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Boost Up Nias Tourism with Two Simple Viral Marketing Tools

Published March 31, 2008 Nias for Dummies Leave a Comment

Author : Darman Zebua 

There are two very powerful tools that are gaining in popularity more and more every day to boost up nias tourism industry. I believe both of these tools are invaluable to boost up nias tourism for a couple of reasons. First, people love to travel and online travel research is one of the most used aspects of Internet research (and it’s growing by the day!). Secondly, the Internet is becoming more and more multimedia oriented every day. Both of these tools can be used by nias tourism industry to further promote their products, as a niassen and an independent writer found these two methods are incredible to promote nias with method of Viral Marketing.

Viral marketing is:It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages. (www.wikipedia.com).

The first viral marketing tool that could be used is Podcasting.  Podcasting is the practice of recording audio and uploading it to the Internet. It is so easy to do and the return that nias tourism industry can get from this easy-to-use tool is so incredible. Every time another blogger or tourism business website owner uses podcast, nias tourism industry is marketing to a different audience.The second technology that I recommend is video marketing. Nowadays there are a lot of free hosting provide space for video just with signing up as a member. This method is really easy and it doesn’t cost anything. Upload it to YouTube, or Google video, etc, and you’ll see the same traffic hikes that your podcasts produce. Viral marketing can boost up Nias Tourism Industry online in unimaginable ways. Podcasting and video marketing are both viral marketing methods that are inexpensive, easy to implement, and well worth the price and time to incorporate into your marketing plan.

  • Author (Darman Zebua) is an independent traveler, a blogger of Nias Tourism, the coordinator of brainstorming of Nias Tourism through blog in English version and Indonesian version.

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