Despite travel restrictions, mid-to-late 2021 was a ripe time to get creative about the revival of international travel. Tourism New Zealand Travel Trade recognised this opportunity, identifying a desire to invest in content that was personal and engaging, to truly connect with travel agents by preparing them to sell trips once more. TNZ wanted to strategically target their largest audience of international visitors by encouraging those selling travel experiences to spread the word about its unique travel opportunities. The strategy was to make sure their audience had everything they needed to get selling once more, and BlueMelon helped them get there.
BlueMelon saw the value and opportunity of marketing on social media during extended isolation periods and government health restrictions – to speak directly to the people TNZ wanted to address. BlueMelon built a targeted strategy, across three key communication platforms to help TNZ re-engage its audience during the pandemic.
A paid LinkedIn campaign designed to find, attract and reinvigorate travel sellers when the world wasn’t travelling. We designed a set of emotive, inspirational ad placements with targeted messaging for travel sellers, as well as downloadable blogs designed to help up and coming agents sell NZ when the time was right. The ads targeted agents in a variety of regions to join the Travel Trade LinkedIn group, building a more qualified, engaged audience for the TNZ team.
A year’s pipeline of creative content in TNZ travel seller FB groups designed to motivate and educate travel sellers – these have a global tone – to help group facilitators populate their pages with exciting, fresh NZ content no matter the region. We kept education and engagement as priorities in our ideation and execution, to drive conversations within the group and encourage learning amongst agents of all tenures, all while keeping TNZ top of mind for when the time comes to travel again.
A highly personalised email automation strategy. The goal was to truly help and engage travel sellers no matter where they were in their careers. From the fresh agent, to the seasoned expert, this strategy was designed to clean up TNZ’s data lakes and ensure TNZ was speaking to the right people at the right time – with the right message for them. By creating three email flows, each designed around specific personas in the travel selling industry, with bespoke content created for each flow.
The campaign took the Tourism New Zealand seller LinkedIn group from 5000 members to over 12,000 qualified members in just under 3 months. In terms of social post engagement, across our 14 campaigns (which included single image, carousel and video ad formats) we saw over 3000 reactions, and over 9000 visits to the TNZ landing page. The highest performing assets were sponsored post single image ads, with click through rates of between 1.5-2%.
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You got this far. and you know it. Whether you are re-branding or creating a brand from scratch the best way is the good way. This 2 hour workshop will set the path to success. It gives clarity and help make quicker decisions and better content and marketing - down the road.
You got this far. and you know it. Whether you are re-branding or creating a brand from scratch the best way is the good way. This 2 hour workshop will set the path to success. It gives clarity and help make quicker decisions and better content and marketing - down the road.
You got this far. and you know it. Whether you are re-branding or creating a brand from scratch the best way is the good way. This 2 hour workshop will set the path to success. It gives clarity and help make quicker decisions and better content and marketing - down the road.
Well planned and authentic content and communications have never been more critical. We know how it goes. You are challenged to create relevant, useful and meaningful content that aligns with your customers needs. Either you need it yesterday or to be prepared to shift your strategy for the future. Don't worry we here you to help. We work with our partners globally to run workshops and projects online and can run a comprehensive online strategy session that will help you get clear on your approach, core communications and how to execute them - tomorrow or in the coming months.
Well planned and authentic content and communications have never been more critical. We know how it goes. You are challenged to create relevant, useful and meaningful content that aligns with your customers needs. Either you need it yesterday or to be prepared to shift your strategy for the future. Don't worry we here you to help. We work with our partners globally to run workshops and projects online and can run a comprehensive online strategy session that will help you get clear on your approach, core communications and how to execute them - tomorrow or in the coming months.
