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EDITOR’S LETTER
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Welcome to the Princess Yacht Club magazine
A new approach to yacht brokerage and yacht charter marketing
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SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
Establishing an efficient social media marketing strategy becomes now a reality for yacht brokerage and yacht charter companies.
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Advantages of using APIs integration to post automatically to social networks.
Boat show events taking place in september 2011
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YACHT BROKERAGE LISTINGS
Princess Yacht brokerage listings for the month of september 2011 presented by brokerage companies using our yacht brokerage solution
FEATURES
38 YACHT CHARTER MARKETING YACHT BROKERAGE SOLUTION 40 Inbound marketing strategy for luxury charter yachts
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Presentation of the yacht brokerage solution for joomla. Features and advantages
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Find Prospects
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Yacht Brokerage and Charter Marketing
Using social media to find prospects.
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Online PR
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Understanding online PR and how to use it to create brand awareness
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Presentation of the yacht charter solution for joomla. Features and advantages
DOCKS & SLIPS SOLUTION
Presentation of the docks & slips solution for joomla. Features and advantages
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD Yachting events around the world
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YACHT DESIGN NEWS
Yacht design news for september 2011
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EDITOR’S LETTER OLIVIER BAELDE
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PRINCESS YACHT CLUB PUBLISHER/EDITOR Olivier Baelde editor@yachting.vg
Welcome Marketing solutions for yacht brokerage , yacht charter companies and real estate agencies specializing in the rental and sale of docks and slips are our primary focus. Web Solutions
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We developed over the last 24 months an online platform using the latest technologies in terms of web design, database architecture, cloud hosting.
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Furtermore, a very powerful social network integration though APIs allows the brokerage and charter companies using our yachting solutions to gain maximum exposure on a worldwide basis with a minimum of efforts on their side. Then, our montlhy magazines generated through an InDesign CS5 workflow integration allows to generate on a monthly basis magazines for every sites composing The Yachting Network.
Magazines are available in printed and electronic versions. The Yachting Network platform coupled to our yachting solutions provide an exclusive set of features to yacht brokerage and yacht charter companies allowing them to market worldwide on different medias their yachts for sale or charter fleet. We continuously work on improving our platform to provide advanced features not available in third party listings websites.
Mobile Solutions The release of our iphone and ipad apps are scheduled for december 2011. It will add even more reach to our solutions.
ADVERTISING MGR James Blackburn advertising@yachting.vg SALES MGR Ian Foster sales@yachting.vg MARKETING MGR Clive Coleman marketing@yachting.vg PR MGR Antoine Bonvin pr@yachting.vg SUBSCRIPTIONS MGR Danielle Chiocci subscriptions@yachting.vg SOCIAL NETWORKS MGR Sven Nicklasson social_networks@yachting.vg BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MGR Glen Coburn bus_dev@yachting.vg
Join us Olivier Baelde Publisher, Editor Crans Montana, Switzerland
All correspondence should be addressed to 88-90 Hatton Garden London, EC1N 8PN United Kingdom
PRINCESS YACHTS 45, 2003, 295.000 € Nautic Avenue Patrick Baert France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 14
PRINCESS YACHTS V50, 2004 358.000 €
Nautic Avenue Cedric DIBIANCA France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 17
PRINCESS YACHTS V50, 2004, Provence Côte d’Azur France, 358.000 € Super V50 , état neuf, peut servi seulement 210h. bateau a voir.
Specs: LOA:15 metres Beam:4 metres - VOLVO 715hp - Diesel Web id: 17 - Price: 358.000 € Tax Paid
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“Longitude 64 The Yachting Network”
A new approach to yacht brokerage and yacht charter marketing: integration with social networks
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elcome to the Longitude 64 monthly magazine. The primary purpose of this magazine is to present yachts for brokerage and yachts for charter from clients using our yachting solutions. In order to provide them with a competitive advantage, we decided to integrate our online platform called The Yachting Network with the Adobe inDesign workflow. The end result being that all the listings from clients using our online yachting solutions are as well included in our monthly magazines. It brings them maximum exposure as well as brand recognition. We believe that there is still a need for a printed version to allow readers to be able to read offline while traveling for example. Furthermore, it allows our clients to reach potential buyers who are not always willing to stay a long time in front of a computer screen in order to review luxury yachts for sale or charter. A printed version still has its charm and provides added value to our clients.
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We hope you will enjoy reading every month our magazines. In the following months, every site part of The Yachting Network will be integrated in the Adobe Indesign workflow in order to generate monthly magazines adding again some exposure and visibility to
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he architecture of our platform now comes full circle. We are able to provide to all clients using our yachting and real estate solutions an integrated platform able to deliver online and offline visibility through very efficient web services.
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urthemore, our complete integration to over 15 social networks through APIs allows clients using our solutions to post automatically listings updates on their social media accounts without extra work.
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e believe that a tight integration between the web sites of our clients running one of our yachting solutions and social networks and coupled with a printed version will bring them a very powerful platform to increase the visibility of their listings.
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nlike third party listing sites specializing in yachting, clients list their yachts only once on their websites in our yachting solutions and then syndication takes place. It insures that their domain name and web site is the place where all listings are managed, indexed first by search engines and where all inbound traffic goes back to when syn-
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ver time, this strategy will bring continuous lead generation at a fraction of the cost spent on multiple third party listing sites where listings are lost in the crowd.
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he Yacht Brokerage Solutions for joomla was designed to answer the needs of yacht brokerage or dealership companies. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Yacht Brokerage solution includes lead request management to store all yacht requests.
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he Docks & Slips Solution for joomla was designed to answer the needs of real estate agencies specializing in the sale and rental of yacht slips. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Docks & Slips solution includes
geting the yachting and luxury markets. acht Listings are as well distributed in RSS feed format to different subscribers and feedburner. XML feeds are syndicated to generic third party web sites like Olx, Vast, Oodle. It helps in increasing backlinks to the client’s webwebsite.
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The Yachting Network has local sites in all european countries. The print version of our magazine brings additional readers and visibility to our clients. Complete integration in social networks maximizes the exposure of yacht listings. Soon to be released, mobile apps will close the circle of a 360 inbound marketing strategy.
he Yacht charter reservation Solutions for joomla was designed to answer the needs of yacht charter companies. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution includes reservation requests and quotes management as well as online availability calendars.
lead request management to store all yacht slips requests.
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owerful and integrated APIs: Powerful & Integrated Syndication Services: Our Solution offers a very powerful synchronization tool in order to increase instantly the visibility of the listings in the Longitude 64 Yachting Network composed of over 15 web sites (and growing) tar-
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dditional XML feeds following the openmarine standard (www. openmarine.org) generate files compatible with The Yacht Market, Boatshop24, Boat 24, Jameslist... completing a very powerful array of syndication tools.
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The most costly decision a marketing or sales manager will take when implementing a marketing strategy will be to rely entirely on third party websites to acquire new contacts and promote the yacht listings. This decision is mostly taken due to the apparent easy setup and maintenance third party listing sites seem to provide. However, when analyzing carefully the features provided, as well as the possibility to create inbound traffic to the company’s website or expand the reach to social networks,
it does not appear anymore as a cost effective solution in a long term strategyh. All third party listings sites rely on traffic to their sites in order to be able to charge yacht brokerage and yacht charter firms. Thus, they will most of the time prevent this traffic to leave their site unless it goes to a paid advertisement. The data flow of the listings between the company’s website and the outside world must be carefully evaluated. The success in establishing a long term approach is to consider, as the central point, the
Establishing an efficient SOCIAL MEDIA marketing strategy becomes now a reality for yacht brokerage and yacht charter companies. When establishing the company marketing strategy, several key indicators must be closely watched. As well, deciding the direction of the data flow between the company and third party sites can become costly in terms of advertising budget without bringing long term traffic. ”
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00 Social networks integration Furthermore, third party listings websites will not have any incentives to integrate your listings with social networks or other sites in order to keep the traffic on their site. You must put in place a well tought-out strategy which will syndicate listings to generic listings sites. (Olx, Oddle, Vast...), third party listings sites specializing in yachting through the openmarine.org initiative for example: It allows you to generate a standard xml feed and post it to several sites through a subscription. Then, post the listings to your facebook and twitter account.
00 XML feeds We went further in the integration of our yachting solutions with a large array of APIs. Clients using our yachting solutions have their listings posted automatically to Flickr, Picasa, Wordpress, Blogger, Olx, Oddle, Vast, Openmarine. Then, PDF brochures generated are posted to Issuu, Scribd, Slideshare, Docstoc expanding the reach and search engines indexing. And a new service launched this month is through the magazines listing all the yachts from our clients and generated in 3 versions: print on demand version, electronic version and ipad version. The goal in creating your marketing strategy is not to get linked to a single third party listings website where they will dictate their marketing strategy to you and make it very difficult for you to
reach potentials clients through all available social medias. In a long term strategy, all inbound traffic must go back to your site. This way, if you decide to stop listing on a particular third party listings website, most of the traffic will still flow to your site through the other channels. On the other hand, if you stricly list on third party sites, the day you stop paying them, you “disappear“ from the internet world...
00 Social media is online Social media is something that takes place online. It is a type of communication that takes place outside of in-person meetings, phone calls, or foot traffic. That means social media is location-independent, which makes it a valuable part of any company’s business strategy.
00 Social media is user-generated Content used to be something that very few people created. Reporters, TV anchors, movie directors, authors, radio DJs, and magazine editors created content, and everyone else consumed it. Now, everyone is a publisher, and the people who use the content are also the ones who create it.
00 Social media is highly accessible and scalable Social media is highly accessible and scalable to the public, which means that social media has lots of users and offers plenty of opportunity for companies. Because social media is easy to access, the tools for social media are easy and intuitive enough for the common person to use. Even if you don’t use social media now, there’s no reason not to jump in! PRINCESSYACHTCLUB • ISSUE SEPTEMBER 2011
company’s website. ie the single point of entry for all listings should be your website. Then, syndication to third party listings websites specializing in the yachting and to social network will take place. This data flow will allow you to generate inbound traffic back to your site and not to other sites. You will have the control over the data provided to the external sites. Contacts and leads coming to your site once will most likely come back to your site on a regular basis. A powerful outbound strategy for the listings is to target all available social network and document or images sharing sites. Through APIs, you can automate the posting of listings information and brochure to a large array of sites which are not used by third party listings websites to avoid loosing traffic.Nowadays, you can maximize your exposure on social networks relatively easily by selecting a yachting solution already integrating the APIs to post automatically.
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PRINCESS YACHTS P67, 2006 Poole, 990.000 €
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 7
PRINCESS YACHTS P67, 2006, Finland, 990.000 € Princess P67 (2007) with MAN 1100 (1100hp each) is a fantastic example of the much sought after model of one of the most prestigious examples of Princess Yachts, renowned for its timeless elegance and stylish design. She is in fantastic condition with only 300 hours! Please do not hesitate to enquire with us for further information or indeed to arrange a viewing. Specs: LOA:68 feet Beam:17 feet Draft:4 feet - MAN 1100hp - Diesel Web id: 7 - Price: 990.000 € Tax Not Paid
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Common Mistakes companies Make With Strategy: Some of the most common mistakes companies make with social media revolve around making decisions that aren’t consistent with having good business sense. Because social media tools are free, some companies tend to take the wrong approach: use all tools to see what sticks. Here are some of the most common mistakes to avoid with social media strategy:
Yachting & Social Networks Strategy While it’s useful to get into the details and tactics of social media, a solid marketing strategy should work no matter the medium. The smartest companies will focus on strategy because in the world of Web 2.0, the tools are constantly changing.
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Because social media is the hottest trend in marketing, companies assume that all they have to do is set up a Twitter account and a Facebook fan page. This is the equivalent of pulling random magazines out of off the rack and purchasing full page color ad in each one, then throwing together a quick and dirty PowerPoint flyer to run. Just like any other communication medium, social media requires a well-thought out marketing strategy plan. utmost importance. Furthermore, because
00 Perfecting a social it takes time to build social media accounts, every minute you waste by not being there media strategy Even though a social media strategy is important, don’t wait for the strategy to set up your company’s accounts. Reserving your company’s name on various social media sites is of the
is followers you could be losing.
00 Gathering followers rather than building a network There are no shortcuts in social media, and the bottom line is companies have to build relationships with their customers before
they can sell anything. Social media may seem free, but the hidden time costs to build relationships Social media is not a quick way to make more sales; in fact, social media actually adds cycle time to the sales process. Just like any other process, a company must consider how much of its resources to invest.
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00 Putting all eggs in one basket It’s exciting to see extraordinary results on one form of social media, and tempting to invest all your resources into what’s working. Try to resist. With the speed at which technology changes, social media is starting to look similar to the fashion cycle: one day you’re in, the next day you’re out. Tools fall in and out of fashion all the time – remember Friendster, and more recently, MySpace? Companies that build a large equity on one tool will find themselves with nothing if the tool loses popularity. While having a social network presence through Facebook, Twitter and other social networks proves mandatory nowadays, a new concept tested by our yachting solutions is to benefit from Facebook groups and social activity by bringing back “friends and followers“ to the company’s website in order to propose targeted services and fea-
tures pertaining to your business activity.
00 Facebook On Facebook for example, the new graph API allows to post update statuses about listings, upload images in albums , post events in calendar.. As well, you can use the facebook user authentication to login into your site and read or contribute to your content. The advantage is that you can at the same time know more about this person and propose a subscription to your newsletter. When he connects to your site with his facebook’s user id , you will be able then to send messages directly through the facebook graph API. It will allow you to keep this user informed about your company activities automatically through your website. It provides an extra level of possibilities since you no longer need a user to subscribe to your newsletter. While you manage your own facebook groups , you can post automatically news to the groups and invite all new friends automatically to join the groups through the APIs.
00 Friends and Followers By inviting your “friends and followers” to visit and connect to your site using their
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Every social media user has a very clear idea of what social media means to them, and how they want to be approached by companies on social media. Most companies don’t realize that the way they approach social media sends its own message to consumers.”
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facebook user id , you give them the possibility to share information and recommend other users to connect with you.
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Integrating your site more tighly with external social networks will allow you to communicate faster new information to be given to followers and groups. You will be able to provide a constant flow of information and news through automated tasks. When users visit your website, your can control the information given to them as well as getting their feedback on specific polls or through a comment system. You can inform your groups, friends and followers that the newsletters generated every month is available on your website. The important point in this social network integration with your website is to keep the channels open and regularly communicate to provide new information and news. Readers will be more likely to visit your site on a regular basis if they get weekly news from your site. This could be fastidious if you had to do it manually , but by creating automated tasks to post automatically
on a regular basis for example a new yacht listing or price reduction offer, you keep the flow going.
00 Common Mistakes Companies Make With Messaging Every social media user has a very clear idea of what social media means to them, and how they want to be approached by companies on social media. Most companies don’t realize that the way they approach social media sends its own message to consumers. Here are some of the most common mistakes companies make with messaging:
00 Creating impersonal accounts Users don’t follow companies; they follow engaging people who work at companies. Unless the tool is meant specifically for companies to use (i.e.: Facebook fan pages), every account should be an actual person who has a name and a title that clearly signifies him or her as a face of the company. This person should write with a conversa-
tional tone and respond to other participants in the conversation. Automated accounts or accounts that are updated with a stream of links do not produce results.
00 Controlling the message Social media is not about controlling a message. In fact, the very nature of social media is such that no one person or organization can control the message. Because social media is a medium to share information through a network, companies must realize that once they put the message out there, they have no control anymore. Users can choose to edit the message, inject their own opinions into the message, share the message, or ignore the message. Furthermore, companies can’t even control where the message starts: a user can also create a message about a company without having any affiliation to them. Because of the nature of social media, companies that try to control the message will have difficulty reaping any of the benefits of the medium.
There are so many ways to use social media to communicate draw the line with abusing permission? Unwith the customer, and as social media goes mainstream fortunately, this question is similar to asking where comedians draw the line with potencompanies are finding new ways every day. All of these tially offensive jokes. The truth is that different purposes for communication fall into three main users have different levels of tolerance. Just like a comedian might experiment with messaging functions: public relations and marketing, sales, and based on the feedback he or she is receiving customer services.”
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While companies should be careful about trying to exercise too much control over the message, there is also the opposite end of the spectrum to avoid. Companies often cite “control over message” as a reason not to participate in social media, but the truth is that companies have lost control of the message whether they participate or not. This is because, as mentioned earlier, users can create a message and drive the conversation surrounding that message. So how can companies exercise some control over a message and still reap the benefits of social media (rapid diffusion of information through people sharing messages with their networks)? The answer is that companies need to participate in the conversation. Responding to complaints and stressing the benefits and what the company does well; these are all ways for companies to control the endconsumer’s perception of its services.
00 Abusing permission Abusing permission is a fast way for companies to lose credibility, damage relationships, and generally make a bad name for themselves in social media. So where do you
from the audience, your company must experiment with the right level of communication, erring on the side of unobtrusive.
00 Strategy definition The framework for developing a social media strategy consists of three potential functions: public relations and marketing, sales, and customer services. Social media can be used to further goals within just one of these three functions, two these functions, or a company could use social media to satisfy the needs of all three of these functions. These three functions feed each other in a cycle, and companies can create a fairly comprehensive social media strategy by taking each into consideration.
00 Find your audience Very few social media tools will work for every company; however, if your company is just starting out with social media, you can find plenty of people by sticking to the biggest social media sites. Generally, the strategy for finding an audience is looking for groups of people with similar interests to keywords that make sense for your company.
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21 9 Tampa September 9 - 11
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Boat Shows September 2011 Cannes International Boat & Yacht Show Europe’s leading in-water exhibition, the Festival de la Plaisance de Cannes is a unique venue offering showgoers the opportunity to preview the finest jewels of the sea. September 7 - 12, 2011
The Monaco Yacht Show presents the greatest showcase of luxury yachting in the world. A high-end show guaranteed by the meticulous selection of the exhibitors. September 21 - 24, 2011
The UK’s leading outdoor Boat Show provides authentic experiences both on and off the water for a fun-filled day out for boaters, trade and the whole family. September 16 - 25, 2011
46th Tampa Boat Show Expanded in-water display will showcase nearly three dozen best-in-class vessels, ranging in size from 40 to 97 feet! September 9 - 11, 2011
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WORLD NEWS
PRincess yacht club www.princess-yachtclub.com
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Index EDITOR’S LETTER
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MOTOR YACHTS BROKERAGE
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PRINCESS YACHTS 23M, 2006, 1.495.000 €
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PRINCESS YACHTS 45, 2003, 295.000 €
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PRINCESS YACHTS 460, 2000, 250.000 €
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PRINCESS YACHTS 57, 2004, £490,000
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PRINCESS YACHTS 60, 1996, £250,000
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PRINCESS YACHTS P67, 2006, 990.000 €
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PRINCESS YACHTS PRINCESS 35, 1987, 87.000 €
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PRINCESS 415, 1990, 106.400 €
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PRINCESS 46 RIVIERA, 1993, 110.000 €
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PRINCESS YACHTS V50, 2004, 358.000 €
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PRINCESS YACHTS V65, 2002, 795.000 €
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P R I N C E S S Y A C H T S 2 3 M , 2 0 0 6 , 1 . 4 9 5 . 0 0 0 € PRINCESS YACHTS 23M, 2006, Spain, 1.495.000 € Princess Yacht 23m (2006 model) with twin Caterpillar C-30 (1570hp) engines. This Princess 23m has a British Flag and is owned by an Isle of Man Company. She was Launched in April 2006 and is Full MCA Coded for charter up to 12 persons. An and efficient V hull together with draft reducing propeller tunnels make this boat achieves a max speed of up to 37 knots. Cruising range of around 500nm at 25 knots. Very High specification including flybridge crane, tender, Jet Ski and all usual bbq and fridge choices on board. This boat is also fitted with very efficient hydraulic bow and stern thrusters. Beautiful, spacious and enormously capable make the Princess 23M a pleasure all round. The perfect social and family yacht with the option to continue with it´s fantastic mooring in Puerto Banus. Recently had new carpets and relaquered wood through... - Specs: LOA:23 metres Beam:5 metres Draft:1 metres - CATERPILLAR 1570hp - Diesel Web id: 10 - Price: 1.495.000 € Tax Not Paid
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble
United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 10
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P R I N C E S S Y A C H T S 4 5 , 2 0 0 3 , 2 9 5 . 0 0 0 € Fréjus, PR, France PRINCESS YACHTS 45, 2003, Provence Côte d'Azur France, 295.000 € Bateau bein entretenu, stocké à sec 10 mois sur 12 - Specs: LOA:13 metres Beam:3 metres Draft:1 metres - VOLVO 480hp - Diesel
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Nautic Avenue Patrick Baert
France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 14
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P R I N C E S S Y A C H T S 4 6 0 , 2 0 0 0 , 2 5 0 . 0 0 0 € Poole, DOR, United Kingdom PRINCESS YACHTS 460, 2000, Marbella, Spain, 250.000 € Princess 460 flybridge yacht (2000 model) equipped with twin Volvo diesel engines (430hp). Ideal entry level or family flybridge boat. Spanish flag, tax paid. Specs: LOA:14 metres Beam:4 metres - VOLVO 430hp - Diesel
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble
United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 5
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PRINCESS YACHTS 57, 2004, £490,000
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PRINCESS YACHTS 57, 2004, Palma, Spain, £490,000 Princess 57 (2004 Model) with Volvo D12-715 EVC (715 Hp). This magnificent example has full service history and many additional extras within the specification. In very good condition, regularly maintained and low hours (390), she really is a vessel not to be missed. Benefitting from an upgraded 13.5 kw 150 Hz generator, reverse cycle air conditioning and much more, she is fully equipped. Please contact a member of our team at us for further information or indeed to arrange a viewing. - Specs: LOA:17 metres Beam:4 metres Draft:1 metres - VOLVO 715hp - Diesel Web id: 11 - Price: £490,000 Tax Paid
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble
United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 11
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PRINCESS YACHTS 60, 1996, £250,000 Poole, DOR, United Kingdom
Web id: 9 - Price: £250,000 Tax Paid
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble
United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 9
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PRINCESS YACHTS 60, 1996, Balearic Islands, Spain, £250,000 Princess 60 (1996 model) with twin MAN diesel engines (680Hp) She is a great example of one of Princess Internationals Ship Yards most popular models. Highly recommended and with the possibility of staying on her present mooring. Please do not hesitate to contact to contact us for more information or to arrange a viewing. - Specs: LOA:66 feet Beam:5 metres Draft:1 feet - MAN 680hp - Diesel
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P R I N C E S S Y A C H T S P 6 7 , 2 0 0 6 , 9 9 0 . 0 0 0 € Poole, DOR, United Kingdom
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PRINCESS YACHTS P67, 2006, Finland, 990.000 € Princess P67 (2007) with MAN 1100 (1100hp each) is a fantastic example of the much sought after model of one of the most prestigious examples of Princess Yachts, renowned for its timeless elegance and stylish design. She is in fantastic condition with only 300 hours! Please do not hesitate to enquire with us for further information or indeed to arrange a viewing. - Specs: LOA:68 feet Beam:17 feet Draft:4 feet - MAN 1100hp - Diesel
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Web id: 7 - Price: 990.000 € Tax Not Paid
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble
United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 7
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P R I N C E S S 3 5 , 1 9 8 7 , 8 7 . 0 0 0 € Fréjus, PR, France PRINCESS YACHTS PRINCESS 35, 1987, Provence Côte d'Azur France, 87.000 € Place de port a vendre - Specs: LOA:10 metres Beam:3 metres Draft:1 metres - VOLVO 200hp - Diesel
Nautic Avenue Cedric DIBIANCA
France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 15
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Web id: 15 - Price: 87.000 € Tax Paid
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P R I N C E S S 4 1 5 , 1 9 9 0 , 1 0 6 . 4 0 0 € Fréjus, PR, France PRINCESS YACHTS PRINCESS 415, 1990, Provence Côte d'Azur France, 106.400 € bateau bien équipé. - Specs: LOA:12 metres Beam:4 metres - VOLVO 306hp - Diesel
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Web id: 16 - Price: 106.400 € Tax Paid
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Nautic Avenue Cedric DIBIANCA
France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 16
BROKERAGE
P R I N C E S S 46 R I V I E R A , 1 9 9 3 , 1 1 0 . 0 0 0 € Fréjus, PR, France PRINCESS YACHTS PRINCESS 46 RIVIERA, 1993, Provence Côte d'Azur France, 110.000 € - Specs: LOA:13 metres Beam:4 metres - CATERPILLAR 435hp - Diesel
Nautic Avenue Eric CHAPPUIS
France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 13
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Web id: 13 - Price: 110.000 € Tax Paid
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P R I N C E S S Y A C H T S V 5 0 , 2 0 0 4 , 3 5 8 . 0 0 0 € Fréjus, PR, France PRINCESS YACHTS V50, 2004, Provence Côte d'Azur France, 358.000 € Super V50 , état neuf, peut servi seulement 210h. bateau a voir. - Specs: LOA:15 metres Beam:4 metres - VOLVO 715hp - Diesel
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Web id: 17 - Price: 358.000 € Tax Paid
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Nautic Avenue Cedric DIBIANCA
France (+33) ((0)9) 54 22 80 56 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 17
BROKERAGE
P R I N C E S S Y A C H T S V 6 5 , 2 0 0 2 , 7 9 5 . 0 0 0 € Poole, DOR, United Kingdom
Web id: 4 - Price: 795.000 € Tax Paid
Carine Yachts Andrew Noble
United Kingdom (+44) (01202) 901-721 Visit www.princess-yachtclub.com for full details - Web id: 4
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PRINCESS YACHTS V65, 2002, Marbella, Spain, 795.000 € Princess V65 (2002) with twin diesel MAN (1300hp) engines. This is a great example of Princess Yachts most sort after model. She is fully fitted and has a long list of optional extras. She has comfortable accommodation for a total of 6 guests in 3 double cabins plus crew. Berthing in Puerto Banus can be arranged as well as delivery to any where in the Med. She is highly recommended and viewing is a must. - Specs: LOA:20 metres Beam:5 metres Draft:1 metres - MAN 1300hp - Diesel
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MARKETING OLIVIER BAELDE
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Yacht charter marketing
Luxury
and social media marketing
Your website is the online face of your company, organization. It must reflect what you are, what you do, and how you do it; it is how current and potential customers view you and, in many cases, interface with you. A bad website will turn customers off to your brand or company, while an outstanding website will create new and more loyal customers. It’s something you can’t take for granted.
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iven the increasing reach of social networks, it represents an amazingly large audience for your website content. Even when you’re creating content outside of a social network on your own site, you should strive to encourage sharing. Cross-promoting content and driving traffic from your website to your social networks accounts (and vice versa) is an important part of a smart inbound marketing strategy.
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owever, when marketing luxury yacht offered for charter, directing potential clients back to your site should be preferred. It will give your company the opportunity to present your serivces and yachts in a more formal setting.
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s well, your site will provide direct means of contacts either through phone numbers or an inquiry form. The inquiries and contacts information are the key to increase your customer base. You need to make sure that you will receive all inquiries without failure or risk of interception by a third party company. A well structured inquiry system will send a notification to the reservation agents and save all inquiries in the
database or CRM system as a backup. To increase luxury yachts occupation rate, a dedicated mini site coupled with an online brochure and linked to social networks accounts makes wonders in terms of clearly presenting the yacht features and amenities. Direct contact and reservation forms will enable the clients to get in touch with a dedicated account manager able to present and add his personal touch in terms of services.
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imply placing a luxury yacht in a central listing system does not offer the same level of service to the client who may get a different reservation agent everytime. Bringing personal service to clients will achieve a lot in terms of customer retention. As well, a dedicated site and brochure to market a luxury yacht will avoid being “lost in the crowd” among the 50 other yachts in the central listing fleet.
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ou can manage rates and locations offered while getting over time a mailing list of clients and interested persons who contacted your company about the yacht. It will allow you to build marketing campaigns and send newsletters with added knowledge of your
marketing services for luxury yachts, you must always take into account the singular needs of each client and ultimately assess the level of services they want to find when selecting your company for their yacht reservation.
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roviding a highly responsive and customized service will set your company above the competition.
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ou will be as well able to present the crew in a more interactive way.
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lients chartering luxury yachts are used to a high level of personal service and will be more tempted to go with a more personal
approach and contacts rather than searching through a full list of yachts in order to compare all features or amenities. When providing charter
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customers requirements. Building a direct relationship with past clients by offering an online feedback form after the charter period will increase the level of understanding and needs requested by your clients. Furthermore, a dedicated website with a reservation system for a luxury yacht will alllow you to improve the “differentation factor”. While most central agency listings will provide a single page of information about a yacht with a few pictures, a dedicated site will allow you to include videos and image galleries of the yacht.
The strategy development portion of a social media campaign is crucial for the success of a company. You must ask and answer the appropriate and relevant questions to develop the right campaign: What social sites are your target market currently using? How much time is needed to consistently interact with your social community?
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360 architecture to reach your clients everywhere
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The mobile access is becoming more and more the first mode of access to information and content. We could not ignore this fact in the roadmap and development strategy of our solutions.”
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he Yacht Brokerage Solutions for joomla was designed to answer the needs of yacht brokerage or dealership companies. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Yacht Brokerage solution includes lead request management to store all yacht requests. As well different request forms for financing, insurance, storage, transport, survey store all requests in tables accesssible through maintenance screens in the administration panel. The Yacht Brokerage solution is in-
tegrated with 15 social networks through APIs and generates high quality yacht PDF brochures and monthly magazines. We took great care of integrating our solutions with more than 15 social networks APIs in order to automatically distribute the listings information to your social networks accounts without extra work on your side. Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on your web site is not enough to reach potential buyers. A good marketing strategy is to reach propects where they are most likely to be.
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xtensive and powerful features are included in the Yacht Brokerage solution for joomla: Detailed yacht listings maintenance screens, High quality PDFs generation, Social networks posting, RSS and XML feeds syndication, Web Services synchronization, CRM area. The Yacht Brokerage solution allows a yacht broker/dealer company to manage and promote online an inventory of new and used boats. The Yacht Brokerage solution already includes custom templates for motor yachts and sailboats. The Yacht Brokerage solution allows to present professionally the inventory while giving a very quick ad easy management interface to the brokers and dealers. A lead management area gives the opportunity to brokers to manage quickly the
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During the summer 2011, we will be prototyping the iphone and ipad apps, The development will be conducted during the last quarter of 2011 with a scheduled release date of december 2011.”
requests while keeping an history. Administration: Front-End and Back end administration. Allows multiple brokers managing their listings in the front end.
Listings Management Pre-loaded templates for Sailboats, Power Yachts. Fields and tabs can be published or unpublished from the backend. Flexible layout.
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ThE appS will close the circle of our 360 architecture where you will be able to reach your potential clients through all available channels: oNLINE,oFFLINE,MOBILE.”
Broker Contacts Brokers, Brokerage companies have an extended set of fields in order to enter all their contact information. Offices location and contacts management is included for brokerage companies with several locations.
Lead Management
Over 110 validations pre-loaded: yacht make , engine make, electronic, electrical.... offering a turnkey solution.
Different Online forms allow site visitors to request more information, a yacht visit, financing... All the requests are saved in tables. email notifications are sent to brokers and broker can process the request accordingly.
Sales Cycle
Forms Builder
Built-in Sales cycle allowing to categorizes the yachts : for sale/ contract pending/sold. Sales cycle steps can be modifiedbased on the company’s process.
All Online forms are linked to a data dictionary allowing to add or change fields for a specific forms.
Validations Tables
Bulk Images Upload Images are uploaded through a
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Scheduled for the end of the year 2011, Our yachting solutions will include an iphone app and an ipad app in order to reach your potential clients wherever they are.”
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flash utility allowing for the bulk upload and resizing of the listing images without timeout.
Social Media Marketing Powerful and integrated APIs: Powerful & Integrated Syndication Services: Our Solution offers a very powerful synchronization tool in order to increase instantly the visibility of the listings in the Longitude 64 Yachting Network composed of over 40 web sites (and growing) targeting the yachting and luxury markets.
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The Yacht Brokerage Solution is integrated through APIs with several social networks in order to maximize the exposure of the listings. A manual scheduler is accessible through the control panel maintenance screen in order to post manually to social network. However the recomended way is to use the application cronjob scripts in order to schedule automatic postings at regular intervals.
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This outstanding integration allows a brokerage company to update automatically major social networks as soon as an update is made to a yacht listing. It brings constant updates to social networks accounts making them live and alwaqys brigning new content or images. Your social networks ac-
counts will appear constantly maintained and will help to turn visitors into followers or fans extending once again the visibility of your yacht listings. If your brokers had to manually update 15 social networks, they will spend a considerable amount of time to do a repetitive work. Current integrations with Social networks APIs are: Facebook, Twitter, Scribd, Issuu, Slideshare, Flickr, Docstoc, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube. Automatic XML Feed Generation is integrated with: Olx, Vast, Oodle.
Magazines Publishing The Yacht Brokerage solution for joomla generates high quality PDF magazines. All PDF magazine listings include a qrcode generated in order to offer a quick access to the listing from mobile phones. Companies using the Yacht Brokerage solution can now present high quality corporate magazines to clients and prospects. We can generate every month a monthly corporate magazine with current listings. We can create custom design for the magazines matching the company’s graphic chart for an additional cost.
00 High quality PDF Generation Automatic yachting XML Feed Generation is integrated with: The Yacht Market, Boat 24, Boatshop 24, Boats and outboards, Boards & Outboards, Jameslist... It uses the openmarine xml standard. (www.openmarine.org)
The Yacht Brokerage solution for joomla generates high quality magazines. Magazines are generated by our platform as a special service to clients using our yachting solution. The integration with social networks is
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done through the Social Media Posting Scheduler. It allows to upload automatically the PDF magazines to scribd.com, docstoc. com, issuu.com, slideshare.net, box.net. The Social Media Posting Scheduler is accessed through a maintenance screen. (useful when you make frequent changes and need a revised copy immediately), or the tasks scheduled can be run at regular intervals through an automated task (cronjob). A monthly magazine (electronic or printede version) allows to establish your brand by providing to potential clients a document they can read offline with all your listings and contacts.
00 Adobe inDesign Workflow integration We are able to generate monthly magazines in Adobe Indesign through the gen-
eration of an xml file compatible with the Indesign workflow. This integration provides the best solution to create and generate a magazine including articles and current yacht listings. It allows brokerage companies to provide on a regualr basis news and events as well as the current yachts available for sale. PDF magazines generated can be accessed through an online viewer directly on a client’s website. And at the same time, it is posted in all the online documents sites maximizing the visibility and exposure. By distributing electronic versions in PDF format, you decrease dramatically production and printing costs while giving to potential customers a format suitable to read offline. We generate several magazines in our standard foramt every month in order to maximize the exposure. We can as well design a specific format for customers who want to create their own corporate magazine while including all the yachts currently for sale.
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The Yacht Brokerage Solution is integrated through APIs with several social networks in order to maximize the exposure of the listings.”
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Latitude 26 media agency
London, UK +44 (0)20 7078-4226 Miami, fl USA +1 (305) 394-9652 crans montana, switzerland +41 (0)27 483-1220 skype latitude26.ch Web www.latitude26.ch Contact sales@latitude26.ch
yacht brokerage The Yacht Brokerage Solution for joomla was designed to answer the needs of yacht brokerage or dealership companies. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Yacht Brokerage solution includes lead request management to store all yacht requests. As well different request forms for financing, insurance, storage, transport, survey store all requests in tables accesssible through maintenance screens in the administration panel. The Yacht Brokerage solution is integrated with 15 social networks through APIs and generates high quality yacht PDF brochures and monthly magazines. We took great care of integrating our solutions with more than 15 social networks APIs in order to automatically distribute the listings information to your social networks accounts without extra work on your side. Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on your web site is not enough to reach potential buyers. A good marketing strategy is to reach propects where they are most likely to be.
brokerage - dealerships - social networks - Syndication - magazines - brochures - marketing
PRINCESS yacht club
www.princess-yachtclub.com
Yacht Brokerage Yacht Charter
TIPS THIS MONTH
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n social media, generating prospects usually means driving traffic to a website where you can collect lead information.
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One of the reason every company should have a blog is because it adds text to the company website that attracts search engine traffic. Also, your blog can build a subscriber list of people who read the content regularly. Companies use blogs to have conversations with potential clients or customers and build credibility within the industry.
Tips to find Prospects
At this point, your company has its lead list. Now, you can integrate this lead list with your current process and start reaping the benefits of using social media as part of your company’s lead generation strategy.
00 Social bookmarking services Sometimes called social news sites represent a subset of features found on a social network. A social bookmarking service lets users save and share their favorite web pages with
friends and colleagues online. It’s all about finding something you like and then letting others know about it. Social bookmarking services are great ways to spread timely and interesting content. The most notable bookmarks on these sites quickly turn viral, as one user after another shares his or her links with other users. Because of this, you want to make it easy for users to bookmark content on your website and blog.
00 Social Sharing with Flickr and YouTube One interesting aspect of the social Web is social sharing, the passing around of pictures, movies, music,
and such between friends and family. Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, offer media sharing features; in fact, Facebook is probably the number-one photo sharing site on the Web. But there are lots of sites dedicated solely to sharing specific types of media online. All of these sites work in a similar fashion. Users upload their media photos, movies, whatever to the site. The uploaded media are made available either publicly to everyone on the site or privately to selected lists of friends and family. Other users, invited or otherwise, then view the uploaded media as they wish.
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Facebook has a wide array of options for companies, including, groups, fan pages, applications, and Facebook Connect. Facebook fan pages are similar to groups, except they are usually named after the company. With fan pages, your company can import blog posts, videos, and fans are able to leave messages on the wall. One special feature of fan pages is that people who are fans can recommend the fan page to their entire friend list at once. This is unlike almost every other Facebook feature, which only lets a user invite 20 of his or her friends per day.
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ONLINE PR
Understanding
Online PR
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Like traditional PR, online PR is all about influencing people It’s not about buying placement; it’s about generating word-of-mouth attention But who do you influence online—and how? That’s where online PR differs from the traditional model. When we’re talking online PR, we’re talking about influencing a different group of people than you do with traditional PR. Old-school PR is about influence of traditional media newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Now, you can still use online methods to influence the people in these traditional channels (which is discussed shortly), but there are a whole other group of people online to target. Online PR deals with another group of influencers. These are people who’ve become trend setters to their online followers; a mention or endorsement from one of these folks is as good as gold. Who are these online influencers? It’s a diverse group, including the following: - Professional writers, columnists, and reviewers for various websites - Bloggers, both personal and professional - Twitterers with large and loyal followings - Facebookers with similarly large and loyal followings
- Amateur contributors to various review and sharing websites Of these influencers, only the first group writers, columnists, and reviewers are similar to your traditional media targets. After all, a paid reviewer for an online publication isn’t that much different from a reviewer for a print magazine or newspaper. But the other influencers on this list are much, much different from the people you’re used to dealing with. First of all, most of them aren’t paid professionals. Your goals with online PR should be similar to what you’ve always tried to achieve with traditional PR. In fact, many of the activities are the same you write press releases, establish relationships with key contacts, and follow through to see if your efforts bore fruit. That said, one of the key differences between online and traditional PR is the interactive conversations that develop online. Whereas traditional PR is pretty much a one-way effort (you put the press release out there and that’s that), online PR is a two-way street. That’s because a significant portion of your online PR efforts are targeted at customers, encouraging them to contact your company directly.
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Public relations has always been an interesting component of the marketing mix. It’s not like advertising because you don’t pay for placement. And it’s not like direct mail because you can’t directly track results.
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SOLUTIONS OLIVIER BAELDE
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Yacht Charter Solution Most advanced yacht charter marketing solution: Integrated social media posting and marketing, printed or electronic magazine version, xml feeds syndication, online availability calendar...
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he Yacht charter reservation Solution for joomla was designed to answer the needs of yacht charter companies. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution includes reservation requests and quotes management as well as online availability calendars.
to be. Extensive and powerful features are included in the Yacht Charter Reservation solution for joomla: Detailed yacht information, crew presentation, amenities, availabilities maintenance screens, High quality PDFs generation, Social networks posting, RSS and XML feeds syndication, Web Services synchronization, CRM area.
Also present, info request and reservation forms store all requests in tables accesssible through maintenance screens in the administration panel.
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution allows a yacht charter company to manage and promote online a charter fleet.
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution is integrated with 15 social networks through APIs and generates high quality yacht PDF brochures and monthly magazines. We took great care of integrating our solutions with more than 15 social networks APIs in order to automatically distribute the listings information to your social networks accounts without extra work on your side.
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution already includes custom templates for motor yachts and sailboats.
Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on your web site is not enough to reach potential buyers. A good marketing strategy is to reach propects where they are most likely
A request and quote management area gives the opportunity to reservation agents to manage quickly the requests while keeping an history.
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution allows to present professionally the fleet while giving a very quick and easy management interface to the reservation agents and fleet managers.
mation. Offices location and contacts management is included for charter companies with several locations.
00 -Requests Management Different Online forms allow site visitors to request more information or reservation. All the requests are saved in tables. email notifications are sent to reservation agents. They can process the requests accordingly. Forms Builder: All Online forms are linked to a data dictionary allowing to add or change fields for a specific forms.
00 Bulk Images Upload
00 Administration Front-End and Back end administration. Allows multiple reservation agents to manage the fleet and reservation requests in the front end.
rizes the requests and reservations: pending, waiting for signed contract, waiting for deposit, reservation confirmed.
00 Fleet Management Fleet Management: Pre-loaded templates for Sailboats, Power Yachts. Fields and tabs can be published or unpublished from the backend. Flexible layout.
00 Validation Tables Over 110 validations pre-loaded: yacht make , engine make, electronic, electrical.... offering a turnkey solution. Charter Reservation Cycle: Built-in reservation cycle allowing to catego-
00 Reservation Agents Reservation agetns and charter companies have an extended set of fields in order to enter all their contact infor-
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The mobile access is becoming more and more the first mode of access to information and content. We could not ignore this fact in the roadmap and development strategy of our solutions. Scheduled for the end of the year 2011, Our yachting solutions will include an iphone app and an ipad app in order to reach your potential clients wherever they are.
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Images are uploaded through a flash utility allowing for the bulk upload and resizing of the listing images without timeout.
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Latitude 26 media agency
London, UK +44 (0)20 7078-4226 Miami, fl USA +1 (305) 394-9652 crans montana, switzerland +41 (0)27 483-1220 skype latitude26.ch Web www.latitude26.ch Contact sales@latitude26.ch
yacht Charter The Yacht charter reservation Solutions for joomla was designed to answer the needs of yacht charter companies. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution includes reservation requests and quotes management as well as online availability calendars. Also present, info request and reservation forms store all requests in tables accesssible through maintenance screens in the administration panel. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution is integrated with 15 social networks through APIs and generates high quality yacht PDF brochures and monthly magazines. We took great care of integrating our solutions with more than 15 social networks APIs in order to automatically distribute the listings information to your social networks accounts without extra work on your side. Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on your web site is not enough to reach potential buyers. A good marketing strategy is to reach propects where they are most likely to be.
charter - social networks - Syndication - magazines - brochures - marketing
SOLUTIONS
Docks & Slips Solution The Docks & Slips Solution is integrated through APIs with several social networks in order to maximize the exposure of the listings. A manual scheduler is accessible through the control panel maintenance screen in order to post manually to social network or through a cronjob script in order to schedule automatic postings at regular intervals”
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he Docks & Slips Solution for joomla was designed to answer the needs of real estate agencies specializing in the sale and rental of yacht slips. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Docks & Slips solution includes lead request management to store all yacht slips requests. As well different request forms for financing, , slip rental, slip purchase store all requests in tables accesssible through maintenance screens in the administration panel. The Docks & Slips solution is integrated with 15 social networks through APIs and generates high quality yacht slips PDF brochures
and monthly magazines. We took great care of integrating our solutions with more than 15 social networks APIs in order to automatically distribute the listings information to your social networks accounts without extra work on your side. Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on your web site is not enough to reach potential buyers. A good marketing strategy is to reach propects where they are most likely to be. Extensive and powerful features are included in the Docks & Slips solution for joomla: Detailed yacht listings maintenance screens, High quality PDFs generation, Social net-
Companies using the Docks & Slips solution can now present high quality brochures. We can create custom design for the PDFs and brochures matching the company’s graphic chart .”
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works posting, RSS and XML feeds syndication, Web Services synchronization, CRM area.
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The Docks & Slips solution allows a real estate agency to manage and promote online an inventory of yacht slips fro sale or rental. The Docks & Slips solution already includes custom templates for slips for sale and for rent. The Docks & Slips solution allows to present professionally the inventory while giving a very quick ad easy management interface to the agents. A lead management area gives the opportunity to agents to manage quickly the requests while keeping an history.
00 Administration Front-End and Back end administration. Allows multiple agents managing their listings in the front end.
Pre-loaded templates for slips presented for sale or for rent. Fields and tabs can be published or unpublished from the backend. Flexible layout.
00 Validation tables Over 110 validations pre-loaded: length unit, draft unit.... offering a turnkey solution.
00 Sales Cycle Built-in Sales cycle allowing to categorizes the slips : for rent/for sale/ contract pending/sold. Sales cycle steps can be modified based on the company’s process.
00 Agents Contact Agents, agencies have an extended set of fields in order to enter all their contact information. Offices location and contacts manage-
The Ipad app version has a scheduled release date of december 2011. The ipad app will include as well the access to the full versions of the monthly magazines.”
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ment is included for agencies with several locations.
00 Lead Management Different Online forms allow site visitors to request more information, a visit, financing... All the requests are saved in tables. email notifications are sent to agents and agents can process the request accordingly.
00 Forms Builder All Online forms are linked to a data dictionary allowing to add or change fields for a specific forms.
00 Bulk Images Upload Images are uploaded through a flash utility allowing for the bulk upload and resizing of the listing images without timeout.
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The Docks & Slips solution for joomla generates high quality PDF Brochures. All flyers and brochures include a qrcode generated to offer a quick access to the listing from mobile.”
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Latitude 26 media agency
London, UK +44 (0)20 7078-4226 Miami, fl USA +1 (305) 394-9652 crans montana, switzerland +41 (0)27 483-1220 skype latitude26.ch Web www.latitude26.ch Contact sales@latitude26.ch
docks & slips The Docks & Slips Solution for joomla was designed to answer the needs of real estate agencies specializing in the sale and rental of yacht slips. It provides extensive features not found in the competition. The Docks & Slips solution includes lead request management to store all yacht slips requests. As well different request forms for financing, , slip rental, slip purchase store all requests in tables accesssible through maintenance screens in the administration panel. The Docks & Slips solution is integrated with 15 social networks through APIs and generates high quality yacht slips PDF brochures and monthly magazines. We took great care of integrating our solutions with more than 15 social networks APIs in order to automatically distribute the listings information to your social networks accounts without extra work on your side. Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on your web site is not enough to reach potential buyers. A good marketing strategy is to reach propects where they are most likely to be.
Slips for sale - slips for rent - social networks - syndication - magazines - brochures - marketing
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01 01 Baltic Yachts Sea trials success for Baltic’s 66.7 m Hetairos
04 02 Baron Trenck Eurocraft has confirmed the delivery of its first explorer vessel
03 Novurania Novurania seeks new distribution route in Mediterranean
04 Feadship Feadship has launched the fifth hull in its F45 range
EVENTS
News around the world Abu Dhabi MAR acquires HDW Gaarden Abu Dhabi MAR has confirmed the acquisition of Kiel-based shipyard HDW Gaarden, formally part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AG. The newly formed company, operating as Abu Dhabi MAR Kiel GmbH, will retain the existing infrastructure, including all 172 employees, and continue with its current projects. These include a 75m superyacht that is currently under construction.
New Zealand embraces superyacht industry with captains’ forum Delegates attending the Superyacht Captains Forum, which takes place from 15 to 16 September 2011, can look forward to a wealth of information that will supplement the expected surge in superyacht business in New Zealand in 2012, said Chairman Garry Hassall.
Holland Yacht Experience
Cannes first stop for Holland Yacht Experience Cannes has been elected ‘home’ by a pioneering business that showcases the best of Dutch yacht building and marine services under one roof. The Holland Yacht Experience, which opens in the middle of the Cannes International Boat Show on 8 September, is an office complex in the redeveloped harbour of Port Canto.
Marina Programme IGY marina programme partners with Kornreich and Merril Lynch. Island Global Yachting (IGY) has announced a new strategic partnership for its relaunched marina loyalty programme. .
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01 01 Tony Castro Tony Castro unveils designs for 35 metre superyacht
04 02 Newcruise Newcruise unveils superyacht project Rebel
03 Guido de Groot Guido de Groot Design has unveiled a new project, the Selene 128
04 Sunrise Sunrise Yachts introduce new 50 metre Espen Oeino design
DESIGN
Yacht Design News MCC goes neo classic
MCC Design will display a model of this project at the Monaco Yacht Show. Stylistically The Neo Classic is a blend of modern minimalist simplicity coupled with classically efficient hull design. The classicism is at its strongest in a bow that goes beyond a simple vertical line to an even more graceful slightly curved one echoing the 19th century dreadnought bow.
Strand-Craft and the designer of the SC 122 and SC 166 projects, Eduard Gray, have selected NedShip Group as their preferred shipyard, able to built these designs to the highest possible standards. The success of the project does not only rely on the extraordinary look of these yachts, but also on the use of advanced light weight composite materials as Epoxy and Carbon.
Pearl Motor Yachts, one of the UK’s leading luxury yacht builders, has announced a special collaboration with a world renowned British interior designer. Kelly Hoppen MBE is one of the most in-demand interior designers in the country. Kelly has been brought on board to design the luxury interior of the flagship Pearl 75, which will be launched in early 2012.
Superyacht explorer To spend leisure time with family and friends, as well as to explore the sea in an adventurous manner are demands that the new explorer should meet.
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