This are the slides of the recent webinar I did on growing your travel business without spending a cent on extra marketing. If you are interested in the audio of the webinar which will make it make a bit more sense, email me nick@nickbowditchtravel.com

1. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent

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3. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

4. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Spend time working ON your business, as well as working IN it.

5. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Research. Research. Research.

6. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Some of these cost a lot of money.

7. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent You can do a lot of the work yourself.

8. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent All of these really work.

9. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Embrace some digital marketing. Share your knowledge. Work your network. Still do the old school stuff.

10. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Regardless of our individual businesses, all of our challenges are basically the same.

11. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Embrace some digital marketing.

12. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Your website.

13. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Google screenshot.

14. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

15. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent There are literally thousands of travel websites, all of which can do pretty much the same thing.

16. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Google Nick Bowditch screenshot.

17. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Get one-way links. Update your content regularly.

18. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Google loves fresh content.

19. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Get one-way links.

20. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Get one-way links. - Comment on everything!

21. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Comments. Search for 3 travel websites that allow comments from the general public and list them.

22. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Comments. Now set aside 5 minutes each day for the next 5 days and comment on posts from people that ask questions you have some knowledge on. Keep a note of any success from this.

23. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Get one-way links. - Give people answers.

24. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Yahoo! Answers. Sign up to Yahoo! Answers by making a new Yahoo! account using your business name in the username somewhere.

25. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Yahoo! Answers. Now set aside 5 minutes each day for the next 5 days to search for questions asked either by local people or about the local area that are about something you have some knowledge on. Keep a note of any success from this.

26. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Get one-way links. - Get yourself published.

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34. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Get one-way links. - Simply ask for it!

35. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Blog: “A blog is software that allows everyone who can type to post content to a web site or blog home page.”

36. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Blogs. Go to either Blogger or Wordpress and see how easy it is to get started with your own blog.

37. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Blogs. Register a blog with both using your business name in the domain name and then think more about adding to it with something you are currently working on for about a week.

38. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Blogs. See how easy they are both to use and which format you prefer.

39. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Blogs. Then, refer a few people to each blog and see which one they think suits your business better as well.

40. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Forums.

41. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot lefora.

42. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot squidoo.

43. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Squidoo donates 5% of revenue directly to charity. They keep 45% of the revenue to keeping the service going and the other 50% they give back to either your designated charity or to you.

44. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Palliative Care Australia

45. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Squidoo. Go to the Squidoo website and see how easy it is to get started with your own Squidoo page.

46. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Squidoo. Think about how you would like to split any proceeds from the advertising on your page and if you would support a charity, which one would it be?

47. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Squidoo. Then, refer a few people to your Squidoo page and see how they think it suits your business.

48. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Affiliate Advertising

49. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Commission Monster

50. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Clix Galore

51. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Adsense

52. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Web 2.0

54. Online Communities

55. Wikis

56. Content Sharing

57. Photo Sharing

59. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Your Facebook Profile.

60. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Facebook Profile.

61. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Facebook Status.

62. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Facebook Comments.

63. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Facebook Pages.

64. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Facebook Pages.

65. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Facebook Notes.

66. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Facebook Ads.

67. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Facebook Pages. Go to the following link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/?browse to browse all of the Facebook Pages to see how other businesses use this application to further their online marketing presence.

68. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Facebook Pages. What do you like that they have included and what don’t you like?

69. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Facebook Pages. What would you include on your page?

70. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Facebook Pages. List 5 ways you could use Facebook to increase your online presence as well as your customer base without spending a cent:

71. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Twitter Logo.

72. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Twitter Followers.

73. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Twitter Status.

74. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Twitter Home Page.

75. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent LinkedIn.

76. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot LinkedIn.

77. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot LinkedIn Answers.

78. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot LinkedIn Groups.

79. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot YouTube Logo.

80. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot YouTube.

81. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Flickr Logo.

82. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Flickr.

83. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. - Always read the Terms and Conditions of the site so that you don’t inadvertently do the wrong thing by using it.

84. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. - Detail your business (and yourself) in your Flickr profile including ways to contact you and so on.

85. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. - Use your website address as your Flickr username.

86. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. - Look for groups on Flickr that compliment not only your photos but your business.

87. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. - Treat Flickr like a community – don’t comment badly on other people’s photos and so on – this will always get back to you!

88. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. - Don’t do the hard sell – if you are uploading quality photos that are interesting to people (either your customers or the wider community) you won’t have to do the hard sell anyway.

89. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Share yourself online.

90. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Digg.

91. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot del.icio.us.

92. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot Technorati.

93. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot RSS Logo.

94. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Share your knowledge.

95. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Nobody knows your business better than you.

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97. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Make a list. Explain how to. Share a secret.

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100. What makes you an expert.

101. A bit of humour.

102. How to contact you.

104. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases.

105. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases. - Get attention quickly.

106. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases. - Make it newsworthy.

107. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases. - Make it easy to read.

108. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases. - Encourage further correspondence.

109. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases. - Send it to the right person.

110. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Media Releases. - Send them regularly and follow them up.

111. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Share your knowledge. - Become a media expert.

112. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Work your network.

113. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Work your network. - “So, what do you do?”

114. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: The Pitch Sentence. Write down 5 things about your business that set you apart from others in the travel industry.

115. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: The Pitch Sentence. Then make a pitch sentence out of some or all of them that sounds colloquial and not contrived.

116. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: The Pitch Sentence. Remember this sentence and start using it when people ask you what you do.

117. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Work your network. - Form strong alliances.

118. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Alliances. Think of people you are friendly with or that you know who work in different industries or who provide different products or services.

119. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Alliances. Then think of other products or services that everybody needs from time to time and if you can’t think of somebody that provides that product or service, search for someone locally who does.

120. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Alliances. Then think about how you will contact each of them and set up your own powerful alliance group or ‘nethood’ to get maximum exposure for all of your businesses without spending a cent.

121. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Work your network. - Be the ‘Rent-A-Crowd’.

122. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Meetings. Find 3 meetings that are coming up in the next 2 months that might be worthwhile attending and go.

123. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Still do the old school stuff.

124. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Still do the old school stuff. - The Business Card.

125. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot back biz card (details)

126. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot front biz card (logo)

127. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Your Business Card. Take an objective look at your own business card.

128. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Your Business Card. Does it immediately present the image you want to convey to people you have just given your pitch sentence to?

129. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Your Business Card. Does it have any information that isn’t very useful or appropriate anymore?

130. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Action Plan: Your Business Card. More importantly, what Web 2.0 initiatives that you have just implemented for your business could go on the card now?

131. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Still do the old school stuff. - The Email Signature.

132. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Screenshot My Email Signature.

133. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Still do the old school stuff. - Old School Paperwork.

134. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Your Website. Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. YouTube.

135. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Flickr. Share yourself online. Share your knowledge. Work your network. Do the old school stuff.

136. The Top 10 Secrets to Grow Your Travel Business Without Spending a Cent Nick Bowditch Nick Bowditch Travel Web: www.nickbowditchtravel Email: nick@nickbowditchtravel Twitter: @nickbowditch Facebook: www.facebook.com/nickbowditch