You are invited to join Blizzard Internet in Woodbury, New York at The Inn at Fox Hollow on January 12th and 13th, 2010 for a hands-on 2-day workshop.
This Blizzard University will be for resort, hotel and inn managers and marketing types in the hospitality industry looking to increase their search engine visibility and kick up their internet marketing strategy for ’10.
Attendees will learn powerful tips, tools and tactics for search engine success:
Presenting….the schedule for Blizzard Internet’s fall and winter webinars:
Join us during the last few months of the year to learn what you need to know to create a powerful internet marketing strategy for 2010.
This season’s webinar lineup includes in-depth internet marketing sessions covering Facebook, best practices for website management, the top tools to use, and wraps up with how to prioritize everything you have learned for a practical marketing strategy.
Sign up today: [Read more...]
Since 2005, Website Magazine has provided articles from the internet industry’s top experts on website success including search engine optimization, internet marketing and design. This publication has continued to focus on: the business of running a thriving 
website, solutions for increasing website traffic, the latest industry trends, statistics and news.
Their October issue features Blizzard Internet Marketing in their top 50 Search Engine Optimization/Search Marketing providers and honors them with the ranking of #7. They also note Blizzard Internet as the only agency on the list to focus on hospitality and travel internet marketing. [Read more...]
Unless you h
ave been living in a cave without access to the outside world, you have heard of Facebook, the most powerful social media outlet in the world. There are more people on Facebook each day than the population of some countries; millions of people are sharing thoughts, links, opinions, photos, and making 
connections at this very moment.
As a vacation rental manager, how can you leverage this powerful tool to connect to your potential guests and clients searching for your product? [Read more...]
Over the past few months, Blizzard Internet has offered a webinar series titled “All About Google” that presented the latest tips and tools to create a search presence for hotel, vacation rental, resort, and hospitality websites.
Each webinar is about an hour long and packed full of search marketing strategies that can be implemented today to boost qualified traffic, encourage bookings, and increase your bottom line.
The webinars are now available on-demand and are recommended for everyone from the savvy search optimizer to the novice marketer. This series includes:
All About Google I – Google and its Many Algorithms: get started by learning the basics of Google and how it works including: vertical search, search engine optimization vs. search engine marketing, organic search, and local search.
All About Google II – Local Search: creating a local presence is essential for hospitality companies to dominate search terms for their area. In this webinar, Trent Blizzard covers the key components of Google local search, factors to improve rankings, how to get into the top 10 map listings.
All About Google III – Keyword Research: how a website ranks in Google isn’t everything, a listing must be compelling and relevant for the searcher to click. Learn why website optimization and in depth research is an important part of on-page search engine marketing, and how to create a smart strategy for optimization implementation.
Since 1997, Blizzard Internet Marketing has teamed up with hospitality marketers to create smart online marketing strategies for lodging and travel websites.
During the last week of September, Blizzard Internet is hosting a 2-day hands-on workshop in their home town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado where their long time clients, new clients, and other hotel marketers looking to discover what is new in search marketing will gather.
The workshop titled “Google and Foundations” will cover proven search strategies and how to integrate them it to a 2010 marketing plan. Leading the workshop is Blizzard Internet’s President and Co-Founder, Trent Blizzard, who is known for bringing a fresh and proven perspective to search marketing. Trent comments that:
“Blizzard Internet clients who are committed to growing their online marketing presence are the first to sign up for our workshops. They understand that successful marketing means teamwork; work is done both by Blizzard Internet experts but also by their in-house team, and together we can take their search engine presence to the next level. Both our new clients and other hospitality companies wanting to learn attend because they are ready to outrank and out perform their competitors.”
After the 2-day workshop, attendees will leave knowing:
Event Details:
When: September 29th and 30th of 2009
Who: Hotel, Resort, Vacation Rental, and Travel Related Website Marketers
Where: Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Bring: Your Laptop
Pointe South Vacation Rentals is a vacation rental management company servicing Perdido Key and Pensacola Beach, Florida.
A primary goal of their new website was to integrate a booking engine with a live XML feed from their First Resort property management software. The booking engine:
The entire website is built on a WordPress content management platform. This makes it easy for Pointe South to update all of their content on their website. Plus, that platform performs pretty well in search engines.
