Fotaflo Blog

There are a lot of benefits to giving away photos and videos to guests that aren't obvious if you're still thinking about photos from a souvenir sales perspective.

Our President, Ryan O'Grady recently posted this in our Slack channel:

We've been helping our clients execute marketing campaigns during the Covid-19 pandemic. These marketing campaigns use guest photos from past years along with a simple message:

As we look ahead and plan our reopening many tour, attraction and activity operators are wondering how the desires of customers to get a photo of themselves will impact the guest and staff experience at their business in the new reality of our post-Covid world.

Break out of cold, mechanical marketing

A lot of marketing advice is in the form of top-ten tricks, or formulaic cookie-cutter techniques. These days, it's very often about how to maximize advertising to strangers using paid social or search advertising. While there is some value in these tools, most tour, activity, and attraction businesses know that referral and repeat bookings are how to build a stable revenue foundation.

During this pandemic and worldwide tourism shutdown we've talked to many operators who are concerned about hitting the right message in marketing to past customers, however they also realize that gaining engagement from past customers is critical to their recovery.  Unfortunately most operators we talk to aren't able to find a solution to their concerns and we're seeing many marketers and operators pausing all communication over fear of message and potential conflict for their brand.

Now that the initial shock of the Covid-19 crisis has passed a lot of operators of tour, activity, and attraction businesses are wondering what they can do while shut down. It probably feels like your whole lives are on pause and your businesses are in limbo.

I'm making an open offer of free expertise and advice on guest photos, videos and referral marketing. This is an open offer to contribute to tourism operators around the world, with meaningful advice and expertise that matters to you.

Marketing is a major headache for many small businesses. Especially given how fast technology is changing the ways that we communicate with our audience and customers.