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The first thing to consider when starting new adventure travel activities business is to plan and analyze what the market says and test all you do.
- Analyze you customers:
- What do they need and search for?
- How they search for info about?
- What's the trend?
- How many are they?
- Can you find a specific niche or target for a specific audience?
- Start a pay per click campaign to see how much potential traffic there is
- Analyze the competition:
- How many websites are there in the market?
- How many years are they online?
- What are the first 5 results in Google is a search for my core keyword?
- What's their advertising effort?
- Analyze your internal resources:
- Have I the right human resources?
- Have I the right knowledge?
- What do I need to improve my knowledge about the market?
- How much money do I need?
- Plan and organize your time and resources:
- Do a list of possible contents that could interest your audience
- Build your website
- Choose a brandable domain name
- Develop a great Logo
- Have a good design and clear navigation
- Be sure it's Search engine friendly
- Do a mailing list of possible contacts (bloggers, webmaster, journalist, etc...)
- Use a good statistics program to monitor your website and its performance:
- Top pages
- Traffic sources
- Time users pass on your site
- Click trough rate in important pages
- Test, Test and...test!
- Analyze that data of the period of 6 months to:
- Define better you core niche
- See what contents users like
- How much strong your competitors are
- Financial sustainability
Hope this is helpful...stay tuned, more news and tips next weeks.