Hey Explorers,
Only 2 more days to vote. Can you believe it? We certainly can’t. This is quite a roller coaster ride. We came out the gate strong, then fell behind into 2nd place and slowly moved into 3rd place. It seems the voting gap was widening each day. But competition doesn’t discourage us, it motivates us.
Our strategy from the beginning has been to “out work ‘ em“. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. This morning Brian and I awoke to discover that we had moved into 2nd place. That’s a nice welcome home from Africa present, especially when you’re in bed by 8pm due to jet lag! There are still several days left, so anything can happen but we are optimistic that we’ll finish in a great place. But as you know, only if you vote!
This morning while I was getting ready for work, Brian commented on how he was proud of our social media efforts thus far. We’ve written 26 posts on this site related to our Thailand adventure. Our 1st post about the competition was on September 8th, that’s 2 months ago! Time flies ‘eh? Everything we’ve learned and read about blogging is coming true.
Great content is what drives successful blogs, with some Search Engine Optimization help. Hundreds of readers are finding this site through keyword searches about the competition. Then, they’ve been clicking to the Ultimate Thailand Explorers Website (presumably to vote for us). The UTE Site is our #1 Outbound link. While we don’t have any statistics to see where our votes are coming from at the official site, we do know that the Thailand Page for this site is our #2 most visited page (after About Ben). For curiousity’s sake, “Where Does Orange Juice Come From” is #3. Funny.
While we haven’t tracked all the other competitors social media efforts, we have close to 200 followers on our Thailand Twitter Site and another 200 for this site (with some small overlap). Our YouTube site has around 711 views (not counting the 1500+ for our official application video) for 17 videos. We’re assuming that translates to votes – but we don’t know how much. Our Facebook Page isn’t as robust as others in the competition. Our efforts have been to focus on twitter, which we have been pleased with thus far.
We remain committed to our purpose, to inspire you to travel. We are so excited at the possibility to bring you to Thailand. So with just the few days that are left, please cast your vote for us here. We needs votes every 24 hours AND for you to encourage your friends and family to vote. Share this link on Twitter and Facebook by clicking the “Share This” Link at the bottom of the post. This is the home stretch. We can do it!!!!
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