IC TRAVEL AGENT February 2014 | Page 24

Video Marketing Data If you haven’t used it yet, now’s the time. Make 2014 the year of video for your travel business. Start sourcing, collecting and collating as many travel videos as you can from your preferred suppliers, tourist boards and specific brands you do business with. Make sure you add your own videos into the mix too. You only need a couple of really hot videos to start attracting the eyeballs of your existing clients. They will refer your videos to their friends and that viral cycle will continue on for you. The chart below, hyperlinked to the source and the information it reveals, informs us how American consumers between the ages of 16 to 44 discover the video content they watch. You’ll have to read between the lines based on where you are located. A couple of things jump out from this graph in favour of travel agents: 1. Under socialization your clients are checking videos on social channels (such as your agency’s Facebook page), and they are being informed what to watch by their friends via WOM, text and emails. 3. They will watch videos they find on websites that connect them to their interests, i.e. your travel agency website. Travel videos are captivating and they help sell you and your product. So start locating those mind bending videos and use the above tools to advise your clients where they find them to watch. You might even arrange a travel video event, complete with popcorn!  2. Next, when browsing within an article that you might send them they will check out the video if one is embedded. Page 24