted professionals
– Influencer search engine
– Information on industry standards and best practices
http://travelbloggersassociation.com
How To Work With Bloggers
47. • Shane Dallas
• Next: 17:10 – 17:55
• Travel Tech Theatre
• Practical examples of how Social Media has
been successfully used in the Middle East to
promote travel brands and products
How People And Brands Use
Social Media for Success
48. • Karen Osman
• Tomorrow: 15:50 – 16:50
• Travel Tech Theatre
• Overview of how blogging and social media
work with existing marketing channels to
enhance them as well as work independently.
Tips, Trends, And Techniques For
Blogging And Social Media
Presentation download
Blogger contact information
Further reading
What we’re going to talk about
Blogging is changing rapidly. It’s not what it was last year. It’s becoming bigger and broader than most people realize. Platforms are changing. How industry works with bloggers is evolving.
Goal: Give you an overview of blogging and the latest trends that are driving change in online marketing
Also, give you some information you can use to take advantage of ATM’s blogger speed dating
What we’re going to talk about:
What a blog is / What blogging is / What bloggers do / Why blogging is valuable to your business / How you can work with bloggers
What a blog is
It’s constantly changing, and a lot of people have an outdated understanding of blogs and blogging.
To understand what a blog is, first we’re going to talk about what a blog used to be – which is what most people think a blog is.
What’s the difference between a blog and a website?
There isn’t one
What a blog used to be / One person / A personal website / Writing / Photos
WHAT A BLOG IS NOW / Any number of people / Multiple distribution platforms / Writing / Photography / Audio / Video
Influencers
Most ‘bloggers’ create content on multiple platforms, so the term blogger is becoming outdated.
Influencers is a better term to use.
Influencers
New definition of blogging:
The repeated creation of content for distribution on one or more online platforms with the intention of influencing a specified audience.
Influencers
Influencers are content creators. Blogs, publications, social media, television, radio, podcasts are all just distribution methods.
Content Distribution
Content is King, but distribution is queen, and she wears the pants.
Jonathan Perelman, Buzzfeed
Influencers are content creators. Blogs, publications, social media, television, radio, podcasts are all just distribution methods.
What Influencers Do
Writing / Photography / Broadcast / Video / Public speaking / Social Media Marketing / Domain Experts / Consulting
Above all influencers are independent publishing entrepreneurs
Above all influencers are independent publishing entrepreneurs
KAREN
Book Authors -- Lauren Julif, How Not To Travel The World -- Torre DeRoche, Love With a Chance Of Drowning
Travelers Handbook Series – All Bloggers
Karen Osman -- ????
Me: En Voyage (Eva Inflight), Up! Westjet Inflight, Action Asia, Huffington Post
Gary Arndt of Everything Everywhere, one of the most awarded travel photographers in history
Dave Bouskill of The Planet D – Won and was finalist 10 times for photography in the 2015 NATJA awards
My own portrait of a woman from Bhutan won a NATJA Gold last year
SHANE
Dubai Eye - Shane Dallas
This Week In Travel - Gary Arndt - Chris Christiansen - Jen Leo
Indy Travel Podcast – Craig Martin
Daily Travel Podcast - Nathanial Boyle
Mark Weins - Migrationology
354,000 Subscribers - 79,100,000 Views
Sonia Gil – Sonia Travels
Languages – Entrepreneurship - Travel
Sonja Gil – 152,000 Subscribers - 12,700,000 Views
A video that I made with Keen Shoes for cable television in Canada
Maggie Wu of Fly With Maggie and Hidden Gems Productions
30,00 subs on WeChat
Gaining tens of thousands of subscribers per week on various platforms
What Doesn’t Suck - Jeff Johns, professional producer, and partner Anne.
Local video bloggers focussing on getaways for Dubai residents.
Domain experts - Jodi - celiac travels // Nancy Vogel - Family on Bikes - Family adventure // Shane - social media in travel // What Doesn’t Suck – Dubai getaways // Matt - adventure travel - travel blogging industry // Maggie Wu – independent travel for Chinese women
Consulting - Domain expertise: consumer taste, consumer behavior, product feedback - social media marketing - influencer outreach and campaign management
Above all influencers are independent publishing entrepreneurs
Why travel blogging is valuable to you
Two main reasons: 1. Effectiveness and 2. Value
65% of leisure travelers are inspired by online sources
Source: Google Travel Study, June 2014, Ipsos MediaCT
About 80% of travelers use online resources to plan their trips and search is the most common starting point
Source: Google Travel Study, June 2014, Ipsos MediaCT
BurstMedia Study:
Tourist Destinations & Travel earned $7.04 in earned media for every dollar spent – the third most beneficial study in the industry
http://www.convinceandconvert.com/social-media-research/best-influencer-marketing-research/
Budgeting overlap / Influencers can often provide more than promotion. This creates an opportunity for very affordable service packaging and overdelivery
**Successful bloggers always preach overdelivery
Clear Communication, Expectations, Deliverables / Poor communication is responsible for most bad experiences / This usually arises from lack of clear goals / A clear contract will prevent 99% of misunderstandings
Payment / Proven to achieve better value for investment / Required by professional influencers / Enables the employer to guarantee delivery on deadline
Kalispell – Pay per day / Deliverables: live social media coverage, blog posts, hi-res marketing photos
Yonderbound – Consulting / Pay per hour / how to develop and attractive product for bloggers / results: blogger testing and ambassador program
Calgary – Pay per day / Video hosting / Video promotion / Also resulted in blog posts and social media coverage
SHANE
KAREN
Presentation download
Blogger contact information
How People And Brands Use Social Media for Success
Shane Dallas
Next: 17:10 – 17:55
Travel Tech Theatre
Practical examples of how Social Media has been successfully used in the Middle East to promote travel brands and products
Tips, Trends, And Techniques For Blogging And Social Media
Karen Osman
Tomorrow: 15:50 – 16:50
Travel Tech Theatre
Overview of how blogging and social media work with existing marketing channels to enhance them as well as work independently.