Ski Resort Marketing
SlopeFillers provides daily ideas, inspiration, and analysis for ski resort marketers.The Stash
Weekly resort marketing insights from Ryan Solutions.- Q: How do ski resorts rate on Trip Advisor and how many ratings do they have?
- Q: Where do the longest-staying guests come from for Eastern and Western resorts?
- Q: Should you send season pass deadline emails the last day or day before?
- Q: What happens when you send an email to people who don’t open your emails?
- Q: How frequently are resorts posting on Facebook this year compared to previous years?
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Born to Speak
Proof I can speak, point, and make a sarcastic face at the exact…same…time.
A lot of SlopeFillers readers recommended I do more of this, so consider this my official declaration for the 2012-13 Speakers Draft. Will you get hype from me? No. Cliches? No. Wordy slides? No. “Buy my book” presos? No. Actionable insights from a marketer / wannabe-developer / data nerd / snowboarder / processed meat addict? Yes.
Topics:
- Social media metrics and strategy
- Combining email marketing with social media
- Zero-budget web marketing
- Website optimization
- Resort guest behaviors and marketing automation
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Industry Social Snapshot
Totals and averages from all North American ski resorts' social media activity.| total fols | new yest | mo grwth |
| 1,010,411 | 447 | 1.46% |
| total fans | new yest | mo grwth |
| 5,141,883 | 1,646 | 0.67% |
| total views | new yest | mo grwth |
| 39,492,056 | 0 | 1.18% |
| total fols/+1 | new yest | mo grwth |
| 36,481 | 38 | 5.03% |
| avg score | was yest | 7-day |
| 45.40 | 45.47 | -0.63 |
| total fols | new yest | mo grwth |
| 332,448 | 284 | 2.58% |
| total page likes | new yest | mo grwth |
| 256,380 | 13 | 0.72% |
| total fols | new yest | mo grwth |
| 838 | -12,414 | -93.38% |
Resort Social Dashboard
View any North American resort's social media performance & compare them to other mountain resorts.About: Gregg Blanchard
SlopeFillers is run by marketer and skier / snowboarder, Gregg Blanchard. He loves writing in 3rd person, meeting the talented people who read this blog, pretending to be a web developer, and eating reuben sandwiches. Need more dirt on Southern Edwards, Colorado's most famous ski marketing blogger taller than 6'?
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