Comments on: How do you get mentions in travel features? http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/travel_features_mentions.html Banter between travel writers, travel PRs and travel social media people Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: klientiem@gmail.com http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/travel_features_mentions.html/comment-page-1#comment-58 klientiem@gmail.com Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:21:29 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/how-do-you-get-mentions-in-travel-features.html#comment-58 Interesting information!Maybe also look at this, Riga city blog (not official)! Interesting information!Maybe also look at this, Riga city blog (not official)!

]]> By: Sam Clark http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/travel_features_mentions.html/comment-page-1#comment-57 Sam Clark Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:26:05 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/how-do-you-get-mentions-in-travel-features.html#comment-57 Gary Arndt - you say that newspapers are not worth bothering with, but a place I help promote has been mentioned twice in the Guardian. This has brought in more bookings than any other single source - much more. It also helsp greatly that it is rated very highly on TA - but I think these things need to be seen from the round rather than narrowly focusing on twitter or blogs alone.... Gary Arndt - you say that newspapers are not worth bothering with, but a place I help promote has been mentioned twice in the Guardian. This has brought in more bookings than any other single source - much more.
It also helsp greatly that it is rated very highly on TA - but I think these things need to be seen from the round rather than narrowly focusing on twitter or blogs alone....

]]> By: Jeremy Head http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/travel_features_mentions.html/comment-page-1#comment-56 Jeremy Head Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:37:34 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/how-do-you-get-mentions-in-travel-features.html#comment-56 Hi John... glad the experience has been useful. I am genuinely quite humbled by the way that everyone is happy to pitch in with useful ideas. Social media for all its hype and waffle is a truly amazing thing isn't it? Thanks again to everyone who was kind enough to contribute - a really fascinating debate with loads of totally excellent input from all kinds of people. Please do stay in touch... and how about an update in a few months' time? Let us know which ideas worked best and why? Cheers! Jeremy Hi John... glad the experience has been useful. I am genuinely quite humbled by the way that everyone is happy to pitch in with useful ideas. Social media for all its hype and waffle is a truly amazing thing isn't it? Thanks again to everyone who was kind enough to contribute - a really fascinating debate with loads of totally excellent input from all kinds of people.
Please do stay in touch... and how about an update in a few months' time? Let us know which ideas worked best and why?
Cheers!
Jeremy

]]> By: John Despard http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/travel_features_mentions.html/comment-page-1#comment-55 John Despard Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:31:40 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/how-do-you-get-mentions-in-travel-features.html#comment-55 Thanks for all the help; I am overwhelmed by the response. I am putting lots of your suggestions into practice. Just like to say a big thank you to Jeremy for listening to me in the first place. Thanks for all the help; I am overwhelmed by the response.
I am putting lots of your suggestions into practice.
Just like to say a big thank you to Jeremy for listening to me in the first place.

]]> By: Alastair McKenzie http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/travel_features_mentions.html/comment-page-1#comment-54 Alastair McKenzie Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:37 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2010/01/how-do-you-get-mentions-in-travel-features.html#comment-54 I was going to agree with Jeremy too... but everybody got there first! Yeah, social media is a wonderful thing, but reports of the death of traditional media are greatly exaggerated. I was going to suggest two things. 1) Another type of content that travel eds are always hungry for - special offers/bargains. Send out a few "£50 off" notices to the mainstream media and online media. It's a good way to introduce your business and/or highlight specific aspects of it. 2) Don't rule out PR. You might find you can afford a short term contract with a specialist travel PR consultant to get things going. There are 252 specialist travel PR practitioners in the UK. Most are small or large companies but about a fifth are solo PR consultants. There are always a few PRs (I can think of two right now) who have just left their companies to go solo and are hungry for work. I was going to agree with Jeremy too... but everybody got there first! Yeah, social media is a wonderful thing, but reports of the death of traditional media are greatly exaggerated.

I was going to suggest two things.

1) Another type of content that travel eds are always hungry for - special offers/bargains. Send out a few "£50 off" notices to the mainstream media and online media. It's a good way to introduce your business and/or highlight specific aspects of it.

2) Don't rule out PR. You might find you can afford a short term contract with a specialist travel PR consultant to get things going. There are 252 specialist travel PR practitioners in the UK. Most are small or large companies but about a fifth are solo PR consultants. There are always a few PRs (I can think of two right now) who have just left their companies to go solo and are hungry for work.

]]>