IC TRAVEL AGENT February 2014 | Page 10

OLD MEDIA How to make use of these marketing tools in 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA Newspapers The local newspaper comes in all shapes and sizes and generally in a tabloid format. Local readership is who you want to reach. To attract the local readership in 2014 you should take the travel pulse first and get to know what the common interest in travel is. Then your ads can focus on the local trend. Local papers are not expensive. National newspapers are. Like most magazines, newspapers are also available online. The cost of advertising will be low for the local digital version and expensive for the national digital version. Be guided once again by the generation you sell to or wish to attract. You might survey your clients as to which newspapers they read and which version. Newspapers Posters Posters are still attractive, if you can find them. Many suppliers now charge for them and others no longer o