SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR TRAVEL MAGAZINES
New Mexico Magazine Goals – Create community – Grow Web traffic, product sales, and subscriptions Golden Tickets – Authority on New Mexico travel – Audience who loves our state and magazine
Strategy Play to our strengths – Support our brand as the authority on New Mexico travel Embrace the off-beat Highlight Web exclusives Events Practical travel tips and deals
Best Practices Create community – Welcome followers/fans and tell them how they can participate
Best Practices: Arizona Highways Establish and maintain a consistent, approachable voice across multiple social networking platforms
Best Practices Promote online extras (Web exclusives, blogs, multi-media content)
Best Practices “Turn the bullhorn around” - Ask readers for input
Best Practices: Sunset
Best Practices: Nevada Magazine Show them you value them
Best Practices Give ‘em the scoop
Best Practices Oh, you wacky readers. I’m glad you don’t know where I live. Respond to fans/followers thoughtfully and promptly
Results Who we’re reaching – 1/3 of social networking audience replicates our print edition reader demographics – 2/3 of audience represents demographics we can grow Younger users than average reader Locals
Results Web Traffic – Facebook and Twitter are our 11 th and 12 th most popular referral sites – Twitter users spend six times longer on the site than our average users – Twitter and Facebook fans are coming back to the site throughout the month User generated content